Common Stock and Units - Quarterly Stock Dividends and Unit Distributions Declared and Payable Per Common Stock/Unit (Detail)	Mar. 31, 2020 $ / shares
Sotherly Hotels LP [Member]
Class of Stock [Line Items]
Dividends payable amount per share	$ 0.130

The per share amount of a dividend declared, but not paid, as of the financial reporting date.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126999549&loc=d3e4304-108586

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