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Related Person Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Person Transactions Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR LLC, RMR Inc., and others related to them, including other companies to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services and some of which have trustees, directors or officers who are also our Trustees or officers. RMR LLC is a majority owned subsidiary of RMR Inc. The Chair of our Board of Trustees and one of our Managing Trustees, Adam Portnoy, is the sole trustee, an officer and the controlling shareholder of ABP Trust, which is the controlling shareholder of RMR Inc., a managing director, the president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc. and an officer and employee of RMR LLC. David Blackman resigned as our President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 31, 2020, and as a Managing Trustee, effective June 17, 2021. In replacement of Mr. Blackman, Christopher J. Bilotto was appointed as our President and Chief Operating Officer, effective January 1, 2021, and Jennifer Clark was elected as a Managing Trustee, effective on June 17, 2021. Mr. Bilotto is an officer and employee of RMR LLC, Ms. Clark is a managing director and an executive officer of RMR Inc., an officer and employee of RMR LLC and an officer of ABP Trust. In addition, each of our other officers is also an officer and employee of RMR LLC. Some of our Independent Trustees also serve as independent trustees or independent directors of other public companies to which RMR LLC or its subsidiaries provide management services. Mr. Portnoy serves as chair of the board and as a managing director or managing trustee of these public companies. Other officers of RMR LLC, including certain of our officers, serve as managing trustees, managing directors or officers of certain of these companies.
Our Manager, RMR LLC. We have two agreements with RMR LLC to provide management services to us. See Note 5 for more information regarding our management agreements with RMR LLC.
Leases with RMR LLC. We lease office space to RMR LLC in certain of our properties for RMR LLC’s property management offices. Pursuant to our lease agreements with RMR LLC, we recognized rental income from RMR LLC for leased office space of $1,138, $1,120 and $1,142 for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Our office space leases with RMR LLC are terminable by RMR LLC if our management agreements with RMR LLC are terminated.
Share Awards to RMR LLC Employees. As described further in Note 10, we award shares to our officers and other employees of RMR LLC annually. Generally, one fifth of these awards vest on the grant date and one fifth vests on each of the next four anniversaries of the grant dates. In certain instances, we may accelerate the vesting of an award, such as in connection with the award holder’s retirement as an officer of us or an officer or employee of RMR LLC. These awards to RMR LLC employees are in addition to the share awards to our Managing Trustees, as Trustee compensation, and the fees we paid to RMR LLC. See Note 10 for more information regarding our share awards and activity as well as certain share purchases we made in connection with share award recipients satisfying tax withholding obligations on vesting share awards.
Sonesta. In June 2021, we entered into a 30-year lease agreement with a subsidiary of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation, or Sonesta, in connection with the redevelopment of an office property we own in Washington, D.C. as a mixed-use property. Sonesta’s lease is for the planned full-service hotel component of the property that will include approximately 230,000 rentable square feet, which represents approximately 54% of the total square feet upon completion of the redevelopment. The term of the lease commences upon our delivery of the completed hotel, which we estimate to occur in the first quarter of 2023. Sonesta has two options to extend the term for 10 years each. Pursuant to the lease agreement, Sonesta
will pay us annual base rent of approximately $6,436 beginning 18 months after the lease commences. The annual base rent will increase by 10% every five years throughout the term. Sonesta is also obligated to pay its pro rata share of the operating costs for the property. We estimate that the total cost to build the hotel space will be approximately $66,000. Mr. Adam Portnoy is a director and controlling shareholder of Sonesta and Ms. Jennifer Clark is also a director of Sonesta.
RMR Inc. On July 1, 2019, we sold all of the 2,801,060 shares of class A common stock of RMR Inc. that we owned in an underwritten public offering at a price to the public of $40.00 per share pursuant to an underwriting agreement among us, RMR Inc., certain other REITs managed by RMR LLC that also sold their class A common stock of RMR Inc. in the offering and the underwriters named therein. We received net proceeds of $104,674 from this sale, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses.
AIC. Until its dissolution on February 13, 2020, we, ABP Trust and five other companies to which RMR LLC provides management services owned AIC in equal portions. We and the other AIC shareholders historically participated in a combined property insurance program arranged and insured or reinsured in part by AIC until June 30, 2019. We paid aggregate annual premiums, including taxes and fees, of $1,211 in connection with this insurance program for the policy year ended June 30, 2019. Properties we acquired as a result of our acquisition of SIR on December 31, 2018 were already previously included in this insurance program because SIR was a participant in the program. SIR paid an annual premium, including taxes and fees, of $1,666 in connection with this insurance program for the policy year ended June 30, 2019.
In connection with AIC’s dissolution, we and each other AIC shareholder received an initial liquidating distribution of $9,000 from AIC in December 2019, an additional liquidating distribution of $287 in June 2020 and a final liquidating distribution of $11 in December 2021. As of December 31, 2020, our investment in AIC had a carrying value of $11, which was included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheet. We recognized income of $281 related to our investment in AIC for the year ended December 31, 2019. This amount is included in equity in net losses of investees in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Our other comprehensive income (loss) includes our proportionate part of unrealized gains (losses) on securities which were owned and held for sale by AIC of $90 related to our investment in AIC for the year ended December 31, 2019.