Service Properties Trust (SVC)
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SEC company page: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=945394. Latest filing source: 0000945394-26-000012.
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Business
Read SVC's verbatim Item 1 Business section from its latest 10-K: Business.
Risk Factors
Read SVC's verbatim Item 1A Risk Factors from its latest 10-K: Risk Factors.
Selected Fundamentals
| Metric | Value | Unit | FY | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1,814,838,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-25 |
| Net income | -202,321,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-25 |
| Assets | 6,491,580,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-25 |
Financials
Annual standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-02-25. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000945394.json. Derived margins, ratios, and free cash flow are computed from the extracted annual SEC facts.
| Metric | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2,047,211,000 | 2,171,935,000 | 2,294,536,000 | 2,316,148,000 | 1,265,254,000 | 1,495,580,000 | 1,863,011,000 | 1,873,863,000 | 1,896,928,000 | 1,814,838,000 | |||
| Net income | 223,110,000 | 215,143,000 | 185,734,000 | 259,750,000 | -311,382,000 | -544,603,000 | -132,381,000 | -32,779,000 | -275,526,000 | -202,321,000 | |||
| Diluted EPS | -0.07 | 1.30 | 0.84 | 1.58 | -1.89 | -3.31 | -0.80 | -0.20 | -1.67 | -1.22 | |||
| Operating cash flow | 607,396,000 | 628,495,000 | 596,953,000 | 617,722,000 | 37,604,000 | 49,904,000 | 243,127,000 | 485,549,000 | 139,391,000 | 117,808,000 | |||
| Dividends paid | 314,135,000 | 340,084,000 | 346,832,000 | 353,619,000 | 93,804,000 | 6,596,000 | 38,044,000 | 132,430,000 | 101,150,000 | 6,683,000 | |||
| Share buybacks | 613,000 | 533,000 | 606,000 | 800,000 | 346,000 | 790,000 | 470,000 | 802,000 | 751,000 | 660,000 | |||
| Assets | 6,634,228,000 | 7,150,385,000 | 7,177,079,000 | 9,033,967,000 | 8,687,319,000 | 9,153,315,000 | 7,488,191,000 | 7,356,116,000 | 7,119,558,000 | 6,491,580,000 | |||
| Liabilities | 3,504,839,000 | 4,394,963,000 | 4,579,648,000 | 6,528,089,000 | 6,584,529,000 | 7,598,009,000 | 6,099,399,000 | 6,129,983,000 | 6,267,685,000 | 5,845,456,000 | |||
| Stockholders' equity | 3,129,389,000 | 2,755,422,000 | 2,597,431,000 | 2,505,878,000 | 2,102,790,000 | 1,555,306,000 | 1,388,792,000 | 1,226,133,000 | 851,873,000 | 646,124,000 | |||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 10,896,000 | 24,139,000 | 25,966,000 | 27,633,000 | 73,332,000 | 944,043,000 | 38,369,000 | 180,119,000 | 143,482,000 | 346,813,000 |
Ratios
| Metric | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 10.90% | 9.91% | 8.09% | 11.21% | -24.61% | -36.41% | -7.11% | -1.75% | -14.52% | -11.15% | |||
| Return on equity | 7.13% | 7.81% | 7.15% | 10.37% | -14.81% | -35.02% | -9.53% | -2.67% | -32.34% | -31.31% | |||
| Return on assets | 3.36% | 3.01% | 2.59% | 2.88% | -3.58% | -5.95% | -1.77% | -0.45% | -3.87% | -3.12% | |||
| Liabilities / equity | 1.12 | 1.60 | 1.76 | 2.61 | 3.13 | 4.89 | 4.39 | 5.00 | 7.36 | 9.05 |
Industry Peer Context
Net margin peer context
ROE peer context
ROA peer context
Financial Charts
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Quarterly
Quarterly standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-05-06. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000945394.json.
| Quarter | End Date | Revenue | Net Income | Diluted EPS | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-Q2 | 2022-06-30 | 0.07 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2022-Q3 | 2022-09-30 | 0.05 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q1 | 2023-03-31 | 0.16 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q2 | 2023-03-31 | 25,950,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q2 | 2023-06-30 | 503,779,000 | -0.07 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2023-Q3 | 2023-06-30 | -11,278,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q3 | 2023-09-30 | 496,825,000 | -0.03 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2023-Q4 | 2023-12-31 | 444,050,000 | -43,323,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2024-Q1 | 2024-03-31 | 436,250,000 | -78,383,000 | -0.48 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-03-31 | -78,383,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-06-30 | 512,948,000 | -0.45 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-06-30 | -73,850,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-09-30 | 491,171,000 | -0.28 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2024-Q4 | 2024-12-31 | 456,559,000 | -76,392,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2025-Q1 | 2025-03-31 | 435,179,000 | -116,435,000 | -0.70 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q2 | 2025-03-31 | -116,435,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2025-Q2 | 2025-06-30 | 503,436,000 | -0.23 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2025-Q3 | 2025-06-30 | -38,159,000 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2025-Q3 | 2025-09-30 | 478,770,000 | -0.28 | reported discrete quarter | |
| 2025-Q4 | 2025-12-31 | 397,453,000 | -782,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2026-Q1 | 2026-03-31 | 364,451,000 | -151,178,000 | -0.91 | reported discrete quarter |
Quarterly Charts
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Macro Cross-References
- CPIAUCSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
- UNRATE - Unemployment Rate
- FEDFUNDS - Federal Funds Effective Rate
- CES0500000003 - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private
- DFEDTARU - Federal Funds Target Range - Upper Limit
- DFEDTARL - Federal Funds Target Range - Lower Limit
- DGS3MO - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 3-Month Constant Maturity
- DGS2 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 2-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS10 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS30 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 30-Year Constant Maturity
- T10Y2Y - 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity
- CPILFESL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy
- CPIUFDSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food
- CPIENGSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Energy
- CUSR0000SAH1 - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Shelter
- PCEPI - Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index
- PCEPILFE - Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy: Chain-type Price Index
- PPIACO - Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities
- T10YIE - 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate
- U6RATE - Total Unemployed, Plus All Marginally Attached Workers Plus Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons
- PAYEMS - All Employees, Total Nonfarm
- CIVPART - Labor Force Participation Rate
- EMRATIO - Employment-Population Ratio
- UNEMPLOY - Unemployed
- CE16OV - Employment Level
- ICSA - Initial Claims
- JTSJOL - Job Openings: Total Nonfarm
- JTSQUR - Quits: Total Nonfarm
- GDPC1 - Real Gross Domestic Product
- A191RL1Q225SBEA - Real Gross Domestic Product: Percent Change from Preceding Period
- INDPRO - Industrial Production: Total Index
- TCU - Capacity Utilization: Total Index
- HOUST - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units
- PERMIT - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Units
- RSAFS - Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade
- PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- DSPIC96 - Real Disposable Personal Income
- PSAVERT - Personal Saving Rate
- M2SL - M2
- BOPGSTB - U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Balance
- MSPUS - Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States
- HSN1F - New One Family Houses Sold: United States
- RHORUSQ156N - Homeownership Rate in the United States
- TTLCONS - Total Construction Spending: Total Construction in the United States
- RRVRUSQ156N - Rental Vacancy Rate in the United States
- TOTALSL - Total Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- REVOLSL - Revolving Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- DRCCLACBS - Delinquency Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product
- GPDI - Gross Private Domestic Investment
- GCE - Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment
- PCEC - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- NETEXP - Net Exports of Goods and Services
- GFDEBTN - Federal Debt: Total Public Debt
- GFDEGDQ188S - Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
- FYFSD - Federal Surplus or Deficit
- FGRECPT - Federal Government Current Receipts
- FGEXPND - Federal Government: Current Expenditures
- MANEMP - All Employees, Manufacturing
- USCONS - All Employees, Construction
- USTRADE - All Employees, Retail Trade
- USFIRE - All Employees, Financial Activities
- USGOVT - All Employees, Government
- AWHAETP - Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Total Private
- DGORDER - Manufacturers' New Orders: Durable Goods
- NEWORDER - Manufacturers' New Orders: Nondefense Capital Goods Excluding Aircraft
- BUSINV - Total Business Inventories
- EXPGS - Exports of Goods and Services
- IMPGS - Imports of Goods and Services
- IR - Import Price Index (End Use): All Commodities
- PPIFIS - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand
Latest quarter (10-Q)
Latest 10-Q source: 0000945394-26-000031.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and with our 2025 Annual Report.
Overview (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts and per room hotel data)
We are a REIT organized under the laws of the State of Maryland. As of March 31, 2026, we owned 854 properties in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Puerto Rico. Our strategy continues to focus on reducing debt, transitioning to a company with the majority of our properties being service-focused retail net lease properties through the growth of our net lease portfolio and improving the performance of the hotels we expect to retain.
Leases and Management Agreements. At March 31, 2026, we owned 761 service-focused retail properties with an aggregate of 13,605,978 square feet leased to 185 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for the payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. At March 31, 2026, we also owned 93 hotels managed by four operators. We leased all of these hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies as of that date. Our condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include rental income and net lease operating expenses from our net lease properties and hotel operating revenues and hotel operating expenses of our managed hotels.
Market Outlook. Consumer confidence, corporate travel and lodging demand will continue to be affected by economic and market conditions, inflationary pressures and potential impacts from tariffs, uncertainties surrounding interest rates, unemployment levels, work from home policies, use of technologies, geopolitical events and broader economic trends. Increased labor costs and other price inflation may continue to negatively impact our hotel operations and the operations of our tenants. An economic recession or continued or intensified disruptions in the financial markets could adversely affect our financial condition, operations at our hotels, our tenants and their ability or willingness to renew our leases or pay rent to us, may restrict our ability to obtain new or replacement financing, would likely increase our cost of capital, and may cause the values of our properties to decline.
Net Lease Portfolio. Our net lease properties were 96.6% occupied as of March 31, 2026 with a weighted (by annual minimum rent) average lease term of 7.3 years, operating under 140 brands in 21 distinct industries. TA is our largest tenant and as of March 31, 2026, leased 175 of our travel centers under five master leases that expire in 2033 and require annual minimum rents of $264,262. In addition, TA receives an annual credit of $25,000 as a result of prepaid rent. BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payment under the TA leases, subject to a cap. We use a variety of operating and other information to evaluate the financial condition and operating performance of our net lease portfolio, including the lease structure, credit evaluations, tenants’ payment history and net lease rent coverage metrics as defined below. Our net lease portfolio is diverse geographically in service-focused and necessity-based industries, by brand concepts and tenants. We believe this diversification may help mitigate the impact of macroeconomic factors.
Hotel Portfolio. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the U.S. hotel industry generally realized increases in average daily rate, or ADR, and decreases in revenue per available room, or RevPAR, compared to the corresponding 2025 period. Our comparable hotels produced increases in ADR and RevPAR, which we believe is partially a result of renovation disruption in the 2025 period. In addition to the macroeconomic factors noted above, ADR, occupancy, and RevPAR performance are dependent on the continued success of our hotels' brands and our hotel operators. While we do not operate our hotel properties, our asset management team and our executive management team monitor and work with our hotel managers by conducting regular revenue, sales, and financial performance reviews and also perform in-depth on-site reviews focused on ongoing operating margin improvement initiatives.
Significant Events
We sold 112 hotels with a total of 14,631 keys for a combined sales price of $858,752, excluding closing costs, during 2025. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we sold one hotel with 133 keys for a sales price of $7,100, excluding closing costs, and we are at various stages of selling 15 additional hotels with 3,022 keys.
In January 2026, we redeemed $300,000 of our $400,000 of 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption and a make whole premium of $1,569, using cash on hand.
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In March 2026, we redeemed all $700,000 of our outstanding 8.375% senior guaranteed unsecured notes due 2029 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption and a make whole premium of $37,128, using net proceeds from the issuance of $745,000 of net lease mortgage notes and cash on hand.
In April 2026, we issued and sold 479,166,667 common shares, including 62,500,000 common shares pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, at $1.20 per share in an underwritten public offering. Our net proceeds from this offering were approximately $542,300, after deducting the underwriters’ discount and other offering expenses. In April 2026, we used the net proceeds from this offering to redeem all $450,000 of our outstanding 5.50% senior guaranteed unsecured notes due 2027 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption and a make whole premium of $7,191. Additionally, in May 2026, we used the remaining net proceeds from this offering and cash on hand to redeem the remaining $100,000 of our outstanding 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption and a make whole premium of $216.
The following table provides a summary for all of our hotels with these revenue metrics for the periods presented, which we believe are key indicators of performance at our hotels.
| Three Months Ended March 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2025 | Change | |||||||||
| Retained Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 78 | 83 | (5) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 18,088 | 19,447 | (1,359) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 63.0 | % | 56.4 | % | 6.6 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 179.39 | $ | 174.76 | 2.6 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 113.00 | $ | 98.59 | 14.6 | % | |||||
| Exit Hotels (1) | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 15 | 119 | (104) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 3,022 | 15,912 | (12,890) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 48.6 | % | 59.4 | % | (10.8) | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 101.63 | $ | 109.54 | (7.2) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 49.43 | $ | 65.07 | (24.0) | % | |||||
| All Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 93 | 202 | (109) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 21,110 | 35,359 | (14,249) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 60.9 | % | 57.8 | % | 3.1 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 170.50 | $ | 144.61 | 17.9 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 103.90 | $ | 83.52 | 24.4 | % |
(1) Exit Hotels represents 15 hotels managed by Sonesta that are currently being marketed for sale.
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Comparable Hotels Data. We present occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. We define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entirety of the periods being compared. The following table provides a summary of these revenue metrics for the periods presented.
| Three Months Ended March 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2025 | Change | |||||||||
| Retained Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 78 | 78 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 18,088 | 18,088 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 63.0 | % | 58.5 | % | 4.5 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 179.39 | $ | 179.58 | (0.1) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 113.00 | $ | 105.10 | 7.5 | % | |||||
| Exit Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 15 | 15 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 3,022 | 3,022 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 48.6 | % | 49.9 | % | (1.3) | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 101.63 | $ | 102.11 | (0.5) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 49.43 | $ | 50.94 | (3.0) | % | |||||
| Comparable Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 93 | 93 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 21,110 | 21,110 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 60.9 | % | 57.3 | % | 3.6 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 170.50 | $ | 169.92 | 0.3 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 103.90 | $ | 97.35 | 6.7 | % |
Additional details of our net lease agreements and our hotel operating agreements are set forth in Note 6 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Results of Operations (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Three Months Ended March 31, 2026, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
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Latest 10-K MD&A
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Overview (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts and per room hotel data)
We are a REIT organized under the laws of the State of Maryland. As of December 31, 2025, we owned 854 properties in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Consumer confidence, corporate travel and lodging demand will continue to be affected by economic and market conditions, inflationary pressures, uncertainties surrounding interest rates, unemployment levels, work from home policies, use of technologies and broader economic trends. Increased labor costs and other price inflation may continue to negatively impact our hotel operations and the operations of our tenants. Further, recent announcements regarding tariffs on a wide variety of imports could impact the cost of products our operators use, such as furniture, equipment, materials and supplies sourced from outside the United States. An economic recession or continued or intensified disruptions in the financial markets could adversely affect our financial condition, operations at our hotels, our tenants and their ability or willingness to renew our leases or pay rent to us, may restrict our ability to obtain new or replacement financing, would likely increase our cost of capital, and may cause the values of our properties to decline.
We previously identified 122 hotels with a total of 15,931 keys managed by Sonesta as of December 31, 2024 for disposition in 2025. As of December 31, 2025, we have sold 112 of these hotels with a total of 14,631 keys for a combined sales price of $858,752, excluding closing costs. From January 1, 2026 through February 23, 2026, we sold one hotel with 133 keys for a sales price of $7,100, excluding closing costs. We are at various stages of selling the remaining nine hotels with a total of 1,167 keys. Additionally, in January 2026 we began the marketing for sale of seven full service Sonesta hotels with a total of 2,010 keys. Following completion of the hotel sales, we expect to retain 52 hotels managed by Sonesta, or the Retained Hotels. In August 2025, we and Sonesta amended and restated our management agreements for the Retained Hotels and certain other hotels managed by Sonesta and waived any termination fees under the existing Sonesta management agreement associated with the sale of the 122 hotels.
Our current strategy is focused on reducing debt, transitioning to a company with the majority of its properties being service-focused retail net lease properties through the growth of our net lease portfolio and improving the performance of the hotels we expect to retain after completing the sale of our previously announced dispositions.
Leases and Management Agreements. At December 31, 2025, we owned 760 service-focused retail properties leased to 181 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for the payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. At December 31, 2025, we also owned 94 hotels managed by four operators. We leased all of these hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies as of that date. Our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include rental income and net lease operating expenses from our net lease properties and hotel operating revenues and hotel operating expenses of our managed hotels.
Net Lease Portfolio. As of December 31, 2025, we owned 760 service-focused retail net lease properties with an aggregate of 13,601,902 square feet leased to 181 tenants subject to “triple net” leases (where the tenants are responsible for payments of operating expenses and capital expenditures) requiring annual minimum rents of $390,051. Our net lease properties were 96.6% occupied as of December 31, 2025 with a weighted (by annual minimum rent) average lease term of 7.4 years, operating under 140 brands in 21 distinct industries. TA is our largest tenant and as of December 31, 2025, leased 175 of our travel centers under five master leases that expire in 2033 and require annual minimum rents of $264,262. In addition, TA receives an annual credit of $25,000 as a result of prepaid rent. BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payment under the TA leases, subject to a cap.
Hotel Portfolio. As of December 31, 2025, we owned 94 hotels. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the U.S. hotel industry generally realized increases in average daily rate, or ADR, and decreases in revenue per available room, or RevPAR, compared to 2024. Our hotels produced increases in ADR and RevPAR, which we believe is partially a result of renovation disruption in 2024.
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The following table provides a summary for all of our hotels with these revenue metrics for the periods presented, which we believe are key indicators of performance at our hotels.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||
| Retained Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 77 | 84 | (7) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 17,933 | 19,940 | (2,007) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 65.3 | % | 62.5 | % | 2.8 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 174.86 | $ | 171.82 | 1.8 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 114.17 | $ | 107.38 | 6.3 | % | |||||
| Exit Hotels (1) | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 17 | 122 | (105) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 3,310 | 15,931 | (12,621) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 57.7 | % | 64.4 | % | (6.7) | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 115.68 | $ | 106.84 | 8.3 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 66.69 | $ | 68.77 | (3.0) | % | |||||
| All Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 94 | 206 | (112) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 21,243 | 35,871 | (14,628) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 64.1 | % | 63.3 | % | 0.8 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 166.56 | $ | 142.12 | 17.2 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 106.77 | $ | 90.01 | 18.6 | % |
(1) Exit Hotels represents 17 hotels managed by Sonesta that we plan to sell.
Comparable Hotels Data. We present occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. We define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entirety of the periods being compared. The following table provides a summary of these revenue metrics for the periods presented.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||
| Retained Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 77 | 77 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 17,933 | 17,933 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 65.3 | % | 63.7 | % | 1.6 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 174.86 | $ | 175.14 | (0.2) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 114.17 | $ | 111.60 | 2.3 | % | |||||
| Exit Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 17 | 17 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 3,310 | 3,310 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 57.7 | % | 59.5 | % | (1.8) | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 115.68 | $ | 118.92 | (2.7) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 66.69 | $ | 70.73 | (5.7) | % | |||||
| Comparable Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 94 | 94 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 21,243 | 21,243 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 64.1 | % | 63.1 | % | 1.0 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 166.56 | $ | 166.88 | (0.2) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 106.77 | $ | 105.23 | 1.5 | % |
Additional details of our net lease agreements and our hotel operating agreements are set forth in Note 4 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Results of Operations (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Year Ended December 31, 2025, Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2024
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating revenues | $ | 1,413,403 | $ | 1,496,705 | $ | (83,302) | (5.6) | % | ||||||
| Rental income | 401,435 | 400,223 | 1,212 | 0.3 | % | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 1,814,838 | 1,896,928 | (82,090) | (4.3) | % | |||||||||
| Expenses: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating expenses | 1,226,542 | 1,274,153 | (47,611) | (3.7) | % | |||||||||
| Net lease operating expenses | 21,597 | 19,817 | 1,780 | 9.0 | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - hotels | 174,263 | 221,299 | (47,036) | (21.3) | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - net lease properties | 140,700 | 150,487 | (9,787) | (6.5) | % | |||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization | 314,963 | 371,786 | (56,823) | (15.3) | % | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 40,667 | 40,239 | 428 | 1.1 | % | |||||||||
| Transaction related costs | 14,698 | 6,894 | 7,804 | 113.2 | % | |||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment | 81,889 | 56,212 | 25,677 | 45.7 | % | |||||||||
| Total expenses | 1,700,356 | 1,769,101 | (68,745) | (3.9) | % | |||||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | 84,218 | 6,269 | 77,949 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Interest income | 8,998 | 4,052 | 4,946 | 122.1 | % | |||||||||
| Interest expense | (413,614) | (383,792) | (29,822) | 7.8 | % | |||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt, net | (2,897) | (16,181) | 13,284 | (82.1) | % | |||||||||
| Loss before income tax benefit (expense) and equity in losses of an investee | (208,813) | (261,825) | 53,012 | (20.2) | % | |||||||||
| Income tax benefit (expense) | 10,717 | (1,402) | 12,119 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Equity in losses of an investee | (4,225) | (12,299) | 8,074 | (65.6) | % | |||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (202,321) | $ | (275,526) | $ | 73,205 | (26.6) | % | ||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 165,951 | 165,338 | 613 | 0.4 | % | |||||||||
| Net loss per common share (basic and diluted) | $ | (1.22) | $ | (1.67) | $ | 0.45 | (26.9) | % |
References to changes in the income and expense categories below relate to the comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to the year ended December 31, 2024. For a comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to the year ended December 31, 2023, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Hotel operating revenues. The decrease in hotel operating revenues is primarily a result of our sales of certain hotels since January 1, 2024 ($99,857), partially offset by increases in occupancy and average rates at certain hotels in 2025 ($16,555). Additional operating statistics of our hotels are included in the tables beginning on page 66.
Rental income. The increase in rental income is primarily a result of our acquisitions of certain net lease properties in 2025 ($2,775), partially offset by decreases in rental income resulting from our sales of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2024 ($1,154) and lower rental income recognized at certain of our net lease properties in 2025 ($409).
Hotel operating expenses. The decrease in hotel operating expenses is primarily a result of our sales of certain hotels since January 1, 2024 ($92,047), partially offset by increases in room expenses ($16,381), food and beverage expenses ($7,216) and other operating expenses ($20,839) in 2025.
Net lease operating expenses. The increase in net lease operating expenses is primarily the result of increased property management fees ($2,496) and increases at certain net lease properties in 2025 ($758), partially offset by decreases resulting from our sales of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2024 ($1,474).
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Depreciation and amortization - hotels. The decrease in depreciation and amortization—hotels is primarily a result of our sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2024 ($56,698) and certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2024 ($12,665), partially offset by depreciation and amortization related to capital expenditures made since January 1, 2024 ($22,327).
Depreciation and amortization - net lease properties. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - net lease properties is primarily a result of certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2024 ($10,520) and our sale of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2024 ($1,890), partially offset by increases from our acquisition of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2024 ($1,549) and depreciation and amortization related to capital expenditures made since January 1, 2024 ($1,074).
General and administrative. The increase in general and administrative costs in 2025 is primarily due to increases in other professional fees ($1,325) and franchise taxes ($634), partially offset by decreases in business management fees ($1,531).
Transaction related costs. Transaction related costs in 2025 primarily consisted of costs related to the sale and renovation of certain hotels, partially offset by the recovery of a working capital reserve related to our former agreement with Marriott International, Inc. previously deemed uncollectable and expensed in 2021. Transaction related costs in 2024 primarily consisted of costs related to various labor litigation matters, re-opening costs and other professional fees related to major renovation projects at certain of our hotels.
Loss on asset impairment. We recorded an $81,889 loss on asset impairment in 2025 to reduce the carrying value of 28 hotels and four net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell. We recorded a $56,212 loss on asset impairment in 2024 to reduce the carrying value of ten hotels and ten net lease properties to their estimated fair value or estimated fair value less costs to sell.
Gain on sale of real estate, net. We recorded an $84,218 net gain on sale of real estate in 2025 in connection with the sales of 112 hotels and 11 net lease properties, and a $6,269 net gain on sale of real estate in 2024 in connection with the sales of 15 hotels and ten net lease properties.
Interest income. The increase in interest income is due to higher average cash balances invested during 2025 compared to 2024.
Interest expense. The increase in interest expense is primarily due to higher outstanding borrowings and weighted average interest rates during 2025 compared to 2024.
Loss on early extinguishment of debt, net. We recorded a $2,897 loss on early extinguishment of debt, net in 2025 as a result of the redemption of certain senior notes. We recorded a $16,181 loss on early extinguishment of debt in 2024 as a result of the redemption and purchase of certain senior notes.
Income tax benefit (expense). The change from income tax expense in 2024 to income tax benefit in 2025 is primarily due to increases in our foreign tax benefit ($11,808) and decreases in our state income tax expense ($311). See Note 10 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Equity in losses of an investee. Equity in losses of an investee represents our proportionate share of the losses of Sonesta.
Net loss. Our net loss and our net loss per common share (basic and diluted) each decreased in 2025 compared to 2024 primarily due to the revenue and expense changes discussed above.
Liquidity and Capital Resources (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Our Managers and Tenants
As of December 31, 2025, our 760 service-focused retail net lease properties were leased to 181 tenants and our 94 hotels were managed and operated by four hotel operating companies. The costs of operating and maintaining our properties are generally paid by our tenants for their own account or by the hotel managers as agents for us. Our tenants and hotel managers derive their funding for property operating expenses and for rents and returns due to us generally from property operating revenues and, to the extent these parties themselves fund rents and our owner’s priority returns, from their separate resources. As of December 31, 2025, TA is our largest tenant (175 travel centers) and Sonesta (69 hotels) is our largest hotel manager.
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We recorded reserves for uncollectable amounts and reduced rental income by $1,858 and $2,158 during the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, based on our assessment of the collectability of rents. We had reserves for uncollectable rents of $3,115 and $5,058 as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, included in other assets, net in our consolidated balance sheets.
We define net lease rent coverage as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, or EBITDAR, divided by the annual minimum rent due to us weighted by the minimum rent of the property to total minimum rents of the net lease portfolio. Tenants with no minimum rent required under the lease are excluded. EBITDAR amounts used to determine rent coverage are generally for the latest twelve-month period, based on the most recent operating information, if any, furnished by our tenants. Operating statements furnished by our tenants often are unaudited and, in certain cases, may not have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and are not independently verified by us. In instances where we do not have tenant financial information, we calculate an implied coverage ratio for the period based on other tenants with available financial statements operating the same brand or within the same industry. As a result, we believe using this implied coverage metric provides a more reasonable estimated representation of recent operating results and the financial condition for those tenants. Our net lease properties generated rent coverage of 1.98x and 2.10x as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Our Operating Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of funds to meet operating and capital expenses, debt service obligations and distributions to our shareholders are rents from our net lease portfolio, returns generated from our hotels and borrowings under our revolving credit facility and VFN. We receive rents and hotel returns from our tenants and managers monthly. We may receive additional returns, percentage rents and our share of the operating profits of our managed hotels after payment of management fees and other deductions, if any, either monthly or quarterly, and these amounts are usually subject to annual reconciliations. We believe these sources of funds will be sufficient to meet our operating expenses and capital expenditures, pay debt service obligations and make distributions to our shareholders for the next 12 months and for the foreseeable future thereafter. However, as a result of economic conditions, including if the U.S. enters an economic recession, or otherwise, our tenants and managers may become unable or unwilling to pay returns and rents to us when due, and, as a result, our cash flows and net income would decline.
The following is a summary of our sources and uses of cash flows for the periods presented:
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period | $ | 157,386 | $ | 197,830 | |||
| Net cash provided by (used in): | |||||||
| Operating activities | 117,808 | 139,391 | |||||
| Investing activities | 528,712 | (222,859) | |||||
| Financing activities | (431,818) | 43,024 | |||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period | $ | 372,088 | $ | 157,386 |
The decrease in cash flow provided by operating activities in the 2025 period is primarily due to the sale of certain hotels and lower returns from our hotel portfolio in the 2025 period. The change from cash flow used in investing activities in 2024 to cash flow provided by investing activities in 2025 is primarily due to higher proceeds from the sale of real estate and decreased real estate improvements during 2025, partially offset by real estate acquisitions and deposits during 2025. The change from cash flow provided by financing activities in 2024 to cash flow used in financing activities during 2025 is primarily due to higher net repayments, partially offset by lower distributions to common shareholders during 2025.
We maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT under the IRC by meeting certain requirements. We lease 94 hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies. As a REIT, we do not expect to pay federal income taxes on the majority of our income; however, the income realized by our TRSs in excess of the rent they pay to us is subject to U.S. federal income tax at corporate income tax rates. In addition, the income we receive from our hotels in Canada and Puerto Rico is subject to taxes in those jurisdictions and we are subject to taxes in certain states where we have properties despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT.
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Our Investment and Financing Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our hotel operating agreements generally provide that, if necessary, we may provide our managers with funding for capital improvements to our hotels in excess of amounts otherwise available in escrowed FF&E reserves or when no FF&E reserves are available. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we funded $229,389 for capital improvements in excess of FF&E reserves available to our hotels. We currently expect to fund between approximately $120,000 to $140,000 during 2026 for capital improvements to certain hotels using cash on hand.
Various percentages of total sales at some of our hotels are escrowed as FF&E reserves to fund future capital improvements. We own all the FF&E escrows for our hotels. During the year ended December 31, 2025, certain of our hotel managers deposited $6,138 to these accounts and spent $4,818 from the FF&E reserve escrow accounts to renovate and refurbish our hotels. As of December 31, 2025, there was $6,763 on deposit in these escrow accounts, which was held directly by us and is reflected in our consolidated balance sheets as restricted cash.
Our net lease portfolio leases do not require FF&E escrow deposits and tenants under these leases are generally required to maintain the leased properties, including structural and non-structural components. We may provide tenant improvement allowances to tenants in certain cases or may develop sites with the intent to lease them. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we funded $2,451 for capital improvements to our net lease properties. As of December 31, 2025, we had $6,790 of unspent leasing-related obligations related to certain of our net lease tenants.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, we sold 112 hotels for a combined sales price of $858,752, excluding closing costs, and 11 net lease properties for a combined sales price of $19,591, excluding closing costs. From January 1, 2026 through February 23, 2026, we sold one hotel with 133 keys for a sales price of $7,100, excluding closing costs, and one net lease property with 2,510 square feet for a sales price of $610, excluding closing costs. We are at various stages of selling nine hotels with a total of 1,167 keys and have initiated marketing for seven full service Sonesta hotels with a total of 2,010 keys. We believe it is probable that the sales will be completed within one year. We expect to use the net sales proceeds from these sales for general business purposes, including to repay debt.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, we acquired 29 net lease properties with a total of 283,759 square feet for a combined purchase price of $93,743, excluding closing costs, using cash on hand. From January 1, 2026 through February 23, 2026, we acquired three net lease properties with a total of 8,788 square feet for a combined purchase price of $7,398, excluding closing costs, using cash on hand.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, we declared and paid regular quarterly distributions to our common shareholders using cash on hand as follows:
| Declaration Date | Record Date | Paid Date | Distribution Per Common Share | Total Distributions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2025 | January 27, 2025 | February 20, 2025 | $ | 0.01 | $ | 1,666 | |||||
| April 10, 2025 | April 22, 2025 | May 15, 2025 | 0.01 | 1,667 | |||||||
| July 10, 2025 | July 21, 2025 | August 14, 2025 | 0.01 | 1,669 | |||||||
| October 9, 2025 | October 27, 2025 | November 13, 2025 | 0.01 | 1,681 | |||||||
| $ | 0.04 | $ | 6,683 |
On January 15, 2026, we declared a regular quarterly distribution to common shareholders of record on January 26, 2026 of $0.01 per share, or $1,681. We paid this distribution on February 19, 2026, using cash on hand.
In order to meet cash needs that may result from our desire or need to make distributions or pay operating or capital expenses, we maintain a $650,000 secured revolving credit facility which is governed by a credit agreement. We can borrow, subject to meeting certain financial covenants, repay and reborrow funds available under our revolving credit facility until maturity and no principal repayments are due until maturity. Availability of borrowings under our credit agreement is subject to ongoing minimum performance and market values of the collateral properties, satisfying certain financial covenants and other credit facility conditions. The maturity date of our revolving credit facility is June 29, 2027, and, subject to the payment of an extension fee and meeting certain other conditions, we have an option to further extend the stated maturity date of the facility by two additional six-month periods.
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Interest payable on drawings under our revolving credit facility is based on SOFR plus a margin ranging from 1.50% to 3.00% based on our leverage ratio, as defined in our credit agreement, which was 2.75% as of December 31, 2025. We also pay unused commitment fees of 20 to 30 basis points per annum on the total amount of lending commitments under our revolving credit facility based on amounts outstanding. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the annual interest rate payable on borrowings under our revolving credit facility was 6.37% and 6.99%, respectively. As of December 31, 2025 and February 23, 2026, we had no borrowings outstanding under our revolving credit facility and $650,000 available for borrowing.
As collateral for all loans and other obligations under our revolving credit facility, certain of our subsidiaries pledged all of their respective equity interests in certain of our direct and indirect property owning subsidiaries, and our pledged subsidiaries provided first mortgage liens on certain properties, as discussed below.
In February 2025, we and our lenders amended the agreement governing our revolving credit facility to reduce the minimum fixed charge coverage ratio covenant from 1.50x to 1.30x effective with respect to the fourth quarter of 2024 and continuing through the end of the loan term. In order to exercise the first extension option, we are required to maintain a 1.50x minimum fixed charge coverage ratio level as of and for the duration of the extension period. We also agreed to change the required collateral property debt yield to 10% effective with respect to the first quarter of 2025 and continuing through the end of the loan term and to swap collateral properties as follows: 47 hotels with an aggregate of 7,981 keys were released from the collateral pool and 35 travel centers leased to TA, which we refer to as TA Lease No. 5, were added as collateral to our revolving credit facility. Of the 47 hotels released from the collateral pool, 36 hotels with an aggregate of 4,862 keys and an aggregate undepreciated book value of $650,093 at the time of the amendment were part of our disposition plan. The collateral swap was completed in May 2025. As of December 31, 2025, our revolving credit facility was secured by 55 properties, including 38 net lease properties and 17 hotels, with an aggregate undepreciated book value of $890,424.
Senior Secured Notes Issuance
In September 2025, we issued $580,155 in aggregate principal amount at maturity of zero coupon senior secured notes due 2027 in a private offering, raising net proceeds of approximately $490,000, after giving effect to original issue discount and deducting the initial purchasers’ discount and estimated transaction fees and expenses. These notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a joint and several basis by (i) newly formed wholly owned subsidiaries, or the TA Landlord Subsidiaries, that are the landlords with respect to a portfolio of our properties leased to TA, which we refer to as TA Lease No. 2, and (ii) all of our subsidiaries that guarantee our existing senior unsecured notes. These notes are secured by first-priority liens on the equity interests of subsidiaries that own and lease 36 of our travel center properties with an undepreciated carrying value of $413,904 as of December 31, 2025. These notes require no cash interest payments to accrue prior to maturity. The accreted value of these notes will increase at a rate of 7.50% per annum compounded semiannually on March 30 and September 30 of each year. We have a one-time option to extend the maturity date of these notes by one year, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions and the payment of an extension fee. The net proceeds from this offering were used repay amounts outstanding under our revolving credit facility.
Redemption of Senior Unsecured Notes
In September 2025, we redeemed at par all of our outstanding 5.25% senior unsecured notes due 2026 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $350,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest to but excluding the date of redemption. The redemption was funded using cash on hand.
In October 2025, we redeemed all of our outstanding 4.75% senior unsecured notes due 2026 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $450,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest to but excluding the date of redemption and a make whole premium of $1,796. The redemption was funded using cash on hand and borrowings under our revolving credit facility.
In January 2026, we redeemed $300,000 of our $400,000 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to but excluding the date of redemption and a make whole premium of $1,569. The redemption was funded using cash on hand.
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Net Lease Mortgage Notes
On January 27, 2025, our wholly owned, special purpose bankruptcy remote, indirect subsidiary, SVC ABS LLC, or the Initial Issuer, issued the VFN secured by the 314 net lease properties that secure our existing $604,654 of net lease mortgage notes. The VFN permits borrowings on a revolving basis up to $45,000 and the Initial Issuer can borrow, repay and reborrow funds available until maturity. The maturity date of the VFN is January 27, 2027, and, subject to the payment of an extension fee and meeting certain other conditions, can be extended by one year at the Initial Issuer’s option. The VFN requires interest payments only on drawings under the VFN based on SOFR plus a margin of 1.75%, and an unused commitment fee of 50 basis points per annum paid on undrawn amounts. As of December 31, 2025, the annual interest rate payable on borrowings under the VFN was 5.62%. The weighted average annual interest rate for borrowings under the VFN was 5.93% for the year ended December 31, 2025. As of both December 31, 2025 and February 23, 2026, we had $45,000 outstanding under the VFN.
On February 20, 2026, the Initial Issuer, SVC 2026 ABS LLC and SVC 2026 TA ABS LLC priced $745,000 in aggregate principal amount of net lease mortgage notes in three classes. This transaction is expected to close on or about March 6, 2026. The weighted average coupon rate of the three classes is 5.96%. The Class A and Class B notes will require monthly principal repayments at an annualized rate of 0.50% and 0.25% of the balances outstanding, respectively, and the Class M notes will require interest payments only until the maturity date. The notes are expected to mature in March 2031 and may be redeemed without penalty 24 months prior to the scheduled maturity date beginning in March 2029. The notes are non-recourse and are secured by the same 314 properties that secure our existing net lease mortgage notes, plus an additional 158 retail net lease properties that had an aggregate undepreciated book value of $761,508 and leases requiring annual minimum rents of $83,837. We expect to use the net proceeds from this transaction to redeem our 2029 Notes.
On February 20, 2026, we announced the early redemption of our outstanding 2029 Notes for a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $700,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest to but excluding the date of redemption and a make whole premium. This redemption is expected to occur on or about March 7, 2026. We expect to fund this redemption with the proceeds from the net lease mortgage notes transaction described above.
Our debt maturities (other than our revolving credit facility) as of December 31, 2025 were as follows:
| Year | Debt Maturities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $ | 1,958 | ||
| 2027 (1) | 1,477,114 | |||
| 2028 | 1,000,737 | |||
| 2029 | 1,125,000 | |||
| 2030 | 400,000 | |||
| Thereafter | 1,500,000 | |||
| $ | 5,504,809 |
(1) In January 2026, we redeemed $300,000 of our $400,000 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027.
None of our senior note debt obligations require principal or sinking fund payments prior to their maturity dates. Our mortgage notes require monthly principal payments as described in Part II, Item 7A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We currently expect to use cash on hand, the cash flows from our operations, borrowings available under our revolving credit facility, if any, or VFN, net proceeds from any asset sales and net proceeds of offerings of equity or the incurrence of debt to fund our operations, capital expenditures, investments, future debt maturities, distributions to our shareholders and other general business purposes.
When significant amounts are outstanding for an extended period of time under our revolving credit facility, or the maturities of our indebtedness approach, we currently expect to explore refinancing alternatives. Such alternatives may include incurring additional debt, issuing new equity securities and the sale of properties. We have an effective shelf registration statement that allows us to issue public securities on an expedited basis, but it does not assure that there will be buyers for such securities. We may also seek to participate in joint ventures or other arrangements that may provide us additional sources of financing. We may also assume mortgage debt on properties we may acquire or obtain mortgage financing on our existing properties.
While we believe we will generally have access to various types of financings, including debt or equity, to fund our future acquisitions and to pay our debts and other obligations, we cannot be sure that we will be able to complete any debt or equity offerings or other types of financings or that our cost of any future public or private financings will not increase.
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Our ability to complete, and the costs associated with, future debt transactions depend primarily upon credit market conditions and our then perceived creditworthiness. We have no control over market conditions. Our credit ratings depend upon evaluations by credit rating agencies of our business practices and plans, including our ability to maintain our earnings, to stagger our debt maturities and to balance our use of debt and equity capital so that our financial performance and leverage ratios afford us flexibility to withstand any reasonably anticipated adverse changes. Similarly, our ability to raise equity capital in the future will depend primarily upon equity capital market conditions and our ability to conduct our business to maintain and grow our operating cash flows. We intend to conduct our business activities in a manner which will afford us reasonable access to capital for investment and financing activities. However, as discussed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the impacts of the current, and possibly future, inflationary conditions, uncertainties surrounding interest rates and a possible economic recession are uncertain and may have various negative consequences on us and our operations, including a decline in financing availability and increased costs for financing. Further, such conditions could also disrupt the capital markets generally and limit our access to financing from public sources or on favorable terms, particularly if the global financial markets experience significant disruptions.
Debt Covenants
Our debt obligations at December 31, 2025 consisted of $4,855,155 aggregate principal amounts of senior notes, $604,654 aggregate principal amounts of net lease mortgage notes and $45,000 of borrowings outstanding under the VFN. For further information regarding our indebtedness, see Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Our publicly and privately issued senior notes are governed by our indentures and related supplements. These indentures and related supplements and our credit agreement contain covenants that generally restrict our ability to incur debt, including debt secured by mortgages on our properties, in excess of calculated amounts, and require us to maintain various financial ratios. Our credit agreement, net lease mortgage notes, secured senior notes and unsecured senior notes, indentures and their supplements provide for acceleration of payment of all amounts outstanding upon the occurrence and continuation of certain events of default, such as, in the case of our credit agreement, a change of control of us, which includes RMR ceasing to act as our business manager. As of December 31, 2025, we believe we were in compliance with all of the covenants under our indentures and their supplements, net lease mortgage notes and our credit agreement.
Senior Notes Indenture Covenants
The following table summarizes the results of the financial tests required by the indentures and related supplements for our senior secured and unsecured notes as of December 31, 2025:
| Actual Results (1) | Covenant Requirement | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total debt / adjusted total assets | 58.7% | Maximum of 60% | ||
| Secured debt / adjusted total assets | 33.2% | Maximum of 40% | ||
| Consolidated income available for debt service / debt service | 1.59x | Minimum of 1.50x | ||
| Total unencumbered assets / unsecured debt | 218.7% | Minimum 150% | ||
| Total unencumbered assets in guarantor subsidiaries / senior guaranteed unsecured debt | 4.92x | Minimum of 2.20x |
(1) As adjusted for the redemption of $300,000 of 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027 redeemed in January 2026, and the issuance of $745,000 of net lease mortgage notes and the redemption of $700,000 of 2029 Notes both expected to occur in March 2026.
As of December 31, 2025, as adjusted for the redemption of $300,000 of 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027 redeemed in January 2026, and the issuance of $745,000 of net lease mortgage notes and the redemption of $700,000 of 2029 Notes both expected to occur in March 2026, adjusted total assets for covenant purposes as defined in our senior notes indentures were $8,937,868 and assets encumbered under our revolving credit facility, serving as collateral for our net lease mortgage notes or secured senior notes represented $3,961,366 of adjusted total assets, as defined in our senior notes indentures. Our unencumbered hotels, other net lease properties and other corporate assets represent $4,284,731, $474,510 and $217,261 of adjusted total assets, respectively.
The following table presents the calculation of adjusted total assets to total assets in accordance with GAAP:
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| Total assets | $ | 6,491,580 |
|---|---|---|
| Plus: accumulated depreciation (1) | 2,509,525 | |
| Plus: impairment and other adjustments to reflect original cost of real estate assets | 397,103 | |
| Less: accounts receivable and intangibles | (205,340) | |
| Less: adjustments for the redemption of $300,000 of 4.95% senior unsecured notes due 2027, the issuance of $745,000 of net lease mortgage notes and the redemption of $700,000 of 2029 Notes | (255,000) | |
| Adjusted total assets | $ | 8,937,868 |
(1)Includes $66,559 of accumulated depreciation on assets of properties held for sale.
Our ability to incur additional debt is subject to meeting the required covenant levels and subject to the provisions of our debt agreements.
Acceleration and Cross-Default
Our indentures and their supplements contain cross default provisions to any other debt of $50,000 or more. Similarly, our credit agreement has cross default provisions to other indebtedness that is recourse of $25,000 or more and indebtedness that is non-recourse of $75,000 or more. Neither our indentures and their supplements nor our credit agreement contain provisions for acceleration which could be triggered by a change in our debt ratings.
Supplemental Guarantor Information
Our 2027 Unsecured Notes, our 2029 Notes and our 2032 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a joint and several basis and on a senior unsecured basis, by all of our subsidiaries, except for certain excluded subsidiaries, including our foreign subsidiaries and our subsidiaries pledged under our credit agreement and our net lease mortgage notes. The notes and the guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors’ secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities and any preferred equity of any of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee the notes. Our remaining $1,325,000 of senior unsecured notes do not have the benefit of any guarantees.
A subsidiary guarantor’s guarantee of the 2027 Unsecured Notes, the 2029 Notes and the 2032 Notes and all other obligations of such subsidiary guarantor under the indentures governing the notes will automatically terminate and such subsidiary guarantor will automatically be released from all of its obligations under such subsidiary guarantee and such indenture under certain circumstances, including on or after the date on which (a) the notes have received a rating equal to or higher than Baa2 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s, and BBB (or the equivalent) S&P, or if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes for reasons outside of our control, the equivalent investment grade rating from any other rating agency and (b) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under the indenture. Our non-guarantor subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities and will have no obligation, contingent or otherwise, to pay any amounts due on these notes or the guarantees, or to make any funds available therefor, whether by dividend, distribution, loan or other payments. The rights of holders of these notes to benefit from any of the assets of our non-guarantor subsidiaries are subject to the prior satisfaction of claims of those subsidiaries’ creditors and any preferred equity holders. As a result, these notes and the related guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors’ secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee these notes, including guarantees of or pledges under other indebtedness of ours, payment obligations under lease agreements, trade payables and preferred equity.
The following table presents summarized financial information for us and the subsidiary guarantors, on a combined basis after elimination of (i) intercompany transactions and balances among us and the subsidiary guarantors and (ii) equity in earnings from, and any investments in, any of our non-guarantor subsidiaries:
| As of December 31, 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate properties, net(1) | $ | 3,514,819 | |
| Other assets, net | 679,235 | ||
| Indebtedness, net | $ | 4,711,060 | |
| Intercompany balances(2) | 1,630,868 | ||
| Other liabilities | 255,069 |
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| Year Ended December 31, 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | $ | 1,438,240 | |
| Expenses | 1,793,261 | ||
| Net loss | $ | (355,021) |
(1)Real estate properties, net as of December 31, 2025 includes $17,440 of properties owned directly by us and not included in the assets of the subsidiary guarantors.
(2)Intercompany balances represent payables to non-guarantor subsidiaries.
Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR, RMR Inc. and Sonesta and others affiliated with them. For further information about these and other such relationships and related person transactions, see Notes 4, 5, 8 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference and our other filings with the SEC, including our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or our definitive Proxy Statement, to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. For further information about the risks that may arise as a result of these and other related person transactions and relationships, see elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including “Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements,” “Business” in Part I, Item 1 and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We may engage in additional transactions with related persons, including businesses to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our critical accounting policies are those that will have the most impact on the reporting of our financial condition and results of operations and those requiring significant judgments and estimates. We believe that our judgments and estimates have been and will be consistently applied and produce financial information that fairly presents our results of operations. Our most critical accounting policies involve our investments in real property. These policies affect our:
•variable interest entities, or VIEs;
•allocation of purchase prices between various asset categories and the related impact on the recognition of depreciation and amortization expenses;
•assessment of the carrying values and impairments of real estate, intangible assets and equity investments;
•classification of leases and the related impact to our financial statements; and
•income taxes.
We have determined that each of our wholly owned TRSs is a VIE as defined under the Consolidation Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification™, or ASC. We have concluded that we must consolidate each of our wholly owned TRSs because we are the entity with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact such VIE’s performance and we have the obligation to absorb the majority of the potential variability in gains and losses of each VIE, with the primary focus on losses, and are therefore the primary beneficiary of each VIE.
We allocate the acquisition cost of each property investment to various property components such as land, buildings and equipment and intangibles based on their relative fair values and each component generally has a different useful life. For acquired real estate, we record building, land, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and, if applicable, the value of acquired in-place leases, the fair market value of above or below market leases and customer relationships at fair value. For transactions that qualify as business combinations we allocate the excess, if any, of the consideration over the fair value of the net assets acquired to goodwill. We base purchase price allocations and the determination of useful lives on our estimates and, under some circumstances, studies from independent real estate appraisers to provide market information and evaluations that are relevant to our purchase price allocations and determinations of useful lives; however, our management is ultimately responsible for the purchase price allocations and determination of useful lives.
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We compute depreciation expense using the straight line method over estimated useful lives of up to 40 years for buildings and improvements, and up to 12 years for personal property. We amortize the value of intangible assets over the shorter of their estimated useful lives, or the term of the respective lease or the affected contract. We do not depreciate the allocated cost of land. Purchase price allocations and estimates of useful lives require us to make certain assumptions and estimates. Incorrect assumptions and estimates may result in inaccurate depreciation and amortization charges over future periods.
We periodically evaluate our real estate and other assets for possible impairment indicators. These indicators may include weak or declining operating profitability, cash flows or liquidity, our decision to dispose of an asset before the end of its estimated useful life or market or industry changes that could permanently reduce the value of our investments. If indicators of impairment are present, we evaluate the carrying value of the related investment by comparing it to the expected future undiscounted cash flows to be generated from that investment. If the sum of these expected future cash flows is less than the carrying value, we reduce the net carrying value of the property to its estimated fair value.
We periodically evaluate our equity method investment for possible indicators of other than temporary impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of the investment might not be recoverable. These indicators may include the length of time and degree to which the market value of our investment is below our cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer, our intent and ability to be a long term holder of the investment and other considerations. If the decline in fair value is judged to be other than temporary, we may record an impairment charge to adjust the basis of the investment to its fair value.
We determine the fair value for our long lived assets by evaluating recent financial performance and projecting discounted cash flows using standard industry valuation techniques. These analyses require us to judge whether indicators of impairment exist and to estimate likely future cash flows. If we misjudge or estimate incorrectly or if future operating profitability, market or industry factors differ from our expectations, we may record an impairment charge which is inappropriate, fail to record a charge when we should have done so or the amount of such charges may be inaccurate.
Certain of our properties are leased on a triple net basis, pursuant to non-cancelable, fixed term, operating leases. Each time we enter a new lease or materially modify an existing lease we evaluate its classification as either a finance or operating lease. The classification of a lease as finance, sales-type, direct financing or operating affects the carrying value of a property, as well as our recognition of rental payments as revenue. These evaluations require us to make estimates of, among other things, the remaining useful life and market value of a leased property, appropriate present value discount rates and future cash flows. Incorrect assumptions or estimates may result in misclassification of our leases.
We account for income taxes in accordance with the Income Taxes Topic of the ASC. Under this Topic, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. We establish valuation allowances to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized when necessary. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT under the IRC and are generally not subject to federal and state income taxation on our operating income provided we distribute our taxable income to our shareholders and meet certain organization and operating requirements. Despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT, we are subject to income tax in Canada, Puerto Rico and in certain states. Further, we lease our managed hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that, unlike most of our subsidiaries, file a separate consolidated tax return and are subject to federal, state and foreign income tax. Our consolidated income tax provision (or benefit) includes the income tax provision (or benefit) related to the operations of the TRSs and state and foreign income taxes incurred by us despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT. The Income Taxes Topic also prescribes how we should recognize, measure and present in our financial statements uncertain tax positions that have been taken or are expected to be taken in a tax return. Tax benefits are recognized only to the extent that it is “more likely than not” that a particular tax position will be sustained upon examination or audit. To the extent the “more likely than not” standard has been satisfied, the benefit associated with a tax position is measured as the largest amount that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Tax returns filed for the 2022 through 2025 tax years are subject to examination by taxing authorities. We classify interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions, if any, in our financial statements as a component of general and administrative expense.
These accounting policies involve significant judgments made based upon our experience and the experience of our management and our Board of Trustees, including judgments about current valuations, ultimate realizable value, estimated useful lives, salvage or residual value, the ability and willingness of our tenants and operators to perform their obligations to us, and the current and likely future operating and competitive environments in which our properties operate. In the future, we may need to revise our carrying value assessments to incorporate information which is not now known, and such revisions could increase or decrease our depreciation expense related to properties we own, result in the classification of our leases as other than operating leases or decrease the carrying values of our assets.
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Property and Operating Statistics (dollars in thousands, except hotel statistics)
As of December 31, 2025, we owned and managed a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease properties across the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada with 149 distinct brands across 22 industries.
Hotel Portfolio
The following tables summarize the operating statistics, including occupancy, ADR and RevPAR reported to us by our hotel managers by hotel brand for the periods indicated. All operating data presented are based upon the operating results provided by our hotel managers for the indicated periods. We have not independently verified our managers’ operating data.
| All Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Service Level | 2025 | 2024 | Change | 2025 | 2024 | Change | 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retained Hotels: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta Hotels® | Full Service | 14 | 4,821 | 64.1 | % | 63.9 | % | 0.2 pts | $242.18 | $240.63 | 0.6 | % | $ | 155.22 | $ | 153.81 | 0.9 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Hotels & Resorts® | Full Service | 18 | 6,040 | 62.9 | % | 59.8 | % | 3.1 pts | 171.97 | 171.92 | — | % | 108.11 | 102.87 | 5.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Radisson® Hotels & Resorts | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 61.4 | % | 65.4 | % | (4.0) pts | 150.94 | 147.07 | 2.6 | % | 92.60 | 96.14 | (3.7) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Country Inn & Suites® by Radisson | Full Service | 2 | 346 | 68.3 | % | 70.2 | % | (1.9) pts | 139.96 | 148.28 | (5.6) | % | 95.54 | 104.14 | (8.3) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza® | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 66.6 | % | 63.3 | % | 3.3 pts | 141.18 | 142.09 | (0.6) | % | 94.03 | 90.01 | 4.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 40 | 12,851 | 63.5 | % | 62.3 | % | 1.2 pts | 194.56 | 194.15 | 0.2 | % | 123.51 | 120.91 | 2.1 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites® | Extended Stay | 7 | 958 | 74.7 | % | 71.0 | % | 3.7 pts | 149.65 | 152.75 | (2.0) | % | 111.77 | 108.44 | 3.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select® | Select Service | 6 | 873 | 65.2 | % | 64.2 | % | 1.0 pts | 134.65 | 139.44 | (3.4) | % | 87.74 | 89.50 | (2.0) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites® | Extended Stay | 7 | 1,144 | 72.6 | % | 74.1 | % | (1.5) pts | 124.41 | 123.47 | 0.8 | % | 90.37 | 91.47 | (1.2) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place® | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 68.2 | % | 63.4 | % | 4.8 pts | 120.63 | 120.48 | 0.1 | % | 82.23 | 76.35 | 7.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Focused Service Total/Average | 37 | 5,082 | 69.9 | % | 67.4 | % | 2.5 pts | 129.61 | 130.74 | (0.9) | % | 90.58 | 88.06 | 2.9 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Retained Hotels Total/Average | 77 | 17,933 | 65.3 | % | 63.7 | % | 1.6 pts | $174.86 | $175.14 | (0.2) | % | $ | 114.17 | $ | 111.60 | 2.3 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Exit Hotels: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta Hotels® | Full Service | 3 | 842 | 47.2 | % | 46.4 | % | 0.8 pts | $ | 166.91 | $ | 175.04 | (4.6) | % | $ | 78.77 | $ | 81.27 | (3.1) | % | ||||||||||||
| Sonesta Hotels & Resorts® | Full Service | 4 | 1,168 | 51.7 | % | 55.7 | % | (4.0) pts | 93.14 | 97.14 | (4.1) | % | 48.14 | 54.07 | (11.0) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 7 | 2,010 | 49.8 | % | 51.8 | % | (2.0) pts | 122.42 | 126.39 | (3.1) | % | 60.97 | 65.47 | (6.9) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites® | Extended Stay | 6 | 768 | 68.9 | % | 70.2 | % | (1.3) pts | 114.68 | 116.86 | (1.9) | % | 79.02 | 82.06 | (3.7) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select® | Select Service | 1 | 155 | 65.2 | % | 71.9 | % | (6.7) pts | 125.30 | 125.38 | (0.1) | % | 81.75 | 90.09 | (9.3) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites® | Extended Stay | 3 | 377 | 73.5 | % | 73.4 | % | 0.1 pts | 89.72 | 92.26 | (2.8) | % | 65.91 | 67.76 | (2.7) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Focused Service Total/Average | 10 | 1,300 | 69.8 | % | 71.4 | % | (1.6) pts | 108.24 | 110.54 | (2.1) | % | 75.54 | 78.87 | (4.2) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Exit Hotels Total/Average | 17 | 3,310 | 57.7 | % | 59.5 | % | (1.8) pts | 115.68 | 118.92 | (2.7) | % | 66.69 | 70.73 | (5.7) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| All Hotels Total/Average | 94 | 21,243 | 64.1 | % | 63.1 | % | 1.0 pts | $166.56 | $166.88 | (0.2) | % | $ | 106.77 | $ | 105.23 | 1.5 | % |
* Includes results of all hotels owned as of December 31, 2025. Excludes the results of hotels sold during the periods presented. Retained Hotels represents 52 hotels managed by Sonesta, 17 hotels managed by Hyatt, seven hotels managed by Radisson, and one hotel managed by IHG that we will continue to own after the Exit Hotels are sold. Exit Hotels represents 17 hotels managed by Sonesta that we plan to sell.
Net Lease Portfolio
As of December 31, 2025, our net lease properties were 96.6% occupied and we had 26 properties available for lease. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we entered into lease renewals for 977,089 rentable square feet (32 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 4.6% above the prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 10.5 years. We also entered into new leases for 137,774 rentable square feet (40 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 19.9% above the prior rent for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 7.7 years.
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Generally, lease agreements with our net lease tenants require payment of minimum rent to us. Certain of these minimum rent payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent represents cash amounts and excludes adjustments, if any, necessary to record scheduled rent changes on a straight line basis or any expense reimbursement. Annualized minimum rent excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA.
As of December 31, 2025, our net lease tenants operated across 140 brands. The following table identifies the top ten brands based on annualized minimum rent.
| Brand | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (2) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America Inc. | 131 | $ | 2,254,950 | 44.3 | % | $ | 180,329 | 46.2 | % | 1.20x | (3) | ||||||||||
| 2. | Petro Stopping Centers | 44 | 1,015,156 | 19.9 | % | 83,933 | 21.5 | % | 1.20x | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 3. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.0 | % | 4.00x | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 6,347 | 1.6 | % | 2.59x | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 6,223 | 1.6 | % | 2.61x | |||||||||||||
| 6. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 5,159 | 1.3 | % | 4.43x | |||||||||||||
| 7. | Pizza Hut | 45 | 54,248 | 1.1 | % | 4,353 | 1.1 | % | 2.16x | |||||||||||||
| 8. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 5.77x | |||||||||||||
| 9. | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,430 | 0.9 | % | 3.62x | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Flying J Travel Plaza | 3 | 41,681 | 0.8 | % | 3,312 | 0.8 | % | 3.14x | |||||||||||||
| Other (4) | 423 | 1,295,268 | 25.4 | % | 85,537 | 22.0 | % | 3.68x | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 760 | $ | 5,093,148 | 100.0 | % | $ | 390,051 | 100.0 | % | 1.98x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 58 for our definition of rent coverage.
(3)Rent coverage information provided by tenant is for all 175 sites on a consolidated basis and is as of December 31, 2025. Annualized minimum rent amounts and the rent used to calculate rent coverage is based on the stated rent amounts in the lease and excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA.
(4)Consists of 130 distinct brands with an average investment of $3,062 per property and average annual minimum rent of $202 per property.
As of December 31, 2025, our top ten net lease tenants based on our annualized minimum rent are listed below.
| Tenant | Brand Affiliation | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (2) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America Inc. (3) | TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers | 175 | $ | 3,270,106 | 64.2 | % | $ | 264,262 | 67.8 | % | 1.20 | x | |||||||||
| 2. | Universal Pool Co., Inc. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.0 | % | 4.00 | x | |||||||||||
| 3. | Healthy Way of Life II, LLC | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 6,347 | 1.6 | % | 2.59 | x | |||||||||||
| 4. | Styx Acquisition, LLC | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 6,223 | 1.6 | % | 2.61 | x | |||||||||||
| 5. | Express Oil Change, L.L.C. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 5.77 | x | |||||||||||
| 6. | Norms Restaurants, LLC | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,430 | 0.9 | % | 3.62 | x | |||||||||||
| 7. | Pilot Travel Centers LLC | Flying J Travel Plaza | 3 | 41,681 | 0.8 | % | 3,312 | 0.8 | % | 3.14 | x | |||||||||||
| 8. | Automotive Remarketing Group, Inc. | America's Auto Auction | 6 | 38,314 | 0.8 | % | 3,216 | 0.8 | % | 10.27 | x | |||||||||||
| 9. | Fleet Farm Group LLC | Fleet Farm | 1 | 37,802 | 0.7 | % | 2,894 | 0.7 | % | 2.11 | x | |||||||||||
| 10. | Heartland Dental, LLC | Heartland Dental | 35 | 31,045 | 0.6 | % | 2,686 | 0.7 | % | 5.21 | x | |||||||||||
| Subtotal, Top 10 | 275 | 3,789,673 | 74.4 | % | 303,798 | 77.9 | % | 1.57 | x | |||||||||||||
| Other (4) | Various | 485 | 1,303,475 | 25.6 | % | 86,253 | 22.1 | % | 3.41 | x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 760 | $ | 5,093,148 | 100.0 | % | $ | 390,051 | 100.0 | % | 1.98 | x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 58 for our definition of rent coverage.
(3)TA is our largest tenant. We lease 175 travel centers (131 under the TravelCenters of America brand and 44 under the Petro Stopping Centers brand) to a subsidiary of TA under five master leases that expire in 2033. TA has five renewal options for ten years each for all of the travel centers under each lease. BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payments under each of the five master leases. The aggregate guaranty as of December 31, 2025 was approximately $3,022,867. Annualized minimum rent amounts and the rent used to calculate rent coverage is based on the stated rent amounts in the lease and excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA. Rent coverage was 1.21x, 1.23x, 1.35x, 1.24x and 1.05x, for our TA leases no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, no. 4 and no. 5, respectively. Rent coverage is as of December 31, 2025.
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(4)Consists of 171 tenants with an average investment of $2,688 per property and an average annual minimum rent of $178 per property.
As of December 31, 2025, our net lease tenants operated across 21 distinct industries within the service-focused retail sector of the U.S. economy.
| Industry | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (2) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Travel Centers | 178 | $ | 3,311,787 | 65.0 | % | $ | 267,574 | 68.6 | % | 1.22x | (3) | ||||||||
| 2. | Restaurants - Quick Service | 211 | 293,030 | 5.8 | % | 20,783 | 5.3 | % | 2.87x | |||||||||||
| 3. | Health and Fitness | 15 | 204,027 | 4.0 | % | 13,233 | 3.4 | % | 2.08x | |||||||||||
| 5. | Restaurants - Casual Dining | 59 | 208,582 | 4.1 | % | 13,063 | 3.3 | % | 3.03x | |||||||||||
| 4. | Grocery Stores | 19 | 129,152 | 2.5 | % | 9,883 | 2.5 | % | 3.12x | |||||||||||
| 6. | Medical, Dental Office | 70 | 104,042 | 2.0 | % | 8,680 | 2.2 | % | 3.47x | |||||||||||
| 7. | Automotive Equipment and Services | 64 | 107,341 | 2.1 | % | 7,865 | 2.0 | % | 4.98x | |||||||||||
| 8. | Home Goods and Leisure | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.0 | % | 4.00x | |||||||||||
| 9. | Movie Theaters | 14 | 134,478 | 2.6 | % | 7,104 | 1.8 | % | 2.13x | |||||||||||
| 10. | Automotive Dealers | 8 | 62,656 | 1.2 | % | 5,094 | 1.3 | % | 7.98x | |||||||||||
| 11. | General Merchandise Stores | 4 | 55,457 | 1.1 | % | 4,054 | 1.0 | % | 2.92x | |||||||||||
| 12. | Entertainment | 3 | 51,473 | 1.0 | % | 3,947 | 1.0 | % | 1.08x | |||||||||||
| 13. | Building Materials | 29 | 34,006 | 0.7 | % | 3,256 | 0.8 | % | 8.69x | |||||||||||
| 14. | Educational Services | 6 | 37,730 | 0.7 | % | 2,902 | 0.7 | % | 2.46x | |||||||||||
| 15. | Car Washes | 7 | 36,125 | 0.7 | % | 2,846 | 0.7 | % | 4.85x | |||||||||||
| 16. | Sporting Goods | 4 | 29,367 | 0.6 | % | 1,920 | 0.5 | % | 4.57x | |||||||||||
| 17. | Miscellaneous Manufacturing | 5 | 24,355 | 0.5 | % | 1,741 | 0.4 | % | 14.17x | |||||||||||
| 18. | Dollar Stores | 7 | 10,253 | 0.2 | % | 721 | 0.2 | % | 2.31x | |||||||||||
| 19. | Legal Services | 3 | 7,609 | 0.1 | % | 681 | 0.2 | % | 0.90x | |||||||||||
| 20. | Drug Stores and Pharmacies | 3 | 9,699 | 0.2 | % | 590 | 0.2 | % | 1.26x | |||||||||||
| 21. | Other (4) | 11 | 66,061 | 1.3 | % | 6,403 | 1.9 | % | 4.51x | |||||||||||
| 22. | Vacant | 26 | 77,676 | 1.7 | % | — | — | % | —x | |||||||||||
| Total | 760 | $ | 5,093,148 | 100.0 | % | $ | 390,051 | 100.0 | % | 1.98x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 58 for our definition of rent coverage.
(3)Rent coverage for TA is as of December 31, 2025. Annualized minimum rent amounts and the rent used to calculate rent coverage is based on the stated rent amounts in the lease and excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA.
(4)Consists of miscellaneous businesses with an average investment of $6,006 per property.
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As of December 31, 2025, lease expirations at our net lease properties by year are as follows.
| Year(1) | Number of Properties | Square Feet | Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring | Cumulative Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 65 | 644,888 | $ | 8,630 | 2.2% | 2.2% | ||||||||
| 2027 | 36 | 1,007,582 | 12,783 | 3.3% | 5.5% | |||||||||
| 2028 | 22 | 592,579 | 9,622 | 2.5% | 8.0% | |||||||||
| 2029 | 79 | 621,771 | 10,622 | 2.7% | 10.7% | |||||||||
| 2030 | 39 | 319,702 | 7,544 | 1.9% | 12.6% | |||||||||
| 2031 | 46 | 463,431 | 6,796 | 1.7% | 14.3% | |||||||||
| 2032 | 35 | 137,154 | 2,903 | 0.7% | 15.0% | |||||||||
| 2033 | 213 | 5,371,427 | 270,571 | 69.4% | 84.4% | |||||||||
| 2034 | 22 | 289,885 | 5,744 | 1.5% | 85.9% | |||||||||
| 2035 | 48 | 1,188,024 | 21,595 | 5.5% | 91.4% | |||||||||
| 2036 | 28 | 395,650 | 7,178 | 1.8% | 93.2% | |||||||||
| 2037 | 14 | 686,103 | 4,867 | 1.2% | 94.4% | |||||||||
| 2038 | 6 | 44,484 | 1,201 | 0.3% | 94.7% | |||||||||
| 2039 | 14 | 241,746 | 4,885 | 1.3% | 96.0% | |||||||||
| 2040 | 33 | 223,031 | 5,814 | 1.5% | 97.5% | |||||||||
| 2041 | 9 | 233,084 | 2,637 | 0.7% | 98.2% | |||||||||
| 2042 | 1 | 5,775 | 160 | —% | 98.2% | |||||||||
| 2043 | 7 | 127,440 | 2,164 | 0.6% | 98.8% | |||||||||
| 2044 | 2 | 93,010 | 278 | 0.1% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2045 | 12 | 157,306 | 3,783 | 1.0% | 99.9% | |||||||||
| 2051 | 3 | 7,414 | 274 | 0.1% | 100.0% | |||||||||
| Total | 734 | 12,851,486 | $ | 390,051 | 100.0% |
(1)The year of lease expiration is pursuant to contract terms.
As of December 31, 2025, shown below is the list of our top ten states where our net lease properties are located. No other state represents more than 3% of our net lease annualized minimum rents.
| State | Number of Properties | Square Feet | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 57 | 1,188,461 | $ | 34,630 | 8.9% | ||||||
| Ohio | 38 | 1,289,668 | 27,999 | 7.2% | |||||||
| Illinois | 54 | 973,236 | 27,677 | 7.1% | |||||||
| California | 22 | 399,045 | 25,994 | 6.7% | |||||||
| Georgia | 70 | 580,553 | 20,490 | 5.3% | |||||||
| Florida | 48 | 587,706 | 18,473 | 4.7% | |||||||
| Arizona | 25 | 476,651 | 16,827 | 4.3% | |||||||
| Pennsylvania | 27 | 506,563 | 16,062 | 4.1% | |||||||
| Indiana | 40 | 582,761 | 15,961 | 4.1% | |||||||
| New Mexico | 17 | 248,934 | 12,181 | 3.1% | |||||||
| Other | 362 | 6,768,324 | 173,757 | 44.5% | |||||||
| Total | 760 | 13,601,902 | $ | 390,051 | 100.0% |
Seasonality
Our hotels and travel centers have historically experienced seasonal differences typical of their industries with higher revenues in the second and third quarters of calendar years compared with the first and fourth quarters. Most of our leases require our tenants to make the substantial portion of our rent payments to us in equal amounts throughout the year. The return payments to us under certain of our management agreements depend exclusively upon earnings at these properties and, accordingly, our income and cash flows from these properties reflect the seasonality of the hotel industry.
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Impact of Climate Change
Concerns about climate change have resulted in various treaties, laws and regulations that are intended to limit carbon emissions and address other environmental concerns. These and other laws may cause energy or other costs at our properties to increase. We do not expect the direct impact of these increases to be material to our results of operations, because the increased costs either would be the responsibility of our tenants or managers directly or in the longer term, passed through and paid by customers of our properties. Although we do not believe it is likely in the foreseeable future, laws that have been enacted or may be enacted in the future to mitigate climate change may make some of our buildings obsolete or cause us to make material investments in our properties, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition or the financial condition of our tenants or managers and their ability to pay rent or returns to us.
We are environmentally conscious and aware of the impact our properties have on the environment. We and our tenants and managers have implemented numerous initiatives to encourage recycling of plastics, paper and metal or glass containers; we have programs to encourage reduced water and energy use at a hotel guest’s option by not laundering towels and linens every day and monitoring lights and thermostats when rooms are not in use. When we renovate our hotels we generally use energy efficient products including but not limited to lighting, windows and HVAC equipment and many of the appliances in our extended stay hotels are Energy Star rated. We or our tenants or managers have also installed car battery charging stations at some of the properties to accommodate environmentally aware customers.
In an effort to reduce the effects of any increased energy costs in the future, we continuously study ways to improve the energy efficiency at all of our properties. Our property manager, RMR, is a member of the Energy Star program, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that is focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its “Energy Star” partner program, and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED®, green building program. In addition, Sonesta supports the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Responsible Stay initiative focused on energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation and responsible sourcing practices.
Some observers believe severe weather in different parts of the world over the last few years is evidence of global climate change. Severe weather may have an adverse effect on certain properties we own. Rising sea levels could cause flooding at some of our properties, which may have an adverse effect on individual properties we own. We mitigate these risks by procuring, or requiring our managers or tenants to procure, insurance coverage we believe adequate to protect us from material damages and losses resulting from the consequences of losses caused by climate change. However, we cannot be sure that our mitigation efforts will be sufficient or that future storms, rising sea levels or other changes that may occur due to future climate change could not have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We present certain “non-GAAP financial measures” within the meaning of the applicable SEC rules, including FFO and Normalized FFO. These measures do not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of our operating performance or as measures of our liquidity. These measures should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) as presented in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We consider these non-GAAP measures to be appropriate supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT, along with net income (loss). We believe these measures provide useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation and amortization expense, they may facilitate a comparison of our operating performance between periods and with other REITs.
Funds From Operations and Normalized Funds From Operations
We calculate FFO and Normalized FFO as shown below. FFO is calculated on the basis defined by The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, which is net income (loss), calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding any gain or loss on sale of real estate and loss on impairment of real estate assets, if any, plus real estate depreciation and amortization, as well as adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee and certain other adjustments currently not applicable to us. In calculating Normalized FFO, we adjust for the items shown below. FFO and Normalized FFO are among the factors considered by our Board of Trustees when determining the amount of distributions to our shareholders. Other factors include, but are not limited to, requirements to maintain our REIT distribution requirements, limitations in our debt agreements, the availability to us of debt and equity capital, our distribution rate as a percentage of the trading price of our common shares, or dividend yield, and our dividend yield compared to the dividend yields of other REITs, our expectation of our future capital requirements and operating performance and our expected needs for and availability of cash to pay our obligations. Other real estate companies and REITs may calculate FFO and Normalized FFO differently than we do.
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Our calculations of FFO and Normalized FFO for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 and reconciliations of net loss, the most directly comparable financial measure under GAAP reported in our consolidated financial statements, to those amounts appear in the following table (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts).
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
| Net loss | $ | (202,321) | $ | (275,526) | |||
| Add (Less): | Depreciation and amortization expense | 314,963 | 371,786 | ||||
| Loss on asset impairment | 81,889 | 56,212 | |||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | (84,218) | (6,269) | |||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee | 4,641 | 4,347 | |||||
| FFO | 114,954 | 150,550 | |||||
| Add (Less): | Loss on early extinguishment of debt, net | 2,897 | 16,181 | ||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of Normalized FFO attributable to an investee | 3,570 | 2,777 | |||||
| Deferred tax liability (1) | (6,235) | — | |||||
| Transaction related costs | 14,698 | 6,894 | |||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 129,884 | $ | 176,402 | |||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 165,951 | 165,338 | |||||
| Basic and diluted per common share amounts: | |||||||
| Net Loss | $ | (1.22) | $ | (1.67) | |||
| FFO | $ | 0.69 | $ | 0.91 | |||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 0.78 | $ | 1.07 | |||
| Distributions declared per share | $ | 0.04 | $ | 0.61 |
(1) We recorded a $12,270 income tax benefit during the three months ended December 31, 2025 related to a tax exemption received from tax authorities in Puerto Rico related to our hotel in San Juan. We deducted $6,235 of this benefit from our calculation of Normalized FFO as it relates to a deferred tax liability recorded in 2020 as a result of a book to tax difference previously adjusted from Normalized FFO.
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MD&A history
Prior-year 10-K MD&A spans are extracted from SEC filings with the same bounded parser used for the latest filing. The latest 10-K appears above; prior years are below.
FY 2024 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0000945394-25-000014.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Overview (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts and per room hotel data)
We are a REIT organized under the laws of the State of Maryland. As of December 31, 2024, we owned 948 properties in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Consumer confidence, corporate travel and lodging demand will continue to be affected by economic and market conditions, inflationary pressures, uncertainties surrounding interest rates, unemployment levels, work from home policies, use of technologies and broader economic trends. Increased labor costs and other price inflation may continue to negatively impact our hotel operations and the operations of our tenants. An economic recession or continued or intensified disruptions in the financial markets could adversely affect our financial condition, operations at our hotels, our tenants and their ability or willingness to renew our leases or pay rent to us, may restrict our ability to obtain new or replacement financing, would likely increase our cost of capital, and may cause the values of our properties to decline.
In October 2024, we announced our plan to sell 114 extended stay and select service hotels managed by Sonesta with an aggregate of 14,925 keys and an aggregate net carrying value of $850,000. We expect to sell these hotels in 2025 and use the net sales proceeds from these sales to repay debt. To further improve our liquidity beginning with the fourth quarter of 2024, we reduced our regular quarterly cash distribution rate on our common shares from $0.20 per common share to $0.01 per common share, which we expect to result in $127,000 of annual savings.
Management Agreements and Leases. At December 31, 2024, we owned 206 hotels operated under four agreements. We leased all of these hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies as of that date. At December 31, 2024, we also owned 742 service-focused retail properties leased to 177 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for the payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. Our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include hotel operating revenues and hotel operating expenses of our managed hotels and rental income and net lease operating expenses from our net lease properties.
Hotel Portfolio. As of December 31, 2024, we owned 206 hotels. In 2024, the U.S. hotel industry generally realized increases in average daily rate, or ADR, and revenue per available room, or RevPAR, compared to the corresponding 2023 periods. Our comparable hotels produced year over year declines in ADR and RevPAR, which we believe is partially a result of disruption and displacement at certain of our hotels undergoing renovation and decreased business activity in areas where some of our hotels are located.
Comparable Hotels Data. We present RevPAR, ADR and occupancy for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. We define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entirety of the periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, our comparable results exclude one hotel that was not owned for the entirety of the periods presented and one other hotel that suspended operations during the periods presented. The following table provides a summary of these revenue metrics for the periods presented.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | Change | |||||||||
| Comparable Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 204 | 204 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 35,523 | 35,523 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 63.4 | % | 62.9 | % | 0.5 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 140.96 | $ | 142.14 | (0.8) | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 89.32 | $ | 89.44 | (0.1) | % |
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The following table provides a summary for all of our hotels with these revenue metrics for the periods presented, which we believe are key indicators of performance at our hotels.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | Change | |||||||||
| All Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 206 | 221 | (15) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 35,871 | 37,777 | (1,906) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 63.3 | % | 62.5 | % | 0.8 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 142.12 | $ | 140.94 | 0.8 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 90.01 | $ | 88.09 | 2.2 | % |
Net Lease Portfolio. As of December 31, 2024, we owned 742 service-focused retail net lease properties with an aggregate of 13,292,519 square feet leased to 177 tenants subject to “triple net” leases (where the tenants are responsible for payments of operating expenses and capital expenditures) requiring annual minimum rents of $380,863. Our net lease properties were 97.6% occupied as of December 31, 2024 with a weighted (by annual minimum rent) average lease term of 8.0 years, operating under 136 brands in 21 distinct industries. TA is our largest tenant and as of December 31, 2024, leased 175 of our travel centers under five master leases that expire in 2033 and require annual minimum rents of $259,080. In addition, TA receives an annual credit of $25,000 as a result of prepaid rent. BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payment under the TA leases, subject to a cap.
Additional details of our hotel operating agreements and our net lease agreements are set forth in Note 4 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Results of Operations (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Year Ended December 31, 2024, Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2023
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | $ Change | % Change | |||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating revenues | $ | 1,496,705 | $ | 1,478,034 | $ | 18,671 | 1.3 | % | ||||||
| Rental income | 400,223 | 395,829 | 4,394 | 1.1 | % | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 1,896,928 | 1,873,863 | 23,065 | 1.2 | % | |||||||||
| Expenses: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating expenses | 1,274,153 | 1,223,906 | 50,247 | 4.1 | % | |||||||||
| Net lease operating expenses | 19,817 | 17,663 | 2,154 | 12.2 | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - hotels | 221,299 | 216,235 | 5,064 | 2.3 | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - net lease properties | 150,487 | 167,825 | (17,338) | (10.3) | % | |||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization | 371,786 | 384,060 | (12,274) | (3.2) | % | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 40,239 | 45,397 | (5,158) | (11.4) | % | |||||||||
| Transaction related costs | 6,894 | (1,623) | 8,517 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment, net | 56,212 | 9,544 | 46,668 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Total expenses | 1,769,101 | 1,678,947 | 90,154 | 5.4 | % | |||||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | 6,269 | 43,239 | (36,970) | (85.5) | % | |||||||||
| Gain on equity securities, net | — | 48,837 | (48,837) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Interest income | 4,052 | 20,979 | (16,927) | (80.7) | % | |||||||||
| Interest expense | (383,792) | (336,342) | (47,450) | 14.1 | % | |||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt, net | (16,181) | (1,524) | (14,657) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Loss before income tax (expense) benefit and equity in losses of an investee | (261,825) | (29,895) | (231,930) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Income tax (expense) benefit | (1,402) | 1,498 | (2,900) | (193.6) | % | |||||||||
| Equity in losses of an investee | (12,299) | (4,382) | (7,917) | 180.7 | % | |||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (275,526) | $ | (32,779) | $ | (242,747) | n/m | |||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 165,338 | 164,988 | 350 | 0.2 | % | |||||||||
| Net loss per common share (basic and diluted) | $ | (1.67) | $ | (0.20) | $ | (1.47) | n/m |
References to changes in the income and expense categories below relate to the comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023. For a comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the year ended December 31, 2022, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in Part II, Item 7 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Hotel operating revenues. The increase in hotel operating revenues is primarily a result of higher occupancies and average rates at certain of our hotels in 2024 ($21,096) and a hotel acquisition in June 2023 ($16,396), partially offset by the sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2023 ($18,821). Additional operating statistics of our hotels are included in the tables beginning on page 66.
Rental income. The increase in rental income is primarily a result of the TA leases that were amended in May 2023 ($5,071) and higher rental income recognized at certain net lease properties in 2024 ($302), partially offset by the sale of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2023 ($979).
Hotel operating expenses. The increase in hotel operating expenses is primarily a result of a hotel acquisition in June 2023 ($10,971) and increases in labor and benefits ($27,782), real estate taxes and insurance ($12,904) and other operating expenses ($18,012) in 2024, partially offset by our sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2023 ($19,422).
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Net lease operating expenses. The increase in net lease operating expenses is primarily the result of increased property management fees ($2,335) and other operating expenses ($2,019) in 2024, partially offset by our sale of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2023 ($2,200).
Depreciation and amortization - hotels. The increase in depreciation and amortization - hotels is primarily a result of depreciation and amortization related to capital expenditures made since January 1, 2023 and our acquisition of a hotel in June 2023 ($14,207), partially offset by certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2023 ($5,283) and the sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2023 ($3,860).
Depreciation and amortization - net lease properties. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - net lease properties is primarily a result of our sale of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2023 ($7,727) and certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2023 ($9,611).
General and administrative. The decrease in general and administrative costs in 2024 is primarily due to decreases in business management fees ($3,699) and other professional fees ($1,459).
Transaction related costs. Transaction related costs in 2024 primarily consist of costs related to various labor litigation matters, re-opening costs and other professional fees related to major renovation projects at certain of our hotels. Transaction related costs in 2023 primarily consisted of the partial recovery of a working capital reserve related to the IHG portfolio previously deemed uncollectable and expensed during 2021 ($5,797), partially offset by costs related to hotel rebranding activity, demolition of certain vacant properties and potential acquisitions ($4,174).
Loss on asset impairment, net. We recorded a $56,212 loss on asset impairment, net in 2024 to reduce the carrying value of ten hotels and ten net lease properties to their estimated fair value or estimated fair value less costs to sell. We recorded a $9,544 loss on asset impairment, net in 2023 to reduce the carrying value of one hotel and 16 net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell.
Gain on sale of real estate, net. We recorded a $6,269 net gain on sale of real estate in 2024 in connection with the sales of 15 hotels and ten net lease properties, and a $43,239 net gain on sale of real estate in 2023 in connection with the sales of 18 hotels and 13 net lease properties.
Gain on equity securities, net. Gain on equity securities, net represents the adjustment to the carrying value of our former investment in shares of TA common stock to its fair value.
Interest income. The decrease in interest income is due to lower average cash balances invested during 2024 compared to 2023.
Interest expense. The increase in interest expense is primarily due to higher weighted average interest rates during 2024 compared to 2023.
Loss on early extinguishment of debt, net. We recorded a $16,181 loss on early extinguishment of debt, net in 2024 as a result of the redemption and purchase of certain senior notes. We recorded a $1,524 loss on early extinguishment of debt in 2023 related to the write-off of deferred financing costs and unamortized discounts in connection with the repayment of certain senior unsecured notes and the write-off of certain deferred financing costs relating to the amendment of our revolving credit facility.
Income tax (expense) benefit. The change in income tax (expense) benefit is primarily a result of increases in our foreign tax expense ($1,863) and state tax expense ($1,037) in 2024. See Note 10 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Equity in losses of an investee. Equity in losses of an investee represents our proportionate share of the losses of Sonesta.
Net loss. Our net loss and our net loss per common share (basic and diluted) each increased in 2024 compared to 2023 primarily due to the revenue and expense changes discussed above.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Our Managers and Tenants
As of December 31, 2024, all 206 of our hotels were managed and operated by four hotel operating companies and our 742 service-focused retail net lease properties were leased to 177 tenants. The costs of operating and maintaining our properties are generally paid by the hotel managers as agents for us or by our tenants for their own account. Our hotel managers and tenants derive their funding for property operating expenses and for returns and rents due to us generally from property operating revenues and, to the extent these parties themselves fund our owner’s priority returns and rents, from their separate resources. As of December 31, 2024, our hotel managers included Sonesta (181 hotels), Hyatt (17 hotels), Radisson (seven hotels) and IHG (one hotel). TA is our largest tenant (175 travel centers).
We recorded reserves for uncollectable amounts and reduced rental income by $2,158 and $4,927 during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, based on our assessment of the collectability of rents. We had reserves for uncollectable rents of $5,058 and $3,436 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, included in other assets, net in our consolidated balance sheets.
We define net lease rent coverage as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, or EBITDAR, divided by the annual minimum rent due to us weighted by the minimum rent of the property to total minimum rents of the net lease portfolio. Tenants with no minimum rent required under the lease are excluded. EBITDAR amounts used to determine rent coverage are generally for the latest twelve-month period, based on the most recent operating information, if any, furnished by our tenants. Operating statements furnished by our tenants often are unaudited and, in certain cases, may not have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and are not independently verified by us. In instances where we do not have tenant financial information, we calculate an implied coverage ratio for the period based on other tenants with available financial statements operating the same brand or within the same industry. As a result, we believe using this implied coverage metric provides a more reasonable estimated representation of recent operating results and the financial condition for those tenants. Our net lease properties generated rent coverage of 2.10x and 2.46x as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Our Operating Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of funds to meet operating and capital expenses, debt service obligations and distributions to our shareholders are owner’s priority returns from our hotels, rents from our net lease portfolio and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. We receive owner’s priority returns and rents from our managers and tenants monthly. We may receive additional returns, percentage rents and our share of the operating profits of our managed hotels after payment of management fees and other deductions, if any, either monthly or quarterly, and these amounts are usually subject to annual reconciliations. We believe these sources of funds will be sufficient to meet our operating expenses and capital expenditures, pay debt service obligations and make distributions to our shareholders for the next twelve months and for the foreseeable future thereafter. However, as a result of economic conditions, including if the U.S. enters an economic recession, or otherwise, our managers and tenants may become unable or unwilling to pay owner’s priority returns and rents to us when due, and, as a result, our cash flows and net income would decline.
The following is a summary of our sources and uses of cash flows for the periods presented:
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period | $ | 197,830 | $ | 45,420 | |||
| Net cash provided by (used in): | |||||||
| Operating activities | 139,391 | 485,549 | |||||
| Investing activities | (222,859) | (29,577) | |||||
| Financing activities | 43,024 | (303,562) | |||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period | $ | 157,386 | $ | 197,830 |
The decrease in cash flow provided by operating activities in the 2024 period is primarily due to $188,000 of prepaid rent received from TA in the 2023 period, higher interest expense and lower hotel returns in the 2024 period. The increase in cash flow used in investing activities in the 2024 period is primarily due to proceeds from the sale of TA common shares and higher proceeds from the sale of real estate in the 2023 period and increased real estate improvements during the 2024 period, partially offset by acquisitions in the 2023 period. The change from cash flow used in financing activities in the 2023 period to cash flow provided by financing activities in the 2024 period is primarily due to higher net borrowings in the 2024 period.
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We maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT under the IRC by meeting certain requirements. We lease 206 hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies. As a REIT, we do not expect to pay federal income taxes on the majority of our income; however, the income realized by our TRSs in excess of the rent they pay to us is subject to U.S. federal income tax at corporate income tax rates. In addition, the income we receive from our hotels in Canada and Puerto Rico is subject to taxes in those jurisdictions and we are subject to taxes in certain states where we have properties despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT.
Our Investment and Financing Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our hotel operating agreements generally provide that, if necessary, we may provide our managers with funding for capital improvements to our hotels in excess of amounts otherwise available in escrowed FF&E reserves or when no FF&E reserves are available. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we funded $291,192 for capital improvements in excess of FF&E reserves available to our hotels. We currently expect to fund $250,000 during 2025 for capital improvements to certain hotels using cash on hand and borrowings under our revolving credit facility.
Various percentages of total sales at some of our hotels are escrowed as FF&E reserves to fund future capital improvements. We own all the FF&E escrows for our hotels. During the year ended December 31, 2024, certain of our hotel managers deposited $6,135 to these accounts and spent $6,375 from the FF&E reserve escrow accounts to renovate and refurbish our hotels. As of December 31, 2024, there was $5,443 on deposit in these escrow accounts, which was held directly by us and is reflected in our consolidated balance sheets as restricted cash.
Our net lease portfolio leases do not require FF&E escrow deposits and tenants under these leases are generally required to maintain the leased properties, including structural and non-structural components. We may provide tenant improvement allowances to tenants in certain cases or may develop sites with the intent to lease them. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we funded $5,494 for capital improvements to our net lease properties. As of December 31, 2024, we had $1,534 of unspent leasing-related obligations related to certain of our net lease tenants.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, we sold 15 hotels with an aggregate of 1,910 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $97,315, excluding closing costs, and ten net lease properties with an aggregate of 96,929 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $8,547, excluding closing costs. From January 1, 2025 through February 24, 2025, we sold one hotel with 149 keys for a sales price of $4,000, excluding closing costs, and two net lease properties with an aggregate of 49,081 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $1,300, excluding closing costs. We have also entered into agreements to sell five hotels with an aggregate of 623 keys for an aggregate sales price of $28,500, excluding closing costs, and two net lease properties with an aggregate of 155,559 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $5,800, excluding closing costs. These pending sales are subject to conditions; accordingly, we cannot be sure that we will complete these sales, that these sales will not be delayed or that the terms will not change. We continue to market two hotels with an aggregate of 234 keys and six net lease properties with an aggregate of 80,249 square feet for sale. We believe it is probable that the sales of these properties will be completed within one year. We expect to use the net sales proceeds from these sales for general business purposes.
In February 2025, we entered into an agreement to acquire one net lease property with 5,120 square feet for a purchase price of $5,297, excluding closing costs. We expect to complete this acquisition in the first quarter of 2025 using cash on hand.
In October 2024, we announced our plan to sell 114 extended stay and select service hotels managed by Sonesta with an aggregate of 14,925 keys and an aggregate net carrying value of $850,000. We expect to sell these hotels in 2025 and use the net sales proceeds from these sales to repay debt.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, we funded $15,266 of capital contributions to Sonesta to support its growth initiatives, including its franchising efforts, using cash on hand.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, we declared and paid regular quarterly distributions to our common shareholders using cash on hand as follows:
| Declaration Date | Record Date | Paid Date | Distribution Per Common Share | Total Distributions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 11, 2024 | January 22, 2024 | February 15, 2024 | $ | 0.20 | $ | 33,154 | |||||
| April 11, 2024 | April 22, 2024 | May 16, 2024 | 0.20 | 33,152 | |||||||
| July 11, 2024 | July 22, 2024 | August 15, 2024 | 0.20 | 33,178 | |||||||
| October 16, 2024 | October 28, 2024 | November 14, 2024 | 0.01 | 1,666 | |||||||
| $ | 0.61 | $ | 101,150 |
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On January 16, 2025, we declared a regular quarterly distribution to common shareholders of record on January 27, 2025 of $0.01 per share, or $1,666. We paid this distribution on February 20, 2025 using cash on hand.
In order to meet cash needs that may result from our desire or need to make distributions or pay operating or capital expenses, we maintain a $650,000 secured revolving credit facility which is governed by a credit agreement. This revolving credit facility is available for general business purposes, including acquisitions. We can borrow, repay and reborrow funds available under our revolving credit facility until maturity and no principal repayments are due until maturity. Availability of borrowings under our credit agreement is subject to ongoing minimum performance and market values of the collateral properties, satisfying certain financial covenants and other credit facility conditions. The maturity date of our revolving credit facility is June 29, 2027, and, subject to the payment of an extension fee and meeting certain other conditions, we have an option to further extend the stated maturity date of the facility by two additional six-month periods.
Interest payable on drawings under our revolving credit facility is based on SOFR plus a margin ranging from 1.50% to 3.00% based on our leverage ratio, as defined in our credit agreement, which was 2.50% as of December 31, 2024. As collateral for all loans and other obligations under the facility, certain of our subsidiaries pledged all of their respective equity interests in certain of our direct and indirect property owning subsidiaries, and our pledged subsidiaries provided first mortgage liens on 69 properties, including 66 hotels and three net lease properties, with an aggregate undepreciated carrying value of $1,717,254 as of December 31, 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we sold three hotels that served as collateral under our revolving credit facility. In connection with the sales of these hotels, the hotels were released from the collateral pool in accordance with the terms of our revolving credit facility. We also pay unused commitment fees of 20 to 30 basis points per annum on the total amount of lending commitments under our revolving credit facility based on amounts outstanding. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the annual interest rate payable on borrowings under our revolving credit facility was 6.99% and 7.88%, respectively. As of December 31, 2024 and February 24, 2025, we had $150,000 and $50,000, respectively, outstanding under our revolving credit facility and $500,000 and $600,000, respectively, available for borrowing.
Availability under our revolving credit facility is partially based on the performance of the properties serving as collateral under the facility. Based on expectations of performance of certain of the collateral properties, we and our lenders amended the credit facility in October 2024 to temporarily reduce the required collateral property debt yield from 12% to 8.5% from September 30, 2024 through December 31, 2024, and increase the required collateral property debt yield to 9.5% for the quarter ending March 31, 2025; 10% for the quarter ending June 30, 2025; 11% for the quarter ending September 30, 2025; and 12% for the quarter ending December 31, 2025 and thereafter. Subject to meeting these revised collateral property debt yield levels and meeting other conditions, we will continue to have full access to undrawn amounts under our revolving credit facility.
In February 2025, we and our lenders further amended our revolving credit facility to reduce the required debt service coverage ratio covenant from 1.50 times to 1.30 times effective with respect to the fourth quarter of 2024 and continuing through the end of the loan term. In order to exercise the first extension option, we would be required to maintain the 1.50 times debt service coverage level as of and for the duration of the extension period. We also agreed to change the required collateral property debt yield to 10% effective with respect to the first quarter of 2025 and continuing through the end of the loan term and to swap collateral properties as follows: 49 hotels with an aggregate of 8,197 keys and an aggregate undepreciated carrying value of $1,402,307 will be released from the collateral pool and 35 travel centers leased to TA, which travel centers we refer to as our TA No. 5 lease, with an aggregate undepreciated carrying value of $601,684, will be added as collateral to our revolving credit facility. Of the hotels being released from the collateral pool, 38 hotels with an aggregate of 5,078 keys and an aggregate undepreciated carrying value of $689,592 are part of our hotel disposition plan. The corresponding equity pledges will be swapped as well. We expect to complete this collateral swap by the end of the second quarter of 2025.
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Senior Guaranteed Unsecured Notes Issuance and Repayment of 2025 Maturities
In June 2024, we issued $700,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes and $500,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2032 Notes in underwritten public offerings. The aggregate net proceeds from these offerings were $1,162,077, after underwriting discounts and other offering expenses. These notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a joint and several basis and on a senior unsecured basis, by all of our subsidiaries, except for our foreign subsidiaries and certain other excluded subsidiaries. Such other excluded subsidiaries include, but are not limited to, subsidiaries whose equity has been pledged to secure borrowings under our credit agreement and our 2031 Notes and subsidiaries whose assets secure our net lease mortgage notes. We used the net proceeds from the issuance of these notes and cash on hand to redeem all of our outstanding 7.50% senior unsecured notes due 2025 and purchase and satisfy and discharge all of our outstanding 4.50% senior unsecured notes due 2025.
Net Lease Mortgage Notes
On January 27, 2025, our wholly owned, special purpose bankruptcy remote, indirect subsidiary, SVC ABS LLC, or the Issuer, issued a variable funding note, or VFN, secured by the 315 net lease properties that also secure our existing $606,611 of net lease mortgage notes. The VFN permits borrowings on a revolving basis up to $45,000 and the Issuer can borrow, repay and reborrow funds available until maturity. The maturity date of the VFN is January 27, 2027, and, subject to the payment of an extension fee and meeting certain other conditions, can be extended by one year at the Issuer’s option. The VFN requires interest payments only on drawings under the VFN based on SOFR plus a margin of 1.75%, and an unused commitment fee of 50 basis points per annum paid on undrawn amounts. We borrowed $45,000 for general business purposes under the VFN upon closing.
Our debt maturities (other than our revolving credit facility) as of December 31, 2024 were as follows:
| Year | Debt Maturities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $ | 1,958 | ||
| 2026 | 801,958 | |||
| 2027 | 851,958 | |||
| 2028 | 1,000,737 | |||
| 2029 | 1,125,000 | |||
| Thereafter | 1,900,000 | |||
| $ | 5,681,611 |
None of our senior note debt obligations require principal or sinking fund payments prior to their maturity dates. Our mortgage notes require monthly principal payments as described in Part II, Item 7A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We currently expect to use cash on hand, the cash flows from our operations, borrowings under our revolving credit facility or VFN, net proceeds from any asset sales and net proceeds of offerings of equity or the incurrence of debt to fund our operations, capital expenditures, investments, future debt maturities, distributions to our shareholders and other general business purposes.
When significant amounts are outstanding for an extended period of time under our revolving credit facility, or the maturities of our indebtedness approach, we currently expect to explore refinancing alternatives. Such alternatives may include incurring additional debt, issuing new equity securities and the sale of properties. We have an effective shelf registration statement that allows us to issue public securities on an expedited basis, but it does not assure that there will be buyers for such securities. We may also seek to participate in joint ventures or other arrangements that may provide us additional sources of financing. We may also assume mortgage debt on properties we may acquire or obtain mortgage financing on our existing properties.
While we believe we will generally have access to various types of financings, including debt or equity, to fund our future acquisitions and to pay our debts and other obligations, we cannot be sure that we will be able to complete any debt or equity offerings or other types of financings or that our cost of any future public or private financings will not increase.
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Our ability to complete, and the costs associated with, future debt transactions depend primarily upon credit market conditions and our then perceived creditworthiness. We have no control over market conditions. Our credit ratings depend upon evaluations by credit rating agencies of our business practices and plans, including our ability to maintain our earnings, to stagger our debt maturities and to balance our use of debt and equity capital so that our financial performance and leverage ratios afford us flexibility to withstand any reasonably anticipated adverse changes. Similarly, our ability to raise equity capital in the future will depend primarily upon equity capital market conditions and our ability to conduct our business to maintain and grow our operating cash flows. We intend to conduct our business activities in a manner which will afford us reasonable access to capital for investment and financing activities. However, as discussed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the impacts of the current, and possibly future, inflationary conditions, uncertainties surrounding interest rates and a possible economic recession are uncertain and may have various negative consequences on us and our operations, including a decline in financing availability and increased costs for financing. Further, such conditions could also disrupt the capital markets generally and limit our access to financing from public sources or on favorable terms, particularly if the global financial markets experience significant disruptions.
Debt Covenants
Our debt obligations at December 31, 2024 consisted of $150,000 of borrowings outstanding under our $650,000 revolving credit facility, $5,075,000 aggregate principal amounts of senior notes and $606,611 aggregate principal amounts of mortgage notes secured by 315 net lease retail properties. For further information regarding our indebtedness, see Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Our publicly and privately issued senior notes are governed by our indentures and related supplements. These indentures and related supplements and our credit agreement contain covenants that generally restrict our ability to incur debts, including debts secured by mortgages on our properties, in excess of calculated amounts, and require us to maintain various financial ratios. Our credit agreement, net lease mortgage notes, secured senior notes and unsecured senior notes, indentures and their supplements provide for acceleration of payment of all amounts outstanding upon the occurrence and continuation of certain events of default, such as, in the case of our credit agreement, a change of control of us, which includes RMR ceasing to act as our business manager. As of December 31, 2024, we believe we were in compliance with all of the covenants under our indentures and their supplements, net lease mortgage notes and our credit agreement.
Senior Notes Indenture Covenants
The following table summarizes the results of the financial tests required by the indentures and related supplements for our senior secured and unsecured notes as of December 31, 2024:
| Actual Results | Covenant Requirement | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total debt / adjusted total assets | 54.9% | Maximum of 60% | ||
| Secured debt / adjusted total assets | 16.5% | Maximum of 40% | ||
| Consolidated income available for debt service / debt service | 1.52x | Minimum of 1.50x | ||
| Total unencumbered assets / unsecured debt | 175.3% | Minimum 150% | ||
| Total unencumbered assets in guarantor subsidiaries / senior guaranteed unsecured debt | 4.14x | Minimum of 2.20x |
As of December 31, 2024, adjusted total assets for covenant purposes as defined in our senior notes indentures were $10,625,259 and assets encumbered under our revolving credit facility, serving as collateral for our net lease mortgage notes or secured senior notes represented $3,482,758 of adjusted total assets, as defined in our senior notes indentures. Our unencumbered hotels, travel centers, other net lease properties and other corporate assets represent $4,438,943, $1,589,727, $837,667 and $276,164 of adjusted total assets, respectively.
The following table presents the calculation of adjusted total assets to total assets in accordance with GAAP:
| Total assets | $ | 7,119,558 |
|---|---|---|
| Plus: accumulated depreciation | 3,238,636 | |
| Plus: impairment and other adjustments to reflect original cost of real estate assets | 476,664 | |
| Less: accounts receivable and intangibles | (209,599) | |
| Adjusted total assets | $ | 10,625,259 |
Our ability to incur additional debt is subject to meeting the required covenant levels and subject to the provisions of our credit agreement and senior notes indentures.
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Acceleration and Cross-Default
Our indentures and their supplements contain cross default provisions to any other debt of $50,000 or more. Similarly, our credit agreement has cross default provisions to other indebtedness that is recourse of $25,000 or more and indebtedness that is non-recourse of $75,000 or more. Neither our indentures and their supplements nor our credit agreement contain provisions for acceleration which could be triggered by a change in our debt ratings.
Supplemental Guarantor Information
Our 2027 Notes, 2029 Notes and 2032 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a joint and several basis and on a senior unsecured basis, by all of our subsidiaries, except for certain excluded subsidiaries, including our foreign subsidiaries and our subsidiaries pledged under our credit agreement and our net lease mortgage notes. The notes and the guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors’ secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities and any preferred equity of any of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee the notes. Our remaining $2,425,000 of senior unsecured notes do not have the benefit of any guarantees.
A subsidiary guarantor’s guarantee of the 2027 Notes, the 2029 Notes and the 2032 Notes and all other obligations of such subsidiary guarantor under the indentures governing the notes will automatically terminate and such subsidiary guarantor will automatically be released from all of its obligations under such subsidiary guarantee and such indenture under certain circumstances, including on or after the date on which (a) the notes have received a rating equal to or higher than Baa2 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s Investor Services, or Moody’s, and BBB (or the equivalent) by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, or S&P, or if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes for reasons outside of our control, the equivalent investment grade rating from any other rating agency and (b) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under the indenture. Our non-guarantor subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities and will have no obligation, contingent or otherwise, to pay any amounts due on these notes or the guarantees, or to make any funds available therefor, whether by dividend, distribution, loan or other payments. The rights of holders of these notes to benefit from any of the assets of our non-guarantor subsidiaries are subject to the prior satisfaction of claims of those subsidiaries’ creditors and any preferred equity holders. As a result, these notes and the related guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors’ secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee these notes, including guarantees of or pledges under other indebtedness of ours, payment obligations under lease agreements, trade payables and preferred equity.
The following table presents summarized financial information for us and the subsidiary guarantors, on a combined basis after elimination of (i) intercompany transactions and balances among us and the subsidiary guarantors and (ii) equity in earnings from, and any investments in, any of our non-guarantor subsidiaries:
| As of December 31, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate properties, net(1) | $ | 4,167,260 | |
| Other assets, net | 507,507 | ||
| Indebtedness, net | $ | 5,142,420 | |
| Intercompany balances(2) | 751,637 | ||
| Other liabilities | 358,778 |
| Year Ended December 31, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | $ | 1,643,822 | |
| Expenses | 1,859,977 | ||
| Net loss | $ | (216,155) |
(1)Real estate properties, net as of December 31, 2024 includes $150,271 of properties owned directly by us and not included in the assets of the subsidiary guarantors.
(2)Intercompany balances represent payables to non-guarantor subsidiaries.
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Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR, RMR Inc. and Sonesta and others affiliated with them. For further information about these and other such relationships and related person transactions, see Notes 4, 5, 8 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference and our other filings with the SEC, including our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or our definitive Proxy Statement, to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. For further information about the risks that may arise as a result of these and other related person transactions and relationships, see elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including “Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements,” “Business” in Part I, Item 1 and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We may engage in additional transactions with related persons, including businesses to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our critical accounting policies are those that will have the most impact on the reporting of our financial condition and results of operations and those requiring significant judgments and estimates. We believe that our judgments and estimates have been and will be consistently applied and produce financial information that fairly presents our results of operations. Our most critical accounting policies involve our investments in real property. These policies affect our:
•variable interest entities, or VIEs;
•allocation of purchase prices between various asset categories and the related impact on the recognition of depreciation and amortization expenses;
•assessment of the carrying values and impairments of real estate, intangible assets and equity investments;
•classification of leases and the related impact to our financial statements; and
•income taxes.
We have determined that each of our wholly owned TRSs is a variable interest entity, or VIE, as defined under the Consolidation Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification™, or ASC. We have concluded that we must consolidate each of our wholly owned TRSs because we are the entity with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact such VIE’s performance and we have the obligation to absorb the majority of the potential variability in gains and losses of each VIE, with the primary focus on losses, and are therefore the primary beneficiary of each VIE.
We allocate the acquisition cost of each property investment to various property components such as land, buildings and equipment and intangibles based on their relative fair values and each component generally has a different useful life. For acquired real estate, we record building, land, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and, if applicable, the value of acquired in-place leases, the fair market value of above or below market leases and customer relationships at fair value. For transactions that qualify as business combinations we allocate the excess, if any, of the consideration over the fair value of the net assets acquired to goodwill. We base purchase price allocations and the determination of useful lives on our estimates and, under some circumstances, studies from independent real estate appraisers to provide market information and evaluations that are relevant to our purchase price allocations and determinations of useful lives; however, our management is ultimately responsible for the purchase price allocations and determination of useful lives.
We compute depreciation expense using the straight line method over estimated useful lives of up to 40 years for buildings and improvements, and up to 12 years for personal property. We amortize the value of intangible assets over the shorter of their estimated useful lives, or the term of the respective lease or the affected contract. We do not depreciate the allocated cost of land. Purchase price allocations and estimates of useful lives require us to make certain assumptions and estimates. Incorrect assumptions and estimates may result in inaccurate depreciation and amortization charges over future periods.
We periodically evaluate our real estate and other assets for possible impairment indicators. These indicators may include weak or declining operating profitability, cash flows or liquidity, our decision to dispose of an asset before the end of its estimated useful life or market or industry changes that could permanently reduce the value of our investments. If indicators of impairment are present, we evaluate the carrying value of the related investment by comparing it to the expected future undiscounted cash flows to be generated from that investment. If the sum of these expected future cash flows is less than the carrying value, we reduce the net carrying value of the property to its estimated fair value.
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We periodically evaluate our equity method investment for possible indicators of other than temporary impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of the investment might not be recoverable. These indicators may include the length of time and degree to which the market value of our investment is below our cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer, our intent and ability to be a long term holder of the investment and other considerations. If the decline in fair value is judged to be other than temporary, we may record an impairment charge to adjust the basis of the investment to its fair value.
We determine the fair value for our long lived assets by evaluating recent financial performance and projecting discounted cash flows using standard industry valuation techniques. These analyses require us to judge whether indicators of impairment exist and to estimate likely future cash flows. If we misjudge or estimate incorrectly or if future operating profitability, market or industry factors differ from our expectations, we may record an impairment charge which is inappropriate, fail to record a charge when we should have done so or the amount of such charges may be inaccurate.
Certain of our properties are leased on a triple net basis, pursuant to non-cancelable, fixed term, operating leases. Each time we enter a new lease or materially modify an existing lease we evaluate its classification as either a finance or operating lease. The classification of a lease as finance, sales-type, direct financing or operating affects the carrying value of a property, as well as our recognition of rental payments as revenue. These evaluations require us to make estimates of, among other things, the remaining useful life and market value of a leased property, appropriate present value discount rates and future cash flows. Incorrect assumptions or estimates may result in misclassification of our leases.
We account for income taxes in accordance with the Income Taxes Topic of the ASC. Under this Topic, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. We establish valuation allowances to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized when necessary. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT under the IRC and are generally not subject to federal and state income taxation on our operating income provided we distribute our taxable income to our shareholders and meet certain organization and operating requirements. Despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT, we are subject to income tax in Canada, Puerto Rico and in certain states. Further, we lease our managed hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that, unlike most of our subsidiaries, file a separate consolidated tax return and are subject to federal, state and foreign income tax. Our consolidated income tax provision (or benefit) includes the income tax provision (or benefit) related to the operations of the TRSs and state and foreign income taxes incurred by us despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT. The Income Taxes Topic also prescribes how we should recognize, measure and present in our financial statements uncertain tax positions that have been taken or are expected to be taken in a tax return. Tax benefits are recognized only to the extent that it is “more likely than not” that a particular tax position will be sustained upon examination or audit. To the extent the “more likely than not” standard has been satisfied, the benefit associated with a tax position is measured as the largest amount that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Tax returns filed for the 2021 through 2024 tax years are subject to examination by taxing authorities. We classify interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions, if any, in our financial statements as a component of general and administrative expense.
These accounting policies involve significant judgments made based upon our experience and the experience of our management and our Board of Trustees, including judgments about current valuations, ultimate realizable value, estimated useful lives, salvage or residual value, the ability and willingness of our tenants and operators to perform their obligations to us, and the current and likely future operating and competitive environments in which our properties operate. In the future, we may need to revise our carrying value assessments to incorporate information which is not now known, and such revisions could increase or decrease our depreciation expense related to properties we own, result in the classification of our leases as other than operating leases or decrease the carrying values of our assets.
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Property and Operating Statistics (dollars in thousands, except hotel statistics)
As of December 31, 2024, we owned and managed a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease properties across the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada with 145 distinct brands across 22 industries.
Hotel Portfolio
The following tables summarize the operating statistics, including occupancy, ADR and RevPAR reported to us by our hotel managers by hotel brand for the periods indicated. All operating data presented are based upon the operating results provided by our hotel managers for the indicated periods. We have not independently verified our managers’ operating data.
| Comparable Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Service Level | 2024 | 2023 | Change | 2024 | 2023 | Change | 2024 | 2023 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Hotels & Resorts® | Full Service | 21 | 6,955 | 58.6 | % | 63.2 | % | (4.6) pts | $ | 154.95 | $ | 153.25 | 1.1 | % | $ | 90.81 | $ | 96.84 | (6.2) | % | ||||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta Hotels® | Full Service | 17 | 5,663 | 61.3 | % | 56.5 | % | 4.8 pts | 233.24 | 237.63 | (1.8) | % | 143.02 | 134.35 | 6.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Radisson® Hotels & Resorts | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 65.4 | % | 62.2 | % | 3.2 pts | 147.07 | 147.06 | — | % | 96.14 | 91.50 | 5.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza® | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 63.3 | % | 60.6 | % | 2.7 pts | 142.09 | 141.30 | 0.6 | % | 90.01 | 85.65 | 5.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Country Inn & Suites® by Radisson | Full Service | 2 | 346 | 70.2 | % | 67.2 | % | 3.0 pts | 148.28 | 145.96 | 1.6 | % | 104.14 | 98.08 | 6.2 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 46 | 14,608 | 60.6 | % | 60.5 | % | 0.1 pts | 184.33 | 182.89 | 0.8 | % | 111.75 | 110.69 | 1.0 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select® | Select Service | 42 | 6,131 | 57.9 | % | 55.8 | % | 2.1 pts | 115.31 | 119.14 | (3.2) | % | 66.80 | 66.48 | 0.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place® | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 63.4 | % | 65.3 | % | (1.9) pts | 120.48 | 122.23 | (1.4) | % | 76.35 | 79.87 | (4.4) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 59 | 8,238 | 59.3 | % | 58.2 | % | 1.1 pts | 116.73 | 120.02 | (2.7) | % | 69.24 | 69.91 | (1.0) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites® | Extended Stay | 52 | 6,689 | 69.3 | % | 68.9 | % | 0.4 pts | 127.17 | 131.81 | (3.5) | % | 88.08 | 90.79 | (3.0) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites® | Extended Stay | 47 | 5,988 | 69.0 | % | 68.6 | % | 0.4 pts | 92.17 | 92.06 | 0.1 | % | 63.62 | 63.14 | 0.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 99 | 12,677 | 69.1 | % | 68.7 | % | 0.4 pts | 110.67 | 113.15 | (2.2) | % | 76.52 | 77.78 | (1.6) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Comparable Hotels Total/Average | 204 | 35,523 | 63.4 | % | 62.9 | % | 0.5 pts | $ | 140.96 | $ | 142.14 | (0.8) | % | $ | 89.32 | $ | 89.44 | (0.1) | % |
*We define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entirety of the periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, our comparable results exclude two hotels; one of the hotels was not owned for the entirety of the periods presented and the other hotel suspended operations during the periods presented.
| All Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Service Level | 2024 | 2023 | Change | 2024 | 2023 | Change | 2024 | 2023 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Hotels & Resorts® | Full Service | 22 | 7,205 | 59.2 | % | 63.2 | % | (4.0) pts | $ | 160.51 | $ | 158.43 | 1.3 | % | $ | 94.96 | $ | 100.21 | (5.2) | % | ||||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta Hotels® | Full Service | 17 | 5,663 | 61.3 | % | 56.5 | % | 4.8 pts | 233.24 | 237.63 | (1.8) | % | 143.02 | 134.35 | 6.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Radisson® Hotels & Resorts | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 65.4 | % | 62.2 | % | 3.2 pts | 147.07 | 147.06 | — | % | 96.14 | 91.50 | 5.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza® | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 63.3 | % | 60.6 | % | 2.7 pts | 142.09 | 141.30 | 0.6 | % | 90.01 | 85.65 | 5.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Country Inn & Suites® by Radisson | Full Service | 2 | 346 | 70.2 | % | 67.2 | % | 3.0 pts | 148.28 | 145.96 | 1.6 | % | 104.14 | 98.08 | 6.2 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 47 | 14,858 | 60.9 | % | 60.6 | % | 0.3 pts | 186.34 | 184.95 | 0.8 | % | 113.41 | 112.08 | 1.2 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select® | Select Service | 42 | 6,131 | 57.9 | % | 55.8 | % | 2.1 pts | 115.31 | 119.14 | (3.2) | % | 66.80 | 66.48 | 0.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place® | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 63.4 | % | 65.3 | % | (1.9) pts | 120.48 | 122.23 | (1.4) | % | 76.35 | 79.87 | (4.4) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 59 | 8,238 | 59.3 | % | 58.2 | % | 1.1 pts | 116.73 | 120.02 | (2.7) | % | 69.24 | 69.91 | (1.0) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites® | Extended Stay | 52 | 6,689 | 69.3 | % | 68.9 | % | 0.4 pts | 127.17 | 131.81 | (3.5) | % | 88.08 | 90.79 | (3.0) | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites® | Extended Stay | 48 | 6,086 | 68.3 | % | 67.9 | % | 0.4 pts | 92.17 | 92.06 | 0.1 | % | 62.97 | 62.49 | 0.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 100 | 12,775 | 68.8 | % | 68.4 | % | 0.4 pts | 110.67 | 113.15 | (2.2) | % | 76.15 | 77.40 | (1.6) | % | |||||||||||||||||
| All Hotels Total/Average | 206 | 35,871 | 63.3 | % | 62.8 | % | 0.5 pts | $ | 142.12 | $ | 143.26 | (0.8) | % | $ | 90.01 | $ | 90.01 | — | % |
* Includes results of all hotels owned as of December 31, 2024. Excludes the results of hotels sold during the periods presented and includes data for one hotel for periods prior to when we acquired it.
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Net Lease Portfolio
As of December 31, 2024, our net lease properties were 97.6% occupied and we had 18 properties available for lease. During the year ended December 31, 2024, we entered into lease renewals for 613,543 rentable square feet (56 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 3.8% below the prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 5.3 years. We also entered into new leases for 109,591 rentable square feet (four properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 13.5% below the prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 18.4 years.
Generally, lease agreements with our net lease tenants require payment of minimum rent to us. Certain of these minimum rent payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent represents cash amounts and excludes adjustments, if any, necessary to record scheduled rent changes on a straight line basis or any expense reimbursement. Annualized minimum rent excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA.
As of December 31, 2024, our net lease tenants operated across 136 brands. The following table identifies the top ten brands based on annualized minimum rent.
| Brand | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (2) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America Inc. | 131 | $ | 2,254,950 | 44.8 | % | $ | 176,793 | 46.4 | % | 1.38x | (3) | ||||||||||
| 2. | Petro Stopping Centers | 44 | 1,015,156 | 20.2 | % | 82,287 | 21.6 | % | 1.38x | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 3. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 2.0 | % | 7,711 | 2.0 | % | 4.75x | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.5 | % | 2.55x | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 2.54x | |||||||||||||
| 6. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,769 | 1.3 | % | 4.90x | |||||||||||||
| 7. | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,759 | 1.0 | % | 3.42x | |||||||||||||
| 8. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 5.88x | |||||||||||||
| 9. | AMC Theatres | 5 | 57,339 | 1.1 | % | 3,558 | 0.9 | % | 1.76x | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Pizza Hut | 40 | 45,285 | 0.9 | % | 3,463 | 0.9 | % | 2.33x | |||||||||||||
| Other (4) | 408 | 1,232,838 | 24.4 | % | 83,379 | 21.9 | % | 3.63x | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 742 | $ | 5,037,413 | 100.0 | % | $ | 380,863 | 100.0 | % | 2.10x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 58 for our definition of rent coverage.
(3)Rent coverage information provided by tenant is for all 175 sites on a consolidated basis and is as of December 31, 2024.
(4)Consists of 126 distinct brands with an average investment of $3,022 and average annual minimum rent of $204 per property.
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As of December 31, 2024, our top ten net lease tenants based on our annualized minimum rent are listed below.
| Tenant | Brand Affiliation | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (2) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America Inc. (3) | TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers | 175 | $ | 3,270,106 | 64.9 | % | $ | 259,080 | 68.0 | % | 1.38 | x | |||||||||
| 2. | Universal Pool Co., Inc. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 2.0 | % | 7,711 | 2.0 | % | 4.75 | x | |||||||||||
| 3. | Healthy Way of Life II, LLC | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.5 | % | 2.55 | x | |||||||||||
| 4. | Styx Acquisition, LLC | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 2.54 | x | |||||||||||
| 5. | Professional Resource Development, Inc. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,769 | 1.3 | % | 4.90 | x | |||||||||||
| 6. | Norms Restaurants, LLC | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,759 | 1.0 | % | 3.42 | x | |||||||||||
| 7. | Express Oil Change, L.L.C. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 5.88 | x | |||||||||||
| 8. | Pilot Travel Centers LLC | Flying J Travel Plaza | 3 | 41,681 | 0.8 | % | 3,279 | 0.9 | % | 4.24 | x | |||||||||||
| 9. | Automotive Remarketing Group, Inc. | America's Auto Auction | 6 | 38,314 | 0.8 | % | 3,216 | 0.8 | % | 8.03 | x | |||||||||||
| 10. | American Multi-Cinema, Inc. | AMC Theatres | 3 | 46,993 | 0.9 | % | 2,552 | 0.7 | % | 1.02 | x | |||||||||||
| Subtotal, Top 10 | 301 | 3,828,939 | 76.0 | % | 299,510 | 78.7 | % | 1.75 | x | |||||||||||||
| Other (4) | Various | 441 | 1,208,474 | 24.0 | % | 81,353 | 21.3 | % | 3.37 | x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 742 | $ | 5,037,413 | 100.0 | % | $ | 380,863 | 100.0 | % | 2.10 | x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 58 for our definition of rent coverage.
(3)TA is our largest tenant. We lease 175 travel centers (131 under the TravelCenters of America brand and 44 under the Petro Stopping Centers brand) to a subsidiary of TA under five master leases that expire in 2033. TA has five renewal options for ten years each for all of the travel centers under each lease. BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payments under each of the five master leases. The aggregate guaranty as of December 31, 2024 was approximately $3,037,475. Annualized minimum rent excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA. Rent coverage was 1.44x, 1.43x, 1.43x, 1.51x and 1.18x, for our TA leases no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, no. 4 and no. 5, respectively. Rent coverage is as of December 31, 2024.
(4)Consists of 167 tenants with an average investment of $2,740 and an average annual minimum rent of $184 per property.
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As of December 31, 2024, our net lease tenants operated across 21 distinct industries within the service-focused retail sector of the U.S. economy.
| Industry | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (2) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Travel Centers | 178 | $ | 3,311,787 | 65.7 | % | $ | 262,359 | 68.9 | % | 1.42x | (3) | ||||||||
| 2. | Restaurants - Quick Service | 206 | 281,260 | 5.5 | % | 19,266 | 5.1 | % | 3.12x | |||||||||||
| 3. | Restaurants - Casual Dining | 55 | 194,448 | 3.9 | % | 12,136 | 3.2 | % | 2.89x | |||||||||||
| 5. | Health and Fitness | 13 | 187,579 | 3.7 | % | 11,246 | 3.0 | % | 2.26x | |||||||||||
| 4. | Home Goods and Leisure | 20 | 134,539 | 2.7 | % | 10,699 | 2.8 | % | 4.14x | |||||||||||
| 6. | Grocery Stores | 19 | 129,152 | 2.6 | % | 9,305 | 2.4 | % | 3.18x | |||||||||||
| 7. | Movie Theaters | 15 | 139,661 | 2.8 | % | 8,410 | 2.2 | % | 1.82x | |||||||||||
| 8. | Medical, Dental Office | 70 | 104,042 | 2.1 | % | 8,215 | 2.2 | % | 3.70x | |||||||||||
| 9. | Automotive Equipment and Services | 64 | 107,054 | 2.1 | % | 7,799 | 2.0 | % | 5.11x | |||||||||||
| 10. | Automotive Dealers | 8 | 62,656 | 1.2 | % | 4,973 | 1.3 | % | 6.59x | |||||||||||
| 11. | Entertainment | 4 | 61,436 | 1.2 | % | 4,590 | 1.2 | % | 2.27x | |||||||||||
| 12. | General Merchandise Stores | 4 | 55,457 | 1.1 | % | 3,983 | 1.0 | % | 2.97x | |||||||||||
| 13. | Educational Services | 7 | 44,820 | 0.9 | % | 3,563 | 0.9 | % | 1.76x | |||||||||||
| 14. | Building Materials | 29 | 34,006 | 0.7 | % | 2,944 | 0.8 | % | 7.90x | |||||||||||
| 15. | Car Washes | 6 | 30,798 | 0.6 | % | 2,411 | 0.6 | % | 2.94x | |||||||||||
| 16. | Miscellaneous Manufacturing | 5 | 24,355 | 0.5 | % | 1,726 | 0.5 | % | 13.38x | |||||||||||
| 17. | Drug Stores and Pharmacies | 6 | 17,111 | 0.3 | % | 1,710 | 0.4 | % | 1.03x | |||||||||||
| 18. | Sporting Goods | 3 | 18,448 | 0.4 | % | 1,104 | 0.3 | % | 4.26x | |||||||||||
| 19. | Legal Services | 5 | 11,362 | 0.2 | % | 1,097 | 0.3 | % | 4.19x | |||||||||||
| 20. | Dollar Stores | 3 | 2,971 | 0.1 | % | 190 | — | % | 1.95x | |||||||||||
| 21. | Other (4) | 4 | 25,695 | 0.5 | % | 3,137 | 0.9 | % | 6.54x | |||||||||||
| Vacant | 18 | 58,776 | 1.2 | % | — | — | % | —x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 742 | $ | 5,037,413 | 100.0 | % | $ | 380,863 | 100.0 | % | 2.10x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 58 for our definition of rent coverage.
(3)Rent coverage for TA is as of December 31, 2024.
(4)Consists of miscellaneous businesses with an average investment of $6,424 per property.
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As of December 31, 2024, lease expirations at our net lease properties by year are as follows.
| Year(1) | Number of Properties | Square Feet | Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring | Cumulative Percent of Total Minimum Rent Expiring | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | 470,584 | $ | 8,475 | 2.2% | 2.2% | ||||||||
| 2026 | 102 | 1,000,067 | 11,240 | 3.0% | 5.2% | |||||||||
| 2027 | 36 | 962,760 | 12,696 | 3.3% | 8.5% | |||||||||
| 2028 | 23 | 645,082 | 10,346 | 2.7% | 11.2% | |||||||||
| 2029 | 76 | 628,549 | 11,071 | 2.9% | 14.1% | |||||||||
| 2030 | 36 | 211,356 | 5,508 | 1.4% | 15.5% | |||||||||
| 2031 | 27 | 390,854 | 5,049 | 1.3% | 16.8% | |||||||||
| 2032 | 35 | 145,509 | 2,873 | 0.8% | 17.6% | |||||||||
| 2033 | 214 | 5,369,470 | 265,391 | 69.7% | 87.3% | |||||||||
| 2034 | 23 | 325,625 | 6,264 | 1.8% | 89.1% | |||||||||
| 2035 | 45 | 1,155,578 | 19,197 | 5.0% | 94.1% | |||||||||
| 2036 | 15 | 304,540 | 5,617 | 1.5% | 95.6% | |||||||||
| 2037 | 11 | 318,609 | 3,146 | 0.8% | 96.4% | |||||||||
| 2038 | 7 | 66,700 | 1,263 | 0.3% | 96.7% | |||||||||
| 2039 | 10 | 141,443 | 3,703 | 1.0% | 97.7% | |||||||||
| 2040 | 18 | 115,142 | 2,406 | 0.6% | 98.3% | |||||||||
| 2041 | 6 | 216,040 | 2,262 | 0.6% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2042 | — | — | — | —% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2043 | 1 | 57,543 | 155 | —% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2044 | 2 | 93,010 | 278 | 0.1% | 99.0% | |||||||||
| 2045 | 11 | 154,966 | 3,923 | 1.0% | 100.0% | |||||||||
| Total | 724 | 12,773,427 | $ | 380,863 | 100.0% |
(1)The year of lease expiration is pursuant to contract terms.
As of December 31, 2024, shown below is the list of our top ten states where our net lease properties are located. No other state represents more than 3% of our net lease annualized minimum rents.
| State | Number of Properties | Square Feet | Annualized Minimum Rent | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 55 | 1,168,354 | $ | 33,680 | 8.8% | ||||||
| Illinois | 53 | 972,329 | 27,346 | 7.2% | |||||||
| Ohio | 38 | 1,335,923 | 26,691 | 7.0% | |||||||
| California | 22 | 399,045 | 25,885 | 6.8% | |||||||
| Georgia | 71 | 583,634 | 20,642 | 5.4% | |||||||
| Arizona | 25 | 476,651 | 17,083 | 4.5% | |||||||
| Florida | 46 | 529,040 | 16,967 | 4.5% | |||||||
| Pennsylvania | 28 | 544,003 | 16,287 | 4.3% | |||||||
| Indiana | 40 | 620,950 | 15,982 | 4.2% | |||||||
| New Mexico | 16 | 246,478 | 11,871 | 3.1% | |||||||
| Other | 348 | 6,416,112 | 168,429 | 44.2% | |||||||
| Total | 742 | 13,292,519 | $ | 380,863 | 100.0% |
Seasonality
Our hotels and travel centers have historically experienced seasonal differences typical of their industries with higher revenues in the second and third quarters of calendar years compared with the first and fourth quarters. Most of our leases require our tenants to make the substantial portion of our rent payments to us in equal amounts throughout the year. The return payments to us under certain of our management agreements depend exclusively upon earnings at these properties and, accordingly, our income and cash flows from these properties reflect the seasonality of the hotel industry.
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Impact of Climate Change
Concerns about climate change have resulted in various treaties, laws and regulations that are intended to limit carbon emissions and address other environmental concerns. These and other laws may cause energy or other costs at our properties to increase. We do not expect the direct impact of these increases to be material to our results of operations, because the increased costs either would be the responsibility of our tenants or managers directly or in the longer term, passed through and paid by customers of our properties. Although we do not believe it is likely in the foreseeable future, laws that have been enacted or may be enacted in the future to mitigate climate change may make some of our buildings obsolete or cause us to make material investments in our properties, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition or the financial condition of our tenants or managers and their ability to pay rent or returns to us.
We are environmentally conscious and aware of the impact our properties have on the environment. We and our tenants and managers have implemented numerous initiatives to encourage recycling of plastics, paper and metal or glass containers; we have programs to encourage reduced water and energy use at a hotel guest’s option by not laundering towels and linens every day and monitoring lights and thermostats when rooms are not in use. When we renovate our hotels we generally use energy efficient products including but not limited to lighting, windows and HVAC equipment and many of the appliances in our extended stay hotels are Energy Star rated. We or our tenants or managers have also installed car battery charging stations at some of the properties to accommodate environmentally aware customers.
In an effort to reduce the effects of any increased energy costs in the future, we continuously study ways to improve the energy efficiency at all of our properties. Our property manager, RMR, is a member of the Energy Star program, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that is focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its “Energy Star” partner program, and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED®, green building program. In addition, Sonesta supports the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Responsible Stay initiative focused on energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation and responsible sourcing practices.
Some observers believe severe weather in different parts of the world over the last few years is evidence of global climate change. Severe weather may have an adverse effect on certain properties we own. Rising sea levels could cause flooding at some of our properties, which may have an adverse effect on individual properties we own. We mitigate these risks by procuring, or requiring our managers or tenants to procure, insurance coverage we believe adequate to protect us from material damages and losses resulting from the consequences of losses caused by climate change. However, we cannot be sure that our mitigation efforts will be sufficient or that future storms, rising sea levels or other changes that may occur due to future climate change could not have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We present certain “non-GAAP financial measures” within the meaning of the applicable SEC rules, including FFO and Normalized FFO. These measures do not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of our operating performance or as measures of our liquidity. These measures should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) as presented in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We consider these non-GAAP measures to be appropriate supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT, along with net income (loss). We believe these measures provide useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation and amortization expense, they may facilitate a comparison of our operating performance between periods and with other REITs.
Funds From Operations and Normalized Funds From Operations
We calculate FFO and Normalized FFO as shown below. FFO is calculated on the basis defined by The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, which is net income (loss), calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding any gain or loss on sale of real estate and loss on impairment of real estate assets, if any, plus real estate depreciation and amortization, less any gains and losses on equity securities, as well as adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee and certain other adjustments currently not applicable to us. In calculating Normalized FFO, we adjust for the items shown below. FFO and Normalized FFO are among the factors considered by our Board of Trustees when determining the amount of distributions to our shareholders. Other factors include, but are not limited to, requirements to maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT, limitations in our debt agreements, the availability to us of debt and equity capital, our dividend yield, and our dividend yield compared to the dividend yields of other REITs, our expectation of our future capital requirements and operating performance and our expected needs for and availability of cash to pay our obligations. Other real estate companies and REITs may calculate FFO and Normalized FFO differently than we do.
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Our calculations of FFO and Normalized FFO for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and reconciliations of net loss, the most directly comparable financial measure under GAAP reported in our consolidated financial statements, to those amounts appear in the following table (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts).
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | ||||||
| Net loss | $ | (275,526) | $ | (32,779) | |||
| Add (Less): | Depreciation and amortization expense | 371,786 | 384,060 | ||||
| Loss on asset impairment, net | 56,212 | 9,544 | |||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | (6,269) | (43,239) | |||||
| Gain on equity securities, net | — | (48,837) | |||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee | 4,347 | 3,943 | |||||
| FFO | 150,550 | 272,692 | |||||
| Add (Less): | Loss on early extinguishment of debt, net | 16,181 | 1,524 | ||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of Normalized FFO attributable to an investee | 2,777 | 1,825 | |||||
| Transaction related costs | 6,894 | (1,623) | |||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 176,402 | $ | 274,418 | |||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 165,338 | 164,988 | |||||
| Basic and diluted per common share amounts: | |||||||
| Net loss | $ | (1.67) | $ | (0.20) | |||
| FFO | $ | 0.91 | $ | 1.65 | |||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 1.07 | $ | 1.66 | |||
| Distributions declared per share | $ | 0.61 | $ | 0.80 |
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FY 2023 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0000945394-24-000015.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Overview (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts and per room hotel data)
We are a REIT organized under the laws of the State of Maryland. As of December 31, 2023, we owned 973 properties in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Puerto Rico.
In response to significant and prolonged increases in inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates multiple times since the beginning of 2022. Although the U.S. Federal Reserve has indicated that it may lower rates in 2024, we cannot be sure that it will do so, and interest rates may remain at the current high levels or continue to increase. These inflationary pressures in the United States, as well as global geopolitical instability and tensions, have given rise to uncertainty regarding economic downturns or a possible recession and potential disruptions in the financial markets. Consumer confidence, corporate travel and lodging demand will continue to be affected by economic and market conditions, unemployment levels, work from home policies, use of technologies and broader economic trends. Increased labor costs and other price inflation, including due to supply chain challenges, may continue to negatively impact our hotel operations and the operations of our tenants. An economic recession or continued or intensified disruptions in the financial markets could adversely affect our financial condition, operations at our hotels, our tenants and their ability or willingness to renew our leases or pay rent to us, may restrict our ability to obtain new or replacement financing, would likely increase our cost of capital, and may cause the values of our properties to decline.
Management Agreements and Leases. At December 31, 2023, we owned 221 hotels operated under four agreements. We leased all of these hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies as of that date. At December 31, 2023, we also owned 752 service-focused retail properties leased to 175 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for the payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. Our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include hotel operating revenues and hotel operating expenses of our managed hotels and rental income and net lease operating expenses from our net lease properties.
Hotel Portfolio. As of December 31, 2023, we owned 221 hotels. In 2023, the U.S. hotel industry generally realized increases in average daily rate, or ADR, revenue per available room, or RevPAR, and occupancy compared to the corresponding 2022 periods. The following table provides a summary for all of our hotels with these revenue metrics for the periods presented, which we believe are key indicators of performance at our hotels.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2023 | 2022 | Change | |||||||||
| All Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 221 | 238 | (17) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 37,777 | 40,053 | (2,276) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 62.5 | % | 61.3 | % | 1.2 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 140.94 | $ | 134.47 | 4.8 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 88.09 | $ | 82.43 | 6.9 | % |
Comparable Hotels Data. We present RevPAR, ADR and occupancy for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. We define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, our comparable results exclude two hotels. One of the hotels was not owned for the entirety of the periods and the other suspended operations during part of the periods presented. The following table provides a summary of these revenue metrics for the periods presented.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2023 | 2022 | Change | |||||||||
| Comparable Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 219 | 219 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 37,429 | 37,429 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 62.6 | % | 61.7 | % | 0.9 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 139.86 | $ | 135.36 | 3.3 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 87.55 | $ | 83.52 | 4.8 | % |
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Net Lease Portfolio. As of December 31, 2023, we owned 752 service-focused retail net lease properties with an aggregate of 13,341,172 square feet leased to 175 tenants subject to “triple net” leases (where the tenants are responsible for payments of operating expenses and capital expenditures) requiring annual minimum rents of $372,319. Our net lease properties were 97.1% occupied as of December 31, 2023 with a weighted (by annual minimum rent) average lease term of 8.8 years, operating under 137 brands in 21 distinct industries. TA is our largest tenant. On May 15, 2023, BP completed the TA Merger and we amended our leases with TA. We received $379,292 in cash as part of the transaction, including $188,000 of prepaid rent, $101,892 for the TA common shares we owned and $89,400 for certain tradenames and trademarks associated with TA’s businesses that we owned. As of December 31, 2023, we leased 176 of our travel centers to TA under five master leases that expire in 2033 and require annual minimum rents of $254,000, and BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payment under these leases, subject to a cap. TA receives an annual credit of $25,000 as a result of the prepaid rent.
Additional details of our hotel operating agreements, our net lease agreements and the TA Merger are set forth in Notes 4 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Results of Operations (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2022
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
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| 2023 | 2022 | Increase (Decrease) | % Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating revenues | $ | 1,478,034 | $ | 1,467,344 | $ | 10,690 | 0.7 | % | ||||||
| Rental income | 395,829 | 395,667 | 162 | — | % | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 1,873,863 | 1,863,011 | 10,852 | 0.6 | % | |||||||||
| Expenses: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating expenses | 1,223,906 | 1,227,357 | (3,451) | (0.3) | % | |||||||||
| Net lease operating expenses | 17,663 | 13,176 | 4,487 | 34.1 | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - hotels | 216,235 | 221,416 | (5,181) | (2.3) | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - net lease properties | 167,825 | 179,692 | (11,867) | (6.6) | % | |||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization | 384,060 | 401,108 | (17,048) | (4.3) | % | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 45,397 | 44,404 | 993 | 2.2 | % | |||||||||
| Transaction related costs | (1,623) | 1,920 | (3,543) | (184.5) | % | |||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment, net | 9,544 | 10,989 | (1,445) | (13.1) | % | |||||||||
| Total expenses | 1,678,947 | 1,698,954 | (20,007) | (1.2) | % | |||||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | 43,239 | 47,818 | (4,579) | (9.6) | % | |||||||||
| Gain (loss) on equity securities, net | 48,837 | (8,104) | 56,941 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Interest income | 20,979 | 3,379 | 17,600 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Interest expense | (336,342) | (341,795) | 5,453 | (1.6) | % | |||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt | (1,524) | (791) | (733) | 92.7 | % | |||||||||
| Loss before income tax benefit and equity in (losses) earnings of an investee | (29,895) | (135,436) | 105,541 | (77.9) | % | |||||||||
| Income tax benefit | 1,498 | 199 | 1,299 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Equity in (losses) earnings of an investee | (4,382) | 2,856 | (7,238) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (32,779) | $ | (132,381) | $ | 99,602 | (75.2) | % | ||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 164,988 | 164,738 | 250 | 0.2 | % | |||||||||
| Net loss per common share (basic and diluted) | $ | (0.20) | $ | (0.80) | $ | 0.60 | (75.0) | % |
References to changes in the income and expense categories below relate to the comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the year ended December 31, 2022. For a comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to the year ended December 31, 2021, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in Part II, Item 7 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Hotel operating revenues. The increase in hotel operating revenues is primarily a result of higher occupancies and average rates at certain of our hotels in the 2023 period ($123,238), partially offset by the sale of certain of our hotels since January 1, 2022 ($112,548). Additional operating statistics of our hotels are included in the tables on page 66.
Rental income. The increase in rental income is primarily the result of the amended TA leases in the 2023 period ($7,170), partially offset by our sale of certain net lease properties ($5,815) and lease expirations at certain net lease properties ($1,193) since January 1, 2022.
Hotel operating expenses. The decrease in hotel operating expenses is primarily the result of our sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2022 ($109,031), partially offset by an increase in occupancy at certain managed hotels resulting in increases in wages ($62,969), increases in rooms related expenses ($31,558), and increases in utilities ($3,800) and other operating expenses ($7,253).
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Net lease operating expenses. The increase in net lease operating expenses is the result of higher operating expenses at certain net lease properties primarily as a result of vacancies ($1,490) and increases in other operating expenses ($2,997).
Depreciation and amortization - hotels. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - hotels is primarily the result of certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2022 ($8,523) and our sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2022 ($6,342), partially offset by depreciation and amortization related to capital expenditures made since January 1, 2022 ($7,484) and our acquisition of a hotel in the 2023 period ($2,200).
Depreciation and amortization - net lease properties. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - net lease properties is primarily a result of certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2022 and our sale of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2022 ($15,396), partially offset by depreciation and amortization related to capital expenditures since January 1, 2022 ($3,529).
General and administrative. The increase in general and administrative costs is primarily due to increases in other professional fees ($2,259), share award expenses ($642) and accounting related fees ($235), partially offset by a decrease in business management fees in the 2023 period ($2,143).
Transaction related costs. Transaction related costs for the 2023 period primarily consist of the partial recovery of a working capital reserve related to the IHG portfolio previously deemed uncollectable and expensed during 2021 ($5,797), partially offset by costs related to hotel rebranding activity, demolition of certain vacant properties and potential acquisitions ($4,174). Transaction related costs for the 2022 period primarily consist of costs related to our exploration of possible financing transactions ($1,920).
Loss on asset impairment, net. We recorded a $9,544 loss on asset impairment during the 2023 period to reduce the carrying value of one hotel and 16 net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell. We recorded a $10,989 loss on asset impairment during the 2022 period to reduce the carrying value of 26 hotels and five net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell.
Gain on sale of real estate, net. We recorded a $43,239 net gain on sale of real estate during the 2023 period in connection with the sales of 18 hotels and 13 net lease properties, and a $47,818 net gain on sale of real estate in the 2022 period in connection with the sales of 65 hotels and 21 net lease properties.
Gain (loss) on equity securities, net. Gain (loss) on equity securities, net represents the adjustment to the carrying value of our former investment in shares of TA common stock to its fair value.
Interest income. The increase in interest income is primarily due to higher interest rates and higher average cash balances invested during the 2023 period.
Interest expense. The decrease in interest expense is due to lower outstanding debt balances, partially offset by higher weighted average interest rates in the 2023 period.
Loss on early extinguishment of debt. We recorded a $1,524 loss on early extinguishment of debt in the 2023 period related to the write-off of deferred financing costs and unamortized discounts in connection with the repayment of certain senior unsecured notes and the write-off of certain deferred financing costs relating to the amendment of our revolving credit facility. We recorded a $791 loss on early extinguishment of debt in the 2022 period related to the write-off of deferred financing costs and unamortized discounts relating to the amendment of our revolving credit facility and the repayment of certain unsecured senior notes.
Income tax benefit. The increase in income tax benefit is primarily related to a change in deferred tax liabilities related to our Puerto Rico hotel. See Note 10 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Equity in (losses) earnings of an investee. Equity in (losses) earnings of an investee represents our proportionate share of the (losses) earnings of Sonesta.
Net loss. Our net loss and our net loss per common share (basic and diluted) each decreased in the 2023 period compared to the 2022 period primarily due to the revenue and expense changes discussed above.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources (dollars in thousands, except share amounts)
Our Managers and Tenants
As of December 31, 2023, all 221 of our hotels were managed and operated by four hotel operating companies. Our 752 service-focused retail net lease properties were leased to 175 tenants as of December 31, 2023. The costs of operating and maintaining our properties are generally paid by the hotel managers as agents for us or by our tenants for their own account. Our hotel managers and tenants derive their funding for property operating expenses and for returns and rents due to us generally from property operating revenues and, to the extent these parties themselves fund our owner’s priority returns and rents, from their separate resources. As of December 31, 2023, our hotel managers included Sonesta (195 hotels), Hyatt (17 hotels), Radisson (eight hotels), and IHG (one hotel). TA is our largest tenant (176 travel centers).
We recorded reserves for uncollectable amounts and reduced rental income by $4,927 and reduced our reserves for uncollectable amounts and increased rental income by $320 for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, based on our assessment of the collectability of rents. We had reserves for uncollectable rents of $3,436 and $7,697 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheets.
We define net lease coverage as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, or EBITDAR, divided by the annual minimum rent due to us weighted by the minimum rent of the property to total minimum rents of the net lease portfolio. Tenants with no minimum rent required under the lease are excluded. EBITDAR amounts used to determine rent coverage are generally for the latest twelve-month period, based on the most recent operating information, if any, furnished by our tenants. Operating statements furnished by our tenants often are unaudited and, in certain cases, may not have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and are not independently verified by us. In instances where we do not have tenant financial information, we calculate an implied coverage ratio for the period based on other tenants with available financial statements operating the same brand or within the same industry. As a result, we believe using this implied coverage metric provides a more reasonable estimated representation of recent operating results and the financial condition for those tenants. Our net lease properties generated coverage of 2.46x and 3.00x as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Our Operating Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of funds to meet operating and capital expenses, debt service obligations and distributions to our shareholders are owner’s priority returns from our hotels, rents from our net lease portfolio and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. We receive owner’s priority returns and rents from our managers and tenants monthly. We may receive additional returns, percentage rents and our share of the operating profits of our managed hotels after payment of management fees and other deductions, if any, either monthly or quarterly, and these amounts are usually subject to annual reconciliations. We believe that these sources of funds will be sufficient to meet our operating expenses and capital expenditures, pay debt service obligations and make distributions to our shareholders for the next twelve months and for the foreseeable future thereafter. However, as a result of economic conditions, including if the U.S. enters an economic recession, or otherwise, our managers and tenants may become unable or unwilling to pay owner’s priority returns and rents to us when due, and, as a result, our cash flows and net income would decline and we may need to reduce the amount of, or even eliminate, our distributions to common shareholders.
The following is a summary of our sources and uses of cash flows for the periods presented (dollars in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
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| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period | $ | 45,420 | $ | 947,418 | |||
| Net cash provided by (used in): | |||||||
| Operating activities | 485,549 | 243,127 | |||||
| Investing activities | (29,577) | 397,253 | |||||
| Financing activities | (303,562) | (1,542,378) | |||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period | $ | 197,830 | $ | 45,420 |
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The increase in cash provided by operating activities for the 2023 period compared to the prior year period is primarily due to $188,000 of prepaid rent received from TA, higher returns earned from our hotel portfolio and lower interest expense in the 2023 period. The change from cash flow from investing activities in the 2022 period to cash flow used in investing activities in the 2023 period is primarily due to lower proceeds from the sale of real estate, our hotel acquisition and increased real estate improvements during the 2023 period, partially offset by proceeds from the TA Merger. The decrease in cash flows used in financing activities in the 2023 period compared to the 2022 period is primarily due to proceeds from our senior secured notes and our net lease mortgage notes issued in the 2023 period, partially offset by increased distributions during the 2023 period.
We maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT under the IRC by meeting certain requirements. We lease 221 hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies. As a REIT, we do not expect to pay federal income taxes on the majority of our income; however, the income realized by our TRSs in excess of the rent they pay to us is subject to U.S. federal income tax at corporate income tax rates. In addition, the income we receive from our hotels in Canada and Puerto Rico is subject to taxes in those jurisdictions and we are subject to taxes in certain states where we have properties despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT.
Our Investment and Financing Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our hotel operating agreements generally provide that, if necessary, we may provide our managers with funding for capital improvements to our hotels in excess of amounts otherwise available in escrowed FF&E reserves or when no FF&E reserves are available. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we funded $226,590 for capital improvements in excess of FF&E reserves available to our hotels. We currently expect to fund $250,000 during 2024 for capital improvements to certain hotels using cash on hand and borrowings under our revolving credit facility.
Various percentages of total sales at some of our hotels are escrowed as FF&E reserves to fund future capital improvements. We own all the FF&E escrows for our hotels. During the year ended December 31, 2023, certain of our hotel managers deposited $6,855 to these accounts and spent $5,406 from the FF&E reserve escrow accounts to renovate and refurbish our hotels. As of December 31, 2023, there was $8,437 on deposit in these escrow accounts, which was held directly by us and is reflected in our consolidated balance sheets as restricted cash.
Our net lease portfolio leases do not require FF&E escrow deposits and tenants under these leases are generally required to maintain the leased properties, including structural and non-structural components. We may provide tenant improvement allowances to tenants in certain cases or may develop sites with the intent to lease them. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we funded $4,060 for capital improvements to our net lease properties. As of December 31, 2023, we had $2,546 of unspent leasing-related obligations related to certain net lease tenants.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, we sold 18 hotels with an aggregate of 2,526 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $157,230, excluding closing costs, and 13 net lease properties with an aggregate of 160,310 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $13,095, excluding closing costs. From January 1, 2024 through February 22, 2024, we sold one net lease property with 4,100 square feet for a sale price of $257, excluding closing costs. We have also entered into agreements to sell one hotel with 84 keys for $3,315 and four net lease properties with an aggregate of 55,276 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $3,121. These pending sales are subject to conditions; accordingly, we cannot be sure that we will complete these sales, that these sales will not be delayed or that the terms will not change. We believe it is more likely than not that the sales of these properties will be completed by year end 2024. We continue to market five net lease properties with an aggregate of 98,422 square feet for sale. We expect to use the proceeds from these asset sales for general business purposes, which may include the repayment of debt.
BP completed the TA Merger on May 15, 2023. We received $379,292 in cash as part of this transaction, including $188,000 in prepaid rent from TA, $101,892 in merger consideration for the TA common shares we owned, and $89,400 for certain tradenames and trademarks associated with TA’s business we owned.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, we purchased one hotel in Miami Beach, Florida with 250 rooms for a sales price of $165,400, excluding closing costs, using cash on hand.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, we funded $5,134 of capital contributions to Sonesta to support their growth initiatives, including their franchising efforts, using cash on hand.
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During the year ended December 31, 2023, we declared and paid regular quarterly distributions to our common shareholders using cash on hand as follows:
| Declaration Date | Record Date | Paid Date | Dividend Per Common Share | Total Distributions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 12, 2023 | January 23, 2023 | February 16, 2023 | $ | 0.20 | $ | 33,090 | |||||
| April 13, 2023 | April 24, 2023 | May 18, 2023 | 0.20 | 33,089 | |||||||
| July 13, 2023 | July 24, 2023 | August 17, 2023 | 0.20 | 33,096 | |||||||
| October 12, 2023 | October 23, 2023 | November 16, 2023 | 0.20 | 33,155 | |||||||
| $ | 0.80 | $ | 132,430 |
On January 11, 2024, we declared a regular quarterly distribution to common shareholders of record on January 22, 2024 of $0.20 per share, or $33,154. We paid this amount on February 15, 2024 using cash on hand.
In order to meet cash needs that may result from our desire or need to make distributions or pay operating or capital expenses, we maintain a $650,000 secured revolving credit facility which is governed by the amended and restated credit agreement that we entered into on June 29, 2023. This new facility replaced our prior $800,000 secured revolving credit facility, which had a maturity date of July 15, 2023, and is available for general business purposes, including acquisitions. We can borrow, repay, and reborrow funds available under the new facility until maturity and no principal repayments are due until maturity. Availability of borrowings under our credit agreement is subject to ongoing minimum performance and market values of the collateral properties, satisfying certain financial covenants and other credit facility conditions. The maturity date of the new facility is June 29, 2027, and, subject to the payment of an extension fee and meeting certain other conditions, we have an option to further extend the stated maturity date of the new facility by two additional six-month periods.
Interest payable on drawings under the new facility is based on the secured overnight financing rate, or SOFR, plus a margin ranging from 1.50% to 3.00% based on our leverage ratio, as defined in our credit agreement, which was 2.50% as of December 31, 2023. As collateral for all loans and other obligations under the new facility, certain of our subsidiaries pledged all of their respective equity interests in certain of our direct and indirect property owning subsidiaries, and our pledged subsidiaries provided first mortgage liens on 69 properties, including 66 hotels and three net lease properties, with an undepreciated carrying value of $1,594,253 as of December 31, 2023. In addition, in order to maintain compliance with the minimum collateral property availability covenant as defined in the credit agreement, in February 2024, we added three hotels with an undepreciated carrying value of $114,635 as of December 31, 2023, as collateral under the agreement. We also pay unused commitment fees of 20 to 30 basis points per annum on the total amount of lending commitments under our revolving credit facility based on amounts outstanding. As of December 31, 2023, the annual interest rate payable on borrowings under our revolving credit facility was 7.88%. We had no borrowings outstanding under the facility as of December 31, 2023.
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In February 2023, one of our subsidiaries, SVC ABS LLC, or the Issuer, issued $610,200 in aggregate principal amount of net lease mortgage notes. The notes are non-recourse and secured by the assets of the Issuer, which include 308 net lease retail properties with annual minimum rents of $63,283 and a gross book carrying value of $755,116 as of December 31, 2023. The net proceeds from this issuance were $550,564 after initial purchaser discounts and offering costs. We redeemed our 4.50% senior notes due in 2023 at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $500,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the date of redemption in March 2023, using the proceeds from these net lease mortgage notes.
The net lease mortgage notes are summarized below:
| Note Class | S&P Rating | Principal Outstanding as of December 31, 2023 | Coupon Rate | Term | Maturity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class A | AAA | $ | 303,729 | 5.15% | 5 years | February 2028 | ||||||
| Class B | AA | 172,640 | 5.55% | 5 years | February 2028 | |||||||
| Class C | A | 132,200 | 6.70% | 5 years | February 2028 | |||||||
| Total / weighted average | $ | 608,569 | 5.60% |
In November 2023, we issued $1,000,000 principal amount of 8.625% senior secured notes due 2031, or the 2031 Notes. The aggregate net proceeds from this offering were $967,525, after initial purchaser discounts and other offering expenses. These notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a joint and several basis by (i) newly formed wholly owned subsidiaries, or the TA Landlord Subsidiaries, that are the landlords with respect to 70 properties leased to TA with a gross carrying value of $785,876 as of December 31, 2023 and the immediate parent entity of the TA Landlord Subsidiaries, or the Pledgor, and (ii) all of our subsidiaries that guarantee our existing senior unsecured notes. The subsidiary guarantee provided by the Pledgor is secured by first-priority liens on the equity interests of the TA Landlord Subsidiaries. The Pledgor and the TA Landlord Subsidiaries have agreed not to guarantee any of our or our subsidiaries other indebtedness. We redeemed our 4.65% and 4.35% senior unsecured notes due in 2024 for redemption prices equal to the principal amounts of $350,000 and $825,000, respectively, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the date of redemption in December 2023, using the proceeds from the 2031 Notes and cash on hand.
Our debt maturities (other than our revolving credit facility) as of December 31, 2023 were as follows:
| Year | Maturity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $ | 1,958 | ||
| 2025 | 1,151,958 | |||
| 2026 | 801,958 | |||
| 2027 | 851,958 | |||
| 2028 | 1,000,737 | |||
| 2029 | 425,000 | |||
| 2030 | 400,000 | |||
| 2031 | 1,000,000 | |||
| $ | 5,633,569 |
None of our senior note debt obligations require principal or sinking fund payments prior to their maturity dates. Our mortgage notes require monthly principal payments as described in Part II, Item 7A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We currently expect to use cash on hand, the cash flows from our operations, borrowings under our revolving credit facility, net proceeds from any asset sales and net proceeds of offerings of equity or the incurrence of debt to fund our operations, capital expenditures, investments, future debt maturities, distributions to our shareholders and other general business purposes.
When significant amounts are outstanding for an extended period of time under our revolving credit facility, or the maturities of our indebtedness approach, we currently expect to explore refinancing alternatives. Such alternatives may include incurring additional debt, issuing new equity securities and the sale of properties. We have an effective shelf registration statement that allows us to issue public securities on an expedited basis, but it does not assure that there will be buyers for such securities. We may also seek to participate in joint ventures or other arrangements that may provide us additional sources of financing. We may also assume mortgage debt on properties we may acquire or obtain mortgage financing on our existing properties.
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While we believe we will generally have access to various types of financings, including debt or equity, to fund our future acquisitions and to pay our debts and other obligations, we cannot be sure that we will be able to complete any debt or equity offerings or other types of financings or that our cost of any future public or private financings will not increase.
Our ability to complete, and the costs associated with, future debt transactions depend primarily upon credit market conditions and our then perceived creditworthiness. We have no control over market conditions. Our credit ratings depend upon evaluations by credit rating agencies of our business practices and plans, including our ability to maintain our earnings, to stagger our debt maturities and to balance our use of debt and equity capital so that our financial performance and leverage ratios afford us flexibility to withstand any reasonably anticipated adverse changes. Similarly, our ability to raise equity capital in the future will depend primarily upon equity capital market conditions and our ability to conduct our business to maintain and grow our operating cash flows. We intend to conduct our business activities in a manner which will afford us reasonable access to capital for investment and financing activities. However, as discussed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the impacts of the current, and possibly future, inflationary conditions, increasing or sustained high interest rates and a possible economic recession are uncertain and may have various negative consequences on us and our operations, including a decline in financing availability and increased costs for financing. Further, such conditions could also disrupt the capital markets generally and limit our access to financing from public sources or on favorable terms, particularly if the global financial markets experience significant disruptions.
Debt Covenants
Our debt obligations at December 31, 2023 consisted of $5,025,000 aggregate principal amounts of senior notes and $608,569 aggregate principal amounts of mortgage notes. For further information regarding our indebtedness, see Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Our publicly and privately issued senior notes are governed by our indentures and related supplements. These indentures and related supplements and our credit agreement contain covenants that generally restrict our ability to incur debts, including debts secured by mortgages on our properties, in excess of calculated amounts, and require us to maintain various financial ratios. Our credit agreement, net lease mortgage notes, secured senior notes and unsecured senior notes, indentures and their supplements provide for acceleration of payment of all amounts outstanding upon the occurrence and continuation of certain events of default, such as, in the case of our credit agreement, a change of control of us, which includes RMR ceasing to act as our business manager. As of December 31, 2023, we believe we were in compliance with all of the covenants under our indentures and their supplements, net lease mortgage notes and our credit agreement.
Senior Notes Indenture Covenants
The following table summarizes the results of the financial tests required by the indentures and related supplements for our senior secured and unsecured notes as of December 31, 2023:
| Actual Results | Covenant Requirement | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total debt / adjusted total assets | 52.4% | Maximum of 60% | |||
| Secured debt / adjusted total assets | 15.0% | Maximum of 40% | |||
| Consolidated income available for debt service / debt service | 1.79x | Minimum of 1.50x | |||
| Total unencumbered assets / unsecured debt | 183.2% | Minimum 150% |
As of December 31, 2023, adjusted total assets for covenant purposes as defined in our senior notes indentures were $10,742,687 and assets encumbered under our revolving credit facility, serving as collateral for our net lease mortgage notes or secured senior notes represented $3,367,550 of adjusted total assets, as defined in our senior notes indentures. Our unencumbered hotels, travel centers, other net lease properties and other corporate assets represent $4,569,637, $1,627,037, $849,414 and $329,049 of adjusted total assets, respectively.
The following table presents the calculation of adjusted total assets to total assets in accordance with GAAP:
| Total assets | $ | 7,356,116 |
|---|---|---|
| Plus: accumulated depreciation | 3,181,797 | |
| Plus: impairment and other adjustments to reflect original cost of real estate assets | 408,697 | |
| Less: accounts receivable and intangibles | (203,923) | |
| Adjusted total assets | $ | 10,742,687 |
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Our ability to incur additional debt is subject to meeting the required covenant levels and subject to the provisions of our credit facility and senior notes indentures.
Acceleration and Cross-Default
Our indentures and their supplements contain cross default provisions to any other debt of $20,000 or more ($50,000 or more in the case of our indenture entered into in February 2016 and its supplements, and our indenture entered into in November 2023). Similarly, our credit agreement has cross default provisions to other indebtedness that is recourse of $25,000 or more and indebtedness that is non-recourse of $75,000 or more. Neither our indentures and their supplements nor our credit agreement contain provisions for acceleration which could be triggered by a change in our debt ratings.
Supplemental Guarantor Information
Our 2025 Notes and our 2027 Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a joint and several basis and on a senior unsecured basis, by all of our subsidiaries, except for certain excluded subsidiaries, including our foreign subsidiaries and our subsidiaries pledged under our credit agreement and our net lease mortgage notes. The notes and the guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors’ secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities and any preferred equity of any of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee the notes. Our remaining $2,775,000 of senior unsecured notes do not have the benefit of any guarantees.
A subsidiary guarantor’s guarantee of the 2025 Notes, 2027 Notes and 2031 Notes and all other obligations of such subsidiary guarantor under the indentures governing the notes will automatically terminate and such subsidiary guarantor will automatically be released from all of its obligations under such subsidiary guarantee and such indenture under certain circumstances, including on or after the date on which (a) the notes have received a rating equal to or higher than Baa2 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s Investor Services, or Moody’s, or BBB (or the equivalent) by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, or S&P, in the case of the 2031 Notes, both agencies, or if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes for reasons outside of our control, the equivalent investment grade rating from any other rating agency and (b) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under the indenture. Our non-guarantor subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities and will have no obligation, contingent or otherwise, to pay any amounts due on these notes or the guarantees, or to make any funds available therefor, whether by dividend, distribution, loan or other payments. The rights of holders of these notes to benefit from any of the assets of our non-guarantor subsidiaries are subject to the prior satisfaction of claims of those subsidiaries’ creditors and any preferred equity holders. As a result, these notes and the related guarantees will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness, guarantees and other liabilities of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee these notes, including guarantees of or pledges under other indebtedness of ours, payment obligations under lease agreements, trade payables and preferred equity.
The following table presents summarized financial information for us and the subsidiary guarantors, on a combined basis after elimination of (i) intercompany transactions and balances among us and the subsidiary guarantors and (ii) equity in earnings from, and any investments in, any of our non-guarantor subsidiaries:
| As of December 31, 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate properties, net(1) | $ | 4,372,682 | |
| Other assets, net | 552,196 | ||
| Indebtedness, net | $ | 4,961,344 | |
| Intercompany balances(2) | 752,146 | ||
| Other liabilities | 395,433 |
| Year Ended December 31, 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | $ | 1,629,129 | |
| Expenses | 1,767,742 | ||
| Net loss | $ | (138,613) |
(1)Real estate properties, net as of December 31, 2023 includes $169,158 of properties owned directly by us and not included in the assets of the subsidiary guarantors.
(2)Intercompany balances represent payables to non-guarantor subsidiaries.
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Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR, RMR Inc., TA and Sonesta and others affiliated with them. For further information about these and other such relationships and related person transactions, see Notes 4, 5, 8 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference and our other filings with the SEC, including our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or our definitive Proxy Statement, to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. For further information about the risks that may arise as a result of these and other related person transactions and relationships, see elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including “Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements,” “Business” in Part I, Item 1 and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We may engage in additional transactions with related persons, including businesses to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our critical accounting policies are those that will have the most impact on the reporting of our financial condition and results of operations and those requiring significant judgments and estimates. We believe that our judgments and estimates have been and will be consistently applied and produce financial information that fairly presents our results of operations. Our most critical accounting policies involve our investments in real property. These policies affect our:
•variable interest entities, or VIEs;
•allocation of purchase prices between various asset categories and the related impact on the recognition of depreciation and amortization expenses;
•assessment of the carrying values and impairments of real estate, intangible assets and equity investments;
•classification of leases and the related impact to our financial statements; and
•income taxes.
We have determined that each of our wholly owned TRSs is a variable interest entity, or VIE, as defined under the Consolidation Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification™, or the Codification. We have concluded that we must consolidate each of our wholly owned TRSs because we are the entity with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact such VIE’s performance and we have the obligation to absorb the majority of the potential variability in gains and losses of each VIE, with the primary focus on losses, and are therefore the primary beneficiary of each VIE.
We allocate the acquisition cost of each property investment to various property components such as land, buildings and equipment and intangibles based on their relative fair values and each component generally has a different useful life. For acquired real estate, we record building, land, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and, if applicable, the value of acquired in-place leases, the fair market value of above or below market leases and customer relationships at fair value. For transactions that qualify as business combinations we allocate the excess, if any, of the consideration over the fair value of the net assets acquired to goodwill. We base purchase price allocations and the determination of useful lives on our estimates and, under some circumstances, studies from independent real estate appraisers to provide market information and evaluations that are relevant to our purchase price allocations and determinations of useful lives; however, our management is ultimately responsible for the purchase price allocations and determination of useful lives.
We compute depreciation expense using the straight line method over estimated useful lives of up to 40 years for buildings and improvements, and up to 12 years for personal property. We amortize the value of intangible assets over the shorter of their estimated useful lives, or the term of the respective lease or the affected contract. We do not depreciate the allocated cost of land. Purchase price allocations and estimates of useful lives require us to make certain assumptions and estimates. Incorrect assumptions and estimates may result in inaccurate depreciation and amortization charges over future periods.
We periodically evaluate our real estate and other assets for possible impairment indicators. These indicators may include weak or declining operating profitability, cash flows or liquidity, our decision to dispose of an asset before the end of its estimated useful life or market or industry changes that could permanently reduce the value of our investments. If indicators of impairment are present, we evaluate the carrying value of the related investment by comparing it to the expected future undiscounted cash flows to be generated from that investment. If the sum of these expected future cash flows is less than the carrying value, we reduce the net carrying value of the property to its estimated fair value.
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We periodically evaluate our equity method investment for possible indicators of other than temporary impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of the investment might not be recoverable. These indicators may include the length of time and degree to which the market value of our investment is below our cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer, our intent and ability to be a long term holder of the investment and other considerations. If the decline in fair value is judged to be other than temporary, we may record an impairment charge to adjust the basis of the investment to its fair value.
We determine the fair value for our long lived assets by evaluating recent financial performance and projecting discounted cash flows using standard industry valuation techniques. These analyses require us to judge whether indicators of impairment exist and to estimate likely future cash flows. If we misjudge or estimate incorrectly or if future operating profitability, market or industry factors differ from our expectations, we may record an impairment charge which is inappropriate, fail to record a charge when we should have done so or the amount of such charges may be inaccurate.
Certain of our properties are leased on a triple net basis, pursuant to non-cancelable, fixed term, operating leases. Each time we enter a new lease or materially modify an existing lease we evaluate its classification as either a finance or operating lease. The classification of a lease as finance, sales-type, direct financing or operating affects the carrying value of a property, as well as our recognition of rental payments as revenue. These evaluations require us to make estimates of, among other things, the remaining useful life and market value of a leased property, appropriate present value discount rates and future cash flows. Incorrect assumptions or estimates may result in misclassification of our leases.
We account for income taxes in accordance with the Income Taxes Topic of the Codification. Under this Topic, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. We establish valuation allowances to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized when necessary. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT under the IRC and are generally not subject to federal and state income taxation on our operating income provided we distribute our taxable income to our shareholders and meet certain organization and operating requirements. Despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT, we are subject to income tax in Canada, Puerto Rico and in certain states. Further, we lease our managed hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that, unlike most of our subsidiaries, file a separate consolidated tax return and are subject to federal, state and foreign income tax. Our consolidated income tax provision (or benefit) includes the income tax provision (or benefit) related to the operations of the TRSs and state and foreign income taxes incurred by us despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT. The Income Taxes Topic also prescribes how we should recognize, measure and present in our financial statements uncertain tax positions that have been taken or are expected to be taken in a tax return. Tax benefits are recognized only to the extent that it is “more likely than not” that a particular tax position will be sustained upon examination or audit. To the extent the “more likely than not” standard has been satisfied, the benefit associated with a tax position is measured as the largest amount that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Tax returns filed for the 2020 through 2023 tax years are subject to examination by taxing authorities. We classify interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions, if any, in our financial statements as a component of general and administrative expense.
These accounting policies involve significant judgments made based upon our experience and the experience of our management and our Board of Trustees, including judgments about current valuations, ultimate realizable value, estimated useful lives, salvage or residual value, the ability and willingness of our tenants and operators to perform their obligations to us, and the current and likely future operating and competitive environments in which our properties operate. In the future, we may need to revise our carrying value assessments to incorporate information which is not now known, and such revisions could increase or decrease our depreciation expense related to properties we own, result in the classification of our leases as other than operating leases or decrease the carrying values of our assets.
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Property and Operating Statistics (dollars in thousands, except hotel statistics)
As of December 31, 2023, we owned and managed a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease properties across the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada with 146 distinct brands across 22 industries.
Hotel Portfolio
The following tables summarize the operating statistics, including ADR, RevPAR and occupancy reported to us by our hotel managers by hotel brand for the periods indicated. All operating data presented are based upon the operating results provided by our hotel managers for the indicated periods. We have not independently verified our managers’ operating data.
| Comparable Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Service Level | 2023 | 2022 | Change | 2023 | 2022 | Change | 2023 | 2022 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Hotels & Resorts® | Full Service | 22 | 7,149 | 62.4 | % | 60.4 | % | 2.0 pts | $ | 152.48 | $ | 150.40 | 1.4 | % | $ | 95.15 | $ | 90.84 | 4.7 | % | |||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta Hotels® | Full Service | 17 | 5,663 | 56.5 | % | 52.2 | % | 4.3 pts | 237.63 | 236.07 | 0.7 | % | 134.26 | 123.23 | 9.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Radisson® Hotels & Resorts | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 62.5 | % | 64.1 | % | (1.6) pts | 146.45 | 133.59 | 9.6 | % | 91.53 | 85.63 | 6.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza® | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 60.6 | % | 54.4 | % | 6.2 pts | 141.30 | 132.27 | 6.8 | % | 85.63 | 71.95 | 19.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Country Inn & Suites® by Radisson | Full Service | 3 | 430 | 65.9 | % | 62.8 | % | 3.1 pts | 137.17 | 136.92 | 0.2 | % | 90.40 | 85.99 | 5.1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 48 | 14,886 | 60.2 | % | 57.4 | % | 2.8 pts | 181.71 | 177.85 | 2.2 | % | 109.39 | 102.09 | 7.2 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select® | Select Service | 44 | 6,427 | 54.9 | % | 51.6 | % | 3.3 pts | 118.45 | 117.76 | 0.6 | % | 65.03 | 60.76 | 7.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place® | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 65.3 | % | 67.4 | % | (2.1) pts | 122.23 | 119.00 | 2.7 | % | 79.82 | 80.21 | (0.5) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 61 | 8,534 | 57.5 | % | 55.5 | % | 2.0 pts | 119.51 | 118.13 | 1.2 | % | 68.72 | 65.56 | 4.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites® | Extended Stay | 60 | 7,643 | 67.8 | % | 69.3 | % | (1.5) pts | 128.33 | 124.90 | 2.7 | % | 87.01 | 86.56 | 0.5 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites® | Extended Stay | 50 | 6,366 | 68.5 | % | 71.2 | % | (2.7) pts | 90.63 | 86.18 | 5.2 | % | 62.08 | 61.36 | 1.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 110 | 14,009 | 68.1 | % | 70.2 | % | (2.1) pts | 111.17 | 107.21 | 3.7 | % | 75.71 | 75.26 | 0.6 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Comparable Hotels Total/Average | 219 | 37,429 | 62.6 | % | 61.7 | % | 0.9 pts | $ | 139.86 | $ | 135.36 | 3.3 | % | $ | 87.55 | $ | 83.52 | 4.8 | % |
*We define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, our comparable results exclude two hotels; one of the hotels was not owned for the entirety of the periods presented and the other hotel suspended operations during part of the periods presented.
| All Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Service Level | 2023 | 2022 | Change | 2023 | 2022 | Change | 2023 | 2022 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Hotels & Resorts® | Full Service | 23 | 7,399 | 62.5 | % | 60.4 | % | 2.1 pts | $ | 157.60 | $ | 158.00 | (0.3) | % | $ | 98.50 | $ | 95.43 | 3.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta Hotels® | Full Service | 17 | 5,663 | 56.5 | % | 52.2 | % | 4.3 pts | 237.63 | 236.07 | 0.7 | % | 134.26 | 123.23 | 9.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Radisson® Hotels & Resorts | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 62.5 | % | 64.1 | % | (1.6) pts | 146.45 | 133.59 | 9.6 | % | 91.53 | 85.63 | 6.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza® | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 60.6 | % | 54.4 | % | 6.2 pts | 141.30 | 132.27 | 6.8 | % | 85.63 | 71.95 | 19.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Country Inn & Suites® by Radisson | Full Service | 3 | 430 | 65.9 | % | 62.8 | % | 3.1 pts | 137.17 | 136.92 | 0.2 | % | 90.40 | 85.99 | 5.1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 49 | 15,136 | 60.3 | % | 57.4 | % | 2.9 pts | 183.77 | 181.21 | 1.4 | % | 110.81 | 104.01 | 6.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select® | Select Service | 44 | 6,427 | 54.9 | % | 51.6 | % | 3.3 pts | 118.45 | 117.76 | 0.6 | % | 65.03 | 60.76 | 7.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place® | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 65.3 | % | 67.4 | % | (2.1) pts | 122.23 | 119.00 | 2.7 | % | 79.82 | 80.21 | (0.5) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 61 | 8,534 | 57.5 | % | 55.5 | % | 2.0 pts | 119.51 | 118.13 | 1.2 | % | 68.72 | 65.56 | 4.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites® | Extended Stay | 60 | 7,643 | 67.8 | % | 69.3 | % | (1.5) pts | 128.33 | 124.90 | 2.7 | % | 87.01 | 86.56 | 0.5 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites® | Extended Stay | 51 | 6,464 | 67.8 | % | 70.4 | % | (2.6) pts | 90.63 | 86.18 | 5.2 | % | 61.45 | 60.67 | 1.3 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 111 | 14,107 | 67.8 | % | 69.8 | % | (2.0) pts | 111.17 | 107.21 | 3.7 | % | 75.37 | 74.83 | 0.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| All Hotels Total/Average | 221 | 37,777 | 62.5 | % | 61.6 | % | 0.9 pts | $ | 140.94 | $ | 136.89 | 3.0 | % | $ | 88.09 | $ | 84.32 | 4.5 | % |
* Includes results of all hotels owned as of December 31, 2023. Excludes the results of hotels sold during the periods presented and includes data for one hotel for periods prior to when we acquired it.
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Net Lease Portfolio
As of December 31, 2023, our net lease properties were 97.1% occupied and we had 22 properties available for lease. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we entered into lease renewals for 5,774,455 rentable square feet (214 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 9.4% above the prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 10.0 years. We also entered into new leases for 161,875 rentable square feet (seven properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 21.9% above the prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 13.0 years.
Generally, lease agreements with our net lease tenants require payment of minimum rent to us. Certain of these minimum rent payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent represents cash amounts and excludes adjustments, if any, necessary to record scheduled rent changes on a straight line basis or any expense reimbursement. Annualized minimum rent excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA.
As of December 31, 2023, our net lease tenants operated across 137 brands. The following table identifies the top ten brands based on annualized minimum rent.
| Brand | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | Rent Coverage (3) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America Inc. | 132 | $ | 2,258,977 | 44.6 | % | $ | 173,402 | 46.6 | % | 1.91x | (5) | ||||||||||
| 2. | Petro Stopping Centers | 44 | 1,015,156 | 20.1 | % | 80,598 | 21.6 | % | 1.91x | (5) | ||||||||||||
| 3. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.1 | % | 6.20x | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.5 | % | 2.35x | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 3.08x | |||||||||||||
| 6. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,699 | 1.3 | % | 4.41x | |||||||||||||
| 7. | AMC Theatres | 6 | 67,023 | 1.3 | % | 4,438 | 1.2 | % | 1.61x | |||||||||||||
| 8. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 4.32x | |||||||||||||
| 9. | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,693 | 1.0 | % | 3.35x | |||||||||||||
| 10. | Pizza Hut | 40 | 45,285 | 0.9 | % | 3,422 | 0.9 | % | 2.25x | |||||||||||||
| 11. | Other (4) | 416 | 1,244,409 | 24.6 | % | 79,212 | 21.3 | % | 3.64x | |||||||||||||
| Total | 752 | $ | 5,062,695 | 100.0 | % | $ | 372,319 | 100.0 | % | 2.46x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See above for our definition of annualized minimum rent.
(3)See page 58 for our definition of coverage.
(4)Consists of 127 distinct brands with an average investment of $2,991 and average annual minimum rent of $190 per property.
(5)Rent coverage information provided by tenant is for all 176 sites on a consolidated basis and is as of December 31, 2023.
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As of December 31, 2023, our top ten net lease tenants based on our annualized minimum rent are listed below.
| Tenant | Brand Affiliation | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America Inc. | TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers | 176 | $ | 3,274,133 | 64.7 | % | $ | 254,000 | 68.2 | % | 1.91 | x | (4) | |||||||||
| 2. | Universal Pool Co., Inc. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.1 | % | 6.20 | x | ||||||||||||
| 3. | Healthy Way of Life II, LLC | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.5 | % | 2.35 | x | ||||||||||||
| 4. | Styx Acquisition, LLC | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 3.08 | x | ||||||||||||
| 5. | Professional Resource Development, Inc. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,699 | 1.3 | % | 4.41 | x | ||||||||||||
| 6. | American Multi-Cinema, Inc. | AMC Theatres | 6 | 67,023 | 1.3 | % | 4,438 | 1.2 | % | 1.61 | x | ||||||||||||
| 7. | Express Oil Change, L.L.C. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 4.32 | x | ||||||||||||
| 8. | Norms Restaurants, LLC | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,693 | 1.0 | % | 3.35 | x | ||||||||||||
| 9. | Pilot Travel Centers LLC | Flying J Travel Plaza | 3 | 41,681 | 0.8 | % | 3,247 | 0.9 | % | 5.02 | x | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Automotive Remarketing Group, Inc. | America's Auto Auction | 6 | 38,314 | 0.8 | % | 3,216 | 0.9 | % | 7.09 | x | ||||||||||||
| Subtotal, Top 10 | 305 | 3,852,996 | 76.1 | % | 296,148 | 79.6 | % | 2.23 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 11. | Other (5) | Various | 447 | 1,209,699 | 23.9 | % | 76,171 | 20.4 | % | 3.38 | x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 752 | $ | 5,062,695 | 100.0 | % | $ | 372,319 | 100.0 | % | 2.46 | x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 67 for our definition of annualized minimum rent.
(3)See page 58 for our definition of coverage.
(4)TA is our largest tenant. We lease 176 travel centers (132 under the TravelCenters of America brand and 44 under the Petro Stopping Centers brand) to a subsidiary of TA under five master leases that expire in 2033. TA has five renewal options for 10 years each for all of the travel centers under each lease. BP Corporation North America Inc. guarantees payments under each of the five master leases. The aggregate guaranty as of December 31, 2023 was approximately $3,037,475. Annualized minimum rent excludes the impact of rents prepaid by TA. Rent coverage was 1.83x, 1.92x, 1.97x, 2.07x and 1.79x, for our TA leases no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, no. 4 and no. 5, respectively. Rent coverage is as of December 31, 2023.
(5)Consists of 165 tenants with an average investment of $2,706 and an average annual minimum rent of $170 per property.
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As of December 31, 2023, our net lease tenants operated across 21 distinct industries within the service-focused retail sector of the U.S. economy.
| Industry | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized MinimumRent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Travel Centers | 179 | $ | 3,315,815 | 65.4 | % | $ | 257,248 | 69.1 | % | 1.95x | (4) | ||||||||
| 2. | Restaurants - Quick Service | 211 | 285,896 | 5.6 | % | 19,435 | 5.1 | % | 3.08x | |||||||||||
| 3. | Restaurants - Casual Dining | 52 | 186,184 | 3.7 | % | 11,624 | 3.0 | % | 2.85x | |||||||||||
| 5. | Home Goods and Leisure | 20 | 121,128 | 2.4 | % | 10,465 | 2.7 | % | 4.97x | |||||||||||
| 4. | Health and Fitness | 13 | 186,365 | 3.7 | % | 9,501 | 2.6 | % | 1.97x | |||||||||||
| 6. | Grocery Stores | 19 | 129,152 | 2.6 | % | 9,223 | 2.5 | % | 3.66x | |||||||||||
| 7. | Movie Theaters | 16 | 149,345 | 2.9 | % | 8,666 | 2.3 | % | 1.88x | |||||||||||
| 8. | Medical, Dental Office | 70 | 104,042 | 2.1 | % | 8,053 | 2.2 | % | 3.52x | |||||||||||
| 9. | Automotive Equipment and Services | 64 | 107,054 | 2.1 | % | 7,651 | 2.1 | % | 4.44x | |||||||||||
| 10. | Automotive Dealers | 8 | 62,656 | 1.2 | % | 4,964 | 1.3 | % | 6.24x | |||||||||||
| 11. | Educational Services | 8 | 54,759 | 1.1 | % | 4,356 | 1.2 | % | 1.51x | |||||||||||
| 12. | Entertainment | 4 | 61,436 | 1.2 | % | 4,329 | 1.2 | % | 3.17x | |||||||||||
| 13. | General Merchandise Stores | 4 | 55,457 | 1.1 | % | 3,929 | 1.1 | % | 2.85x | |||||||||||
| 14. | Building Materials | 29 | 33,464 | 0.7 | % | 2,834 | 0.8 | % | 7.27x | |||||||||||
| 15. | Car Washes | 6 | 30,798 | 0.6 | % | 2,367 | 0.6 | % | 3.00x | |||||||||||
| 16. | Miscellaneous Manufacturing | 5 | 24,156 | 0.5 | % | 1,362 | 0.4 | % | 15.00x | |||||||||||
| 17. | Drug Stores and Pharmacies | 6 | 17,111 | 0.3 | % | 1,122 | 0.3 | % | 1.23x | |||||||||||
| 18. | Legal Services | 5 | 11,362 | 0.2 | % | 1,075 | 0.3 | % | 5.49x | |||||||||||
| 19. | Sporting Goods | 3 | 17,742 | 0.4 | % | 718 | 0.2 | % | 3.69x | |||||||||||
| 20. | Dollar Stores | 3 | 2,971 | 0.1 | % | 189 | 0.1 | % | 2.46x | |||||||||||
| 21. | Other (5) | 5 | 27,244 | 0.5 | % | 3,208 | 0.9 | % | 5.60x | |||||||||||
| Vacant | 22 | 78,558 | 1.6 | % | — | — | % | —x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 752 | $ | 5,062,695 | 100.0 | % | $ | 372,319 | 100.0 | % | 2.46x |
(1)Represents the historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)See page 67 for our definition of annualized minimum rent.
(3)See page 58 for our definition of coverage.
(4)Rent coverage for TA is as of December 31, 2023.
(5)Consists of miscellaneous businesses with an average investment of $5,449 per property.
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As of December 31, 2023, lease expirations at our net lease properties by year are as follows.
| Year(1) | Number of Properties | Square Feet | Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring (2) | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent Expiring | Cumulative Percent of Total Minimum Rent Expiring | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37 | 586,223 | $ | 7,966 | 2.1% | 2.1% | ||||||||
| 2025 | 28 | 461,687 | 9,077 | 2.4% | 4.5% | |||||||||
| 2026 | 113 | 1,061,593 | 11,964 | 3.2% | 7.7% | |||||||||
| 2027 | 37 | 939,989 | 12,508 | 3.4% | 11.1% | |||||||||
| 2028 | 26 | 670,157 | 10,840 | 2.9% | 14.0% | |||||||||
| 2029 | 55 | 292,899 | 5,864 | 1.6% | 15.6% | |||||||||
| 2030 | 31 | 138,590 | 4,208 | 1.1% | 16.7% | |||||||||
| 2031 | 22 | 372,186 | 4,740 | 1.3% | 18.0% | |||||||||
| 2032 | 36 | 143,954 | 2,965 | 0.8% | 18.8% | |||||||||
| 2033 | 212 | 5,349,669 | 257,991 | 69.4% | 88.2% | |||||||||
| 2034 | 17 | 308,491 | 4,587 | 1.2% | 89.4% | |||||||||
| 2035 | 42 | 1,145,818 | 18,835 | 5.1% | 94.5% | |||||||||
| 2036 | 12 | 297,074 | 5,271 | 1.4% | 95.9% | |||||||||
| 2037 | 7 | 296,403 | 2,147 | 0.6% | 96.5% | |||||||||
| 2038 | 7 | 66,700 | 1,254 | 0.3% | 96.8% | |||||||||
| 2039 | 10 | 140,780 | 3,364 | 0.9% | 97.7% | |||||||||
| 2040 | 18 | 115,142 | 2,406 | 0.6% | 98.3% | |||||||||
| 2041 | 6 | 216,040 | 2,225 | 0.6% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2042 | — | — | — | —% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2043 | 1 | 57,543 | 155 | —% | 98.9% | |||||||||
| 2044 | 3 | 126,116 | 259 | 0.1% | 99.0% | |||||||||
| 2045 | 10 | 63,490 | 3,693 | 1.0% | 100.0% | |||||||||
| Total | 730 | 12,850,544 | $ | 372,319 | 100.0% |
(1)The year of lease expiration is pursuant to contract terms.
(2)See page 67 for our definition of annualized minimum rent.
As of December 31, 2023, shown below is the list of our top ten states where our net lease properties are located. No other state represents more than 3% of our net lease annualized minimum rents.
| State | Number of Properties | Square Feet | Annualized Minimum Rent (1) | Percent of Total Annualized Minimum Rent | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 55 | 1,168,354 | $ | 33,419 | 9.0% | ||||||
| Ohio | 39 | 1,368,924 | 27,031 | 7.3% | |||||||
| Illinois | 56 | 1,010,047 | 26,995 | 7.3% | |||||||
| California | 22 | 399,045 | 25,283 | 6.8% | |||||||
| Georgia | 73 | 590,245 | 20,451 | 5.5% | |||||||
| Florida | 46 | 529,040 | 16,600 | 4.5% | |||||||
| Arizona | 25 | 476,651 | 16,413 | 4.4% | |||||||
| Pennsylvania | 28 | 544,003 | 15,437 | 4.1% | |||||||
| Indiana | 40 | 620,950 | 15,331 | 4.1% | |||||||
| New Mexico | 16 | 246,478 | 11,602 | 3.1% | |||||||
| Other | 352 | 6,387,435 | 163,757 | 43.9% | |||||||
| Total | 752 | 13,341,172 | $ | 372,319 | 100.0% |
(1)See page 67 for our definition of annualized minimum rent.
Seasonality
Our hotels and travel centers have historically experienced seasonal differences typical of their industries with higher revenues in the second and third quarters of calendar years compared with the first and fourth quarters. Most of our leases require our tenants to make the substantial portion of our rent payments to us in equal amounts throughout the year. The return payments to us under certain of our management agreements depend exclusively upon earnings at these properties and, accordingly, our income and cash flows from these properties reflect the seasonality of the hotel industry.
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Impact of Climate Change
Concerns about climate change have resulted in various treaties, laws and regulations that are intended to limit carbon emissions and address other environmental concerns. These and other laws may cause energy or other costs at our properties to increase. We do not expect the direct impact of these increases to be material to our results of operations, because the increased costs either would be the responsibility of our tenants or managers directly or in the longer term, passed through and paid by customers of our properties. Although we do not believe it is likely in the foreseeable future, laws that have been enacted or may be enacted in the future to mitigate climate change may make some of our buildings obsolete or cause us to make material investments in our properties, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition or the financial condition of our tenants or managers and their ability to pay rent or returns to us.
We are environmentally conscious and aware of the impact our properties have on the environment. We and our tenants and managers have implemented numerous initiatives to encourage recycling of plastics, paper and metal or glass containers; we have programs to encourage reduced water and energy use at a hotel guest’s option by not laundering towels and linens every day and monitoring lights and thermostats when rooms are not in use. When we renovate our hotels we generally use energy efficient products including but not limited to lighting, windows and HVAC equipment and many of the appliances in our extended stay hotels are Energy Star rated. We or our tenants or managers have also installed car battery charging stations at some of the properties to accommodate environmentally aware customers.
In an effort to reduce the effects of any increased energy costs in the future, we continuously study ways to improve the energy efficiency at all of our properties. Our property manager, RMR, is a member of the Energy Star program, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that is focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its “Energy Star” partner program, and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED®, green building program. In addition, Sonesta supports the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Responsible Stay initiative focused on energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation and responsible sourcing practices.
Some observers believe severe weather in different parts of the world over the last few years is evidence of global climate change. Severe weather may have an adverse effect on certain properties we own. Rising sea levels could cause flooding at some of our properties, which may have an adverse effect on individual properties we own. We mitigate these risks by procuring, or requiring our managers or tenants to procure, insurance coverage we believe adequate to protect us from material damages and losses resulting from the consequences of losses caused by climate change. However, we cannot be sure that our mitigation efforts will be sufficient or that future storms, rising sea levels or other changes that may occur due to future climate change could not have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We present certain “non-GAAP financial measures” within the meaning of the applicable SEC rules, including FFO and Normalized FFO. These measures do not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of our operating performance or as measures of our liquidity. These measures should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) as presented in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We consider these non-GAAP measures to be appropriate supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT, along with net income (loss). We believe these measures provide useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation and amortization expense, they may facilitate a comparison of our operating performance between periods and with other REITs.
Funds From Operations and Normalized Funds From Operations
We calculate FFO and Normalized FFO as shown below. FFO is calculated on the basis defined by The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, which is net income (loss), calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding any gain or loss on sale of real estate and loss on impairment of real estate assets, if any, plus real estate depreciation and amortization, less any gains and losses on equity securities, as well as adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee and certain other adjustments currently not applicable to us. In calculating Normalized FFO, we adjust for the items shown below. FFO and Normalized FFO are among the factors considered by our Board of Trustees when determining the amount of distributions to our shareholders. Other factors include, but are not limited to, requirements to satisfy our REIT distribution requirements, the availability to us of debt and equity capital, our dividend yield, and to the dividend yield of other REITs, our expectation of our future capital requirements and operating performance and our expected needs for and availability of cash to pay our obligations. Other real estate companies and REITs may calculate FFO and Normalized FFO differently than we do.
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Our calculations of FFO and Normalized FFO for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 and reconciliations of net loss, the most directly comparable financial measure under GAAP reported in our consolidated financial statements, to those amounts appear in the following table (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts).
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| Net loss | $ | (32,779) | $ | (132,381) | |||
| Add (Less): | Depreciation and amortization expense | 384,060 | 401,108 | ||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | (43,239) | (47,818) | |||||
| Loss on asset impairment, net | 9,544 | 10,989 | |||||
| (Gain) loss on equity securities, net | (48,837) | 8,104 | |||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee | 3,943 | 3,723 | |||||
| FFO | 272,692 | 243,725 | |||||
| Add (Less): | Transaction related costs | (1,623) | 1,920 | ||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt | 1,524 | 791 | |||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of Normalized FFO attributable to an investee | 1,825 | 1,037 | |||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 274,418 | $ | 247,473 | |||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 164,988 | 164,738 | |||||
| Basic and diluted per common share amounts: | |||||||
| Net loss | $ | (0.20) | $ | (0.80) | |||
| FFO | $ | 1.65 | $ | 1.48 | |||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 1.66 | $ | 1.50 | |||
| Distributions declared per share | $ | 0.80 | $ | 0.23 |
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FY 2022 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0000945394-23-000015.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Overview (dollar amounts in thousands, except share amounts and per room hotel data)
We are a REIT organized under the laws of the State of Maryland. As of December 31, 2022, we owned 1,003 properties in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Business Environment and Outlook. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the market practices that arose or increased in response to the pandemic, the impacts they have had on travel and the broader economy throughout the U.S. since March 2020, our hotels have experienced significant declines in occupancy, which have had a significant negative effect on our operating results and cash flow. While occupancy has since recovered significantly, there remains uncertainty as to when and if operations at our hotels will return to pre-pandemic levels. We currently expect that the recovery with respect to business transient and group business will be gradual and likely inconsistent. We also currently expect the recovery of the U.S. hospitality industry to be a multi-year process. In addition, consumer confidence, corporate travel and lodging demand will continue to be affected by economic and market conditions, unemployment levels, perceptions of the safety of returning to normal activities, the continued use of video conferencing technologies rather than in person meetings and broader macroeconomic trends and conditions. These trends, together with increasing labor costs and shortages and commodity and other price inflation and supply chain challenges, may continue to negatively impact our hotel operations, the operations of our tenants and our financial results.
In response to inflationary pressures, the U.S. Federal Reserve has significantly increased the federal funds rate since the beginning of 2022 and has signaled that further increases are likely to occur. These inflationary pressures and rising interest rates in the United States and globally have given rise to increasing concerns that the U.S. economy may soon enter an economic recession and they have caused disruptions in the financial markets. An economic recession or continued or intensified disruptions in the financial markets could adversely affect our financial condition, operations at our hotels, our tenants, and their ability or willingness to renew our leases or pay rent to us, may restrict our ability to obtain new or replacement financing, would likely increase our cost of capital, and may cause the values of our properties and of our securities to decline.
Liquidity and Financing Transactions. In April 2022, we and the lenders amended our credit agreement to among other things, obtain additional covenant relief, we repaid $200,000 of the outstanding balance, and reduced the size of the facility from $1,000,000 to $800,000. In October 2022, we and the lenders further amended our credit agreement and exercised our remaining six month option to extend the maturity date to July 15, 2023. On June 15, 2022, we redeemed at par all of our outstanding 5.00% senior notes due 2022 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $500,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest with cash on hand, including proceeds from the property dispositions discussed below. As of February 24, 2023, we have no amounts outstanding under our credit facility and $616,867 of cash or cash equivalents.
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In February 2023, one of our subsidiaries issued $610,200 in aggregate principal amount of net lease mortgage notes. The notes were issued in three classes, as summarized below:
| Note Class | S&P Rating | Amount | Coupon Rate | Term | Maturity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class A | AAA | $ | 305,000 | 5.15% | 5 years | February 2028 | ||||||
| Class B | AA | 173,000 | 5.70% | 5 years | February 2028 | |||||||
| Class C | A | 132,200 | 6.70% | 5 years | February 2028 | |||||||
| Total / weighted average | $ | 610,200 | 5.50% |
The notes are non-recourse and are secured by the assets of the subsidiary, which include 308 net lease retail properties with annual minimum rents of $65,273 and a gross book value of $754,841 as of December 31, 2022. The net proceeds from the issuance of the notes were approximately $555,000, after initial purchaser discounts and offering costs. Simultaneously with the pricing of the notes, we announced the early redemption of our outstanding 4.50% senior notes due 2023 at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $500,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the date of redemption. This redemption is expected to occur on or about March 8, 2023 and we currently expect to fund this redemption with the proceeds from the issuance of the net lease mortgage notes described above.
Disposition Activities. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we sold 65 hotels with 8,296 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $543,413, excluding closing costs. Also during the year ended December 31, 2022, we sold 21 net lease properties with an aggregate of 138,638 rentable square feet for an aggregate sales price of $16,435, excluding closing costs. From January 1, 2023 through February 24, 2023, we sold eight hotels with 1,097 rooms and a carrying value of $47,517 for a sale price of $53,268. As of February 24, 2023, we have entered into agreements to sell nine Marriott branded hotels with an aggregate of 1,210 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $88,476, one additional hotel with 219 keys for a sale price of $14,580 and two net lease properties with an aggregate of 2,384 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $670. We expect the majority of these pending sales to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023. We continue to market two net lease properties with an aggregate of 7,283 square feet for sale.
For further discussion of our property sales and debt, see Notes 4, 5 and 7 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Management Agreements and Leases. At December 31, 2022, we owned 238 hotels operated under six agreements. We leased all of these hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies as of that date. At December 31, 2022, we owned 765 service-oriented properties with 180 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for the payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. Our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include hotel operating revenues and hotel operating expenses of our managed hotels and rental income and other operating expenses from our leased hotels and net lease properties.
Hotel Agreements. On January 7, 2022, we and Sonesta amended and restated our management agreements effective January 1, 2022. As of December 31, 2022, we owned 196 hotels that are managed by Sonesta. In January 2023, we sold one of these hotels and one additional hotel is under agreement to be sold. We expect this sale to be completed in March 2023.
For further discussion of our hotel agreements with Sonesta, see Note 5 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Hotel Portfolio. As of December 31, 2022, we owned 238 hotels. In 2022, the U.S. hotel industry generally realized increases in ADR, revenue per available room, or RevPAR, and occupancy compared to the corresponding 2021 periods. The following table provides a summary for all our hotels of these revenue metrics for the periods presented which we believe are key indicators of performance at our hotels.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | Change | |||||||||
| All Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 238 | 303 | (65) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 40,053 | 48,346 | (8,293) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 61.3 | % | 53.0 | % | 8.3 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 134.47 | $ | 105.36 | $ | 29.11 | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 82.43 | $ | 55.84 | $ | 26.59 |
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Comparable Hotels Data. We present RevPAR, ADR and occupancy for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. We generally define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, SVC’s comparable results exclude three hotels that had suspended operations during part of the periods presented. The following table provides a summary of these revenue metrics for the periods presented.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | Change | |||||||||
| Comparable Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 235 | 235 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 39,364 | 39,364 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 61.4 | % | 52.5 | % | 8.9 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 133.72 | $ | 110.39 | $ | 23.33 | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 82.10 | $ | 57.95 | $ | 24.15 |
We believe these results are primarily due to the improved lodging fundamentals in the current year periods and disruption and displacement at certain of our hotels as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and market practices that arose or increased since the beginning of the pandemic that negatively affected results more in 2021.
Net Lease Portfolio. As of December 31, 2022, we owned 765 service-oriented retail properties with 13,374,325 square feet and annual minimum rent of $372,418, and 180 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. Our net lease portfolio was 97.6% occupied as of December 31, 2022 with a weighted (by annual minimum rent) lease term of 9.6 years, operating under 138 brands in 21 distinct industries. TA is our largest tenant. As of December 31, 2022, we leased 177 of our travel centers to TA under five leases that expire between 2029 and 2035 and require annual minimum rents of $246,110.
As disclosed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, in connection with the BP Acquisition we entered into the Consent Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, agreed to amend and restate our existing TA lease and guaranty agreements, effective at the time of the Merger.
Additional details of our hotel operating agreements and net lease agreements are set forth in Notes 5, 9 and 15 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Results of Operations (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts)
Year Ended December 31, 2022 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2021
| For the Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase (Decrease) | % Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||
| 2022 | 2021 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating revenues | $ | 1,467,344 | $ | 1,104,678 | $ | 362,666 | 32.8 | % | ||||||
| Rental income | 395,667 | 390,902 | 4,765 | 1.2 | % | |||||||||
| Total revenues | 1,863,011 | 1,495,580 | 367,431 | 24.6 | % | |||||||||
| Expenses: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating expenses | 1,227,357 | 1,010,737 | 216,620 | 21.4 | % | |||||||||
| Other operating expenses | 13,176 | 15,658 | (2,482) | (15.9) | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - hotels | 221,416 | 266,641 | (45,225) | (17.0) | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - net lease portfolio | 179,692 | 219,324 | (39,632) | (18.1) | % | |||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization | 401,108 | 485,965 | (84,857) | (17.5) | % | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 44,404 | 53,439 | (9,035) | (16.9) | % | |||||||||
| Transaction related costs | 1,920 | 64,764 | (62,844) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment, net | 10,989 | 78,620 | (67,631) | (86.0) | % | |||||||||
| Total expenses | 1,698,954 | 1,709,183 | (10,229) | (0.6) | % | |||||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | 47,818 | 11,522 | 36,296 | 315.0 | % | |||||||||
| Unrealized (losses) gains on equity securities, net | (8,104) | 22,535 | (30,639) | (136.0) | % | |||||||||
| Interest income | 3,379 | 664 | 2,715 | 408.9 | % | |||||||||
| Interest expense | (341,795) | (365,721) | 23,926 | (6.5) | % | |||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt | (791) | — | (791) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes and equity losses of an investee | (135,436) | (544,603) | 409,167 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Income tax (expense) benefit | 199 | 941 | (742) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Equity in earnings (losses) of an investee | 2,856 | (941) | 3,797 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (132,381) | $ | (544,603) | $ | 412,222 | n/m | |||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 164,738 | 164,566 | 172 | 0.1 | % | |||||||||
| Net loss per common share: (basic and diluted) | $ | (0.80) | $ | (3.31) | $ | 2.51 | n/m |
References to changes in the income and expense categories below relate to the comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to the year ended December 31, 2021. For a comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020 please see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in Part II, Item 7 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
Hotel operating revenues. The increase in hotel operating revenues is primarily a result of higher occupancies and higher average rates at certain of our hotels in the 2022 period and the greater negative impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on our hotels in the 2021 period ($441,676), partially offset by the sale of certain of our hotels since January 1, 2021 ($79,010). Additional operating statistics of our hotels are included in the tables on page 68.
Rental income. The increase in rental income is primarily the result of increases in rental rates and percentage rent recognized at certain of our properties in the 2022 period as compared to the 2021 period ($5,473), partially offset by the impact of properties sold and vacancies at certain of our properties ($708).
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Hotel operating expenses. The increase in hotel operating expenses is primarily the result of an increase in occupancy at certain managed hotels resulting in an increase in wages and benefits ($127,784), an increase in rooms, food and beverage, marketing and sales, management fees and other operating expenses ($153,392), partially offset by a decrease in real estate taxes and the sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2021 ($64,556).
Other operating expenses. The decrease in other operating expenses is primarily the result of the sale of certain vacant net lease properties since January 1, 2021.
Depreciation and amortization - hotels. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - hotels is primarily the result of the sale of certain hotels and certain hotels classified as held for sale ($46,432) and certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated ($50), partially offset by depreciation and amortization related to capital additions since January 1, 2021 ($1,257).
Depreciation and amortization - net lease portfolio. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - net lease portfolio is a result of certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2021 ($13,725) and the result of the sale of certain properties since January 1, 2021 ($26,307).
General and administrative. The decrease in general and administrative costs is primarily due to a decrease in business management fees as a result of a decrease in our market capitalization ($6,642), and lower professional service expenses ($282) in the 2022 period.
Transaction related costs. Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2022 included $1,920 of costs related to our exploration of possible financing transactions. Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2021 included $38,446 of working capital advances we previously funded under our agreements with Marriott, IHG and Hyatt that we expensed as a result of the amounts no longer expected to be recoverable, $19,920 of hotel manager transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 94 hotels during the period, and $6,398 of legal costs related to our arbitration proceeding with Marriott.
Loss on asset impairment, net. We recorded a $10,989 loss on asset impairment during the 2022 period to reduce the carrying value of 26 hotels and five net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell. We recorded a $78,620 loss on asset impairment during the 2021 period to reduce the carrying value of 35 hotels and 26 net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell.
Gain on sale of real estate, net. We recorded a $47,818 net gain on sale of real estate in 2022 in connection with the sales of 65 hotels and 21 net lease properties and a $11,522 net gain on sale of real estate in 2021 in connection with the sales of seven hotels and eleven net lease properties.
Unrealized (losses) gains on equity securities, net. Unrealized (losses) gains on equity securities, net represent the adjustment required to adjust the carrying value of our investment in shares of TA common stock to its fair value as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.
Interest income. The increase in interest income is due to higher interest rates during the 2022 period.
Interest expense. The decrease in interest expense is due to lower average outstanding borrowings, partially offset by higher weighted average interest rates on borrowings under our revolving credit facility during the 2022 period.
Loss on early extinguishment of debt. We recorded a $791 loss on early extinguishment of debt in the 2022 period related to the write off of deferred financing costs and unamortized discounts relating to the amendment of our revolving credit facility and the repayment of $500,000 of unsecured senior notes.
Income tax (expense) benefit. The change in income tax (expense) benefit is primarily due to a deferred foreign tax benefit in the 2021 period ($1,972) and a decrease in state tax expenses in the 2022 period ($239).
Equity in earnings (losses) of an investee. Equity in earnings (losses) of an investee represents our proportionate share of the earnings of Sonesta.
Net loss. Our net loss and our net loss per common share (basic and diluted) each decreased in 2022 compared to 2021 primarily due to the revenue and expense changes discussed above.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources (dollar amounts in thousands, except share amounts)
Our Managers and Tenants
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a material and adverse effect on the lodging and service industries and on our hotel managers’ and tenants’ businesses, and the market practices that arose or increased in response to the pandemic have had adverse impacts on some of those industries and businesses. As a result, the ability or willingness of our hotel managers and tenants to pay us our owner's priority returns and rents may decline, the likelihood that they will default in paying us returns and rent may increase and the value of our properties that they operate may decline. We continue to carefully monitor the effects of the market practices that arose or increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and market conditions on our operators and our other stakeholders.
As of December 31, 2022, all 238 of our hotels were managed by five hotel operating companies. Our 765 net lease properties were leased to 180 tenants as of December 31, 2022. The costs of operating and maintaining our properties are generally paid by the hotel managers as agents for us or by our tenants for their own account. Our hotel managers and tenants derive their funding for property operating expenses and for returns and rents due to us generally from property operating revenues and, to the extent that these parties themselves fund our owner's priority returns and rents, from their separate resources. As of December 31, 2022, our hotel managers included Sonesta (196 hotels), Hyatt (17 hotels), Radisson (eight hotels), Marriott (16 hotels) and IHG (one hotel). TA is our largest tenant (177 travel centers).
On January 7, 2022, we and Sonesta amended and restated our management agreements effective January 1, 2022. As of that date, we owned 261 hotels managed by Sonesta, including the 67 hotels we expected to sell, or the Sale Hotels. Among other terms, the changes to the agreements between us and Sonesta for 194 hotels we did not expect to sell, or the Retained Hotels, were as follows:
•The term for the Retained Hotels expires on January 31, 2037 and includes two 15-year renewal options.
•All Retained Hotels are subject to a pooling agreement that combines the management agreements for the Retained Hotels for purposes of calculating gross revenues, hotel operating expenses, fees and distributions and the owner’s priority return due to us.
•The owner’s priority return for the Retained Hotels was initially set at $325,200 annually. We have the right to terminate Sonesta’s management of specific hotels that we own if minimum performance thresholds are not met starting in 2023.
•We will renovate the Retained Hotels to comply with agreed upon brand standards. As we advance such funding or fund other capital expenditures, the aggregate annual owner’s priority return due to us will increase by 6% of the amounts funded.
•Trade area restrictions by hotel brand have been added to define boundaries to protect our owned hotels in response to Sonesta increasing its franchising and third-party management activities.
As of December 31, 2022, we owned 196 hotels that are managed by Sonesta. In January 2023, we sold one of these hotels and one additional hotel is under agreement to be sold. We expect this sale to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023.
For the Sale Hotels, the term was extended to the earlier of December 31, 2022 (or until the applicable hotel has been sold) and the FF&E reserve funding requirement was removed. Effective December 31, 2022, the terms of the management agreements for the remaining two Sale Hotels were extended to January 31, 2023 and automatically renew for successive one month periods until the applicable hotel is sold or the agreement is terminated. Our owner’s priority return will be reduced by the current owner’s priority return for a Sale Hotel once sold. The total owner’s priority return for these two remaining Sale Hotels was $7,238 as of December 31, 2022.
See Notes 5 and 10 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on these agreements.
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We recorded reserves for uncollectable amounts of $320 and reduced our reserves for uncollectable amounts by $9 for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, based on our assessment of collectability and cash received from certain tenants. We had reserves for uncollectable rents of $7,697 and $15,519 as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheets.
We define net lease coverage as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, or EBITDAR, divided by the annual minimum rent due to us weighted by the minimum rent of the property to total minimum rents of the net lease portfolio. EBITDAR amounts used to determine rent coverage are generally for the latest twelve month period, based on the most recent operating information, if any, furnished by the tenant. Operating statements furnished by the tenant often are unaudited and, in certain cases, may not have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and are not independently verified by us. In instances where we do not have tenant financial information, we calculate an implied coverage ratio for the period based on other tenants with available financial statements operating the same brand or within the same industry. As a result, we believe using this implied coverage metric provides a more reasonable estimated representation of recent operating results and the financial condition for those tenants. Our net lease properties generated coverage of 3.00x and 2.58x as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Our Operating Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of funds to meet operating and capital expenses, debt service obligations and distributions to our shareholders are owner's priority returns from our hotels, rents from our net lease portfolio and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. We receive owner's priority returns and rents from our managers and tenants monthly. We may receive additional returns, percentage rents and our share of the operating profits of our managed hotels after payment of management fees and other deductions, if any, either monthly or quarterly, and these amounts are usually subject to annual reconciliations. We believe that these sources of funds will be sufficient to meet our operating expenses and capital expenditures, pay debt service obligations and make distributions to our shareholders for the next twelve months and for the foreseeable future thereafter. However, as a result of economic conditions, including if the U.S. enters an economic recession, or otherwise, our managers and tenants may become unable or unwilling to pay owner’s priority returns and rents to us when due, and, as a result, our cash flows and net income would decline and we may need to reduce the amount of, or even eliminate, our distributions to common shareholders. Also, our revolving credit facility matures on July 15, 2023 and we have no remaining extension options. Although we currently expect to enter into a new facility prior to its maturity or obtain alternative financing, there can be no assurance we will be successful in doing so.
The following is a summary of our sources and uses of cash flows for the periods presented (dollars in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period | $ | 947,418 | $ | 91,456 | |||
| Net cash provided by (used in): | |||||||
| Operating activities | 243,127 | 49,904 | |||||
| Investing activities | 397,253 | (101,310) | |||||
| Financing activities | (1,542,378) | 907,368 | |||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period | $ | 45,420 | $ | 947,418 |
The increase in cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to the prior year is primarily due to higher returns and rents earned from our hotel and net lease portfolios and lower interest expense in 2022. The change from cash used in investing activities in 2021 to cash provided by investing activities in 2022 is primarily due to an increase in real estate dispositions in the 2022 period, partially offset by an increase in investments in Sonesta in the 2022 period. The change from cash provided by financing activities in 2021 to cash used in financing activities in 2022 is primarily due to our repayment of debt in 2022 compared to a drawdown of the then remaining capacity on our revolving credit facility in 2021.
We maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT under the IRC by meeting certain requirements. We lease 238 hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies. As a REIT, we do not expect to pay federal income taxes on the majority of our income; however, the income realized by our TRSs in excess of the rent they pay to us is subject to U.S. federal income tax at corporate income tax rates. In addition, the income we receive from our hotels in Canada and Puerto Rico is subject to taxes in those jurisdictions and we are subject to taxes in certain states where we have properties despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT.
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Our Investment and Financing Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our hotel operating agreements generally provide that, if necessary, we may provide our managers and tenants with funding for capital improvements to our hotels in excess of amounts otherwise available in escrowed FF&E reserves or when no FF&E reserves are available. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we funded $115,927 for capital improvements in excess of FF&E reserve fundings available from hotel operations to our hotels. We currently expect to fund $250,000 during 2023 for capital improvements to certain hotels using cash on hand.
Various percentages of total sales at some of our hotels are escrowed as FF&E reserves to fund future capital improvements. We own all the FF&E escrows for our hotels. During the year ended December 31, 2022, certain of our hotel managers deposited $9,268 to these accounts and spent $4,756 from the FF&E reserve escrow accounts to renovate and refurbish our hotels. As of December 31, 2022, there was $6,940 on deposit in these escrow accounts, which was held directly by us and is reflected in our consolidated balance sheets as restricted cash.
Our net lease portfolio leases do not require FF&E escrow deposits. However, tenants under these leases are required to maintain the leased properties, including structural and non-structural components. Tenants under certain of our net lease portfolio leases, including TA, may request that we purchase qualifying capital improvements to the leased facilities in return for minimum rent increases or we may agree to provide allowances for tenant improvements upon execution of new leases or when renewing our existing leases. We did not fund any capital improvements to our properties that we leased to TA during the year ended December 31, 2022. Tenants are not obligated to request and we are not obligated to purchase any such improvements. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we funded $6,230 for capital improvements to our other net lease properties. As of December 31, 2022, we had $2,627 of unspent leasing-related obligations related to certain net lease tenants. As disclosed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, in connection with the BP Acquisition we entered into the Consent Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, agreed to amend and restate our existing TA lease and guaranty agreements, effective at the time of the Merger.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, we sold 65 hotels with 8,296 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $543,413, excluding closing costs, and 21 net lease properties with 138,638 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $16,435, excluding closing costs. We used the net proceeds from these sales for the repayment of debt and for general business purposes. From January 1, 2023 through February 24, 2023, we sold eight hotels with 1,097 rooms and a carrying value of $47,517 for a sale price of $53,268. As of February 24, 2023, we have entered into agreements to sell nine Marriott branded hotels with an aggregate of 1,210 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $88,476, one additional hotel with 219 keys for a sale price of $14,580 and two net lease properties with an aggregate of 2,384 square feet for an aggregate sales price of $670. We expect the majority of these pending sales to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023. We continue to market two net lease properties with an aggregate of 7,283 square feet for sale. We expect to use the proceeds from these asset sales for general business purposes, which may include the repayment of debt.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, we funded $45,470 of capital contributions to Sonesta related to Sonesta’s acquisition of a portfolio of four hotels located in New York, NY using cash on hand.
During the year ended December 31, 2022, we declared and paid regular quarterly distributions to our common shareholders using cash on hand as follows:
| Declaration Date | Record Date | Paid Date | Dividend Per Common Share | Total Distributions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2022 | January 24, 2022 | February 17, 2022 | $ | 0.01 | $ | 1,651 | |||||
| April 14, 2022 | April 25, 2022 | May 19, 2022 | 0.01 | 1,651 | |||||||
| July 14, 2022 | July 25, 2022 | August 18, 2022 | 0.01 | 1,651 | |||||||
| October 13, 2022 | October 24, 2022 | November 17, 2022 | 0.20 | 33,091 | |||||||
| $ | 0.23 | $ | 38,044 |
On January 12, 2023, we declared a regular quarterly distribution to common shareholders of record on January 23, 2023 of $0.20 per share, or $33,091. We paid this amount on February 16, 2023 using cash on hand.
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In order to meet cash needs that may result from our desire or need to make distributions or pay operating or capital expenses, we maintain an $800,000 revolving credit facility which is governed by our credit agreement. The maturity date of our revolving credit facility is July 15, 2023. We are required to pay interest at the rate of LIBOR plus a premium, which was 250 basis points per annum, subject to a LIBOR floor of 0.50% at December 31, 2022, on the amount outstanding under our revolving credit facility. We also pay a facility fee on the total amount of lending commitments under our revolving credit facility, which was 30 basis points per annum at December 31, 2022. Both the interest rate premium and the facility fee are subject to adjustment based upon changes to our credit ratings. We can borrow, subject to meeting certain financial covenants, repay and reborrow funds available under our revolving credit facility until maturity, and no principal repayment is due until maturity. As of December 31, 2022, the annual interest rate payable on borrowings under our revolving credit facility was 6.79%.
We and our lenders amended our credit agreement in 2020. Among other things, the amendment waived all of the then existing financial covenants through the end of the then existing agreement term, or July 15, 2022. As a result of the amendment, among other things:
•we pledged certain equity interests of subsidiaries owning properties and provided first mortgage liens on 74 properties owned by the pledged subsidiaries;
•we had the ability to fund up to $250,000 of capital expenditures per year and up to $50,000 of certain other investments per year as defined in the credit agreement;
•we agreed to certain covenants and restrictions on distributions to common shareholders, share repurchases, incurring indebtedness, and acquiring real property (in each case subject to various exceptions);
•we agreed to maintain minimum liquidity of $125,000;
•we were generally required to apply the net cash proceeds from the disposition of assets, capital markets transactions and debt refinancings to repay outstanding amounts under the credit agreement, and then to other debt maturities;
•in order to exercise the first six month extension option under the credit agreement, we would have needed to be in compliance with the financial covenants under the agreement calculated using pro forma projections as defined in the agreement for the quarter ending June 30, 2022, annualized, and have repaid or refinanced our $500,000 of 5.00% senior notes due in August 2022; and
•we were not able to utilize the feature in our credit agreement pursuant to which maximum aggregate borrowings may be increased to up to $2,300,000 on a combined basis in certain circumstances until we demonstrated compliance with certain covenants.
On April 14, 2022, we and the lenders further amended our credit agreement and exercised our first of two options to extend the maturity date of our revolving credit facility by six months to January 15, 2023. Pursuant to the amendment:
•we repaid $200,000 of the outstanding balance and reduced the size of the revolving credit facility from $1,000,000 to $800,000;
•we became permitted to acquire up to an aggregate of $300,000 of real property through the waiver period, which was extended pursuant to the amendment to December 31, 2022;
•certain of the financial covenants in our credit agreement became tested and in full force and effect beginning with the quarter ended September 30, 2022 and were modified to lower the required fixed charge coverage ratio from 1.5x to 1.0x through December 31, 2022, increase the required leverage ratio limit from 60% to 70% and increase the minimum liquidity requirement from $125,000 to $150,000 (which amount is subject to an additional increase as noted below);
•we were able to fund through the waiver period, which ended on December 31, 2022, an aggregate of $100,000 of capital contributions requested by Sonesta for business activities and to acquire additional shares of common stock of TA to retain our pro rata ownership of TA, an increase from the previous aggregate limit of $50,000;
•the interest rate premium payable on borrowings under our revolving credit facility was increased from 235 basis points per annum to 250 basis points per annum, with the facility fee remaining unchanged at 30 basis points per annum on the total amount of lending commitments under the facility. The interest rate premiums and the facility fee continued to be subject to adjustment based upon changes to our credit ratings and, pursuant to the amendment, the interest rate premium will increase by an additional 25 basis points if we do not satisfy certain financial covenants; and
•we became required to maintain minimum liquidity of at least $150,000.
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On June 15, 2022, we redeemed at par all of our outstanding 5.00% senior notes due 2022 for a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $500,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest using cash on hand.
On October 4, 2022, we and the lenders further amended the credit agreement and exercised our remaining option to extend the maturity date of our revolving credit facility by six months to July 15, 2023. Pursuant to the amendment:
•we agreed to maintain minimum liquidity of $600,000 until we repay or refinance our $500,000 of 4.5% senior notes due in June 2023 and maintain at least $150,000 of liquidity thereafter; and
•restrictions on paying common dividends and issuing secured debt previously agreed to during the existing waiver period were removed, subject to certain conditions.
As of December 31, 2022, we have met the conditions to exit the waiver period, and as a result, the restrictions on capital expenditures and other investments, including acquisitions, have expired.
Our revolving credit facility continues to be secured by 73 properties with an undepreciated book value of $1,562,869 as of December 31, 2022 to secure our obligations under the credit agreement.
As of December 31, 2022, we had no borrowings outstanding under our revolving credit facility.
Our term debt maturities (other than our revolving credit facility) as of December 31, 2022 were as follows:
| Year | Maturity | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $ | 500,000 | |
| 2024 | 1,175,000 | ||
| 2025 | 1,150,000 | ||
| 2026 | 800,000 | ||
| 2027 | 850,000 | ||
| 2028 | 400,000 | ||
| 2029 | 425,000 | ||
| 2030 | 400,000 | ||
| $ | 5,700,000 |
None of our unsecured debt obligations require principal or sinking fund payments prior to their maturity dates.
In February 2023, one of our subsidiaries issued $610,200 in aggregate principal amount of net lease mortgage notes. The notes were issued in three classes, as summarized below:
| Note Class | S&P Rating | Amount | Coupon Rate | Term | Maturity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class A | AAA | $ | 305,000 | 5.15% | 5 years | February 2028 | ||||||
| Class B | AA | 173,000 | 5.70% | 5 years | February 2028 | |||||||
| Class C | A | 132,200 | 6.70% | 5 years | February 2028 | |||||||
| Total / weighted average | $ | 610,200 | 5.50% |
The notes are non-recourse and secured by the assets of the subsidiary, which includes 308 net lease properties with annual minimum rents of $65,273 and a gross book carrying value of $754,841 as of December 31, 2022. The net proceeds from this issuance were approximately $555,000 after initial purchaser discounts and offering costs. We simultaneously announced the early redemption of our outstanding 4.50% Senior Notes due 2023 at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of $500,000, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the date of redemption. This redemption is expected to occur on or about March 8, 2023 and we currently expect to fund this redemption by using the proceeds from the net lease mortgage notes described above.
We currently expect to use cash on hand, the cash flows from our operations, borrowings under our revolving credit facility, net proceeds from any asset sales and net proceeds of offerings of equity or debt securities, to fund our operations, capital expenditures, investments, future debt maturities, distributions to our shareholders and other general business purposes.
When significant amounts are outstanding for an extended period of time under our revolving credit facility, or the maturities of our indebtedness approach, we currently expect to explore refinancing alternatives. Such alternatives may include incurring additional debt, issuing new equity securities and the sale of properties. We have an effective shelf registration statement that allows us to issue public securities on an expedited basis, but it does not assure that there will be buyers for such
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securities. We may also seek to participate in joint ventures or other arrangements that may provide us additional sources of financing. We may also assume mortgage debt on properties we may acquire or obtain mortgage financing on our existing properties.
While we believe we will generally have access to various types of financings, including debt or equity, to fund our future acquisitions and to pay our debts and other obligations, we cannot be sure that we will be able to complete any debt or equity offerings or other types of financings or that our cost of any future public or private financings will not increase.
Our ability to complete, and the costs associated with, future debt transactions depends primarily upon credit market conditions and our then perceived creditworthiness. We have no control over market conditions. Our credit ratings depend upon evaluations by credit rating agencies of our business practices and plans, including our ability to maintain our earnings, to stagger our debt maturities and to balance our use of debt and equity capital so that our financial performance and leverage ratios afford us flexibility to withstand any reasonably anticipated adverse changes. Similarly, our ability to raise equity capital in the future will depend primarily upon equity capital market conditions and our ability to conduct our business to maintain and grow our operating cash flows. We intend to conduct our business activities in a manner which will afford us reasonable access to capital for investment and financing activities. However, as discussed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the market practices that arose or increase in response to the pandemic, and its impact on economic conditions, as well as the impacts of the current, and possibly future, inflationary conditions, increasing interest rates and a possible recession are uncertain and may have various negative consequences on us and our operations including a decline in financing availability and increased costs for financing. Further, such conditions could also disrupt the capital markets generally and limit our access to financing from public sources or on favorable terms, particularly if the global financial markets experience significant disruptions.
Debt Covenants
Our debt obligations at December 31, 2022 consisted of $5,700,000 of publicly issued term debt. Our publicly issued term debt is governed by our indentures and related supplements. These indentures and related supplements and our credit agreement contain covenants that generally restrict our ability to incur debts, including debts secured by mortgages on our properties, in excess of calculated amounts, and require us to maintain various financial ratios. Our credit agreement and our unsecured senior notes, indentures and their supplements provide for acceleration of payment of all amounts outstanding upon the occurrence and continuation of certain events of default, such as, in the case of our credit agreement, a change of control of us, which includes RMR ceasing to act as our business manager. As of December 31, 2022, we believe we were in compliance with all of the covenants under our indentures and their supplements and our credit agreement.
Senior Notes Indenture Covenants
The following table summarizes the results of the financial tests required by the indentures and related supplements for our senior unsecured notes as of December 31, 2022:
| Actual Results | Covenant Requirement | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total debt / adjusted total assets | 53.6% | Maximum of 60% | |||
| Secured debt / adjusted total assets | —% | Maximum of 40% | |||
| Consolidated income available for debt service / debt service | 1.85x | Minimum of 1.50x | |||
| Total unencumbered assets / unsecured debt | 159.1% | Minimum 150% |
Our ability to incur additional debt is subject to meeting the required covenant levels and subject to the provisions of our credit facility and senior notes indentures.
Acceleration and Cross-Default
Neither our indentures and their supplements nor our credit agreement contain provisions for acceleration which could be triggered by a change in our debt ratings. However, under our credit agreement, our highest senior debt rating is used to determine the fees and interest rates we pay. Accordingly, if that debt rating is downgraded, our interest expense and related costs under our revolving credit facility would increase.
Our public debt indentures and their supplements contain cross default provisions to any other debt of $20,000 or more ($50,000 or more in the case of our indenture entered into in February 2016 and its supplements). Similarly, our credit agreement has cross default provisions to other indebtedness that is recourse of $25,000 or more and indebtedness that is non-recourse of $75,000 or more.
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Supplemental Guarantor Information
Our $800,000 of 7.50% unsecured senior notes due 2025, or the 2025 Notes, and our $450,000 of 5.50% unsecured senior notes due 2027, or the 2027 Notes, are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a joint and several basis and on a senior unsecured basis, by all of our subsidiaries, except for certain excluded subsidiaries, including our foreign subsidiaries and our subsidiaries pledged under our credit agreement. The notes and the guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors' secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities and any preferred equity of any of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee the notes. Our remaining $4,450,000 of senior unsecured notes do not have the benefit of any guarantees.
A subsidiary guarantor's guarantee of the 2025 Notes and 2027 Notes and all other obligations of such subsidiary guarantor under the indentures governing the notes will automatically terminate and such subsidiary guarantor will automatically be released from all of its obligations under such subsidiary guarantee and such indenture under certain circumstances, including on or after the date on which (a) the notes have received a rating equal to or higher than Baa2 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB (or the equivalent) by S&P, or if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes for reasons outside of our control, the equivalent investment grade rating from any other rating agency and (b) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under the indenture. Our non-guarantor subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities and will have no obligation, contingent or otherwise, to pay any amounts due on these notes or the guarantees, or to make any funds available therefor, whether by dividend, distribution, loan or other payments. The rights of holders of these notes to benefit from any of the assets of our non-guarantor subsidiaries are subject to the prior satisfaction of claims of those subsidiaries' creditors and any preferred equity holders. As a result, these notes and the related guarantees will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness, guarantees and other liabilities of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee these notes, including guarantees of or pledges under other indebtedness of ours, payment obligations under lease agreements, trade payables and preferred equity.
The following table presents summarized financial information for us and the subsidiary guarantors, on a combined basis after elimination of (i) intercompany transactions and balances among us and the subsidiary guarantors and (ii) equity in earnings from, and any investments in, any of our non-guarantor subsidiaries:
| As of December 31, 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate properties, net(1) | $ | 5,316,318 | |
| Intercompany balances(2) | 580,684 | ||
| Other assets, net | 723,092 | ||
| Indebtedness, net | $ | 5,655,530 | |
| Other liabilities | 366,936 |
| Year Ended December 31, 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | $ | 1,722,397 | |
| Expenses | 1,989,711 | ||
| Net loss | $ | (267,314) |
(1)Real estate properties, net as of December 31, 2022 includes $191,662 of properties owned directly by us and not included in the assets of the subsidiary guarantors.
(2)Intercompany balances represent receivables from non-guarantor subsidiaries.
Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR, RMR Inc., TA and Sonesta and others affiliated with them. For further information about these and other such relationships and related person transactions, see Notes 4, 5, 9 and 10 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference and our other filings with the SEC, including our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or our definitive Proxy Statement, to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. For further information about the risks that may arise as a result of these and other related person transactions and relationships, see elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including “Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements,” “Business” in Part I, Item 1 and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We may engage in additional transactions with related persons, including businesses to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services.
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Critical Accounting Estimates
Our critical accounting policies are those that will have the most impact on the reporting of our financial condition and results of operations and those requiring significant judgments and estimates. We believe that our judgments and estimates have been and will be consistently applied and produce financial information that fairly presents our results of operations. Our most critical accounting policies involve our investments in real property. These policies affect our:
•variable interest entities, or VIEs;
•allocation of purchase prices between various asset categories and the related impact on the recognition of depreciation and amortization expenses;
•assessment of the carrying values and impairments of real estate, intangible assets and equity investments;
•classification of leases and the related impact to our financial statements; and
•income taxes.
We have determined that each of our wholly owned TRSs is a VIE, as defined under the Consolidation Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, Accounting Standards Codification™, or the Codification. We have concluded that we must consolidate each of our wholly owned TRSs because we are the entity with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact such VIE’s performance and we have the obligation to absorb the majority of the potential variability in gains and losses of each VIE, with the primary focus on losses, and are therefore the primary beneficiary of each VIE.
We allocate the acquisition cost of each property investment to various property components such as land, buildings and equipment and intangibles based on their relative fair values and each component generally has a different useful life. For acquired real estate, we record building, land, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and, if applicable, the value of acquired in-place leases, the fair market value of above or below market leases and customer relationships at fair value. For transactions that qualify as business combinations we allocate the excess, if any, of the consideration over the fair value of assets acquired to goodwill. We base purchase price allocations and the determination of useful lives on our estimates and, under some circumstances, studies from independent real estate appraisers to provide market information and evaluations that are relevant to our purchase price allocations and determinations of useful lives; however, our management is ultimately responsible for the purchase price allocations and determination of useful lives.
We compute depreciation expense using the straight line method over estimated useful lives of up to 40 years for buildings and improvements, and up to 12 years for personal property. We amortize the value of intangible assets over the shorter of their estimated useful lives, or the term of the respective lease or the affected contract. We do not depreciate the allocated cost of land. Purchase price allocations and estimates of useful lives require us to make certain assumptions and estimates. Incorrect assumptions and estimates may result in inaccurate depreciation and amortization charges over future periods.
We periodically evaluate our real estate and other assets for possible impairment indicators. These indicators may include weak or declining operating profitability, cash flows or liquidity, our decision to dispose of an asset before the end of its estimated useful life or market or industry changes that could permanently reduce the value of our investments. If indicators of impairment are present, we evaluate the carrying value of the related investment by comparing it to the expected future undiscounted cash flows to be generated from that investment. If the sum of these expected future cash flows is less than the carrying value, we reduce the net carrying value of the property to its estimated fair value.
We test our indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment on an annual basis and on an interim basis if events or changes in circumstances between annual tests indicate that the asset might be impaired. The impairment test requires us to determine the estimated fair value of the intangible asset. An impairment charge is recorded if the fair value is determined to be lower than the carrying value.
We periodically evaluate our equity method investments for possible indicators of other than temporary impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of the investment might not be recoverable. These indicators may include the length of time and degree to which the market value of our investment is below our cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer, our intent and ability to be a long term holder of the investment and other considerations. If the decline in fair value is judged to be other than temporary, we may record an impairment charge to adjust the basis of the investment to its fair value.
We determine the fair value for our long lived assets and indefinite lived intangible assets by evaluating recent financial performance and projecting discounted cash flows using standard industry valuation techniques. These analyses require us to judge whether indicators of impairment exist and to estimate likely future cash flows. If we misjudge or estimate incorrectly or if future operating profitability, market or industry factors differ from our expectations, we may record an impairment charge which is inappropriate, fail to record a charge when we should have done so or the amount of such charges may be inaccurate.
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Certain of our properties are leased on a triple net basis, pursuant to non-cancelable, fixed term, operating leases. Each time we enter a new lease or materially modify an existing lease we evaluate its classification as either a finance or operating lease. The classification of a lease as finance, sales-type, direct financing or operating affects the carrying value of a property, as well as our recognition of rental payments as revenue. These evaluations require us to make estimates of, among other things, the remaining useful life and market value of a leased property, appropriate present value discount rates and future cash flows. Incorrect assumptions or estimates may result in misclassification of our leases. See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion on the impact to our accounting for leases due to recent accounting pronouncements.
We account for income taxes in accordance with the Income Taxes Topic of the Codification. Under this Topic, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. We establish valuation allowances to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized when necessary. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT under the IRC and are generally not subject to federal and state income taxation on our operating income provided we distribute our taxable income to our shareholders and meet certain organization and operating requirements. Despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT, we are subject to income tax in Canada, Puerto Rico and in certain states. Further, we lease our managed hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that, unlike most of our subsidiaries, file a separate consolidated tax return and are subject to federal, state and foreign income tax. Our consolidated income tax provision (or benefit) includes the income tax provision (or benefit) related to the operations of the TRSs and state and foreign income taxes incurred by us despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT. The Income Taxes Topic also prescribes how we should recognize, measure and present in our financial statements uncertain tax positions that have been taken or are expected to be taken in a tax return. Tax benefits are recognized only to the extent that it is “more likely than not” that a particular tax position will be sustained upon examination or audit. To the extent the “more likely than not” standard has been satisfied, the benefit associated with a tax position is measured as the largest amount that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Tax returns filed for the 2019 through 2022 tax years are subject to examination by taxing authorities. We classify interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions, if any, in our financial statements as a component of general and administrative expense.
These accounting policies involve significant judgments made based upon our experience and the experience of our management and our Board of Trustees, including judgments about current valuations, ultimate realizable value, estimated useful lives, salvage or residual value, the ability and willingness of our tenants and operators to perform their obligations to us, and the current and likely future operating and competitive environments in which our properties operate. In the future, we may need to revise our carrying value assessments to incorporate information which is not now known, and such revisions could increase or decrease our depreciation expense related to properties we own, result in the classification of our leases as other than operating leases or decrease the carrying values of our assets.
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Property and Operating Statistics (dollar amounts in thousands)
As of December 31, 2022, we owned and managed a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease properties across the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada with 149 distinct brands across 22 industries.
Hotel Portfolio
The following tables summarize the operating statistics, including ADR, occupancy and RevPAR reported to us by our hotel managers or tenants by hotel brand for the periods indicated. All operating data presented are based upon the operating results provided by our hotel managers and tenants for the indicated periods. We have not independently verified our managers’ or tenants’ operating data.
| Comparable Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Level | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | 2022 | 2021 | Change | 2022 | 2021 | Change | 2022 | 2021 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 22 | 7,149 | 60.4 | % | 47.4 | % | 13.0 pts | $ | 150.40 | $ | 132.07 | 13.9 | % | $ | 90.84 | $ | 62.60 | 45.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 16 | 5,291 | 52.2 | % | 36.3 | % | 15.9 pts | 236.67 | 190.05 | 24.5 | % | 123.54 | 68.99 | 79.1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Radisson Hotel | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 64.1 | % | 50.4 | % | 13.7 pts | 133.59 | 105.23 | 27.0 | % | 85.63 | 53.04 | 61.4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 54.4 | % | 46.6 | % | 7.8 pts | 132.27 | 111.83 | 18.3 | % | 71.95 | 52.11 | 38.1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Country Inn and Suites | Full Service | 3 | 430 | 62.8 | % | 50.0 | % | 12.8 pts | 136.92 | 109.10 | 25.5 | % | 85.99 | 54.55 | 57.6 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 47 | 14,514 | 57.5 | % | 43.7 | % | 13.8 pts | 176.67 | 145.40 | 21.5 | % | 101.59 | 63.54 | 59.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select (1) | Select Service | 45 | 6,579 | 51.1 | % | 37.0 | % | 14.1 pts | 117.49 | 105.56 | 11.3 | % | 60.04 | 39.06 | 53.7 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 67.4 | % | 60.7 | % | 6.7 pts | 119.00 | 101.76 | 16.9 | % | 80.21 | 61.77 | 29.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Courtyard | Select Service | 13 | 1,813 | 55.5 | % | 50.7 | % | 4.8 pts | 119.01 | 103.14 | 15.4 | % | 66.05 | 52.29 | 26.3 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 75 | 10,499 | 55.1 | % | 44.1 | % | 11.0 pts | 118.13 | 104.03 | 13.6 | % | 65.09 | 45.88 | 41.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 60 | 7,643 | 69.3 | % | 66.7 | % | 2.6 pts | 124.90 | 105.72 | 18.1 | % | 86.56 | 70.52 | 22.7 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 50 | 6,366 | 71.2 | % | 68.8 | % | 2.4 pts | 86.18 | 72.37 | 19.1 | % | 61.36 | 49.79 | 23.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Residence Inn | Extended Stay | 3 | 342 | 64.0 | % | 57.2 | % | 6.8 pts | 120.25 | 110.01 | 9.3 | % | 76.96 | 62.93 | 22.3 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 113 | 14,351 | 70.0 | % | 67.4 | % | 2.6 pts | 107.49 | 90.81 | 18.4 | % | 75.24 | 61.21 | 22.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Comparable Hotels Total/Average | 235 | 39,364 | 61.4 | % | 52.5 | % | 8.9 pts | $ | 133.72 | $ | 110.39 | 21.1 | % | $ | 82.10 | $ | 57.95 | 41.7 | % |
*We generally define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, our comparable results excluded three hotels that had suspended operations during part of the periods presented.
| All Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Level | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | 2022 | 2021 | Change | 2022 | 2021 | Change | 2022 | 2021 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 23 | 7,368 | 60.4 | % | 47.4 | % | 13.0 pts | $ | 150.40 | $ | 132.07 | 13.9 | % | $ | 90.84 | $ | 62.60 | 45.1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 17 | 5,663 | 52.2 | % | 35.7 | % | 16.5 pts | 236.07 | 190.02 | 24.2 | % | 123.23 | 67.84 | 81.6 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Radisson Hotel | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 64.1 | % | 50.4 | % | 13.7 pts | 133.59 | 105.23 | 27.0 | % | 85.63 | 53.04 | 61.4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 54.4 | % | 46.6 | % | 7.8 pts | 132.27 | 111.83 | 18.3 | % | 71.95 | 52.11 | 38.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Country Inn and Suites | Full Service | 3 | 430 | 62.8 | % | 50.0 | % | 12.8 | pts | 136.92 | 109.10 | 25.5 | % | $ | 85.99 | $ | 54.55 | 57.6 | % | |||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 49 | 15,105 | 57.4 | % | 43.4 | % | 14.0 pts | 177.85 | 145.78 | 22.0 | % | 102.09 | 63.27 | 61.4 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select (1) | Select Service | 45 | 6,579 | 51.1 | % | 37.0 | % | 14.1 pts | 117.49 | 105.56 | 11.3 | % | 60.04 | 39.06 | 53.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 67.4 | % | 60.7 | % | 6.7 pts | 119.00 | 101.76 | 16.9 | % | 80.21 | 61.77 | 29.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Courtyard | Select Service | 13 | 1,813 | 55.5 | % | 50.7 | % | 4.8 pts | 119.01 | 103.14 | 15.4 | % | 66.05 | 52.29 | 26.3 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 75 | 10,499 | 55.1 | % | 44.1 | % | 11.0 pts | 118.13 | 104.03 | 13.6 | % | 65.09 | 45.88 | 41.9 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 60 | 7,643 | 69.3 | % | 66.7 | % | 2.6 pts | 124.90 | 105.72 | 18.1 | % | 86.56 | 70.52 | 22.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 51 | 6,464 | 70.4 | % | 68.6 | % | 1.8 pts | 86.18 | 72.25 | 19.3 | % | 60.67 | 49.56 | 22.4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence Inn | Extended Stay | 3 | 342 | 64.0 | % | 57.2 | % | 6.8 pts | 120.25 | 110.01 | 9.3 | % | 76.96 | 62.93 | 22.3 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 114 | 14,449 | 69.7 | % | 67.3 | % | 2.4 pts | 107.49 | 90.66 | 18.6 | % | 74.92 | 61.01 | 22.8 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| All Hotels Total/Average | 238 | 40,053 | 61.3 | % | 52.3 | % | 9.0 pts | $ | 134.47 | $ | 110.47 | 21.7 | % | $ | 82.43 | $ | 57.78 | 42.7 | % |
* Results of all hotels owned as of December 31, 2022. Excludes the results of hotels sold during the periods presented.
(1)Includes operator data for periods prior to when certain hotels were managed by Sonesta.
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Net Lease Portfolio
As of December 31, 2022, our net lease properties were 97.6% occupied and we had 23 properties available for lease. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we entered into lease renewals for 159,818 rentable square feet (15 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 4.9% above prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 6.3 years. Also, during the year ended December 31, 2022, we entered into new leases for an aggregate of 224,127 rentable square feet (eight properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 3.3% above prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 13.8 years.
As of December 31, 2022, our net lease tenants operated across more than 138 brands. The following table identifies the top ten brands based on annualized minimum rent.
| Brand | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America | 133 | $ | 2,289,189 | 44.8 | % | $ | 168,012 | 45.1 | % | 2.86x | ||||||||||
| 2. | Petro Stopping Centers | 44 | 1,021,226 | 20.0 | % | 78,099 | 21.0 | % | 2.47x | ||||||||||||
| 3. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.1 | % | 7.19x | ||||||||||||
| 4. | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.5 | % | 1.79x | ||||||||||||
| 5. | AMC Theatres | 9 | 82,488 | 1.6 | % | 6,716 | 1.8 | % | 1.73x | ||||||||||||
| 6. | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 3.48x | ||||||||||||
| 7. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,629 | 1.2 | % | 4.09x | ||||||||||||
| 8. | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,628 | 1.0 | % | 2.11x | ||||||||||||
| 9. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 4.32x | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Pizza Hut | 40 | 45,285 | 0.9 | % | 3,401 | 0.9 | % | 2.21x | ||||||||||||
| 11. | Other (4) | 425 | 1,237,795 | 24.2 | % | 85,078 | 22.9 | % | 3.49x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 765 | $ | 5,107,828 | 100.0 | % | $ | 372,418 | 100.0 | % | 3.00x |
(1)Represents historical cost of our properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)Each of the leases in our net lease portfolio provides for payment to us of minimum rent. Certain of these minimum payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent amounts represent cash rent amounts due to us and exclude adjustments, if any, to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases, the deferred rent obligations payable to us under our leases with TA, and the estimated future payments to us under our TA leases for the cost of removing underground storage tanks at our travel centers on a straight line basis, or any reimbursement of expenses paid by us.
(3)See page 60 for our definition of coverage.
(4)Consists of 128 distinct brands with an average investment of $9,670 and average annual minimum rent of $665.
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As of December 31, 2022, our top ten net lease tenants based on our investments are listed below.
| Tenant | Brand Affiliation | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America | TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers | 177 | $ | 3,310,415 | 64.8 | % | $ | 246,110 | 66.1 | % | 2.74 | x | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2. | Universal Pool Co., Inc. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,711 | 2.1 | % | 7.19 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Healthy Way of Life II, LLC | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.5 | % | 1.79 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 4. | American Multi-Cinema, Inc. | AMC Theatres | 9 | 82,488 | 1.6 | % | 6,716 | 1.8 | % | 1.73 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 5. | Styx Acquisition, LLC | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,469 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 3.48 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 6. | Professional Resource Development, Inc. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,629 | 1.2 | % | 4.09 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 7. | Norms Restaurants, LLC | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.1 | % | 3,628 | 1.0 | % | 2.11 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 8. | Express Oil Change, L.L.C. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 4.32 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 9. | Pilot Travel Centers LLC | Flying J Travel Plaza | 3 | 41,681 | 0.8 | % | 3,215 | 0.9 | % | 5.80 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 10. | Automotive Remarketing Group, Inc. | America's Auto Auction | 6 | 38,314 | 0.8 | % | 3,216 | 0.9 | % | 5.88 | x | ||||||||||||||
| Subtotal, top 10 | 309 | 3,904,743 | 76.4 | % | 290,369 | 78.0 | % | 2.93 | x | ||||||||||||||||
| 11. | Other (5) | Various | 456 | 1,203,085 | 23.6 | % | 82,049 | 22.0 | % | 3.24 | x | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 765 | $ | 5,107,828 | 100.0 | % | $ | 372,418 | 100.0 | % | 3.00 | x |
(1)Represents historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)Each of our leases provides for payment to us of minimum rent. Certain of these minimum payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent amounts represent cash rent amounts due to us and exclude adjustments, if any, to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases, the deferred rent obligations payable to us under our leases with TA, and the estimated future payments to us under our TA leases for the cost of removing underground storage tanks at our travel centers on a straight line basis, or any reimbursement of expenses paid by us.
(3)See page 60 for our definition of coverage.
(4)TA is our largest tenant. We lease 177 travel centers (133 under the TravelCenters of America brand and 44 under the Petro Stopping Centers brand) to a subsidiary of TA under master leases that expire in 2029, 2031, 2032, 2033 and 2035, respectively. During 2022, we assigned the leasehold interest of two travel centers to TA. TA has two renewal options for 15 years each for all of the travel centers. In addition to the payment of our minimum rent, the TA leases provide for payment to us of percentage rent based on increases in total non-fuel revenues over base levels (3.5% of non-fuel revenues above threshold amounts defined in the agreements). TA’s remaining deferred rent obligation of $4,404 as of December 31, 2022 was paid in January 2023. As disclosed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, in connection with the BP Acquisition we entered into the Consent Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, agreed to amend and restate our existing TA lease and guaranty agreements, effective at the time of the Merger.
(5)Consists of 170 tenants with an average investment of $7,077 and average annual minimum rent of $482.
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As of December 31, 2022, our net lease tenants operated across 21 distinct industries within the service-oriented retail sector of the U.S. economy.
| Industry | No. of Properties | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized MinimumRent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travel Centers | 180 | $ | 3,352,096 | 65.6 | % | $ | 249,325 | 66.9 | % | 2.78x | |||||||||||
| Restaurants-Quick Service | 216 | 294,153 | 5.8 | % | 19,908 | 5.3 | % | 3.20x | |||||||||||||
| Restaurants-Casual Dining | 53 | 192,199 | 3.8 | % | 11,945 | 3.2 | % | 2.50x | |||||||||||||
| Health and Fitness | 13 | 186,365 | 3.6 | % | 11,011 | 3.0 | % | 1.66x | |||||||||||||
| Movie Theaters | 19 | 164,809 | 3.2 | % | 13,163 | 3.5 | % | 1.42x | |||||||||||||
| Grocery Stores | 19 | 129,152 | 2.5 | % | 9,212 | 2.5 | % | 4.05x | |||||||||||||
| Home Goods and Leisure | 20 | 120,702 | 2.4 | % | 9,674 | 2.6 | % | 0.06x | |||||||||||||
| Medical, Dental Office | 71 | 109,232 | 2.1 | % | 8,759 | 2.4 | % | 2.35x | |||||||||||||
| Automotive Equipment & Services | 64 | 107,054 | 2.1 | % | 7,665 | 2.1 | % | 4.06x | |||||||||||||
| Automotive Dealers | 8 | 62,550 | 1.2 | % | 4,956 | 1.3 | % | 5.65x | |||||||||||||
| Entertainment | 4 | 61,436 | 1.2 | % | 4,301 | 1.2 | % | 3.12x | |||||||||||||
| Educational Services | 9 | 55,319 | 1.1 | % | 4,451 | 1.2 | % | 1.78x | |||||||||||||
| General Merchandise Stores | 4 | 55,112 | 1.1 | % | 3,874 | 1.0 | % | 2.86x | |||||||||||||
| Building Materials | 29 | 33,280 | 0.7 | % | 2,783 | 0.7 | % | 0.07x | |||||||||||||
| Car Washes | 5 | 28,658 | 0.6 | % | 2,170 | 0.6 | % | 3.45x | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Manufacturing | 5 | 24,148 | 0.5 | % | 1,689 | 0.4 | % | 16.46x | |||||||||||||
| Drug Stores and Pharmacies | 7 | 19,251 | 0.4 | % | 1,258 | 0.3 | % | 0.59x | |||||||||||||
| Sporting Goods | 3 | 17,742 | 0.3 | % | 1,090 | 0.3 | % | 4.99x | |||||||||||||
| Legal Services | 5 | 11,362 | 0.2 | % | 1,054 | 0.3 | % | 1.89x | |||||||||||||
| Dollar Stores | 3 | 2,971 | 0.1 | % | 189 | 0.1 | % | 2.69x | |||||||||||||
| Other | 5 | 27,243 | 0.5 | % | 3,941 | 1.1 | % | 4.76x | |||||||||||||
| Vacant | 23 | 52,994 | 1.0 | % | — | — | % | —x | |||||||||||||
| Total | 765 | $ | 5,107,828 | 100.0 | % | $ | 372,418 | 100.0 | % | 3.00x |
(1)Represents historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)Each of the leases in our net lease portfolio provides for payment to us of minimum rent, respectively. Certain of these minimum payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent amounts represent cash rent amounts due to us and exclude adjustments, if any, to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases, the deferred rent obligations payable to us under our leases with TA, and the estimated future payments to us under our TA leases for the cost of removing underground storage tanks at our travel centers on a straight line basis, or any reimbursement of expenses paid by us.
(3)See page 60 for our definition of coverage.
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As of December 31, 2022, lease expirations at our net lease properties by year are as follows.
| Percent of Total | Cumulative % of | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square | Annualized Minimum | Annualized Minimum | Total Minimum | |||||||||
| Year(1) | Feet | Rent Expiring | Rent Expiring | Rent Expiring | ||||||||
| 2023 | 271,062 | $ | 2,207 | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||||||
| 2024 | 769,082 | 11,200 | 3.0% | 3.6% | ||||||||
| 2025 | 436,524 | 8,974 | 2.4% | 6.0% | ||||||||
| 2026 | 1,080,336 | 12,215 | 3.3% | 9.3% | ||||||||
| 2027 | 1,071,904 | 14,164 | 3.8% | 13.1% | ||||||||
| 2028 | 555,218 | 9,475 | 2.5% | 15.6% | ||||||||
| 2029 | 1,266,197 | 48,494 | 13.0% | 28.6% | ||||||||
| 2030 | 138,590 | 4,216 | 1.1% | 29.7% | ||||||||
| 2031 | 1,321,160 | 48,848 | 13.1% | 42.8% | ||||||||
| 2032 | 1,292,177 | 53,756 | 14.4% | 57.2% | ||||||||
| 2033 | 1,153,360 | 52,516 | 14.1% | 71.3% | ||||||||
| 2034 | 144,247 | 4,479 | 1.2% | 72.5% | ||||||||
| 2035 | 2,212,712 | 80,368 | 21.7% | 94.2% | ||||||||
| 2036 | 558,374 | 8,069 | 2.2% | 96.4% | ||||||||
| 2037 | 35,103 | 465 | 0.1% | 96.5% | ||||||||
| 2038 | 66,700 | 1,153 | 0.3% | 96.8% | ||||||||
| 2039 | 134,901 | 3,214 | 0.9% | 97.7% | ||||||||
| 2040 | 115,142 | 2,406 | 0.6% | 98.3% | ||||||||
| 2041 | 223,043 | 2,291 | 0.6% | 98.9% | ||||||||
| 2042 | — | — | 0.0% | 98.9% | ||||||||
| 2043 | 141,134 | 280 | 0.1% | 99.0% | ||||||||
| 2044 | — | — | 0.0% | 99.0% | ||||||||
| 2045 | 63,490 | 3,628 | 1.0% | 100.0% | ||||||||
| Total | 13,050,456 | $ | 372,418 | 100.0% |
(1)The year of lease expiration is pursuant to contract terms.
As of December 31, 2022, shown below is the list of our top ten states where our net lease properties are located. No other state represents more than 3% of our net lease annual minimum rents.
| Percent of Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square | Annualized Minimum | Annualized Minimum | ||||||||
| State | Feet | Rent | Rent | |||||||
| Texas | 1,176,854 | $ | 32,168 | 8.6% | ||||||
| Illinois | 1,010,047 | 26,581 | 7.1% | |||||||
| Ohio | 1,302,273 | 26,105 | 7.0% | |||||||
| California | 399,045 | 23,902 | 6.4% | |||||||
| Georgia | 597,248 | 20,312 | 5.5% | |||||||
| Arizona | 476,651 | 17,552 | 4.7% | |||||||
| Indiana | 637,239 | 16,421 | 4.4% | |||||||
| Florida | 538,130 | 16,183 | 4.3% | |||||||
| Pennsylvania | 543,959 | 15,575 | 4.2% | |||||||
| New Mexico | 246,478 | 11,014 | 3.0% | |||||||
| Other | 6,122,532 | 166,605 | 44.8% | |||||||
| Total | 13,050,456 | $ | 372,418 | 100.0% |
Seasonality
Our hotels and travel centers have historically experienced seasonal differences typical of their industries with higher revenues in the second and third quarters of calendar years compared with the first and fourth quarters. Most of our leases require our tenants to make the substantial portion of our rent payments to us in equal amounts throughout the year. The return payments to us under certain of our management agreements depend exclusively upon earnings at these properties and, accordingly, our income and cash flows from these properties reflect the seasonality of the hotel industry.
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Impact of Climate Change
Concerns about climate change have resulted in various treaties, laws and regulations that are intended to limit carbon emissions and address other environmental concerns. These and other laws may cause energy or other costs at our properties to increase. We do not expect the direct impact of these increases to be material to our results of operations, because the increased costs either would be the responsibility of our tenants or managers directly or in the longer term, passed through and paid by customers of our properties. Although we do not believe it is likely in the foreseeable future, laws enacted to mitigate climate change may make some of our buildings obsolete or cause us to make material investments in our properties, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition or the financial condition of our tenants or managers and their ability to pay rent or returns to us.
We are environmentally conscious and aware of the impact our properties have on the environment. We and our tenants and managers have implemented numerous initiatives to encourage recycling of plastics, paper and metal or glass containers; we have programs to encourage reduced water and energy use at a hotel guest’s option by not laundering towels and linens every day and monitoring lights and thermostats when rooms are not in use. When we renovate our hotels we generally use energy efficient products including but not limited to lighting, windows and HVAC equipment and many of the appliances in our extended stay hotels are Energy Star rated. We or our tenants or managers have also installed car battery charging stations at some of the properties in our portfolio to accommodate environmentally aware customers.
In an effort to reduce the effects of any increased energy costs in the future, we continuously study ways to improve the energy efficiency at all of our properties. Our property manager, RMR, is a member of the Energy Star program, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that is focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its “Energy Star” partner program, and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED®, green building program.
Some observers believe severe weather in different parts of the world over the last few years is evidence of global climate change. Severe weather may have an adverse effect on certain properties we own. Rising sea levels could cause flooding at some of our properties, which may have an adverse effect on individual properties we own. We mitigate these risks by procuring, or requiring our managers or tenants to procure, insurance coverage we believe adequate to protect us from material damages and losses resulting from the consequences of losses caused by climate change. However, we cannot be sure that our mitigation efforts will be sufficient or that future storms, rising sea levels or other changes that may occur due to future climate change could not have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We present certain “non-GAAP financial measures” within the meaning of the applicable SEC rules, including FFO and normalized FFO. These measures do not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of our operating performance or as measures of our liquidity. These measures should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) as presented in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We consider these non-GAAP measures to be appropriate supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT, along with net income (loss). We believe these measures provide useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation and amortization expense, they may facilitate a comparison of our operating performance between periods and with other REITs.
Funds From Operations and Normalized Funds From Operations
We calculate FFO and Normalized FFO as shown below. FFO is calculated on the basis defined by The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, which is net income (loss), calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding any gain or loss on sale of properties and loss on impairment of real estate assets, if any, plus real estate depreciation and amortization, less any unrealized gains and losses on equity securities, as well as adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee and certain other adjustments currently not applicable to us. In calculating Normalized FFO, we adjust for the items shown below. FFO and Normalized FFO are among the factors considered by our Board of Trustees when determining the amount of distributions to our shareholders. Other factors include, but are not limited to, requirements to satisfy our REIT distribution requirements, the availability to us of debt and equity capital, our distribution rate as a percentage of the trading price of our common shares, or dividend yield, and to the dividend yield of other REITs, our expectation of our future capital requirements and operating performance and our expected needs for and availability of cash to pay our obligations. Other real estate companies and REITs may calculate FFO and Normalized FFO differently than we do.
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Our calculations of FFO and Normalized FFO for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 and reconciliations of net income (loss) available for common shareholders, the most directly comparable financial measure under GAAP reported in our consolidated financial statements, to those amounts appear in the following table (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts).
| For the Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (132,381) | $ | (544,603) | $ | (311,382) | |||||
| Add (Less): | Depreciation and amortization expense | 401,108 | 485,965 | 498,908 | |||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net (1) | (47,818) | (11,522) | (2,261) | ||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment (2) | 10,989 | 78,620 | 55,756 | ||||||||
| Unrealized losses (gains) on equity securities, net (3) | 8,104 | (22,535) | (19,882) | ||||||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee (4) | 3,723 | 2,605 | (61) | ||||||||
| FFO | 243,725 | (11,470) | 221,078 | ||||||||
| Add (Less): | Transaction related costs (5) | 1,920 | 64,764 | 15,100 | |||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt (6) | 791 | — | 9,394 | ||||||||
| Loss contingency (7) | — | — | 3,962 | ||||||||
| Gain on insurance settlement, net of tax (8) | — | — | (48,536) | ||||||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of Normalized FFO attributable to an investee (4) | 1,037 | 2,270 | 964 | ||||||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 247,473 | $ | 55,564 | $ | 201,962 | |||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic) | 164,738 | 164,566 | $ | 164,422 | |||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (diluted) (9) | 164,738 | 164,566 | $ | 164,422 | |||||||
| Basic and diluted per common share amounts: | |||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (0.80) | $ | (3.31) | $ | (1.89) | |||||
| FFO | $ | 1.48 | $ | (0.07) | $ | 1.34 | |||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 1.50 | $ | 0.34 | $ | 1.23 | |||||
| Distributions declared per share | $ | 0.23 | $ | 0.04 | $ | 0.57 |
(1)We recorded a $47,818 net gain on sales of 65 hotels and 21 net lease properties during the year ended December 31, 2022. We recorded a $11,522 net gain on sales of seven hotels and eleven net lease properties during the year ended December 31, 2021. We recorded a $2,261 net gain on sales of 18 hotels and 21 net lease properties during the year ended December 31, 2020.
(2)We recorded a $10,989 loss on asset impairment during the year ended December 31, 2022 to reduce the carrying value of 26 hotels and 5 net lease properties to their estimated fair value. We recorded a $78,620 loss on asset impairment during the year ended December 31, 2021 to reduce the carrying value of 35 hotels and 26 net lease properties to their estimated fair value. We recorded a $55,756 loss on asset impairment during the year ended December 31, 2020 to reduce the carrying value of 18 hotels and 13 net lease properties to their estimated fair value.
(3)Unrealized gains and losses on equity securities, net represent the adjustment required to adjust the carrying value of our investments in TA common shares to their fair value.
(4)Represents our proportionate share of our equity investment in Sonesta during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020.
(5)Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2022 primarily consisted of costs related to our exploration of possible financing transactions. Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2021 included $38,446 of working capital advances we previously funded under our agreements with Marriott, IHG and Hyatt that we expensed as a result of the amounts no longer expected to be recoverable, $19,920 of hotel manager transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 94 hotels to Sonesta during the period, and $6,398 of legal costs related to our arbitration proceeding with Marriott. Transaction costs for the year ended December 31, 2020 included $15,100 of hotel manager transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 115 hotels to Sonesta during the periods.
(6)We recorded a $791 loss on early extinguishment of debt in the 2022 period related to the write off of deferred financing costs and unamortized discounts relating to our amendment to our credit agreement and the repayment of
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$500,000 of unsecured notes. We recorded a loss of $9,394 on early extinguishment of debt, net of unamortized discount and deferred financing costs, relating to the repurchase of certain of our senior notes during the year ended December 31, 2020.
(7)Hotel operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2020 include a $3,962 loss contingency related to a litigation matter at certain hotels.
(8)We recorded a $62,386 gain on insurance settlement during the year ended December 31, 2020 for insurance proceeds received for our then leased hotel in San Juan, PR related to Hurricane Maria. Under GAAP, we were required to increase the building basis of our San Juan hotel for the amount of the insurance proceeds. We also recorded a $13,850 deferred tax liability as a result of the book value to tax basis difference related to this accounting during the year ended December 31, 2020.
(9)Represents weighted average common shares adjusted to reflect the potential dilution of unvested share awards.
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FY 2021 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0000945394-22-000015.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Overview (dollar amounts in thousands, except share amounts and per room hotel data)
We are a REIT organized under the laws of the State of Maryland. As of December 31, 2021, we owned 1,091 properties in 47 states, Washington D.C., Canada and Puerto Rico.
Business Environment and Outlook. Since March 2020, the lodging industry and other industries in which our managers and tenants operate have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic, along with government mandates intended to contain and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and market reactions to the pandemic. The effects of COVID-19 continue to have a significant negative impact on our results of operations, financial position and cash flow. Although lodging demand improved during year ended December 31, 2021 when compared to 2020 levels, we do not know when or if lodging business levels will return to historical pre-pandemic levels. We currently expect that the recovery with respect to business transient and group business will be gradual and likely inconsistent. We also currently expect the recovery of the U.S. hospitality industry to be a multi-year process. In addition, consumer confidence and lodging demand will continue to be affected by unemployment levels, perceptions of the safety of returning to normal activities, the continued use of video conferencing technologies rather than in person meetings and broader macroeconomic trends. These trends, together with increasing labor costs and shortages and commodity and other price inflation due to supply chain challenges, may continue to negatively impact our hotel operations and financial results. For more information and risks relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants on us and our business, see Part IV, Item 1, “Business—Impact of COVID-19” and Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors”, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our manager, RMR LLC, has taken various actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants to address its operating and financial impact on us. In addition, we are continuing to closely monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all aspects of our business.
Liquidity. To mitigate the effects of the pandemic and the increased variability in operating cash flows from our hotels, we continue to work with our hotel managers to contain costs where possible. We are prioritizing, deferring, or strategically planning capital improvements to mitigate potential disruptions to hotel results. We also continue to pay only a nominal quarterly dividend of $0.01 per common share to preserve our liquidity. As of February 22, 2022, we have $959,467 of cash or cash equivalents. We also have entered agreements to sell 45 properties with an aggregate carrying value of $352,540 for an aggregate sales price of $402,365 and have letters of intent or are in the process of marketing 43 additional properties with an aggregate carrying value of $150,962. Our $1,000,000 revolving credit facility matures on July 15, 2022 and we have $500,000 of unsecured senior notes due in August 2022. We currently expect that we will be able to either repay or extend the maturity of our debt coming due in 2022. We are currently in discussions with our lenders regarding extending the term of our revolving credit facility and obtaining additional covenant relief. We believe that our current financial resources, actions we have taken and are in the process of taking to manage our liquidity and our expectations as to the future performance of the lodging industry and the industries in which our net lease retail tenants operate will enable us to withstand the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
Management agreements and leases. At December 31, 2021, we owned 303 hotels operated under six agreements. We leased all of these hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies as of that date. We own 788 service-oriented properties with 174 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for the payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. Our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) include hotel operating revenues and hotel operating expenses of our managed hotels and rental income and other operating expenses from our leased hotels and net lease properties.
Hotel agreements. During 2021 we transitioned the branding and management of 88 hotels to Sonesta from Marriott, five hotels from Hyatt and one hotel from Radisson.
On June 7, 2021, we and Hyatt amended our previous agreement for 22 hotels we own, or our Hyatt agreement. Under our Hyatt agreement, as amended, Hyatt will continue to manage 17 of the hotels we own for a 10 year term effective April 1, 2021.
On November 1, 2021, we and Radisson amended our previous agreement for nine hotels we own, or our Radisson agreement. Under our Radisson agreement, as amended, Radisson will continue to manage eight of the hotels we own for a 10 year term effective August 1, 2021.
On January 7, 2022, we amended and restated our management agreements with Sonesta effective January 1, 2022. As of December 31, 2021, we own 261 hotels that are managed by Sonesta and 67 of these hotels are expected to be sold.
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For further discussion of our hotel agreements with Hyatt, Radisson and Sonesta, see Note 5 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Hotel portfolio. As of December 31, 2021, we owned 303 hotels. In 2021, the U.S. hotel industry generally realized increases in average daily rate, or ADR, revenue per available room, or RevPAR, and occupancy compared to the corresponding 2020 periods. The following table provides a summary for all our hotels of these revenue metrics for the periods presented which we believe are key indicators of performance at our hotels.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | |||||||||
| All Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 303 | 310 | (7) | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 48,346 | 49,014 | (668) | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 53.0 | % | 42.0 | % | 11.0 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 105.36 | $ | 100.77 | 4.6 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 55.84 | $ | 42.32 | 31.9 | % |
Comparable hotels data. We present RevPAR, ADR and occupancy for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. We generally define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, SVC’s comparable results exclude 23 hotels that had suspended operations during part of the periods presented. The following table provides a summary of these revenue metrics for the periods presented.
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | Change | |||||||||
| Comparable Hotels | |||||||||||
| No. of hotels | 280 | 280 | — | ||||||||
| No. of rooms or suites | 42,101 | 42,101 | — | ||||||||
| Occupancy | 54.2 | % | 44.1 | % | 10.1 | pts | |||||
| ADR | $ | 98.07 | $ | 96.84 | 1.3 | % | |||||
| RevPAR | $ | 53.15 | $ | 42.71 | 24.4 | % |
We believe these results are primarily due to the improved lodging fundamentals in the current year periods and disruption and displacement at certain of our hotels as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that negatively affected results more in 2020.
Net Lease Portfolio. As of December 31, 2021, we owned 788 service-oriented retail properties with 13,522,060 square feet and annual minimum rent of $369,733, and 174 tenants subject to “triple net” leases, where the tenants are generally responsible for payment of operating expenses and capital expenditures. Our net lease portfolio was 98.1% occupied as of December 31, 2021 with a weighted (by annual minimum rent) lease term of 10.2 years, operating under 134 brands in 21 distinct industries. TA is our largest tenant. As of December 31, 2021, we leased 179 of our travel centers to TA under five leases that expire between 2029 and 2035 and require annual minimum rents of $246,111.
Additional details of our hotel operating agreements and net lease agreements are set forth in Notes 5 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Acquisition Activities. During the year ended December 31, 2020, we acquired three net lease properties with an aggregate of 6,696 square feet for a purchase price of $7,071 excluding acquisition related costs in a single transaction. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we acquired a land parcel adjacent to a property we own in Nashville, TN for a purchase price of $7,600, excluding acquisition related costs.
Disposition Activities. During the year ended December 31, 2020, we sold 18 hotels with 2,046 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $85,787, excluding closing costs. Also during the year ended December 31, 2020, we sold 21 net lease properties with an aggregate of 1,375,483 rentable square feet for an aggregate sales price of $88,385, excluding closing costs. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we sold seven hotels with 669 rooms for an aggregate sales price of $40,552, excluding closing costs. Also during the year ended December 31, 2021, we sold 11 net lease properties with an aggregate of 97,276 rentable square feet for an aggregate sales price of $11,780, excluding closing costs.
In January 2022, we sold one hotel with 295 rooms for a sales price of $19,000, excluding closing costs. We have also entered into agreements to sell 45 hotels with 5,680 rooms and an aggregate carrying value of $352,540 for an aggregate sales price of $402,365, excluding closing costs and have letters of intent or are in the process of marketing 43 additional properties with an aggregate carrying value of $150,962. We currently expect the sales of these properties to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2022.
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Results of Operations (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts)
Year Ended December 31, 2021 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2020
| For the Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
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| Increase (Decrease) | % Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating revenues | $ | 1,104,678 | $ | 875,098 | $ | 229,580 | 26.2 | % | ||||||
| Rental income - hotels | 1,808 | 2,472 | (664) | (26.9) | % | |||||||||
| Rental income - net lease portfolio | 389,094 | 387,684 | 1,410 | 0.4 | % | |||||||||
| Total rental income | 390,902 | 390,156 | 746 | 0.2 | % | |||||||||
| Expenses: | ||||||||||||||
| Hotel operating expenses | 1,010,737 | 682,804 | 327,933 | 48.0 | % | |||||||||
| Other operating expenses | 15,658 | 15,208 | 450 | 3.0 | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - hotels | 266,641 | 263,673 | 2,968 | 1.1 | % | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization - net lease portfolio | 219,324 | 235,235 | (15,911) | (6.8) | % | |||||||||
| Total depreciation and amortization | 485,965 | 498,908 | (12,943) | (2.6) | % | |||||||||
| General and administrative | 53,439 | 50,668 | 2,771 | 5.5 | % | |||||||||
| Transaction related costs | 64,764 | 15,100 | 49,664 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment | 78,620 | 55,756 | 22,864 | 41.0 | % | |||||||||
| Total expenses | 1,709,183 | 1,318,444 | 390,739 | 29.6 | % | |||||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net | 11,522 | 2,261 | 9,261 | 409.6 | % | |||||||||
| Gain on insurance settlement | — | 62,386 | (62,386) | (100.0) | % | |||||||||
| Unrealized gains on equity securities, net | 22,535 | 19,882 | 2,653 | 13.3 | % | |||||||||
| Interest income | 664 | 284 | 380 | 133.8 | % | |||||||||
| Interest expense | (365,721) | (306,490) | (59,231) | 19.3 | % | |||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt | — | (9,394) | 9,394 | (100.0) | % | |||||||||
| Loss before income taxes and equity losses of an investee | (544,603) | (284,261) | (260,342) | n/m | ||||||||||
| Income tax benefit (expense) | 941 | (17,211) | 18,152 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Equity in losses of an investee | (941) | (9,910) | 8,969 | n/m | ||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (544,603) | $ | (311,382) | $ | (233,221) | n/m | |||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic and diluted) | 164,566 | 164,422 | 144 | 0.1 | % | |||||||||
| Net income (loss) per common share: (basic and diluted) | $ | (3.31) | $ | (1.89) | $ | (1.42) | n/m |
References to changes in the income and expense categories below relate to the comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to the year ended December 31, 2020. For a comparison of consolidated results for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 please see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in Part II, Item 7 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
Hotel operating revenues. The increase in hotel operating revenues is primarily a result of higher occupancies and higher average rates at certain of our hotels in the 2021 period and the greater negative impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on our hotels in the 2020 period ($258,443), partially offset by the sale of certain of our hotels since January 1, 2020 ($28,863). Additional operating statistics of our hotels are included in the tables on page 58.
Rental income - hotels. The decrease in rental income - hotels is primarily a result of the conversion of one hotel from a leased to managed property during 2020, partially offset by the conversion of five hotels from managed properties to leased properties in anticipation of sale of the properties ($700).
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Rental income - net lease portfolio. The increase in rental income - net lease portfolio is primarily the result of lower reserves for uncollectible amounts in the 2021 period ($10,562), partially offset by the sale of certain net lease properties since January 1, 2020 ($4,433) and the result of certain vacancies and lease restructurings ($4,719).
Hotel operating expenses. The increase in hotel operating expenses is primarily the result of an increase in occupancy at certain managed hotels ($80,824), an increase in management fees ($32,427), increase in property insurance ($10,196) and a decrease in the amount of guaranty and security deposit utilization under certain of our hotel management agreements ($219,823), partially offset by the sale of certain hotels since January 1, 2020 ($15,337).
Other operating expenses. The increase in other operating expenses is primarily the result of higher carrying costs at certain vacant properties.
Depreciation and amortization - hotels. The increase in depreciation and amortization - hotels is the result of an increase in depreciation expense from capital improvements made since January 1, 2020 ($7,228), partially offset by the sale of certain hotels and certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2020 ($4,260).
Depreciation and amortization - net lease portfolio. The decrease in depreciation and amortization - net lease portfolio is a result of certain of our depreciable assets becoming fully depreciated since January 1, 2020 ($12,157) and the depreciation and amortization of properties that were sold since January 1, 2020 ($3,754).
General and administrative. The increase in general and administrative costs is primarily due to higher business management fees as a result of an increase in our market capitalization ($5,307), partially offset by lower professional service expenses ($2,536) in the 2021 period.
Transaction related costs. Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2021 include $38,446 of working capital advances we previously funded under our agreements with Marriott, IHG and Hyatt as a result of the amounts no longer expected to be recoverable, $19,920 of hotel manager transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 94 hotels during the period, and $6,398 of legal costs related to our arbitration proceeding with Marriott. Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2020 primarily consisted of transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 115 hotels previously managed by IHG, Marriott and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. to Sonesta.
Loss on asset impairment. We recorded a $78,620 loss on asset impairment during the 2021 period to reduce the carrying value of 35 hotels and 26 net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell. We recorded a $55,756 loss on asset impairment during the 2020 period to reduce the carrying value of 18 hotels and 13 net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell.
Gain on sale of real estate, net. We recorded a $11,522 net gain on sale of real estate in 2021 in connection with the sales of seven hotels and eleven net lease properties and a $2,261 net gain on sale of real estate in 2020 in connection with the sales of 18 hotels and 21 net lease properties.
Gain on insurance settlement. We recorded a $62,386 gain on insurance settlement in 2020 as a result of insurance proceeds received for our leased hotel in San Juan, PR related to Hurricane Maria. Under GAAP, we were required to increase the building basis of our San Juan hotel for the amount of the insurance proceeds.
Unrealized gains on equity securities, net. Unrealized gains on equity securities, net represent the adjustment required to adjust the carrying value of our investment in shares of TA common stock to its fair value for the applicable periods.
Interest income. The increase in interest income is due to higher average cash balances during the 2021 period.
Interest expense. The increase in interest expense is due to higher average outstanding borrowings and weighted average interest rates during the 2021 period.
Loss on early extinguishment of debt. We recorded a loss of $9,394 on early extinguishment of debt, net of unamortized discounts and debt issuance costs, in 2020 related to our repayment of certain debt.
Income tax benefit (expense). The change in income tax benefit (expense) is primarily due to a decrease in state tax expenses during the 2021 period and a $13,850 deferred tax liability as a result of the book value tax basis difference related to the accounting of an insurance settlement we recorded in the 2020 period.
Equity in losses of an investee. Equity in losses of an investee primarily represents our proportionate share of the losses of Sonesta.
Net loss. Our net loss and our net loss per common share (basic and diluted) each increased in 2021 compared to 2020 primarily due to the revenue and expense changes discussed above.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources (dollar amounts in thousands, except share amounts)
Our Managers and Tenants
As of December 31, 2021, all 303 of our hotels were managed by five hotel operating companies. Our 788 net lease properties were leased to 174 tenants as of December 31, 2021. The costs of operating and maintaining our properties are generally paid by the hotel managers as agents for us or by our tenants for their own account. Our hotel managers and tenants derive their funding for property operating expenses and for returns and rents due to us generally from property operating revenues and, to the extent that these parties themselves fund our owner's priority returns and rents, from their separate resources. As of December 31, 2021, our hotel managers included Sonesta (261 hotels), Hyatt (17 hotels), Radisson (eight hotels), Marriott (16 hotels) and IHG (one hotel). TA is our largest tenant (179 travel centers).
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a material and adverse effect on the lodging and certain service industries and on our hotel managers’ and certain of our tenants’ businesses, which has in the past reduced, and may in the future reduce, their ability or willingness to pay us our owner's priority returns or rents, may increase the likelihood they will default in paying us returns and rent and reduce the value of those properties. We continue to carefully monitor the effects and take appropriate action in response to developments with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our operators and our other stakeholders.
As of January 1, 2021, Marriott managed 105 of our hotels under agreements we had terminated in 2020 for Marriott’s failure to pay the cumulative shortfall between the payments we had received and 80% of the cumulative priority returns due to us in accordance with the agreement. We transitioned the branding and management of 88 Marriott hotels to Sonesta in February 2021 and March 2021. We sold one Marriott hotel in April 2021. We were previously in arbitration proceedings with Marriott regarding, among other things, the timing and characterization of certain payments made to us, and the validity of the timing of the termination of the Marriott agreements, including an exit hotel agreement which, if not terminated, would require us to sell the 16 hotels encumbered with a Marriott brand. We were also seeking repayment of certain working capital advances we made to Marriott during 2020. We entered an agreement with Marriott regarding the 16 hotels noted above, pursuant to which we agreed to have these hotels remain Marriott branded hotels until the arbitration was resolved. On January 18, 2022, the arbitration panel declined to award us the $19,120 we had sought relating to certain working capital advances we made to Marriott under the applicable management agreements, but awarded us approximately $1,084 in connection with a related claim and determined we would own the remaining 16 hotels unencumbered by Marriott contracts. As a result, during the year ended December 31, 2021, we expensed $18,035 of working capital we previously funded under our Marriott agreement because the amount is no longer expected to be recoverable. This amount is included in transaction related costs in our consolidated statement of income (loss). We expect to sell or transition the branding and management of the remaining 16 Marriott branded hotels to Sonesta in the second quarter of 2022. For further information regarding this sale or for further discussion of the arbitration matters, see “Legal Proceedings” in Part I, Item 3 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and Note 5 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
On June 7, 2021, we and Hyatt amended our Hyatt agreement. Under our Hyatt agreement, as amended, Hyatt continues to manage 17 hotels we own for a 10-year term effective April 1, 2021. Our Hyatt agreement, as amended, set our annual owner's priority return at $12,000, and Hyatt provided us with a new $30,000 limited guarantee for 75% of the aggregate annual owner's priority returns due to us beginning in 2023. Under our Hyatt agreement, as amended, a management fee of 5% of gross room revenues payable to Hyatt will be an operating cost paid senior to our owner's priority return. Hyatt may also earn a 20% incentive management fee after payment of our annual owner’s priority return and reimbursement of certain advances, if any. We agreed to fund approximately $50,000 of renovations that are expected to be completed by the end of 2022. In June 2021, we transitioned the branding and management of the remaining five hotels that Hyatt previously managed to Sonesta in June 2021.
On November 1, 2021, we and Radisson amended our Radisson agreement. Under our Radisson agreement, as amended, Radisson continues to manage eight hotels we own for a 10-year term effective August 1, 2021. Our Radisson agreement, as amended, set our annual owner's priority return at $10,200 and Radisson has provided us with a new $22,000 limited guarantee for 75% of the aggregate annual owner's priority returns beginning in 2023. Under our Radisson agreement, a management fee of 5% of gross room revenues for each hotel operated under the Country Inn & Suites brand and, as amended, a management fee of 3% of gross room revenues for each hotel managed under the Radisson Hotel brand payable to Radisson will be an operating cost paid senior to our owner's priority return. Radisson may also earn a 20% incentive management fee after payment of our annual owner's priority return and reimbursement of certain advances, if any. We also agreed to fund approximately $12,000 of renovations that are expected to be completed by the end of 2022. Also in November 2021, we transitioned the branding and management of the ninth hotel that Radisson previously managed to Sonesta.
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As of December 31, 2021, we own 261 hotels that are managed by Sonesta and 67 of these hotels are expected to be sold, or the sale hotels. In 2021 we transferred the branding and management of 94 hotels previously managed by Marriott, Hyatt and Radisson to Sonesta. We entered into management and pooling agreements with Sonesta with respect to these hotels on terms substantially consistent with our legacy management and pooling agreements with Sonesta, except that the agreements for these transitioned hotels were set to expire on December 31, 2021.
On January 7, 2022, we and Sonesta amended and restated our management agreements effective January 1, 2022. As of that date, we owned 261 hotels managed by Sonesta, including the 67 sale hotels. Among other terms, the changes to the agreements between us and Sonesta for 194 hotels, or the retained hotels, are as follows:
•The term for the retained hotels expires on January 31, 2037 and includes two 15-year renewal options.
•All retained hotels are subject to a pooling agreement that combines the management agreements for the retained hotels for purposes of calculating gross revenues, hotel operating expenses, fees and distributions and the owner’s priority return due to us.
•The owner’s priority return for the retained hotels is initially set at $325,200 annually. We have the right to terminate Sonesta’s management of specific hotels that we own if minimum performance thresholds are not met starting in 2023.
•We will renovate the retained hotels to comply with agreed upon brand standards. As we advance such funding or fund other capital expenditures, the aggregate annual owner’s priority return due to us will increase by 6% of the amounts funded.
•Trade area restrictions by hotel brand have been added to define boundaries to protect our owned hotels in response to Sonesta increasing its franchising and third-party management activities.
For the sale hotels, the term was extended to the earlier of December 31, 2022 (or until the applicable hotel has been sold) and the FF&E reserve funding requirement was removed. Our owner’s priority return will be reduced by the current owner’s priority return for a sale hotel once sold. The total owner’s priority for all the sale hotels is $84,653.
See Notes 5 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on these agreements.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we entered into rent deferral agreements for $2,792 of rent with four net lease tenants. We had $7,554 of deferred rents outstanding related to seven tenants who represent approximately 2.0% of our annualized rental income of our net lease retail portfolio as of December 31, 2021. Generally, the rent deferrals we have entered into are payable by the tenants over a 12 to 24 month period. We may receive additional similar requests in the future, and we may determine to grant additional relief in the future, which may vary from the type of relief we have granted to date, and could include more substantial relief, if we determine it prudent or appropriate to do so. In addition, if any of our tenants are unable to continue as going concerns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on economic conditions or otherwise, we will experience a reduction in rents received and we may be unable to find suitable replacement tenants for an extended period or at all and the terms of our leases with those replacement tenants may not be as favorable to us as the terms of our agreements with our existing tenants. As a result of these uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the duration and extent of the resulting economic conditions, we are unable to determine what the ultimate impact will be on our tenants and their ability and willingness to pay us rent and any additional impact this pandemic will have on our future cash flows. We reduced reserves for uncollectible amounts by $9 during the year ended December 31, 2021 and recorded reserves for uncollectible amounts of
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$9,892 during the year ended December 31, 2020. We had reserves for uncollectible rents of $15,519 and $18,230 as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheets.
We define net lease coverage as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, or EBITDAR, divided by the annual minimum rent due to us weighted by the minimum rent of the property to total minimum rents of the net lease portfolio. EBITDAR amounts used to determine rent coverage are generally for the latest twelve month period reported based on the most recent operating information, if any, furnished by the tenant. Operating statements furnished by the tenant often are unaudited and, in certain cases, may not have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and are not independently verified by us. Tenants that do not report operating information are excluded from the coverage calculations. In instances where we do not have financial information for our portion of the measurement period from our tenants, we have calculated an implied EBITDAR for the period using industry benchmark data to more accurately reflect the current operating trends. As a result, we believe using this industry benchmark data provides a more reasonable estimated representation of recent operating results and coverage for those tenants. Our net lease properties generated coverage of 2.58x and 2.14x as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Our Operating Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of funds to meet operating and capital expenses, debt service obligations and distributions to our shareholders are owner's priority returns and rents from our hotels and net lease portfolio and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. We receive owner's priority returns and rents from our managers and tenants monthly. We may receive additional returns, percentage rents and our share of the operating profits of our managed hotels after payment of management fees and other deductions, if any, either monthly or quarterly, and these amounts are usually subject to annual reconciliations. We believe we have sufficient liquidity to withstand the current decline in operating cash flow, fund our capital expenditures, pay debt service obligations and make distributions to our shareholders for the next twelve months and for the foreseeable future thereafter. However, our managers and tenants may become further or increasingly unable or unwilling to pay owner's priority returns or rents to us when due as a result of economic conditions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and, as a result, our revenue, cash flow, and net income could decline. In response to the challenging operating environment posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the slowdown in U.S. economic activity experienced at times during the pandemic and the sharp decline in lodging demand beginning in March 2020, which has not recovered to pre-pandemic historical levels, we have taken steps to preserve liquidity by drawing down the remaining capacity on our $1,000,000 revolving credit facility, maintaining our quarterly distribution to our shareholders at $0.01 per share, which we expect to continue at that rate for the foreseeable future, subject to applicable REIT tax requirements, by selectively making capital expenditures, and by continuing to work with our hotel operators to reduce hotel operating expenses. We intend to use available cash in the near term predominantly to fund any operating losses at our hotels, to pay corporate expenses, including debt service, fund capital expenditures, and to pay distributions to our shareholders. As of December 31, 2021, we were not in compliance with one of our debt covenants necessary to incur additional debt, and as a result, we will not be able to incur additional debt until we satisfy that covenant. We may access equity markets or seek other sources of capital if favorable conditions exist for us in order to enhance our liquidity, reduce debt and to fund cash needs.
The following is a summary of our sources and uses of cash flows for the periods presented (dollars in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period | $ | 91,456 | $ | 81,259 | $ | 76,003 | |||||
| Net cash provided by (used in): | |||||||||||
| Operating activities | 49,904 | 37,604 | 617,722 | ||||||||
| Investing activities | (101,310) | (51,807) | (2,130,044) | ||||||||
| Financing activities | 907,368 | 24,400 | 1,517,578 | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period | $ | 947,418 | $ | 91,456 | $ | 81,259 |
The increase in cash flows provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the prior year period is primarily due to higher returns earned from our hotel portfolio in the 2021 period and the impact of utilizing security deposits in the 2020 period. The increase in cash flows used in investing activities in the 2021 period as compared to the prior year period is primarily due to lower proceeds during the 2021 period from property sales compared to 2020, an increase in hotel capital expenditures and a capital contribution we made to Sonesta in the 2021 period. The increase in cash provided by financing activities for the 2021 period as compared to the prior year period is primarily due to a draw down of the remaining capacity on our $1,000,000 revolving credit facility compared to net repayments of borrowings under the revolving credit facility in 2020, a decrease in net senior notes issuances and lower common share distributions compared to the 2020 period.
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We maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT under the IRC by meeting certain requirements. We lease 303 hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that are managed by hotel operating companies. As a REIT, we do not expect to pay federal income taxes on the majority of our income; however, the income realized by our TRSs in excess of the rent they pay to us is subject to U.S. federal income tax at corporate income tax rates. In addition, the income we receive from our hotels in Canada and Puerto Rico is subject to taxes in those jurisdictions and we are subject to taxes in certain states where we have properties despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT.
Our Investment and Financing Liquidity and Capital Resources
Various percentages of total sales at some of our hotels are escrowed as FF&E reserves to fund future capital improvements. During the year ended December 31, 2021, certain of our hotel managers deposited $18,385 to these accounts and spent $24,565 from the FF&E reserve escrow accounts to renovate and refurbish our hotels. As of December 31, 2021, there was $2,338 on deposit in these escrow accounts, which was held directly by us and is reflected in our consolidated balance sheets as restricted cash.
Our hotel operating agreements generally provide that, if necessary, we may provide our managers and tenants with funding for capital improvements to our hotels in excess of amounts otherwise available in escrowed FF&E reserves or when no FF&E reserves are available. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we funded $102,442 for capital improvements in excess of FF&E reserve fundings available from hotel operations to our hotels. We currently expect to fund $200,000 during 2022 for capital improvements to certain hotels using cash on hand.
Our net lease portfolio leases do not require FF&E escrow deposits. However, tenants under these leases are required to maintain the leased properties, including structural and non-structural components. Tenants under certain of our net lease portfolio leases, including TA, may request that we purchase qualifying capital improvements to the leased facilities in return for minimum rent increases or we may agree to provide allowances for tenant improvements upon execution of new leases or when renewing our existing leases. We did not fund any capital improvements to our properties that we leased to TA during the year ended December 31, 2021. Tenants are not obligated to request and we are not obligated to purchase any such improvements. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we funded $1,188 for capital improvements to our other net lease properties. As of December 31, 2021, we had $4,310 of unspent leasing-related obligations related to certain net lease tenants.
In March 2021, we funded a $25,443 capital contribution to Sonesta related to its acquisition of Red Lion Hotels Corporation using cash on hand to maintain our pro rata ownership of Sonesta.
In March 2021, we acquired a parcel of land adjacent to a property we own in Nashville, TN for a purchase price of $7,709, including acquisition related costs of $109, using cash on hand.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we sold seven hotels with 669 rooms for aggregate net proceeds of $39,635 and we sold 11 net lease properties with an aggregate of 97,276 rentable square feet for aggregate net proceeds of $11,502. We used the net proceeds from these sales for general business purposes. In January 2022, we sold one hotel with 295 rooms and a carrying value of $12,016 for a sales price of $19,000, excluding closing costs. We have also entered into agreements to sell 45 hotels with 5,680 rooms and an aggregate carrying value of $352,540 for an aggregate sales price of $402,365, excluding closing costs and have letters of intent or are in the process of marketing 43 additional properties with an aggregate carrying value of $150,962. The sales of these properties are subject to conditions; accordingly, we cannot provide any assurance that we will sell any of these properties and the terms of any of these properties we may sell may change. We expect to use the proceeds from the asset sales for general business purposes, which may include the repayment of debt.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we declared and paid quarterly distributions to common shareholders using cash on hand as follows:
| Declaration Date | Record Date | Paid Date | Dividend Per Common Share | Total Distributions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 14, 2021 | January 25, 2021 | February 18, 2021 | $ | 0.01 | $ | 1,648 | |||||
| April 15, 2021 | April 26, 2021 | May 20, 2021 | 0.01 | 1,648 | |||||||
| July 15, 2021 | July 26, 2021 | August 19, 2021 | 0.01 | 1,648 | |||||||
| October 14, 2021 | October 25, 2021 | November 18, 2021 | 0.01 | 1,652 | |||||||
| $ | 0.04 | $ | 6,596 |
On January 13, 2022, we declared a quarterly distribution to common shareholders of record on January 24, 2022 of $0.01 per share, or $1,652. We paid this amount on February 17, 2022 using cash on hand.
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In order to meet cash needs that may result from our desire or need to make distributions or pay operating or capital expenses, we maintain a $1,000,000 revolving credit facility which is governed by a credit agreement with a syndicate of institutional lenders. The maturity date of our revolving credit facility is July 15, 2022, and, subject to the payment of an extension fee and meeting certain other conditions as noted below, we have an option to extend the maturity date of this facility by two additional six-month periods. We are required to pay interest at the rate of LIBOR plus a premium, which was 235 basis points per annum, subject to a LIBOR floor of 0.50% at December 31, 2021, on the amount outstanding under our revolving credit facility. We also pay a facility fee on the total amount of lending commitments under our revolving credit facility, which was 30 basis points per annum at December 31, 2021. Both the interest rate premium and the facility fee are subject to adjustment based upon changes to our credit ratings. We can borrow, subject to meeting certain financial covenants, repay and reborrow funds available under our revolving credit facility until maturity, and no principal repayment is due until maturity. As of December 31, 2021, the annual interest rate payable on borrowings under our revolving credit facility was 2.85%. On January 19, 2021, we borrowed $972,793 under our revolving credit facility as a precautionary measure to preserve financial flexibility. As of December 31, 2021, we were fully drawn under our $1,000,000 revolving credit facility and remain fully drawn as of February 22, 2022.
We and our lenders amended our credit agreement governing our $1,000,000 revolving credit facility in 2020. Among other things, the amendments waived all of the then existing financial covenants through the end of the current agreement term, or July 15, 2022. As a result of the amendments, among other things:
•we pledged certain equity interests of subsidiaries owning properties and provided first mortgage liens on 74 properties owned by certain of the pledged subsidiaries with an undepreciated book value of $1,834,420 as of December 31, 2021 to secure our obligations under the credit agreement;
•we have the ability to fund up to $250,000 of capital expenditures per year and up to $50,000 of certain other investments per year as defined in the credit agreement;
•we agreed to certain covenants and restrictions on distributions to common shareholders, share repurchases, incurring indebtedness, and acquiring real property (in each case subject to various exceptions);
•we agreed to maintain minimum liquidity of $125,000;
•we are generally required to apply the net cash proceeds from the disposition of assets, capital markets transactions and debt refinancings to repay outstanding amounts under the credit agreement, and then to other debt maturities;
•in order to exercise the first six month extension option under the credit agreement, we would need to be in compliance with the financial covenants under the agreement calculated using pro forma projections as defined in the agreement for the quarter ending June 30, 2022, annualized, and have repaid or refinanced our $500,000 senior notes due in August 2022; and
•we may not utilize the feature in our credit agreement pursuant to which maximum aggregate borrowings may be increased to up to $2,300,000 on a combined basis in certain circumstances until we demonstrate compliance with certain covenants.
As noted above, our revolving credit facility matures on July 15, 2022 and we may be unable to meet the conditions required to exercise the extension option provided for in our credit agreement. We are in discussions with our lenders regarding a potential extension of the existing waivers or additional covenant waivers, but we cannot assure that we will be granted any such relief. We currently expect we will have enough cash to repay the amounts outstanding on our revolving credit facility using existing cash balances and proceeds we expect to receive from asset sales or other capital transactions we may complete prior to its maturity.
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Our term debt maturities (other than our revolving credit facility) as of December 31, 2021 were as follows:
| Year | Maturity | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $ | 500,000 | |
| 2023 | 500,000 | ||
| 2024 | 1,175,000 | ||
| 2025 | 1,150,000 | ||
| 2026 | 800,000 | ||
| 2027 | 850,000 | ||
| 2028 | 400,000 | ||
| 2029 | 425,000 | ||
| 2030 | 400,000 | ||
| $ | 6,200,000 |
None of our unsecured debt obligations require principal or sinking fund payments prior to their maturity dates.
We currently expect to use cash on hand, the cash flows from our operations, borrowings under our revolving credit facility (when available), net proceeds from any asset sales and net proceeds of offerings of equity or debt securities, as allowed by our existing debt agreements, to fund our future debt maturities, operations, capital expenditures, distributions to our shareholders and other general business purposes.
When significant amounts are outstanding for an extended period of time under our revolving credit facility, or the maturities of our indebtedness approach, we currently expect to explore refinancing alternatives. Such alternatives may include incurring additional debt when permitted under our debt agreements, issuing new equity securities and the sale of properties. We have an effective shelf registration statement that allows us to issue public securities on an expedited basis, but it does not assure that there will be buyers for such securities. We may also seek to participate in joint ventures or other arrangements that may provide us additional sources of financing. Although we have not historically done so, we may also assume mortgage debt on properties we may acquire or obtain mortgage financing on our existing properties.
While we believe we will generally have access to various types of financings, including debt or equity, to fund our future acquisitions and to pay our debts and other obligations, we cannot be sure that we will be able to complete any debt or equity offerings or other types of financings or that our cost of any future public or private financings will not increase. Also, as noted above, we are currently limited in our ability to incur additional debt pursuant to our debt agreements and are currently unable to incur any additional debt while we are below the 1.5x debt service coverage ratio requirement under our public debt covenants as described below.
Our ability to complete, and the costs associated with, future debt transactions depends primarily upon credit market conditions and our then perceived creditworthiness. We have no control over market conditions. Our credit ratings depend upon evaluations by credit rating agencies of our business practices and plans, including our ability to maintain our earnings, to stagger our debt maturities and to balance our use of debt and equity capital so that our financial performance and leverage ratios afford us flexibility to withstand any reasonably anticipated adverse changes. Similarly, our ability to raise equity capital in the future will depend primarily upon equity capital market conditions and our ability to conduct our business to maintain and grow our operating cash flows. We intend to conduct our business activities in a manner which will afford us reasonable access to capital for investment and financing activities. However, as discussed elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the continued duration and severity of the current economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are uncertain and may have various negative consequences on us and our operations including a decline in financing availability and increased costs for financing. Further, such conditions could also disrupt the capital markets generally and limit our access to financing from public sources or on favorable terms, particularly if the global financial markets experience significant disruptions.
Debt Covenants
Our debt obligations at December 31, 2021 consisted of outstanding borrowings under our $1,000,000 revolving credit facility and $6,200,000 of publicly issued term debt. Our publicly issued term debt is governed by our indentures and related supplements. These indentures and related supplements and our credit agreement contain covenants that generally restrict our ability to incur debts, including debts secured by mortgages on our properties, in excess of calculated amounts, and require us to maintain various financial ratios and our credit agreement currently restricts our ability to make certain investments and limits our distributions under certain circumstances. Our credit agreement and our unsecured senior notes, indentures and their supplements provide for acceleration of payment of all amounts outstanding upon the occurrence and continuation of certain events of default, such as, in the case of our credit agreement, a change of control of us, which includes RMR LLC ceasing to act as our business manager. As of December 31, 2021, we believe we were in compliance with all of the covenants under our
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indentures and their supplements and our credit agreement, subject to the waivers described above and except as otherwise noted above and below.
Senior Notes Indenture Covenants
The following table summarizes the results of the financial tests required by the indentures and related supplements for our senior unsecured notes as of December 31, 2021:
| Actual Results | Covenant Requirement | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total debt / adjusted total assets | 56.4% | Maximum of 60% | |||
| Secured debt / adjusted total assets | 7.8% | Maximum of 40% | |||
| Consolidated income available for debt service / debt service | 1.20x | Minimum of 1.50x | |||
| Total unencumbered assets / unsecured debt | 176.3% | Minimum 150% |
The above consolidated income available for debt service to debt service coverage ratio as of December 31, 2021 is based on results for the year ended December 31, 2021. This ratio was 1.56x as of year-end December 31, 2020 and, as noted above, 1.20x as of December 31, 2021. We are currently unable to incur additional debt while we remain below the required covenant level.
Acceleration and Cross-Default
Neither our indentures and their supplements nor our credit agreement contain provisions for acceleration which could be triggered by a change in our debt ratings. However, under our credit agreement, our highest senior debt rating is used to determine the fees and interest rates we pay.
Our public debt indentures and their supplements contain cross default provisions to any other debt of $20,000 or more ($50,000 or more in the case of our indenture entered into in February 2016 and its supplements). Similarly, our credit agreement has cross default provisions to other indebtedness that is recourse of $25,000 or more and indebtedness that is non-recourse of $75,000 or more.
Supplemental Guarantor Information
Our $800,000 of 7.50% unsecured senior notes due 2025, or the 2025 Notes, and our $450,000 of 5.50% unsecured senior notes due 2027, or the 2027 Notes, are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a joint and several basis and on a senior unsecured basis, by all of our subsidiaries, except for certain excluded subsidiaries, including our foreign subsidiaries and our subsidiaries pledged under our credit agreement. The notes and the guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of our and the subsidiary guarantors' secured indebtedness, respectively, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such secured indebtedness, and will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness and other liabilities and any preferred equity of any of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee the notes. Our remaining $4,950,000 of senior unsecured notes do not have the benefit of any guarantees.
A subsidiary guarantor's guarantee of the 2025 Notes and 2027 Notes and all other obligations of such subsidiary guarantor under the indentures governing the notes will automatically terminate and such subsidiary guarantor will automatically be released from all of its obligations under such subsidiary guarantee and such indenture under certain circumstances, including on or after the date on which (a) the notes have received a rating equal to or higher than Baa2 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s, or BBB (or the equivalent) by S&P, or if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes for reasons outside of our control, the equivalent investment grade rating from any other rating agency and (b) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under the indenture. Our non-guarantor subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities and will have no obligation, contingent or otherwise, to pay any amounts due on these notes or the guarantees, or to make any funds available therefor, whether by dividend, distribution, loan or other payments. The rights of holders of these notes to benefit from any of the assets of our non-guarantor subsidiaries are subject to the prior satisfaction of claims of those subsidiaries' creditors and any preferred equity holders. As a result, these notes and the related guarantees will be structurally subordinated to all indebtedness, guarantees and other liabilities of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee these notes, including guarantees of or pledges under other indebtedness of ours, payment obligations under lease agreements, trade payables and preferred equity.
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The following table presents summarized financial information for us and the subsidiary guarantors, on a combined basis after elimination of (i) intercompany transactions and balances among us and the subsidiary guarantors and (ii) equity in earnings from, and any investments in, any of our non-guarantor subsidiaries:
| As of December 31, 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate properties, net(1) | $ | 5,607,883 | |
| Intercompany balances(2) | 826,338 | ||
| Other assets, net | 2,074,353 | ||
| Indebtedness, net | $ | 7,143,022 | |
| Other liabilities | 430,267 |
| Year Ended December 31, 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | $ | 1,318,080 | |
| Expenses | 1,920,573 | ||
| Net loss | $ | (602,493) |
(1)Real estate properties, net as of December 31, 2021 includes $199,637 of properties owned directly by us and not included in the assets of the subsidiary guarantors.
(2)Intercompany balances represent receivables from non-guarantor subsidiaries.
Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR LLC, RMR Inc., TA and Sonesta and others affiliated with them. For further information about these and other such relationships and related person transactions, see Notes 4, 5, 8 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference and our other filings with the SEC, including our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or our definitive Proxy Statement, to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For further information about the risks that may arise as a result of these and other related person transactions and relationships, see elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including “Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements,” “Business” in Part I, Item 1 and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We may engage in additional transactions with related persons, including businesses to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our critical accounting policies are those that will have the most impact on the reporting of our financial condition and results of operations and those requiring significant judgments and estimates. We believe that our judgments and estimates have been and will be consistently applied and produce financial information that fairly presents our results of operations. Our most critical accounting policies involve our investments in real property. These policies affect our:
•variable interest entities, or VIEs;
•allocation of purchase prices between various asset categories and the related impact on the recognition of depreciation and amortization expenses;
•assessment of the carrying values and impairments of real estate, intangible assets and equity investments;
•classification of leases and the related impact to our financial statements; and
•income taxes.
We have determined that each of our wholly owned TRSs is a VIE, as defined under the Consolidation Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, Accounting Standards Codification™, or the Codification. We have concluded that we must consolidate each of our wholly owned TRSs because we are the entity with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact such VIE’s performance and we have the obligation to absorb the majority of the potential variability in gains and losses of each VIE, with the primary focus on losses, and are therefore the primary beneficiary of each VIE.
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We allocate the acquisition cost of each property investment to various property components such as land, buildings and equipment and intangibles based on their relative fair values and each component generally has a different useful life. For acquired real estate, we record building, land, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and, if applicable, the value of acquired in-place leases, the fair market value of above or below market leases and customer relationships at fair value. For transactions that qualify as business combinations we allocate the excess, if any, of the consideration over the fair value of assets acquired to goodwill. We base purchase price allocations and the determination of useful lives on our estimates and, under some circumstances, studies from independent real estate appraisers to provide market information and evaluations that are relevant to our purchase price allocations and determinations of useful lives; however, our management is ultimately responsible for the purchase price allocations and determination of useful lives.
We compute depreciation expense using the straight line method over estimated useful lives of up to 40 years for buildings and improvements, and up to 12 years for personal property. We amortize the value of intangible assets over the shorter of their estimated useful lives, or the term of the respective lease or the affected contract. We do not depreciate the allocated cost of land. Purchase price allocations and estimates of useful lives require us to make certain assumptions and estimates. Incorrect assumptions and estimates may result in inaccurate depreciation and amortization charges over future periods.
We periodically evaluate our real estate and other assets for possible impairment indicators. These indicators may include weak or declining operating profitability, cash flows or liquidity, our decision to dispose of an asset before the end of its estimated useful life or market or industry changes that could permanently reduce the value of our investments. If indicators of impairment are present, we evaluate the carrying value of the related investment by comparing it to the expected future undiscounted cash flows to be generated from that investment. If the sum of these expected future cash flows is less than the carrying value, we reduce the net carrying value of the property to its estimated fair value.
We test our indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment on an annual basis and on an interim basis if events or changes in circumstances between annual tests indicate that the asset might be impaired. The impairment test requires us to determine the estimated fair value of the intangible asset. An impairment charge is recorded if the fair value is determined to be lower than the carrying value.
We periodically evaluate our equity method investments for possible indicators of other than temporary impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of the investment might not be recoverable. These indicators may include the length of time and degree to which the market value of our investment is below our cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer, our intent and ability to be a long term holder of the investment and other considerations. If the decline in fair value is judged to be other than temporary, we may record an impairment charge to adjust the basis of the investment to its fair value.
We determine the fair value for our long lived assets and indefinite lived intangible assets by evaluating recent financial performance and projecting discounted cash flows using standard industry valuation techniques. These analyses require us to judge whether indicators of impairment exist and to estimate likely future cash flows. If we misjudge or estimate incorrectly or if future operating profitability, market or industry factors differ from our expectations, we may record an impairment charge which is inappropriate, fail to record a charge when we should have done so or the amount of such charges may be inaccurate.
Certain of our properties are leased on a triple net basis, pursuant to non-cancelable, fixed term, operating leases. Each time we enter a new lease or materially modify an existing lease we evaluate its classification as either a finance or operating lease. The classification of a lease as finance, sales-type, direct financing or operating affects the carrying value of a property, as well as our recognition of rental payments as revenue. These evaluations require us to make estimates of, among other things, the remaining useful life and market value of a leased property, appropriate present value discount rates and future cash flows. Incorrect assumptions or estimates may result in misclassification of our leases. See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion on the impact to our accounting for leases due to recent accounting pronouncements.
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We account for income taxes in accordance with the Income Taxes Topic of the Codification. Under this Topic, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. We establish valuation allowances to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized when necessary. We have elected to be taxed as a REIT under the IRC and are generally not subject to federal and state income taxation on our operating income provided we distribute our taxable income to our shareholders and meet certain organization and operating requirements. Despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT, we are subject to income tax in Canada, Puerto Rico and in certain states. Further, we lease our managed hotels to our wholly owned TRSs that, unlike most of our subsidiaries, file a separate consolidated tax return and are subject to federal, state and foreign income tax. Our consolidated income tax provision (or benefit) includes the income tax provision (or benefit) related to the operations of the TRSs and state and foreign income taxes incurred by us despite our qualification for taxation as a REIT. The Income Taxes Topic also prescribes how we should recognize, measure and present in our financial statements uncertain tax positions that have been taken or are expected to be taken in a tax return. Tax benefits are recognized only to the extent that it is “more likely than not” that a particular tax position will be sustained upon examination or audit. To the extent the “more likely than not” standard has been satisfied, the benefit associated with a tax position is measured as the largest amount that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon settlement. Tax returns filed for the 2018 through 2021 tax years are subject to examination by taxing authorities. We classify interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions, if any, in our financial statements as a component of general and administrative expense.
These accounting policies involve significant judgments made based upon our experience and the experience of our management and our Board of Trustees, including judgments about current valuations, ultimate realizable value, estimated useful lives, salvage or residual value, the ability and willingness of our tenants and operators to perform their obligations to us, and the current and likely future operating and competitive environments in which our properties operate. In the future, we may need to revise our carrying value assessments to incorporate information which is not now known, and such revisions could increase or decrease our depreciation expense related to properties we own, result in the classification of our leases as other than operating leases or decrease the carrying values of our assets.
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Property and Operating Statistics (dollar amounts in thousands)
As of December 31, 2021, we owned and managed a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease properties across the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada with 145 distinct brands across 22 industries.
Hotel Portfolio
The following tables summarize the operating statistics, including ADR, occupancy and RevPAR reported to us by our hotel managers or tenants by hotel brand for the periods indicated. All operating data presented are based upon the operating results provided by our hotel managers and tenants for the indicated periods. We have not independently verified our managers’ or tenants’ operating data.
| Comparable Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Level | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2021 | 2020 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 18 | 6,110 | 47.6 | % | 35.5 | % | 12.1 pts | $ | 116.07 | $ | 117.10 | (0.9) | % | $ | 55.25 | $ | 41.57 | 32.9 | % | |||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 8 | 2,362 | 32.3 | % | 25.5 | % | 6.8 pts | 159.20 | 142.73 | 11.5 | % | 51.42 | 36.40 | 41.3 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Radisson Hotel | Full Service | 4 | 969 | 52.8 | % | 34.9 | % | 17.9 pts | 106.26 | 102.80 | 3.4 | % | 56.11 | 35.88 | 56.4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 46.6 | % | 29.6 | % | 17.0 pts | 111.83 | 111.50 | 0.3 | % | 52.11 | 33.00 | 57.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Country Inn and Suites | Full Service | 1 | 84 | 51.5 | % | 40.0 | % | 11.5 pts | 87.47 | 83.33 | 5.0 | % | 45.05 | 33.33 | 35.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 32 | 10,020 | 44.4 | % | 32.9 | % | 11.5 pts | 121.91 | 119.73 | 1.8 | % | 54.13 | 39.39 | 37.4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select (1) | Select Service | 63 | 8,888 | 37.2 | % | 30.9 | % | 6.3 pts | 100.94 | 107.61 | (6.2) | % | 37.55 | 33.25 | 12.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 60.7 | % | 45.1 | % | 15.6 pts | 101.76 | 92.88 | 9.6 | % | 61.77 | 41.89 | 47.5 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Courtyard | Select Service | 13 | 1,813 | 50.7 | % | 30.0 | % | 20.7 pts | 103.14 | 92.68 | 11.3 | % | 52.29 | 27.80 | 88.1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 93 | 12,808 | 43.0 | % | 33.1 | % | 9.9 pts | 101.50 | 102.40 | (0.9) | % | 43.65 | 33.89 | 28.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 90 | 11,233 | 65.9 | % | 53.7 | % | 12.2 pts | 100.09 | 102.18 | (2.0) | % | 65.96 | 54.87 | 20.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 62 | 7,698 | 68.6 | % | 62.8 | % | 5.8 pts | 71.06 | 69.52 | 2.2 | % | 48.75 | 43.66 | 11.7 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Residence Inn | Extended Stay | 3 | 342 | 57.2 | % | 42.0 | % | 15.2 pts | 110.01 | 104.26 | 5.5 | % | 62.93 | 43.79 | 43.7 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 155 | 19,273 | 66.8 | % | 57.2 | % | 9.6 pts | 88.40 | 87.85 | 0.6 | % | 59.05 | 50.25 | 17.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Comparable Hotels Total/Average | 280 | 42,101 | 54.2 | % | 44.1 | % | 10.1 pts | $ | 98.07 | $ | 96.84 | 1.3 | % | $ | 53.15 | $ | 42.71 | 24.4 | % |
*We generally define comparable hotels as those that were owned by us and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, our comparable results excluded 23 hotels that had suspended operations during part of the periods presented.
| All Hotels* | No. of Hotels | No. of Rooms or Suites | Occupancy | ADR | RevPAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Level | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2021 | 2020 | Change | 2021 | 2020 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 25 | 8,040 | 47.3 | % | 33.3 | % | 14.0 pts | 128.25 | 122.18 | 5.0 | % | 60.66 | 40.69 | 49.1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Royal Sonesta (1) | Full Service | 17 | 5,663 | 35.7 | % | 23.7 | % | 12.0 pts | 190.02 | 170.45 | 11.5 | % | 67.84 | 40.40 | 67.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Radisson Hotel | Full Service | 5 | 1,149 | 50.4 | % | 32.1 | % | 18.3 pts | 105.23 | 108.73 | (3.2) | % | 53.04 | 34.90 | 52.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Crowne Plaza | Full Service | 1 | 495 | 46.6 | % | 29.6 | % | 17.0 pts | 111.83 | 111.50 | 0.3 | % | 52.11 | 33.00 | 57.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Country Inn and Suites | Full Service | 3 | 430 | 50.0 | % | 25.9 | % | 24.1 pts | $ | 109.10 | $ | 99.25 | 9.9 | % | $ | 54.55 | $ | 25.71 | 112.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Full Service Total/Average | 51 | 15,777 | 43.5 | % | 29.6 | % | 13.9 pts | 143.02 | 133.28 | 7.3 | % | 62.21 | 39.45 | 57.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Select (1) | Select Service | 63 | 8,888 | 41.8 | % | 30.9 | % | 10.9 pts | 100.94 | 107.61 | (6.2) | % | 42.19 | 33.25 | 26.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Hyatt Place | Select Service | 17 | 2,107 | 63.3 | % | 45.1 | % | 18.2 pts | 101.76 | 92.88 | 9.6 | % | 64.41 | 41.89 | 53.8 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Courtyard | Select Service | 13 | 1,813 | 50.8 | % | 30.0 | % | 20.8 pts | 103.14 | 92.68 | 11.3 | % | 52.40 | 27.80 | 88.5 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Select Service Total/Average | 93 | 12,808 | 43.0 | % | 33.1 | % | 9.9 pts | 101.50 | 102.40 | (0.9) | % | 43.65 | 33.89 | 28.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Sonesta ES Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 91 | 11,379 | 65.4 | % | 53.4 | % | 12.0 pts | 100.25 | 102.28 | (2.0) | % | 65.56 | 54.62 | 20.0 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Sonesta Simply Suites (1) | Extended Stay | 65 | 8,040 | 66.9 | % | 62.2 | % | 4.7 pts | 70.58 | 69.11 | 2.1 | % | 47.22 | 42.99 | 9.8 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Residence Inn | Extended Stay | 3 | 342 | 58.6 | % | 42.0 | % | 16.6 pts | 110.01 | 104.26 | 5.5 | % | 64.47 | 43.79 | 47.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Extended Stay Total/Average | 159 | 19,761 | 66.8 | % | 56.8 | % | 10.0 pts | 88.08 | 87.51 | 0.7 | % | 58.84 | 49.71 | 18.4 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| All Hotels Total/Average | 303 | 48,346 | 53.0 | % | 42.0 | % | 11.2 pts | $ | 105.36 | $ | 100.77 | 4.3 | % | $ | 55.84 | $ | 42.32 | 32.2 | % |
* Results of all hotels owned as of December 31, 2021. Excludes the results of hotels sold during the periods presented.
(1)Includes operator data for periods prior to when certain hotels were managed by Sonesta.
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Net Lease Portfolio
As of December 31, 2021, our net lease properties were 98.1% occupied and we had 30 properties available for lease. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we entered into lease renewals for 828,452 rentable square feet (30 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 2.7% below prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 13.1 years. Also during the year ended December 31, 2021, we entered into new leases for an aggregate of 185,288 rentable square feet (12 properties) at weighted (by rentable square feet) average rents that were 27.4% below prior rents for the same space. The weighted (by rentable square feet) average lease term for these leases was 13.1 years.
As of December 31, 2021, our net lease tenants operated across more than 134 brands. The following table identifies the top ten brands based on annualized minimum rent.
| Brand | No. of Buildings | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America | 134 | $ | 2,289,189 | 44.6 | % | $ | 168,012 | 45.4 | % | 2.26x | ||||||||||
| 2. | Petro Stopping Centers | 45 | 1,021,226 | 19.9 | % | 78,099 | 21.1 | % | 1.99x | ||||||||||||
| 3. | AMC Theatres | 11 | 102,580 | 2.0 | % | 7,751 | 2.1 | % | 0.18x | ||||||||||||
| 4. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,140 | 1.9 | % | 7.79x | ||||||||||||
| 5. | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.6 | % | 1.24x | ||||||||||||
| 6. | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,536 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 5.90x | ||||||||||||
| 7. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,561 | 1.2 | % | 4.36x | ||||||||||||
| 8. | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.0 | % | 1,584 | 0.4 | % | 0.47x | ||||||||||||
| 9. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 4.34x | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Regal Cinemas | 6 | 44,476 | 0.9 | % | 3,658 | 1.0 | % | 0.17x | ||||||||||||
| 11. | Other (4) | 478 | 1,241,808 | 24.2 | % | 83,784 | 22.8 | % | 3.39x | ||||||||||||
| Total | 788 | $ | 5,131,191 | 100.0 | % | $ | 369,733 | 100.0 | % | 2.58x |
(1)Represents historical cost of our properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)Each of the leases in our net lease portfolio provides for payment to us of minimum rent. Certain of these minimum payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent amounts represent cash rent amounts due to us and exclude adjustments, if any, to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases, the deferred rent obligations payable to us under our leases with TA, and the estimated future payments to us under our TA leases for the cost of removing underground storage tanks at our travel centers on a straight line basis, or any reimbursement of expenses paid by us.
(3)See page 64 for our definition of coverage.
(4)Consists of 124 distinct brands with an average investment of $10,140 and average annual minimum rent of $676.
As of December 31, 2021, our top ten net lease tenants based on our investments are listed below.
| Tenant | Brand Affiliation | No. of Buildings | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | TravelCenters of America | TravelCenters of America / Petro Stopping Centers | 179 | $ | 3,310,415 | 64.5 | % | $ | 246,110 | 66.6 | % | 2.18x | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2. | American Multi-Cinema, Inc. | AMC Theatres | 11 | 102,580 | 2.0 | % | 7,751 | 2.1 | % | 0.18x | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Universal Pool Co., Inc. | The Great Escape | 14 | 98,242 | 1.9 | % | 7,140 | 1.9 | % | 7.79x | ||||||||||||||
| 4. | Healthy Way of Life II, LLC | Life Time Fitness | 3 | 92,617 | 1.8 | % | 5,770 | 1.6 | % | 1.24x | ||||||||||||||
| 5. | Styx Acquisition, LLC | Buehler's Fresh Foods | 5 | 76,536 | 1.5 | % | 5,657 | 1.5 | % | 5.90x | ||||||||||||||
| 6. | Professional Resource Development, Inc. | Heartland Dental | 59 | 61,120 | 1.2 | % | 4,561 | 1.2 | % | 4.36x | ||||||||||||||
| 7. | Norms Restaurants, LLC | Norms | 10 | 53,673 | 1.0 | % | 1,584 | 0.4 | % | 0.47x | ||||||||||||||
| 8. | Express Oil Change, L.L.C. | Express Oil Change | 23 | 49,724 | 1.0 | % | 3,717 | 1.0 | % | 4.34x | ||||||||||||||
| 9. | Regal Cinemas, Inc. | Regal Cinemas | 6 | 44,476 | 0.9 | % | 3,658 | 1 | % | 0.17x | ||||||||||||||
| 10. | Pilot Travel Centers LLC | Pilot Travel Center | 3 | 41,681 | 0.8 | % | 3,183 | 0.9 | % | 4.03x | ||||||||||||||
| Subtotal, top 10 | 313 | 3,931,064 | 76.6 | % | 289,131 | 78.2 | % | 2.37x | ||||||||||||||||
| 11. | Other (5) | Various | 475 | 1,200,127 | 23.4 | % | 80,602 | 21.8 | % | 3.35x | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 788 | $ | 5,131,191 | 100.0 | % | $ | 369,733 | 100.0 | % | 2.58x |
(1)Represents historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
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(2)Each of our leases provides for payment to us of minimum rent. Certain of these minimum payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent amounts represent cash rent amounts due to us and exclude adjustments, if any, to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases, the deferred rent obligations payable to us under our leases with TA, and the estimated future payments to us under our TA leases for the cost of removing underground storage tanks at our travel centers on a straight line basis, or any reimbursement of expenses paid by us.
(3)See page 64 for our definition of coverage.
(4)TA is our largest tenant. We lease 179 travel centers (134 under the TravelCenters of America brand and 45 under the Petro Stopping Centers brand) to a subsidiary of TA under master leases that expire in 2029, 2031, 2032, 2033 and 2035, respectively. TA has two renewal options for 15 years each for all of the travel centers. In addition to the payment of our minimum rent, the TA leases provide for payment to us of percentage rent based on increases in total non-fuel revenues over base levels (3.5% of non-fuel revenues above threshold amounts defined in the agreements). TA’s remaining deferred rent obligation of $22,018 as of December 31, 2021 is being paid in quarterly installments of $4,404 through January 31, 2023.
(5)Consists of 164 tenants with an average investment of $7,318 and average annual minimum rent of $491.
As of December 31, 2021, our net lease tenants operated across 21 distinct industries within the service-oriented retail sector of the U.S. economy.
| Industry | No. of Buildings (1) | Investment (1) | Percent of Total Investment | Annualized MinimumRent (2) | Percent of Total AnnualizedMinimum Rent (2) | Coverage (3) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travel Centers | 182 | $ | 3,352,096 | 65.3% | $ | 249,293 | 67.5 | % | 2.20x | |||||||||||
| Restaurants-Quick Service | 227 | 301,528 | 5.9% | 20,365 | 5.5 | % | 2.92x | |||||||||||||
| Restaurants-Casual Dining | 53 | 192,170 | 3.7% | 9,642 | 2.6 | % | 2.00x | |||||||||||||
| Movie Theaters | 22 | 190,725 | 3.7% | 14,008 | 3.8 | % | 0.23x | |||||||||||||
| Health and Fitness | 13 | 185,458 | 3.6% | 10,964 | 3.0 | % | 1.45x | |||||||||||||
| Grocery Stores | 19 | 129,219 | 2.5% | 9,180 | 2.5 | % | 5.38x | |||||||||||||
| Home Goods and Leisure | 20 | 118,899 | 2.3% | 9,041 | 2.4 | % | 7.79x | |||||||||||||
| Medical, Dental Office | 71 | 118,098 | 2.3% | 9,355 | 2.5 | % | 4.19x | |||||||||||||
| Automotive Equipment & Services | 64 | 98,473 | 1.9% | 7,126 | 1.9 | % | 3.19x | |||||||||||||
| Entertainment | 4 | 61,436 | 1.2% | 4,343 | 1.2 | % | 2.18x | |||||||||||||
| Automotive Dealers | 8 | 60,119 | 1.2% | 5,080 | 1.4 | % | 6.16x | |||||||||||||
| General Merchandise Stores | 5 | 56,321 | 1.1% | 3,892 | 1.1 | % | 3.24x | |||||||||||||
| Educational Services | 9 | 55,647 | 1.1% | 4,376 | 1.2 | % | 1.42x | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Manufacturing | 7 | 32,873 | 0.6% | 2,445 | 0.7 | % | 15.54x | |||||||||||||
| Building Materials | 27 | 31,317 | 0.6% | 2,610 | 0.7 | % | 4.20x | |||||||||||||
| Car Washes | 5 | 28,658 | 0.6% | 2,128 | 0.6 | % | 1.89x | |||||||||||||
| Drug Stores and Pharmacies | 7 | 19,251 | 0.4% | 1,258 | 0.3 | % | 1.95x | |||||||||||||
| Sporting Goods | 3 | 17,595 | 0.3% | 1,081 | 0.2 | % | 5.12x | |||||||||||||
| Legal Services | 5 | 11,362 | 0.2% | 1,119 | 0.2 | % | -2.75x | |||||||||||||
| Dollar Stores | 3 | 2,971 | 0.1% | 186 | 0.1 | % | 3.09x | |||||||||||||
| Other | 4 | 10,419 | 0.2% | 2,241 | 0.6 | % | 2.52x | |||||||||||||
| Vacant | 30 | 56,556 | 1.1% | — | — | % | n/a | |||||||||||||
| Total | 788 | $ | 5,131,191 | 100.0% | $ | 369,733 | 100.0 | % | 2.58x |
(1)Represents historical cost of our net lease properties plus capital improvements funded by us less impairment write-downs, if any.
(2)Each of the leases in our net lease portfolio provides for payment to us of minimum rent, respectively. Certain of these minimum payment amounts are secured by full or limited guarantees. Annualized minimum rent amounts represent cash rent amounts due to us and exclude adjustments, if any, to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases, the deferred rent obligations payable to us under our leases with TA, and the estimated future payments to us under our TA leases for the cost of removing underground storage tanks at our travel centers on a straight line basis, or any reimbursement of expenses paid by us.
(3)See page 64 for our definition of coverage.
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As of December 31, 2021, lease expirations at our net lease properties by year are as follows.
| Percent of Total | Cumulative % of | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square | Annualized Minimum | Annualized Minimum | Total Minimum | ||||||||
| Year(1) | Feet | Rent Expiring | Rent Expiring | Rent Expiring | |||||||
| 2022 | 384,823 | 2,939 | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||||||
| 2023 | 317,732 | 2,902 | 0.8% | 1.6% | |||||||
| 2024 | 779,371 | 11,639 | 3.1% | 4.7% | |||||||
| 2025 | 434,358 | 8,903 | 2.4% | 7.1% | |||||||
| 2026 | 1,077,985 | 11,970 | 3.2% | 10.3% | |||||||
| 2027 | 976,451 | 13,347 | 3.6% | 13.9% | |||||||
| 2028 | 562,490 | 9,712 | 2.6% | 16.5% | |||||||
| 2029 | 1,324,129 | 47,806 | 12.9% | 29.4% | |||||||
| 2030 | 138,590 | 4,160 | 1.1% | 30.5% | |||||||
| 2031 | 1,313,222 | 48,782 | 13.2% | 43.7% | |||||||
| 2032 | 1,266,322 | 53,390 | 14.4% | 58.1% | |||||||
| 2033 | 1,146,326 | 52,267 | 14.3% | 72.4% | |||||||
| 2034 | 115,646 | 4,057 | 1.1% | 73.5% | |||||||
| 2035 | 2,234,644 | 80,285 | 21.7% | 95.2% | |||||||
| 2036 | 552,708 | 6,878 | 1.9% | 97.1% | |||||||
| 2037 | 3,030 | 70 | 0.0% | 97.1% | |||||||
| 2038 | 44,484 | 1,048 | 0.3% | 97.4% | |||||||
| 2039 | 134,901 | 3,209 | 0.9% | 98.3% | |||||||
| 2040 | 115,142 | 2,441 | 0.7% | 99.0% | |||||||
| 2041 | 223,043 | 2,189 | 0.6% | 99.6% | |||||||
| 2042 | 57,499 | 155 | 0.0% | 99.6% | |||||||
| 2043 | — | — | 0.0% | 99.6% | |||||||
| 2044 | — | — | 0.0% | 99.6% | |||||||
| 2045 | 63,489 | 1,584 | 0.4% | 100.0% | |||||||
| Total | 13,266,385 | $ | 369,733 | 100.0% |
(1)The year of lease expiration is pursuant to contract terms.
As of December 31, 2021, shown below is the list of our top ten states where our net lease properties are located. No other state represents more than 2% of our net lease annual minimum rents.
| Percent of Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square | Annualized Minimum | Annualized Minimum | ||||||||
| State | Feet | Rent | Rent | |||||||
| Texas | 1,205,393 | $ | 32,399 | 8.8% | ||||||
| Ohio | 1,302,273 | 26,241 | 7.1% | |||||||
| Illinois | 1,016,187 | 26,108 | 7.1% | |||||||
| California | 399,045 | 21,774 | 5.9% | |||||||
| Georgia | 597,248 | 20,180 | 5.5% | |||||||
| Florida | 538,130 | 16,117 | 4.4% | |||||||
| Arizona | 476,651 | 16,865 | 4.6% | |||||||
| Indiana | 637,239 | 16,994 | 4.6% | |||||||
| Pennsylvania | 543,959 | 15,534 | 4.2% | |||||||
| Nevada | 190,262 | 9,625 | 2.6% | |||||||
| Other | 6,615,673 | 167,896 | 45.2% | |||||||
| Total | 13,522,060 | $ | 369,733 | 100.0% |
Seasonality
Our hotels and travel centers have historically experienced seasonal differences typical of their industries with higher revenues in the second and third quarters of calendar years compared with the first and fourth quarters. Most of our leases require our tenants to make the substantial portion of our rent payments to us in equal amounts throughout the year. The return payments to us under certain of our management agreements depend exclusively upon earnings at these properties and, accordingly, our income and cash flows from these properties reflect the seasonality of the hotel industry. The COVID-19 pandemic and current economic conditions have significantly altered the seasonal aspects of our business and may continue to do so, including negatively affecting the historical increased business we typically experienced in the second and third quarters.
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Impact of Climate Change
Concerns about climate change have resulted in various treaties, laws and regulations that are intended to limit carbon emissions and address other environmental concerns. These and other laws may cause energy or other costs at our properties to increase. We do not expect the direct impact of these increases to be material to our results of operations, because the increased costs either would be the responsibility of our tenants or managers directly or in the longer term, passed through and paid by customers of our properties. Although we do not believe it is likely in the foreseeable future, laws enacted to mitigate climate change may make some of our buildings obsolete or cause us to make material investments in our properties, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition or the financial condition of our tenants or managers and their ability to pay rent or returns to us.
We are environmentally conscious and aware of the impact our properties have on the environment. We and our tenants and managers have implemented numerous initiatives to encourage recycling of plastics, paper and metal or glass containers; we have programs to encourage reduced water and energy use at a hotel guest’s option by not laundering towels and linens every day and monitoring lights and thermostats when rooms are not in use. When we renovate our hotels we generally use energy efficient products including but not limited to lighting, windows and HVAC equipment and many of the appliances in our extended stay hotels are Energy Star rated. We or our tenants or managers have also installed car battery charging stations at some of the properties in our portfolio to accommodate environmentally aware customers.
In an effort to reduce the effects of any increased energy costs in the future, we continuously study ways to improve the energy efficiency at all of our properties. Our property manager, RMR LLC, is a member of the Energy Star program, a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that is focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its “Energy Star” partner program, and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting energy efficiency at commercial properties through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED®, green building program.
Some observers believe severe weather in different parts of the world over the last few years is evidence of global climate change. Severe weather may have an adverse effect on certain properties we own. Rising sea levels could cause flooding at some of our properties, which may have an adverse effect on individual properties we own. We mitigate these risks by procuring, or requiring our managers or tenants to procure, insurance coverage we believe adequate to protect us from material damages and losses resulting from the consequences of losses caused by climate change. However, we cannot be sure that our mitigation efforts will be sufficient or that future storms, rising sea levels or other changes that may occur due to future climate change could not have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We present certain “non-GAAP financial measures” within the meaning of the applicable SEC rules, including FFO and Normalized FFO. These measures do not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of our operating performance or as measures of our liquidity. These measures should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) as presented in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We consider these non-GAAP measures to be appropriate supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT, along with net income (loss). We believe these measures provide useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation and amortization expense, they may facilitate a comparison of our operating performance between periods and with other REITs.
Funds From Operations and Normalized Funds From Operations
We calculate FFO and Normalized FFO as shown below. FFO is calculated on the basis defined by The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, which is net income (loss), calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding any gain or loss on sale of properties and loss on impairment of real estate assets, if any, plus real estate depreciation and amortization, less any unrealized gains and losses on equity securities, as well as adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee and certain other adjustments currently not applicable to us. In calculating Normalized FFO, we adjust for the items shown below. FFO and Normalized FFO are among the factors considered by our Board of Trustees when determining the amount of distributions to our shareholders. Other factors include, but are not limited to, requirements to satisfy our REIT distribution requirements, limitations in our credit agreement and public debt covenants, the availability to us of debt and equity capital, our distribution rate as a percentage of the trading price of our common shares, or dividend yield, and to the dividend yield of other REITs, our expectation of our future capital requirements and operating performance and our expected needs for and availability of cash to pay our obligations. Other real estate companies and REITs may calculate FFO and Normalized FFO differently than we do.
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Our calculations of FFO and Normalized FFO for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 and reconciliations of net income (loss) available for common shareholders, the most directly comparable financial measure under GAAP reported in our consolidated financial statements, to those amounts appear in the following table (amounts in thousands, except per share amounts).
| For the Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | (544,603) | $ | (311,382) | $ | 259,750 | |||||
| Add (Less): | Depreciation and amortization expense | 485,965 | 498,908 | 428,448 | |||||||
| Gain on sale of real estate, net (1) | (11,522) | (2,261) | (159,535) | ||||||||
| Loss on asset impairment (2) | 78,620 | 55,756 | 39,296 | ||||||||
| Unrealized (gains) losses on equity securities, net (3) | (22,535) | (19,882) | 40,461 | ||||||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of FFO attributable to an investee (4) | 2,605 | (61) | — | ||||||||
| FFO | (11,470) | 221,078 | 608,420 | ||||||||
| Add (Less): | Transaction related costs (5) | 64,764 | 15,100 | 1,795 | |||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt (6) | — | 9,394 | 8,451 | ||||||||
| Loss contingency (7) | — | 3,962 | 1,997 | ||||||||
| Gain on insurance settlement, net of tax (8) | — | (48,536) | — | ||||||||
| Adjustments to reflect our share of Normalized FFO attributable to an investee (4) | 2,270 | 964 | — | ||||||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 55,564 | $ | 201,962 | $ | 620,663 | |||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (basic) | 164,566 | $ | 164,422 | $ | 164,312 | ||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding (diluted) (9) | 164,566 | $ | 164,422 | $ | 164,340 | ||||||
| Basic and diluted per common share amounts: | |||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | (3.31) | $ | (1.89) | $ | 1.58 | |||||
| FFO | $ | (0.07) | $ | 1.34 | $ | 3.70 | |||||
| Normalized FFO | $ | 0.34 | $ | 1.23 | $ | 3.78 | |||||
| Distributions declared per share | $ | 0.04 | $ | 0.57 | $ | 2.15 |
(1)We recorded a $11,522 net gain on sales of seven hotels and eleven net lease properties during the year ended December 31, 2021. We recorded a $2,261 net gain on sales of 18 hotels and 21 net lease properties during the year ended December 31, 2020. We recorded a $159,535 gain on sale of real estate during the year ended December 31, 2019 in connection with the sales of 20 travel centers.
(2)We recorded a $78,620 loss on asset impairment during the year ended December 31, 2021 to reduce the carrying value of 35 hotels and 26 net lease properties to their estimated fair value. We recorded a $55,756 loss on asset impairment during the year ended December 31, 2020 to reduce the carrying value of 18 hotels and 13 net lease properties to their estimated fair value. We recorded a $39,296 loss on asset impairment during the year ended December 31, 2019 to reduce the carrying value of 19 net lease properties to their estimated fair value less costs to sell and two hotels to their estimated fair value.
(3)Unrealized gains and losses on equity securities, net represent the adjustment required to adjust the carrying value of our investments in TA common shares to their fair value.
(4)Represents our proportionate share of our equity investment in Sonesta during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
(5)Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2021 include $38,446 of working capital advances we previously funded under our agreements with Marriott, IHG and Hyatt as a result of the amounts no longer expected to be recoverable, $19,920 of hotel manager transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 94 hotels to Sonesta during the period, and $6,398 of legal costs related to our arbitration proceeding with Marriott. Transaction costs for the year ended December 31, 2020 include $15,100 of hotel manager transition related costs resulting from the rebranding of 115 hotels to Sonesta during the periods. Transaction related costs for the year ended December 31, 2019 represents costs related to our exploration of possible financing transactions.
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(6)We recorded a loss of $9,394 loss on early extinguishment of debt, net of unamortized discount and deferred financing costs, relating to the repurchase of certain of our senior notes during the year ended December 31, 2020. We recorded a $8,451 loss on early extinguishment of debt in the year ended December 31, 2019 related to the termination of a term loan commitment we arranged in connection with the acquisition of a net lease portfolio.
(7)Hotel operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2020 include a $3,962 loss contingency related to a litigation matter at certain hotels. We recorded a $1,997 loss contingency during the year ended December 31, 2019 for an expected settlement of a historical pension withdrawal liability for a hotel we rebranded.
(8)We recorded a $62,386 gain on insurance settlement during the year ended December 31, 2020 for insurance proceeds received for our then leased hotel in San Juan, PR related to Hurricane Maria. Under GAAP, we were required to increase the building basis of our San Juan hotel for the amount of the insurance proceeds. We also recorded a $13,850 deferred tax liability as a result of the book value to tax basis difference related to this accounting during the year ended December 31, 2020.
(9)Represents weighted average common shares adjusted to reflect the potential dilution of unvested share awards.
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