Form of Underwriting Agreement

Introductory. Capital Lodging, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule A (the “Underwriters”) an aggregate of 19,879,300 common shares of beneficial interest (the “Firm Common Shares”), par value $0.001 per share (the “Shares of Beneficial Interest”). In addition, the Company has granted to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 2,981,895 Shares of Beneficial Interest (the “Optional Common Shares”), as provided in Section 2. The Firm Common Shares and, if and to the extent such option is exercised, the Optional Common Shares are collectively called the “Common Shares”. Banc of America Securities LLC (“BAS”) and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC have agreed to act as representatives of the several Underwriters (in such capacity, the “Representatives”) in connection with the offering and sale of the Common Shares.

At or before the First Closing Date (as defined herein) for the purchase and sale of the Common Shares, the Company and Capital Lodging Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), will complete a series of transactions described in the Prospectus (as defined herein) under the captions “Our Business and Hotels—Our Structure” and “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” (such transactions, the “Formation Transactions”). As part of the Formation Transactions, (i) six hotel properties will be contributed to the Operating Partnership by Circa Capital Corporation (“Circa”) in exchange for $65.0 million, (ii) twenty-two hotel properties will be contributed by Crown Hotel Holding Company (“Crown”) in exchange for $146.0 million, as well as up to an aggregate of $8.2 million consisting of payments to Crown with respect to completed capital expenditures, payments to Crown’s lenders with respect to the repayment of mortgage indebtedness and severance obligations of Crown that we are assuming in connection with the acquisition. The Company has also agreed to issue to Crown warrants to purchase 37,500 Shares of Beneficial Interest, and (iii) AP/APH Partners, LLC (“Apollo”) will contribute six hotel properties in exchange for the repayment of $135.9 million of cross-collateralized indebtedness and the issuance to Apollo of 1,596,000 of our Shares of Beneficial Interest. As used in this Agreement, the term “Formation Agreements” means the agreements set forth on Schedule B.

The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-11 (File No. 333-114602), which contains a form of prospectus to be used in connection with the public offering and sale of the Common Shares. Such registration statement, as amended, including the financial statements, exhibits and schedules thereto, in the form in which it was declared effective by the Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”), including any information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A or Rule 434 under the Securities Act, is called the “Registration Statement.” Any registration statement filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act is called the “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement,” and from and after the date and time of filing of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement the term “Registration Statement” shall include the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. Such prospectus, in the form first used by the Underwriters to confirm sales of the Common Shares, is called the “Prospectus”. All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, a preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus or the Term Sheet, or any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing, shall include any copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“EDGAR”).

Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership hereby confirms its agreement with the Underwriters as follows:

SECTION 1. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership.

The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, represent, warrant and covenant to each Underwriter as follows:

(a) Compliance with Registration Requirements. The Registration Statement and any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement have been declared effective by the Commission under the Securities Act. The Company has complied to the Commission’s satisfaction with all requests of the Commission for additional or supplemental information. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement is in effect and no proceedings for such purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, are contemplated or threatened by the Commission.

Each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus when filed complied in all material respects with the Securities Act and, if filed by electronic transmission pursuant to EDGAR (except as may be permitted by Regulation S-T under the Securities Act), was identical to the copy thereof delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offer and sale of the Common Shares. Each of the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time it became effective complied and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and did not and will not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be

stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, as of its date and on the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date (as defined herein), if any, did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The representations and warranties set forth in the two immediately preceding sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment thereto, or the Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements thereto, made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by the Representatives expressly for use therein. There are no contracts or other documents required to be described in the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not been described or filed as required.

(b) Offering Materials Furnished to Underwriters. The Company has delivered to each of the Representatives one complete manually signed copy of the Registration Statement and of each consent and certificate of experts filed as a part thereof, and conformed copies of the Registration Statement (without exhibits) and preliminary prospectuses and the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, in such quantities and at such places as the Representatives have reasonably requested for each of the Underwriters.

(c) Distribution of Offering Material By the Company. The Company has not distributed and will not distribute, prior to the later of the Second Closing Date and the completion of the Underwriters’ distribution of the Common Shares, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Common Shares other than a preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus or the Registration Statement.

(d) The Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and is a valid and binding agreement of, the Company and the Operating Partnership, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as rights to indemnification and contribution hereunder may be limited by applicable law and except as the enforcement hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.

(e) Partnership Agreement. The Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Operating Partnership, as further amended and restated (the “Partnership Agreement”), has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the partners of the Operating Partnership and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general principals of equity.

(f) Formation Agreements. Each of the Formation Agreements has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company or the subsidiaries party thereto and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company or the subsidiaries party thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights

generally. On or prior to the First Closing Date, all of the Formation Transaction shall have been consummated or shall be consummated contemporaneously with the First Closing Date.

(g) Authorization of the Common Shares. The Common Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Company have been duly authorized for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of any pledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim, and the issuance and sale of the Common Shares by the Company is not subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising by operation of law, under the organizational documents of the Company or under any agreement to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or otherwise.

(h) No Applicable Registration or Other Similar Rights. There are no persons with registration or other similar rights to have any equity or debt securities registered for sale under the Registration Statement or included in the offering contemplated by this Agreement, except for such rights as have been duly waived. No person has a right of participation or first refusal with respect to the sale of Common Shares by the Company.

(i) No Material Adverse Change. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus: (i) there has been no material adverse change, or any development that could reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business, operations or prospects, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity (any such change is called a “Material Adverse Change”); (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not incurred any material liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent, not in the ordinary course of business nor entered into any material transaction or agreement not in the ordinary course of business; and (iii) there has been no (A) dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or, except for dividends paid to the Company or other subsidiaries, any of its subsidiaries on any class of capital stock, limited liability company membership interests or units of limited partnership interest or (B) repurchase or redemption by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any class of capital stock, limited liability company membership interests or units of limited partnership interest.

(j) Independent Accountants. Deloitte & Touche LLP and Ernst & Young LLP, who have expressed their opinions with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) and supporting schedules filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and included in the Prospectus, are independent public or certified public accountants as required by the Securities Act.

(k) Preparation of the Financial Statements. The financial statements filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and included in the Prospectus present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of and at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods specified. The supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein. Such financial statements and supporting schedules have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a

consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto. No other financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement. The financial data set forth in the Prospectus under the captions “Summary—Summary Selected Financial Information,” “Selected Financial Information” and “Capitalization” fairly present the information set forth therein on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements contained in the Registration Statement. The unaudited pro forma financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries and the related notes thereto included under the caption “Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Financial Information” and elsewhere in the Prospectus and in the Registration Statement have been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma financial information and have been properly presented on the bases described therein, and management believes that the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and that the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein.

(l) Formation and Good Standing of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Company has been duly formed and is validly existing as a real estate investment trust under the laws of the State of Maryland and is (and will be upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) in good standing with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland, with all requisite trust power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the Formation Agreements and to consummate the Formation Transactions. The Company is (and will be upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) duly qualified as a foreign entity to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change. The subsidiaries of the Company have been (and will be upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) duly incorporated, formed or organized, as the case may be, and are validly existing as a corporation, limited liability company, general partnership or limited partnership, as the case may be, in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions, with all requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate their respective properties and to conduct their businesses as described in the Prospectus and to enter and perform their obligations under the Formation Agreements and to consummate the Formation Transactions and, in the case of the Operating Partnership to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement. Each subsidiary is (and will be upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) duly qualified to transact business or licensed as a foreign corporation, foreign limited partnership or foreign limited liability company, as applicable, and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except for such jurisdictions where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock, limited liability company membership interests or units of limited partnership interests of each subsidiary, has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and nonassessable and is owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance or claim. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity other than the subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21.1 to the Registration Statement.

(m) Dividends. No subsidiary is prohibited or restricted, directly or indirectly, from paying dividends to the Company, or from making any other distribution with respect to such subsidiary’s capital stock, limited liability company membership interests or units of limited partnership interest or other equity interests, as applicable, or from repaying to the Company or any other subsidiary any amounts which may from time to time become due under any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or such other subsidiary, or from transferring any such subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or to any other subsidiary; except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock or other equity securities of any other corporation or any ownership interest in any partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other entity.

(n) Capitalization and Other Capital Stock Matters. The authorized, issued and outstanding shares of beneficial interest of the Company are as set forth in the Prospectus under the caption “Capitalization” (other than for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to employee benefit plans described in the Prospectus or upon exercise of outstanding options or warrants described in the Prospectus). The units of limited partnership interest to be issued in the Formation Transactions, if any, (the “Partnership Units”) conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. All of the issued and outstanding Shares of Beneficial Interest (including the Common Shares) and Partnership Units have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable (except to the extent such non-assessability may be affected by Section 17-607 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act or Section 18-607 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act) and have been issued in compliance with federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding Shares of Beneficial Interest or Partnership Units were issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any share of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those described in the Prospectus. The description of the Company’s share option, share bonus and other share plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, set forth in the Prospectus fairly presents in all material respects the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.

(o) Listing. The Common Shares have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.

(p) Non-Contravention of Existing Instruments; No Further Authorizations or Approvals Required. The Company is not in violation of its Declaration of Trust, as amended or restated (the “Declaration of Trust”), or Bylaws. The Operating Partnership is not in violation of its Certificate of Limited Partnership or the Partnership Agreement, and no other subsidiary is in violation of its applicable organizational documents (including, without limitation, partnership and limited liability company agreements). Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in default (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would be in default) (“Default”) under any indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, contract, franchise, lease or other instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject (each, an “Existing Instrument”), except for such Defaults as would not, individually or

in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change. The Company’s and the Operating Partnership’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Company’s and the subsidiaries’ consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, by the Formation Agreements and by the Prospectus (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary trust, partnership or corporate action and will not result in any violation of the provisions of the Declaration of Trust or Bylaws of the Company, the Certificate of Limited Partnership or the Partnership Agreement of the Operating Partnership, or the applicable organizational documents of any other subsidiary, (ii) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or Default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any Existing Instrument, except for such conflicts, breaches, Defaults, liens, charges or encumbrances as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change and (iii) will not result in any violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree applicable to the Company or any subsidiary, except for such violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change. No consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency, is required for the Company’s and the Operating Partnership’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Company and the Subsidiaries’ consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, by the Formation Agreements and by the Prospectus, except such as have been obtained or made by the Company or the Subsidiary and are in full force and effect under the Securities Act, applicable state securities or blue sky laws and from the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”).

(q) No Material Actions or Proceedings. There are no legal or governmental actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the best of the Company’s or Operating Partnership’s knowledge, threatened (i) against or affecting the Company, any of its subsidiaries, Apollo, Circa or Crown, (ii) which has as the subject thereof any officer, trustee or director of, or property owned or leased by, the Company, any of its subsidiaries, Apollo, Circa or Crown, or (iii) relating to environmental or discrimination matters, where in any such case (A) there is a reasonable possibility that such action, suit or proceeding might be determined adversely to the Company, such subsidiary, Apollo, Circa or Crown and (B) any such action, suit or proceeding, if so determined adversely, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. No material labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of the Company, with the employees of any management company with which the Company contracts, or any of its subsidiaries’ properties, exists or, to the Company’s knowledge, is threatened or imminent.

(r) Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess, and will own or possess upon consummation of the Formation Transactions, sufficient trademarks, trade names, patent rights, copyrights, domain names, licenses, approvals, trade secrets and other similar rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) reasonably necessary to conduct their businesses as now conducted and as expected to be conducted upon consummation of the Formation Transactions; and the expected expiration of any of such Intellectual Property Rights would not result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of infringement or conflict with asserted Intellectual Property Rights of

others, which infringement or conflict, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, would result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is a party to or bound by any options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual Property Rights of any other person or entity that are required to be set forth in the Prospectus and are not described in all material respects. None of the information technology employed by the Company or any subsidiary has been obtained or is being used by the Company or any subsidiary in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or, to the Company’s or Operating Partnership’s knowledge, any of the Company’s or any subsidiary’s officers, trustees, directors or employees or otherwise in violation of the rights of any persons.

(s) All Necessary Permits, etc. The Company and each subsidiary possess, or will possess, upon consummation of the Formation Transactions, such licenses, consents and approvals, valid and current certificates, authorizations or permits issued by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except in any such case where failure to possess such licenses, consents, approvals, certificates, authorizations or permits would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change, and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such license, consent or approval, certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, could result in a Material Adverse Change.

(t) Title to Properties. Except as disclosed in the Prospectus, the Company and each of its subsidiaries has, or will have upon consummation of the Formation Transactions, good and marketable title in fee simple to all the properties and assets reflected as owned in the financial statements (including the pro forma financial information) referred to in Section 1(k) above (or elsewhere in the Prospectus), in each case free and clear of any security interests, mortgages, liens, encumbrances, equities, pledges, charges, claims and other defects. The real property, improvements, equipment and personal property held or to be held upon consummation of the Formation Transactions, under lease by the Company or any subsidiary are held and will be held upon consummation of the Formation Transactions under valid, existing and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such real property, improvements, equipment or personal property by the Company or such subsidiary. The Company or a subsidiary has obtained an owner’s title insurance policy, from a title insurance company licensed to issue such policy, on any real property owned in fee (or to be so owned upon the consummation of the Formation Transactions) by the Company or any subsidiary, that insures that the Company or such subsidiary has marketable title to fee simple interest in such real property, which policies include only commercially reasonable exceptions, and with coverages in amounts at least equal to amounts that are generally deemed in the Company’s industry to be commercially reasonable in the markets where the Company’s properties are located.

(u) The Properties. All real property owned or leased by the Company or a subsidiary (or to be owned or leased upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) is free of material structural defects and all building systems contained therein are in good working order in all material respects, subject to ordinary wear and tear or, in each instance, the Company or a subsidiary, as the case may be, has created an adequate reserve to effect reasonably required repairs, maintenance and capital expenditures, except in any such case where such defect, failure

to be in good working order or failure to create an adequate reserve would not result in a material adverse change in the condition, operation or usefulness of such real property. Water, storm water, sanitary sewer, electricity and telephone service are all available at the property lines of such property over duly dedicated streets or perpetual easements of record benefiting such property. All real property owned or leased by the Company or a subsidiary (or to be owned or leased upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) abuts upon and has access to public streets. There is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened special assessment, tax reduction proceeding or other action that could increase the real property taxes or assessments of any of such property that would result in a Material Adverse Change.

(v) Property Improvement Plans. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, none of the management contracts or franchise license agreements relating to real property owned or leased by the Company or any subsidiary (or to be owned or leased upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) requires or will require the Company or any of the subsidiaries to pay any material property improvement plan fees or charges or requires or will require the Company or any subsidiary to renovate, update, upgrade, repair, enhance, or improve such real property as a result of the Formation Transactions.

(w) Zoning. Each property owned or leased by the Company and its subsidiaries (or to be owned or leased upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) complies with all applicable building codes, zoning laws, ordinances, regulations and deed restrictions or other covenants in all material respects and, if and to the extent there is a failure to comply, such failure does not materially impair the value of any of the properties and will not result in a forfeiture or reversion of title which in any such case could result in a material adverse change in the condition, operation or usefulness of such real property. None of the Company, the Operating Partnership, or any subsidiary has received from any governmental authority having or claiming jurisdiction over the properties any written notice of any condemnation of or zoning change affecting the property or any part thereof, and the Company or Operating Partnership do not know of any such condemnation or zoning change which is threatened and which if consummated could, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change.

(x) Mortgages. The mortgages and deeds of trust encumbering, or upon consummation of the Formation Transactions to be encumbering, any real property owned in fee or leased by the Company or a subsidiary (or to be owned or leased upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) (i) are not convertible (in the absence of foreclosure) into an equity interest in the real property or in the Company, the Operating Partnership or any subsidiary, and none of the Company, the Operating Partnership or the subsidiaries holds a participating interest therein, (ii) except as set forth in the Prospectus, are not and will not be cross-defaulted to any indebtedness other than indebtedness of the Company or any of the subsidiaries and (iii) are not and will not be cross-collateralized to any property not owned by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of the subsidiaries.

(y) Tax Law Compliance. The Company and its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company after due inquiry, Apollo, Crown and Circa have timely and accurately filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and have paid all taxes shown by such returns as due and payable, and any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them. The Company has made such charges, accruals and reserves as required by

GAAP in the applicable financial statements referred to in Section 1(k) above in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has not been finally determined.

(z) Company Not an “Investment Company.” The Company has been advised of the rules and requirements under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). The Company is not, and after receipt of payment for the Common Shares will not be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act and will conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the Investment Company Act.

(aa) Insurance. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries are (and upon the consummation of the Formation Transactions, will be) insured by recognized, financially sound and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks as are generally deemed customary for their businesses including, but not limited to, policies covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company and its subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, environmental liabilities, acts of vandalism, terrorism, earthquakes, floods and all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance is in full force and effect. The Company does not believe that it or any subsidiary will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither of the Company nor any subsidiary has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied.

(bb) Exchange Act Registration; NASD Association. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (i) is required to register as a “broker” or “dealer” in accordance with the provisions of the Exchange Act, or (ii) directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or has any other association with (within the meaning of Article I of the Bylaws of the NASD) any member firm of the NASD.

(cc) No Reliance upon the Representatives. Neither the Company nor the Operating Partnership has relied upon the Representatives or legal counsel for the Underwriters for any legal, tax or accounting advice in connection with the offering and sale of the Common Shares.

(dd) Certificates Delivered by the Company or its Subsidiaries. Any certificate delivered by any officer of the Company or any subsidiary to the Representatives or to legal counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.

(ee) Form of Certificate to Evidence Common Shares. The form of certificate used to represent the Common Shares complies in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Declaration of Trust and Bylaws of the Company and the requirements of the New York Stock Exchange.

(ff) Related Party Transactions. There are no business relationships or related-party transactions involving the Company or any subsidiary or any other person required to be described in the Prospectus which have not been described as required.

(gg) Right of First Refusal, Options, etc. None of the Company or any of its subsidiaries knows of any violation of any municipal, state or federal law, rule or regulation (including those pertaining to environmental matters) concerning any real property owned in fee simple by the Company or the subsidiaries (collectively, for purposes of this subsection only, the “Properties”) or any part thereof which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. The Company has fairly summarized, in all material respects, in the Prospectus all material options and rights of first refusal to purchase all or part of any property or any interest therein; all liens, charges, encumbrances, claims, or restrictions on or affecting the properties and assets (including the Properties) of the Operating Partnership or any of the subsidiaries that are required to be described in the Prospectus (or, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus) are disclosed therein; no lessee of any portion of any of the properties is in default under any of the leases governing such properties and there is no event which, but for the passage of time or the giving of notice or both could constitute a default under any of such leases, except such defaults that could, individually or in the aggregate, not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

(hh) Market Data. The statistical and market related data included in the Prospectus and the Registration Statement are based on or derived from sources that the Company and the Operating Partnership believe to be reliable and accurate.

(ii) Government Supervision. The conduct of business by the Company and the subsidiaries as presently and proposed to be conducted is not subject to continuing oversight, supervision, regulation or examination by any governmental official or body of the United States or any other jurisdiction wherein the Company or the subsidiaries conducts or proposes to conduct such business, except as described in the Prospectus and except such regulation as is applicable to commercial enterprises generally.

(jj) Interference with Business. None of the Company, its subsidiaries, or any real property owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or its subsidiaries (or to be owned or leased upon consummation of the Formation Transactions) has sustained, since the Company’s inception, any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, earthquake, terrorism, flood, hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or arbitrators’ or court or governmental action, order or decree that could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, otherwise than as set forth in the Prospectus.

(kk) No Unlawful Contributions or Other Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state or foreign office in violation of any law or of the character required to be disclosed in the Prospectus.

(ll) Company’s Accounting System. The Company maintains (and upon consummation of the Formation Transactions will maintain) a system of accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

(mm) Compliance with Environmental Laws. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change (i) none of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, any other owners or operators of all real property and facilities owned or leased by the Company or a subsidiary (or to be owned or leased upon the consummation of the Formation Transaction) (collectively the “Company Properties”) at any time, including Apollo, Circa and Crown with respect to the Company Properties, has been or is in violation of any federal, state or local law (including common law) or regulation relating to pollution, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or the protection of human health or wildlife, including without limitation, laws and regulations relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, asbestos, mold, lead-based paint, hazardous substances, petroleum and petroleum products (collectively, “Materials of Environmental Concern”), or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Materials of Environmental Concern (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), which violation includes, but is not limited to, noncompliance with any environmental permits or other governmental authorizations required for the operation of the business of the Company or its subsidiaries under applicable Environmental Laws, or noncompliance with the terms and conditions thereof, nor has the Company, any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, any other owners or operators of the Company Properties at any time, including Apollo, Circa and Crown with respect to the Company Properties, received any communication, whether from a governmental authority, citizens group, employee or otherwise, that alleges that the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any other owners or operators of the Company Properties at any time, including Apollo, Circa and Crown with respect to the Company Properties, has been or is in violation of any Environmental Law; (ii) there is no claim, action or cause of action filed with a court or brought by governmental authority, no investigation with respect to which the Company, its subsidiaries or any other owners or operators of the Company Properties at any time, including Apollo, Circa and Crown has received notice, and no notice by any person or entity, in each case, alleging potential liability for investigatory costs, cleanup costs, governmental responses costs, natural resources damages, property damages, personal injuries, attorneys’ fees or penalties arising out of, based on or resulting from the presence, or release into the environment, of any Material of Environmental Concern at any property or facility owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including properties owned or leased after the consummation of the Formation Transactions), now or in the past (collectively, “Environmental Claims”), pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim the Company or any of its subsidiaries has

retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law; and (iii) to the knowledge of the Company and its subsidiaries after due diligence by them, there are no past or present actions, activities, circumstances, conditions, events or incidents, including, without limitation, the release, emission, discharge, presence or disposal of any Material of Environmental Concern with respect to any of the Company Properties, that reasonably could result in a violation of, or liability or obligation under, any Environmental Law or form the basis of a potential Environmental Claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or against any person or entity whose liability for any Environmental Claim the Company or any of its subsidiaries has retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law.

(nn) ERISA Compliance. Any “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, “ERISA”)) established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or their “ERISA Affiliates” (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company or its subsidiary, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b), (c) or (m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company or such subsidiary is a member. To the knowledge of the Company, no “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates. To the knowledge of the Company, no “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). To the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service stating that the Plan is so qualified or is a prototype plan covered by the letter issued to the prototype sponsor and, to the knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would, if not corrected, cause the loss of such qualification.

(oo) Brokers. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, there is no broker, finder or other party that is entitled to receive from the Company any brokerage or finder’s fee or other fee or commission as a result of any transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(pp) No Outstanding Loans or Other Indebtedness. There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company or its subsidiaries to or for the benefit of any of the officers, trustees or directors of the Company or its subsidiaries or any of the members of any of them, except as disclosed in the Prospectus.

(qq) Compliance with Laws. The Company and the Operating Partnership have not been advised, and have no reason to believe, that the Company and each of its subsidiaries are not conducting business in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the

jurisdictions in which it is conducting business, except where failure to be so in compliance would not result in a Material Adverse Change.

(rr) REIT Status. The Company will properly and timely elect to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (a “REIT”) under the Code commencing with the taxable year ending December 31, 2004 and the Company will be organized and operated in conformity with the requirements for qualification as a REIT under the Code and the proposed method of operation of the Company and the subsidiaries will enable the Company to meet the requirements for taxation as a REIT under the Code; and the Operating Partnership is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and not as a corporation or association taxable as a corporation; the Company intends to continue to qualify as a REIT under the Code for all subsequent years, and the Company does not know of any event that could reasonably be expected to cause the Company to fail to qualify as a REIT under the Code at any time.

(ss) Partnership Units. Upon completion of the Formation Transactions and the offering of Common Shares, (i) the Company or a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company will be the holder of a general partnership interest, as the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership, representing an ownership interest in the Operating Partnership in the amount described in the Prospectus, and (ii) the Company and Capital Lodging General Partner, LLC will be the holder of Partnership Units in the amounts described in the Prospectus, free and clear of any pledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim.

The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be delivered pursuant to Section 5 hereof, counsel to the Company and counsel to the Underwriters, will rely upon the accuracy and truthfulness of the foregoing representations and hereby consents to such reliance.

(a) The Firm Common Shares. The Company agrees to issue and sell to the several Underwriters the Firm Common Shares upon the terms herein set forth. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms but subject to the conditions herein set forth, the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the respective number of Firm Common Shares set forth opposite their names on Schedule A. The purchase price per Firm Common Share to be paid by the several Underwriters to the Company shall be $ per share.

(b) The First Closing Date. Delivery of certificates for the Firm Common Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters and payment therefor shall be made at the offices of BAS, 9 West 57^th Street New York, NY (or such other place as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representatives) at 9:00 a.m. New York time, on , 2004, or such other time and date not later than 1:30 p.m. New York time, on , 2004 as the Representatives shall designate by notice to the Company (the time and date of such closing are called the “First Closing Date”). The Company hereby acknowledges that circumstances under which the Representatives may provide notice to postpone the First Closing Date as originally scheduled include, but are in no way limited to, any determination by the Company or the Representatives to recirculate to the public copies of an amended or supplemented Prospectus or a delay as contemplated by the provisions of Section 10.

(c) The Optional Common Shares; the Second Closing Date. In addition, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms but subject to the conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an option to the several Underwriters to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to an aggregate of 2,981,895 Optional Common Shares from the Company at the purchase price per share to be paid by the Underwriters for the Firm Common Shares. The option granted hereunder is for use by the Underwriters solely in covering any over-allotments in connection with the sale and distribution of the Firm Common Shares. The option granted hereunder may be exercised at any time (but not more than once) upon notice by one of the Representatives to the Company, which notice may be given at any time within 30 days from the date of this Agreement. Such notice shall set forth (i) the aggregate number of Optional Common Shares as to which the Underwriters are exercising the option, (ii) the names and denominations in which the certificates for the Optional Common Shares are to be registered and (iii) the time, date and place at which such certificates will be delivered (which time and date may be simultaneous with, but not earlier than, the First Closing Date; and in such case the term “First Closing Date” shall refer to the time and date of delivery of certificates for the Firm Common Shares and the Optional Common Shares). Such time and date of delivery, if subsequent to the First Closing Date, is called the “Second Closing Date” and shall be determined by the Representatives and shall not be earlier than three nor later than five full business days after delivery of such notice of exercise. If any Optional Common Shares are to be purchased, each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase the number of Optional Common Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as the Representatives may determine) that bears the same proportion to the total number of Optional Common Shares to be purchased as the number of Firm Common Shares set forth on Schedule A opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm Common Shares. The Representatives may cancel the option at any time prior to its expiration by giving written notice of such cancellation to the Company.

(d) Public Offering of the Common Shares. The Representatives hereby advise the Company that the Underwriters intend to offer for sale to the public, as described in the Prospectus, their respective portions of the Common Shares as soon after this Agreement has been executed and the Registration Statement has been declared effective as the Representatives, in their sole judgment, have determined is advisable and practicable.

(e) Payment for the Common Shares. Payment for the Common Shares shall be made at the First Closing Date (and, if applicable, at the Second Closing Date) by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the order of the Company.

It is understood that the Representatives have been authorized, for their own account and the accounts of the several Underwriters, to accept delivery of and receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Firm Common Shares and any Optional Common Shares the Underwriters have agreed to purchase. BAS and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, individually and not as the Representatives of the Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment for any Common Shares to be purchased by any Underwriter whose funds shall not have been received by the Representatives by the First Closing Date or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, for the account of such Underwriter, but any such payment shall not relieve such Underwriter from any of its obligations under this Agreement.

(f) Delivery of the Common Shares. The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters certificates for the Firm Common Shares at the First Closing Date, against the irrevocable release of a wire transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of the purchase price therefor. The Company shall also deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters, certificates for the Optional Common Shares the Underwriters have agreed to purchase at the First Closing Date or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, against the irrevocable release of a wire transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of the purchase price therefor. The certificates for the Common Shares shall be in definitive form and registered in such names and denominations as the Representatives shall have requested at least two full business days prior to the First Closing Date (or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be) and shall be made available for inspection on the business day preceding the First Closing Date (or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be) at a location in New York City as the Representatives may designate. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified in this Agreement is a further condition to the obligations of the Underwriters.

(g) Delivery of Prospectus to the Underwriters. Not later than 12:00 p.m. on the second business day following the date the Common Shares are first released by the Underwriters for sale to the public, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered, copies of the Prospectus in such quantities and at such places as the Representatives shall request.

Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership further covenants and agrees with each Underwriter as follows:

(a) Representatives’ Review of Proposed Amendments and Supplements. During such period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the later of the First Closing Date or such date, as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, the Prospectus is no longer required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer (the “Prospectus Delivery Period”), prior to amending or supplementing the Registration Statement (including any registration statement filed under Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act) or the Prospectus, the Company shall furnish to the Representatives for review a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement, and the Company shall not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably objects.

(b) Securities Act Compliance. After the date of this Agreement and prior to the end of the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company shall promptly advise the Representatives in writing (i) of the receipt of any comments of, or requests for additional or supplemental information from, the Commission, (ii) of the time and date of any filing of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, (iii) of the time and date that any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective and (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, or of any proceedings to remove, suspend or terminate from listing or quotation the Shares of Beneficial Interest from any securities exchange upon which it is listed

for trading or included or designated for quotation, or of the threatening or initiation of any proceedings for any of such purposes. If the Commission shall enter any such stop order at any time, the Company will use its best efforts to obtain the lifting of such order at the earliest possible moment. Additionally, the Company agrees that it shall comply with the provisions of Rules 424(b), 430A and 434, as applicable, under the Securities Act and will use its reasonable efforts to confirm that any filings made by the Company under such Rule 424(b) were received in a timely manner by the Commission.

(c) Amendments and Supplements to the Prospectus and Other Securities Act Matters. If, during the Prospectus Delivery Period, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if in the opinion of the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters it is otherwise necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company agrees to promptly prepare (subject to Section 3(a) hereof), file with the Commission and furnish at its own expense to the Underwriters and to dealers, amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with law.

(d) Copies of any Amendments and Supplements to the Prospectus. The Company agrees to furnish the Representatives, without charge, during the Prospectus Delivery Period, as many copies of the Prospectus and any amendments and supplements thereto as the Representatives may request.

(e) Blue Sky Compliance. The Company shall cooperate with the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters to qualify or register the Common Shares for sale under (or obtain exemptions from the application of) the state securities or blue sky laws or Canadian provincial Securities laws or other foreign laws of those jurisdictions designated by the Representatives, shall comply with such laws and shall continue such qualifications, registrations and exemptions in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Common Shares. The Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to take any action that would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not presently qualified or where it would be subject to taxation as a foreign corporation. The Company will advise the Representatives promptly of the suspension of the qualification or registration of (or any such exemption relating to) the Common Shares for offering, sale or trading in any jurisdiction or any initiation or threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, and in the event of the issuance of any order suspending such qualification, registration or exemption, the Company shall use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.

(f) Use of Proceeds. The Company shall apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Common Shares sold by it in the manner described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.

(g) Transfer Agent. The Company shall engage and maintain, at its expense, a registrar and transfer agent for the Shares of Beneficial Interest.

(h) Earnings Statement. As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives an earnings statement (which need not be audited) covering the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2003 that satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act.

(i) Periodic Reporting Obligations. During the Prospectus Delivery Period the Company shall file, on a timely basis, with the Commission and the New York Stock Exchange all reports and documents required to be filed under the Exchange Act. Additionally, the Company shall report the use of proceeds from the issuance of the Common Shares as may be required under Rule 463 under the Securities Act.

(j) Company to Provide Interim Financial Statements. Prior to the Closing Date, the Company will furnish the Underwriters, as soon as they have been prepared by or are available to the Company, a copy of any unaudited interim financial statements of the Company for any period subsequent to the period covered by the most recent financial statements appearing in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.

(k) Agreement Not to Offer or Sell Additional Securities. During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the 180th day following the date of the Prospectus, the Company and the Operating Partnership will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives), directly or indirectly, sell, offer, contract or grant any option to sell, pledge, transfer or establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise dispose of or transfer, or announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of, any Shares of Beneficial Interest, options or warrants to acquire Shares of Beneficial Interest or securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into Shares of Beneficial Interest (including Partnership Units) (other than as contemplated by this Agreement with respect to the Common Shares); provided, however, that the Company may issue Shares of Beneficial Interest, Partnership Units or options or warrants to purchase its Shares of Beneficial Interest, or Shares of Beneficial Interest upon conversion of Partnership Units or exercise of options or warrants, (i) pursuant to any share option, share bonus or other incentive plan or arrangement described in the Prospectus, (ii) in connection with the Formation Transactions, or (iii) as consideration for the acquisition of assets but only if the holders of such shares, Partnership Units, options, or shares issued upon conversion of Partnership Units or exercise of such options or warrants, agree in writing not to sell, offer, dispose of or otherwise transfer any such shares, Partnership Units or options or warrants during such 180 day period without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (x) during the last 17 days of the 180-day restricted period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs, or (y) prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 180-day period, the restrictions imposed in this clause shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event.

(l) Future Reports to the Representatives. During the period of three years hereafter the Company will furnish to the Representatives at Banc of America Securities LLC, 9 West 57^th Street, New York, New York 10019 Attention: Thomas M. Morrison and Nicholas T. Gans and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, 12 East 49^th Street, 33^rd Floor, New York, New York 10017 Attention: Mark Waxman: (i) as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, copies of the Annual Report to Shareholders of the Company containing the balance sheet of the Company as of the close of such fiscal year and statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the year then ended and the opinion thereon of the Company’s independent public or certified public accountants; (ii) as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, copies of each proxy statement, Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, Current Report on Form 8-K or other report filed by the Company with the Commission, the NASD or any securities exchange; and (iii) as soon as available, copies of any report or communication of the Company mailed generally to holders of its shares of beneficial interest; provided, that to the extent any of the materials described in this Section 3(l) is filed with the Commission via EDGAR, the Company and the Operating Partnership shall be deemed to have satisfied their obligations under this Section 3(l) with respect to such materials.

(m) Investment Limitation. The Company shall not invest, or otherwise use the proceeds received by the Company from its sale of the Common Shares in such a manner as would require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.

(n) No Manipulation of Price. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or result in, or that has constituted or might reasonably be expected to constitute, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any securities of the Company.

(o) Existing Lock-Up Agreement. The Company will enforce all existing agreements between the Company and any of its security holders that prohibit the sale, transfer, assignment, pledge or hypothecation of any of the Company’s securities in connection with the Company’s initial public offering. In addition, the Company will direct the transfer agent to place stop transfer restrictions upon any such securities of the Company that are bound by such existing “lock-up” agreements for the duration of the periods contemplated in such agreements.

(p) Liability Insurance. The Company shall obtain or maintain, as appropriate, Trustees and Officers liability insurance in the minimum amount of $ which shall apply to the offering contemplated herein.

(q) Undertakings. The Company will comply with all of the provisions of any undertakings in the Registration Statement and will file with the Commission such reports as may be required pursuant to Rule 463 of the Securities Act Regulations.

(r) REIT Status. The Company will use its best efforts to meet the requirements to qualify as a REIT under the Code.

SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses. The Company agrees to pay all costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations hereunder and in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, including without limitation (i) all expenses incident to the issuance and delivery of the Common Shares (including all printing and engraving costs), (ii) all fees and expenses of the registrar and transfer agent of the Shares of

Beneficial Interest, (iii) all necessary issue, transfer and other stamp taxes in connection with the issuance and sale of the Common Shares to the Underwriters, (iv) all fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel, independent public or certified public accountants and other advisors, (v) all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, printing, filing, shipping and distribution of the Registration Statement (including financial statements, exhibits, schedules, consents and certificates of experts), each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, and all amendments and supplements thereto, and this Agreement, (vi) all filing fees, attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Company or the Underwriters in connection with qualifying or registering (or obtaining exemptions from the qualification or registration of) all or any part of the Common Shares for offer and sale under the state securities or blue sky laws or the provincial securities laws of Canada, and, if requested by the Representatives, preparing and printing a “Blue Sky Survey” or memorandum, and any supplements thereto, advising the Underwriters of such qualifications, registrations and exemptions (provided, that the fees payable pursuant to this clause (vi) shall not exceed $ ), (vii) the filing fees incident to, and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with, the NASD’s review and approval of the Underwriters’ participation in the offering and distribution of the Common Shares (provided, that the fees payable pursuant to this clause (vii) shall not exceed $ ), (viii) the fees and expenses associated with listing the Common Shares on the New York Stock Exchange, and (ix) all other fees, costs and expenses referred to in Item 31 of Part II of the Registration Statement. Except as provided in this Section 4, Section 6, Section 8 and Section 9 hereof, the Underwriters shall pay their own expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel.

SECTION 5. Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Common Shares as provided herein on the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Optional Common Shares, the Second Closing Date, shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and the Operating Partnership set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the First Closing Date as though then made and, with respect to the Optional Common Shares, as of the Second Closing Date as though then made, to the timely performance by the Company and the Operating Partnership of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional conditions:

(a) Accountants’ Comfort Letter. On the date hereof, the Representatives shall have received from each of Deloitte & Touche LLP and Ernst & Young LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a letter dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountant’s “comfort letters” to underwriters, delivered according to Statement of Auditing Standards No. 100, with respect to the audited and unaudited financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and the Representatives shall have received an additional seven conformed copies of such accountants’ letters for each of the several Underwriters).

(b) Compliance with Registration Requirements; No Stop Order; No Objection from NASD. For the period from and after effectiveness of this Agreement and prior to the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Optional Common Shares, the Second Closing Date:

(i) the Company shall have filed the Prospectus with the Commission (including the information required by Rule 430A under the Securities Act) in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act; or the Company shall have filed a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement containing the information required by such Rule 430A, and such post-effective amendment shall have become effective; or, if the Company elected to rely upon Rule 434 under the Securities Act and obtained the Representatives’ consent thereto, the Company shall have filed a Term Sheet with the Commission in the manner and within the time period required by such Rule 424(b);

(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, shall be in effect and no proceedings for such purpose shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission; and

(iii) the NASD shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the underwriting terms and arrangements which objection remains unresolved.

(c) No Material Adverse Change. For the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Optional Common Shares, the Second Closing Date, in the judgment of the Representatives there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Change.

(d) Opinion of Counsel for the Company. On each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit A (and the Representatives shall have received an additional seven conformed copies of such counsel’s legal opinion for each of the several Underwriters).

(e) Opinion of Special Maryland Counsel for the Company. On each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion of Venable LLP, special Maryland counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit B (and the Representatives shall have received an additional seven conformed copies of such counsel’s legal opinion for each of the several Underwriters).

(f) Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters. On each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date the Representatives shall have received an opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.

(g) Officers’ Certificate. On each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date the Representatives shall have received a written certificate executed by the duly authorized officers of the Company and the Operating Partnership, dated as of such Closing Date, to the effect set forth in subsection (b)(ii) of this Section 5, and further to the effect that to the best knowledge of such officers:

(i) for the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to such Closing Date, there has not occurred any Material Adverse Change;

(ii) the representations, warranties and covenants of the Company set forth in Section 1 of this Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made on and as of such Closing Date; and

(iii) the Company has complied with all the agreements hereunder and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date.

(h) Bring-down Comfort Letter. On each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date the Representatives shall have received from each of Deloitte & Touche LLP and Ernst & Young LLP, independent public or certified public accountants for the Company, a letter dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished by them pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 5, except that the specified date referred to therein for the carrying out of procedures shall be no more than three business days prior to the First Closing Date or Second Closing Date, as the case may be (and the Representatives shall have received an additional seven conformed copies of such accountants’ letters for each of the several Underwriters).

(i) Lock-Up Agreement from Certain Securityholders of the Company On or prior to the date hereof, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives an agreement in the form of Exhibit C hereto from each director, officer and each beneficial owner of Common Stock (as defined and determined according to Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, except that a one hundred eighty day period shall be used rather than the sixty day period set forth therein), and such agreement shall be in full force and effect on each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date.

(j) Formation Agreements. The Formation Transactions shall be consummated contemporaneously with or immediately following the issuance and sale of the Firm Common Shares hereunder.

(k) Additional Documents. On or before each of the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information, documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Common Shares as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained.

If any condition specified in this Section 5 is not satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company at any time on or prior to the First Closing Date and, with respect to the Optional Common Shares, at any time prior to the Second Closing Date, which termination shall be without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except that Section 4, Section 6, Section 8 and Section 9 shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

SECTION 6. Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives pursuant to Section 5 or Section 7, or if the sale to the Underwriters of the Common Shares on the First Closing Date is not consummated because of any refusal, inability

or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or to comply with any provision hereof, the Company agrees to reimburse the Representatives and the other Underwriters (or such Underwriters as have terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves), severally, upon demand for all out-of-pocket expenses that shall have been reasonably incurred by the Representatives and the Underwriters in connection with the proposed purchase and the offering and sale of the Common Shares, including but not limited to reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel, printing expenses, reasonable travel expenses, postage, facsimile and telephone charges.

SECTION 7. Effectiveness of this Agreement. This Agreement shall not become effective until the later of (i) the execution of this Agreement by the parties hereto and (ii) notification by the Commission to the Company and the Representatives of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement under the Securities Act.

Prior to such effectiveness, this Agreement may be terminated by any party by notice to each of the other parties hereto, and any such termination shall be without liability on the part of (a) the Company to any Underwriter, except that the Company shall be obligated to reimburse the expenses of the Representatives and the Underwriters pursuant to Sections 4 and 6 hereof, (b) of any Underwriter to the Company, or (c) of any party hereto to any other party except that the provisions of Section 8 and Section 9 shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which such Underwriter or such controlling person may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based (i) upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereto, including any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430A or Rule 434 under the Securities Act, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; or (ii) upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (iii) any act or failure to act or any alleged act or failure to act by any Underwriter in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Shares of Beneficial Interest or the offering contemplated hereby, and which is included as part of or referred to in any loss, claim, damage, liability or action arising out of or based upon any matter covered by clause (i) or (ii) above, provided that the Company shall not be liable under this clause (iii) to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction shall have determined by a final judgment that such loss, claim,

damage, liability or action resulted directly from any such acts or failures to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by such Underwriter through its gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct; and to reimburse each Underwriter and each such controlling person for any and all expenses (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Representatives) as such expenses are reasonably incurred by such Underwriter or such controlling person in connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action; provided, however, that the foregoing indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense to the extent, but only to the extent, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto); and provided, further, that with respect to any preliminary prospectus, the foregoing indemnity agreement shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense purchased Common Shares, or any person controlling such Underwriter, if copies of the Prospectus were timely delivered to the Underwriter pursuant to Section 2 and a copy of the Prospectus (as then amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) was not sent or given by or on behalf of such Underwriter to such person, if required by law so to have been delivered, at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of the Common Shares to such person, and if the Prospectus (as so amended or supplemented) would have cured the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense. The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 8(a) shall be in addition to any liabilities that the Company and the Operating Partnership may otherwise have.

(b) Indemnification of the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Company’s Trustees and Officers. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Company’s trustees, the Company’s officers who signed the Registration Statement, the Operating Partner’s partners and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Operating Partnership within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which the Company, the Operating Partnership, or any such trustee, officer, partner or controlling person may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of such Underwriter), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or arises out of or is based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Representatives expressly for use therein; and to reimburse the Company, the Operating Partnership, or any such trustee, officer, partner or controlling person for any legal and other expense reasonably incurred by the Company, the

Operating Partnership, or any such trustee, officer, partner or controlling person in connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action. Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership hereby acknowledges that the only information that the Underwriters have furnished to the Company and the Operating Partnership expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) are the statements set forth in the table in the first paragraph, the third paragraph and the 15^th paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus; and the Underwriters confirm that such statements are correct. The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 8(b) shall be in addition to any liabilities that each Underwriter may otherwise have.

(c) Notifications and Other Indemnification Procedures. Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof, but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party for contribution or otherwise than under the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 8 or to the extent it is not prejudiced as a proximate result of such failure. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and such indemnified party seeks or intends to seek indemnity from an indemnifying party, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in, and, to the extent that it shall elect, jointly with all other indemnifying parties similarly notified, by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, if the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that a conflict may arise between the positions of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party in conducting the defense of any such action or that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to assume such legal defenses and to otherwise participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of such indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 8 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the next preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (together with local counsel), approved by the indemnifying party (the Representatives in the case of Section 8(b) and Section 9), representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such action) or (ii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action, in each of which cases the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnifying party.

(d) Settlements. The indemnifying party under this Section 8 shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by Section 8(c) hereof, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement, compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding.

SECTION 9. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 8 is for any reason held to be unavailable to or otherwise insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount paid or payable by such indemnified party, as incurred, as a result of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Common Shares pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions or inaccuracies in the representations and warranties herein which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Common Shares pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Common Shares pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Operating Partnership, and the total underwriting discount received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth on the front cover page of the Prospectus (or, if Rule 434 under the Securities Act is used, the corresponding location on the Term Sheet) bear to the aggregate initial public offering price of the Common Shares as set forth on such cover. The relative fault of the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact or any such inaccurate or alleged inaccurate representation or warranty relates to information supplied by the Company or the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, or the Underwriters, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative

intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 8(c), any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim. The provisions set forth in Section 8(c) with respect to notice of commencement of any action shall apply if a claim for contribution is to be made under this Section 9; provided, however, that no additional notice shall be required with respect to any action for which notice has been given under Section 8(c) for purposes of indemnification.

The Company, the Operating Partnership and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 9.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter in connection with the Common Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9 are several, and not joint, in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments as set forth opposite their names in Schedule A. For purposes of this Section 9, each officer and employee of an Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company with the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company.

SECTION 10. Default of One or More of the Several Underwriters. If, on the First Closing Date or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the several Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Common Shares that it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate number of Common Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase does not exceed 10% of the aggregate number of the Common Shares to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated, severally, in the proportions that the number of Firm Common Shares set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule A bears to the aggregate number of Firm Common Shares set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as may be specified by the Representatives with the consent of the non-defaulting Underwriters, to purchase the Common Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date. If, on the First Closing Date or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Common Shares and the aggregate number of Common Shares with respect to

which such default occurs exceeds 10% of the aggregate number of Common Shares to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the Company for the purchase of such Common Shares are not made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section 4, Section 8 and Section 9 shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination. In any such case either the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the First Closing Date or the Second Closing Date, as the case may be, but in no event for longer than seven days in order that the required changes, if any, to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be effected.

As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” shall be deemed to include any person substituted for a defaulting Underwriter under this Section 10. Any action taken under this Section 10 shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

SECTION 11. Termination of this Agreement. Prior to the First Closing Date this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice given to the Company if at any time (i) trading or quotation in any of the Company’s securities shall have been suspended or limited by the Commission or by the NYSE, or trading in securities generally on either the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited, or minimum or maximum prices shall have been generally established on any of such stock exchanges by the Commission or the NASD; (ii) a general banking moratorium shall have been declared by any of federal, New York, Maryland, Delaware or California authorities; (iii) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of national or international hostilities or any crisis or calamity, or any change in the United States or international financial markets, or any substantial change or development involving a prospective substantial change in United States’ or international political, financial or economic conditions, as in the judgment of the Representatives is material and adverse and makes it impracticable to market the Common Shares in the manner and on the terms described in the Prospectus or to enforce contracts for the sale of securities; (iv) in the judgment of the Representatives there shall have occurred any Material Adverse Change; or (v) the Company shall have sustained a loss by strike, fire, flood, earthquake, accident or other calamity of such character as in the judgment of the Representatives may interfere materially with the conduct of the business and operations of the Company regardless of whether or not such loss shall have been insured. Any termination pursuant to this Section 11 shall be without liability on the part of (a) the Company or the Operating Partnership to any Underwriter, except that the Company and the Operating Partnership shall be obligated to reimburse the expenses of the Representatives and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 4 hereof, (b) any Underwriter to the Company or the Operating Partnership, or (c) any party hereto to any other party except that the provisions of Section 8 and Section 9 shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

SECTION 12. Representations and Indemnities to Survive Delivery. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company, of the Operating Partnership, of their officers and of the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Company, the Operating Partnership, or any of its or their partners, officers, trustees or directors or any controlling person, as the case may be,

and will survive delivery of and payment for the Common Shares sold hereunder and any termination of this Agreement.

SECTION 13. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed, hand delivered or telecopied and confirmed to the parties hereto as follows:

Any party hereto may change the address for receipt of communications by giving written notice to the others.

SECTION 14. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, including any substitute Underwriters pursuant to Section 10 hereof, and to the benefit of the employees, officers and directors and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 and Section 9, and in each case their respective successors, and personal representatives, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder. The term “successors” shall not include any purchaser of the Common Shares as such from any of the Underwriters merely by reason of such purchase.

SECTION 15. Partial Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other Section, paragraph or provision hereof. If any Section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

SECTION 16. Governing Law Provisions. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE.

(a) Consent to Jurisdiction. Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (“Related Proceedings”) may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City and County of New York or the courts of the State of New York in each case located in the City and County of New York (collectively, the “Specified Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction (except for proceedings instituted in regard to the enforcement of a judgment of any such court (a “Related Judgment”), as to which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. Service of any process,

summons, notice or document by mail to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court. The parties irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

(b) Waiver of Immunity. With respect to any Related Proceeding, each party irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all immunity (whether on the basis of sovereignty or otherwise) from jurisdiction, service of process, attachment (both before and after judgment) and execution to which it might otherwise be entitled in the Specified Courts, and with respect to any Related Judgment, each party waives any such immunity in the Specified Courts or any other court of competent jurisdiction, and will not raise or claim or cause to be pleaded any such immunity at or in respect of any such Related Proceeding or Related Judgment, including, without limitation, any immunity pursuant to the United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, as amended.

SECTION 17. General Provisions. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each one of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. This Agreement may not be amended or modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no condition herein (express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom the condition is meant to benefit. The Table of Contents and the Section headings herein are for the convenience of the parties only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that it is a sophisticated business person who was adequately represented by counsel during negotiations regarding the provisions hereof, including, without limitation, the indemnification provisions of Section 8 and the contribution provisions of Section 9, and is fully informed regarding said provisions. Each of the parties hereto further acknowledges that the provisions of Section 8 and Section 9 hereto fairly allocate the risks in light of the ability of the parties to investigate the Company, its affairs and its business in order to assure that adequate disclosure has been made in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus (and any amendments and supplements thereto), as required by the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.

The respective indemnities, contribution agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Operating Partnership, and the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of (i) any investigation, or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the officers or employees of any Underwriter, any person controlling any Underwriter, the Company, and the Operating Partnership, the officers or employees of the Company, or any person controlling the Company, (ii) acceptance of the Shares and payment for them hereunder and (iii) termination of this Agreement.

Except as otherwise provided, this Agreement has been and is made solely for the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Underwriters, the Underwriters’ officers and employees, any controlling persons referred to herein, the Company’s directors and the Company’s officers who sign the Registration Statement and their respective successors and assigns, all as and to the extent provided in this Agreement, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. The term “successors and assigns” shall not include a purchaser of any of the Shares from any of the several Underwriters merely because of such purchase.

If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company the enclosed copies hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts hereof, shall become a binding agreement in accordance with its terms.


Very truly yours,

CAPITAL LODGING

By:


CAPITAL LODGING OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P.

By:		Capital Lodging General Partner, LLC, its sole general partner

By:		Capital Lodging, its sole member

The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted by the Representatives as of the date first above written.

Opinion of counsel for the Company to be delivered pursuant to Section 5(d) of the Underwriting Agreement.

Opinion of special Maryland counsel for the Company to be delivered pursuant to Section 5(e) of the Underwriting Agreement.

The undersigned is an owner of record or beneficially of certain common shares of beneficial interest of the Company (“Common Shares”) or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Shares, including units of limited partnership interest in Capital Lodging Operating Partnership, L.P. (the “Units”). The Company proposes to carry out a public offering of Common Shares (the “Offering”) for which you will act as the representatives of the underwriters. The undersigned recognizes that the Offering will be of benefit to the undersigned and will benefit the Company by, among other things, raising capital for its operations. The undersigned acknowledges that you and the other underwriters are relying on the representations and agreements of the undersigned contained in this letter in carrying out the Offering and in entering into underwriting arrangements with the Company with respect to the Offering.

In consideration of the foregoing, the undersigned hereby agrees that the undersigned will not, and will cause any spouse or immediate family member of the spouse or the undersigned living in the undersigned’s household not to, without the prior written consent of either of Banc of America Securities LLC or Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (which consent may be withheld in their sole discretion), directly or indirectly, sell, offer, contract or grant any option to sell (including without limitation any short sale), pledge, transfer, establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise dispose of any Common Shares or Units, options or warrants to acquire Common Shares or Units or securities exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into

Common Shares or Units currently or hereafter owned either of record or beneficially (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) by the undersigned (or such spouse or family member), or publicly announce an intention to do any of the foregoing, for a period commencing on the date hereof and continuing through the close of trading on the date 180 days after the date of the Prospectus. If (i) the Company issues an earnings release or material news, or a material event relating to the Company occurs, during the last 17 days of the lock-up period, or (ii) prior to the expiration of the lock-up period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the lock-up period, the restrictions imposed by this agreement shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of Common Shares or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Shares held by the undersigned, including the Units except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

Furthermore the undersigned waives any registration rights relating to registration under the Securities Act of any Common Shares owned either of record or beneficially by the undersigned, including any rights to receive notice of the Offering for a period commencing on the date hereof and continuing through the close of trading on the date 180 days after the date of the Prospectus.

This agreement is irrevocable and will be binding on the undersigned and the respective successors, heirs, personal representatives, and assigns of the undersigned.



By:
		Signature


		Printed Name of Person Signing (and indicate capacity of person signing if signing as custodian, trustee, or on behalf of an entity)


Underwriters	Number of Firm Common Shares to be Purchased
Banc of America Securities LLC	[___	]
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC	[___	]
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.	[___	]
Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated	[___	]
RBC Capital Markets Corporation	[___	]
JMP Securities LLC	[___	]
Total	[___	]


BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC Acting as Representatives of the several Underwriters named in the attached Schedule A.

By:		Banc of America Securities LLC

By:
		Managing Director

By:		Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

By:
		Managing Director