Related Person Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Person Transactions

Related Person Transactions

We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with RMR, The RMR Group Inc., or RMR Inc., and others related to them, including other companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services and some of which have trustees, directors or officers who are also our Trustees or officers. RMR is a majority owned subsidiary of RMR Inc. The Chair of our Board of Trustees and one of our Managing Trustees, Adam D. Portnoy, is the sole trustee, an officer and the controlling shareholder of ABP Trust, which is the controlling shareholder of RMR Inc., the chair of the board of directors, a managing director, the president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc. and an officer and employee of RMR. Jennifer B. Clark, our other Managing Trustee and our Secretary, also serves as a managing director and the executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of RMR Inc., an officer and employee of RMR and an officer of ABP Trust. Each of our officers is an officer and employee of RMR. Some of our Independent Trustees also serve as independent trustees or independent directors of other public companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services. Mr. Portnoy serves as chair of the boards and as a managing director or managing trustee of these public companies. Other officers of RMR serve as managing trustees, managing directors or officers of certain of these companies.

Our Manager, RMR. We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us. RMR also provides management services to our two unconsolidated joint ventures. See Note 8 for more information regarding our and our unconsolidated joint ventures’ management agreements with RMR.

Leases with RMR. We lease office space to RMR in certain of our properties for RMR’s property management offices. Pursuant to our lease agreements with RMR, we recognized rental income from RMR for leased office space of $223 and $284 for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

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 second 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 building. We estimate that the total cost to build the hotel space will be approximately $66,000. Mr. Portnoy is a director and controlling shareholder of Sonesta and Ms. Clark is also a director of Sonesta.

For more information about these and other such relationships and certain other related person transactions, refer to our 2022 Annual Report.