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3. RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Acquisitions
The Company acquired the following rental properties (which were determined to be asset acquisitions in accordance with ASU 2017-01) during the year ended December 31, 2019 (dollars in thousands):
The acquisition costs were allocated to the net assets acquired, as follows (in thousands):
On May 10, 2019, the Company completed the acquisition of unimproved land parcels for future development (“107 Morgan”) located in Jersey City, New Jersey for approximately $67.2 million. The 107 Morgan acquisition was funded using funds available with the Company’s qualified intermediary from prior property sales proceeds, and through borrowing under the Company’s unsecured revolving credit facility. The Company’s mortgage receivable of $46.1 million with the seller was repaid in full to the Company at closing.
Properties Commencing Initial Operations
The following properties commenced initial operations during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 (dollars in thousands):
2019
2018
(a)Development costs as of December 31, 2018 included approximately $4.4 in land costs. (b)Development costs as of December 31, 2018 included approximately $0.9 in land costs.
Consolidations
2019
On January 31, 2019, the Company, which held a 24.27 percent subordinated interest in the unconsolidated joint venture, Marbella Tower Urban Renewal Associates South LLC, a 311-unit multi-family operating property located in Jersey City, New Jersey, acquired its equity partner’s 50 percent preferred controlling interest for $77.5 million in cash. The property was subject to a mortgage loan that had a principal balance of $74.7 million. The acquisition was funded primarily using available cash. Concurrently with the closing, the joint venture repaid in full the property’s $74.7 million mortgage loan and obtained a new loan collateralized by the property in the amount of $117 million, which bears interest at 4.2 percent and matures in August 2026. The Company received $43.3 million in distribution from the loan proceeds which was used to acquire the equity partner’s 50 percent interest. As the result of the acquisition, the Company increased its ownership of the property from a 24.27 percent subordinated interest to a 74.27 percent controlling interest. In accordance with ASC 810, Consolidation, the Company evaluated the acquisition and determined that the entity meets the criteria of a VIE. As such, the Company consolidated the asset upon acquisition and accordingly, remeasured its equity interests, as required by the FASB’s consolidation guidance, at fair value (based upon the income approach using current rental rates and market cap rates and discount rates). As a result, the Company recorded a gain on change of control of interests of $13.8 million (a non-cash item) in the year ended December 31, 2019, in which the Company accounted for the transaction as a VIE that is not a business in accordance with ASC 810-10-30-4. Additional non-cash items included in the acquisition were the Company’s carrying value of its interest in the joint venture of $15.3 million and the noncontrolling interest’s fair value of $13.7 million. See Note 9: Mortgages, Loans Payable and Other Obligations.
2018
On August 2, 2018, the Company, which held a 24.27 percent subordinated interest in the unconsolidated joint venture Marbella Tower Urban Renewal Associates LLC, a 412-unit multi-family operating property located in Jersey City, New Jersey, acquired its equity partner’s 50 percent interest for $65.6 million in cash. The property was subject to a mortgage loan that had a principal balance of $95 million. The cash portion of the acquisition was funded primarily through borrowings under the Company's unsecured revolving credit facility. Concurrently with the closing, the joint venture repaid the $95 million mortgage loan in full and obtained a new loan from a different lender, collateralized by the property in the amount of $131 million, which bears interest at 4.07 percent and matures in August 2026. The venture distributed $37.4 million of the loan proceeds, of which the Company’s share was $30.4 million. As a result of the acquisition, the Company increased its ownership of the property from a 24.27 percent subordinated interest to a 74.27 percent controlling interest. In accordance with ASC 810, Consolidation, the Company evaluated the acquisition and determined that the entity meets the criteria of a VIE. As such, the Company consolidated the asset upon acquisition and accordingly, remeasured its equity interests, as required by the FASB's consolidation guidance, at fair value (based upon the income approach using current rates and market cap rates and discount rates). As a result, the Company recorded a gain on change of control of interests of $14.2 million (a non-cash item) in the year ended December 31, 2019, when the Company accounted for the transaction as a VIE that is not a business in accordance with ASC 810-10-30-4. Additional non-cash items included in the acquisition were the Company’s carrying value of its interest in the joint venture of $14 million and the noncontrolling interest’s fair value of $29.8 million (non-cash allocation). See Note 9: Mortgages, Loans Payable and Other Obligations.
Net assets recorded upon consolidation were as follows (in thousands):
Real Estate Held for Sale/Discontinued Operations/Dispositions
2019
Following the General Partner’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the Board of Directors of the General Partner (the “Board”) formed a Shareholder Value Committee comprised of four independent directors to review the Company’s strategic direction and make a recommendation to the full Board. On December 19, 2019, the Company announced that, based on the recommendations of the Shareholder Value Committee, the Board had determined to sell the Company’s entire suburban New Jersey office portfolio totaling approximately 6.6 million square feet (collectively, the “Suburban Office Portfolio”). As the decision to sell the Suburban Office Portfolio represented a strategic shift in the Company’s operations, the portfolio’s results are being classified as discontinued operations for all periods presented herein. See Note 7: Discontinued Operations.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company completed the sale of two of these suburban office properties, totaling 497,000 square feet, for net sales proceeds of $52.2 million. As of December 31, 2019, the Company has identified as held for sale the remaining 35 office properties (comprised of 12 identified disposal groups) in the Suburban Office Portfolio, totaling 6.1 million square feet. See Note 7: Discontinued Operations.
The Company expects to complete the sale of its remaining Suburban Office Portfolio properties in 2020, and plans to use the available sales proceeds to pay down its corporate-level, unsecured indebtedness. After the completion of the Suburban Office Portfolio sales, the Company’s holdings will consist of its waterfront class A office portfolio and its multi-family rental portfolio, and related development projects and land holdings.
Additionally, the Company also identified a retail pad leased to others and several developable land parcels as held for sale as of December 31, 2019. The properties are located in Fort Lee, Parsippany, Madison, Short Hills, Edison, Red Bank and Florham Park. The Company determined that the carrying value of 21 of the properties (comprised of six disposal groups) and several land parcels held for sale was not expected to be recovered from estimated net sales proceeds, and accordingly, during the year ended December 31, 2019, recognized an unrealized loss allowance of $174.1 million ($137.9 million of which are from discontinued operations, for the properties and land and other impairments of $32.4 million.
The following table summarizes the real estate held for sale, net, and other assets and liabilities (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following rental properties during the year ended December 31, 2019 (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following developable land holdings during the year ended December 31, 2019 (dollars in thousands):
2018
The Company identified as held for sale six office properties, totaling approximately 845,000 square feet, and a 159 unit multi-family rental property as of December 31, 2018. The properties are located in Fort Lee, Newark, Paramus, Bridgewater, Morris Plains and Rahway, New Jersey. The total estimated sales proceeds, net of selling costs, from the sales which were all completed in 2019, were approximately $123.1 million. The Company determined that the carrying value of four of the properties was not expected to be recovered from estimated net sales proceeds and accordingly recognized an unrealized loss allowance of $20.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.
The following table summarizes the real estate held for sale, net, as of December 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following office properties during the year ended December 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following developable land holdings during the year ended December 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):
Other assets and liabilities related to the rental properties held for sale, as of December 31, 2018, include $2.9 million in Deferred charges and other assets, $1.7 million in Unbilled rents receivable and $2.3 million in Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities. Approximately $3.9 million of these assets and $1.7 million of these liabilities are expected to be removed with the completion of the sales.
Land Impairments
The Company owned two separate developable land parcels in Conshohocken and Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, that were being considered for development into multi-family rental properties. During the fourth quarter 2018, the Company changed its plans regarding pursuing development in Pennsylvania and made the decision to pursue selling the land parcels as opposed to development. Due to the shortening of the expected periods of ownership, the Company determined that the carrying value of the land parcels was impaired and recorded an adjustment to its carrying value to their estimated fair value and recorded land impairments charges of $24.6 million at December 31, 2018. The land parcels were subsequently sold during the year ended December 31, 2019.
Unconsolidated Joint Venture Activity
On February 28, 2019, the Company sold its interest in the Red Bank Corporate Plaza joint venture which owns an operating property located in Red Bank, New Jersey for a sales price of $4.2 million, and realized a gain on the sale of the unconsolidated joint venture of $0.9 million.
On December 11, 2018, the Company acquired one of its partner’s interest in the Metropolitan and Shops at 40 Park and the Lofts at 40 Park for $1.3 million and as a result, increased its ownership from 12.5 percent interest to 25 percent interest in the Metropolitan and Shops at 40 Park and from 25 percent interest to 50 percent interest in the Lofts at 40 Park.
Rockpoint Transaction
On February 27, 2017, the Company, Roseland Residential Trust (“RRT”), the Company’s subsidiary through which the Company conducts its multi-family residential real estate operations, Roseland Residential, L.P. (“RRLP”), the operating partnership through which RRT conducts all of its operations, and certain other affiliates of the Company entered into a preferred equity investment agreement (the “Original Investment Agreement”) with certain affiliates of Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. (Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. and its affiliates, collectively, “Rockpoint”). The Original Investment Agreement provided for RRT to contribute property to RRLP in exchange for common units of limited partnership interests in RRLP (the “Common Units”) and for multiple equity investments by Rockpoint in RRLP from time to time for up to an aggregate of $300 million of preferred units of limited partnership interests in RRLP (the “Preferred Units”). The initial closing under the Original Investment Agreement occurred on March 10, 2017 for $150 million of Preferred Units and the parties agreed that the Company’s contributed equity value (“RRT Contributed Equity Value”), was $1.23 billion at closing. During the year ended December 31, 2018, a total additional amount of $105 million of Preferred Units were issued and sold to Rockpoint pursuant to the Original Investment Agreement. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, a total additional amount of $45 million of Preferred Units were issued and sold to Rockpoint pursuant to the Original Investment Agreement, which brought the Preferred Units to the full balance of $300 million. In addition, certain contributions of property to RRLP by RRT subsequent to the execution of the Original Investment Agreement resulted in RRT being issued approximately $46 million of Preferred Units and Common Units in RRLP prior to June 26, 2019.
On June 26, 2019, the Company, RRT, RRLP, certain other affiliates of the Company and Rockpoint entered into an additional preferred equity investment agreement (the “Add On Investment Agreement”). The closing under the Add On Investment Agreement occurred on June 28, 2019. Pursuant to the Add On Investment Agreement, Rockpoint invested an additional $100 million in Preferred Units and the Company and RRT agreed to contribute to RRLP two additional properties located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Company used the $100 million in proceeds received to repay outstanding borrowings under its unsecured revolving credit facility and other debt by June 30, 2019. In addition, Rockpoint has a right of first refusal to invest another $100 million in Preferred Units in the event RRT determines that RRLP requires additional capital prior to March 1, 2023 and, subject thereto, RRLP may issue up to approximately $154 million in Preferred Units to RRT or an affiliate so long as at the time of such funding RRT determines in good faith that RRLP has a valid business purpose to use such proceeds. See Note 15: Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests for additional information about the Add On Investment Agreement and the related transactions with Rockpoint.
RRLP has been identified as a variable interest entity in which the Company is deemed to be the primary beneficiary. As of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company’s consolidated RRLP entity had total assets of $3.1 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively, total mortgages and loan payable of $1.4 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively, and other liabilities of $115.2 million and $57 million, respectively. |
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3. RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Acquisitions
The Company acquired the following rental properties (which were determined to be asset acquisitions in accordance with ASU 2017-01) during the year ended December 31, 2019 (dollars in thousands):
The acquisition costs were allocated to the net assets acquired, as follows (in thousands):
On May 10, 2019, the Company completed the acquisition of unimproved land parcels for future development (“107 Morgan”) located in Jersey City, New Jersey for approximately $67.2 million. The 107 Morgan acquisition was funded using funds available with the Company’s qualified intermediary from prior property sales proceeds, and through borrowing under the Company’s unsecured revolving credit facility. The Company’s mortgage receivable of $46.1 million with the seller was repaid in full to the Company at closing.
Properties Commencing Initial Operations
The following properties commenced initial operations during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 (dollars in thousands):
2019
2018
(a)Development costs as of December 31, 2018 included approximately $4.4 in land costs. (b)Development costs as of December 31, 2018 included approximately $0.9 in land costs.
Consolidations
2019
On January 31, 2019, the Company, which held a 24.27 percent subordinated interest in the unconsolidated joint venture, Marbella Tower Urban Renewal Associates South LLC, a 311-unit multi-family operating property located in Jersey City, New Jersey, acquired its equity partner’s 50 percent preferred controlling interest for $77.5 million in cash. The property was subject to a mortgage loan that had a principal balance of $74.7 million. The acquisition was funded primarily using available cash. Concurrently with the closing, the joint venture repaid in full the property’s $74.7 million mortgage loan and obtained a new loan collateralized by the property in the amount of $117 million, which bears interest at 4.2 percent and matures in August 2026. The Company received $43.3 million in distribution from the loan proceeds which was used to acquire the equity partner’s 50 percent interest. As the result of the acquisition, the Company increased its ownership of the property from a 24.27 percent subordinated interest to a 74.27 percent controlling interest. In accordance with ASC 810, Consolidation, the Company evaluated the acquisition and determined that the entity meets the criteria of a VIE. As such, the Company consolidated the asset upon acquisition and accordingly, remeasured its equity interests, as required by the FASB’s consolidation guidance, at fair value (based upon the income approach using current rental rates and market cap rates and discount rates). As a result, the Company recorded a gain on change of control of interests of $13.8 million (a non-cash item) in the year ended December 31, 2019, in which the Company accounted for the transaction as a VIE that is not a business in accordance with ASC 810-10-30-4. Additional non-cash items included in the acquisition were the Company’s carrying value of its interest in the joint venture of $15.3 million and the noncontrolling interest’s fair value of $13.7 million. See Note 9: Mortgages, Loans Payable and Other Obligations.
2018
On August 2, 2018, the Company, which held a 24.27 percent subordinated interest in the unconsolidated joint venture Marbella Tower Urban Renewal Associates LLC, a 412-unit multi-family operating property located in Jersey City, New Jersey, acquired its equity partner’s 50 percent interest for $65.6 million in cash. The property was subject to a mortgage loan that had a principal balance of $95 million. The cash portion of the acquisition was funded primarily through borrowings under the Company's unsecured revolving credit facility. Concurrently with the closing, the joint venture repaid the $95 million mortgage loan in full and obtained a new loan from a different lender, collateralized by the property in the amount of $131 million, which bears interest at 4.07 percent and matures in August 2026. The venture distributed $37.4 million of the loan proceeds, of which the Company’s share was $30.4 million. As a result of the acquisition, the Company increased its ownership of the property from a 24.27 percent subordinated interest to a 74.27 percent controlling interest. In accordance with ASC 810, Consolidation, the Company evaluated the acquisition and determined that the entity meets the criteria of a VIE. As such, the Company consolidated the asset upon acquisition and accordingly, remeasured its equity interests, as required by the FASB's consolidation guidance, at fair value (based upon the income approach using current rates and market cap rates and discount rates). As a result, the Company recorded a gain on change of control of interests of $14.2 million (a non-cash item) in the year ended December 31, 2019, when the Company accounted for the transaction as a VIE that is not a business in accordance with ASC 810-10-30-4. Additional non-cash items included in the acquisition were the Company’s carrying value of its interest in the joint venture of $14 million and the noncontrolling interest’s fair value of $29.8 million (non-cash allocation). See Note 9: Mortgages, Loans Payable and Other Obligations.
Net assets recorded upon consolidation were as follows (in thousands):
Real Estate Held for Sale/Discontinued Operations/Dispositions
2019
Following the General Partner’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the Board of Directors of the General Partner (the “Board”) formed a Shareholder Value Committee comprised of four independent directors to review the Company’s strategic direction and make a recommendation to the full Board. On December 19, 2019, the Company announced that, based on the recommendations of the Shareholder Value Committee, the Board had determined to sell the Company’s entire suburban New Jersey office portfolio totaling approximately 6.6 million square feet (collectively, the “Suburban Office Portfolio”). As the decision to sell the Suburban Office Portfolio represented a strategic shift in the Company’s operations, the portfolio’s results are being classified as discontinued operations for all periods presented herein. See Note 7: Discontinued Operations.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company completed the sale of two of these suburban office properties, totaling 497,000 square feet, for net sales proceeds of $52.2 million. As of December 31, 2019, the Company has identified as held for sale the remaining 35 office properties (comprised of 12 identified disposal groups) in the Suburban Office Portfolio, totaling 6.1 million square feet. See Note 7: Discontinued Operations.
The Company expects to complete the sale of its remaining Suburban Office Portfolio properties in 2020, and plans to use the available sales proceeds to pay down its corporate-level, unsecured indebtedness. After the completion of the Suburban Office Portfolio sales, the Company’s holdings will consist of its waterfront class A office portfolio and its multi-family rental portfolio, and related development projects and land holdings.
Additionally, the Company also identified a retail pad leased to others and several developable land parcels as held for sale as of December 31, 2019. The properties are located in Fort Lee, Parsippany, Madison, Short Hills, Edison, Red Bank and Florham Park. The Company determined that the carrying value of 21 of the properties (comprised of six disposal groups) and several land parcels held for sale was not expected to be recovered from estimated net sales proceeds, and accordingly, during the year ended December 31, 2019, recognized an unrealized loss allowance of $174.1 million ($137.9 million of which are from discontinued operations, for the properties and land and other impairments of $32.4 million.
The following table summarizes the real estate held for sale, net, and other assets and liabilities (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following rental properties during the year ended December 31, 2019 (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following developable land holdings during the year ended December 31, 2019 (dollars in thousands):
2018
The Company identified as held for sale six office properties, totaling approximately 845,000 square feet, and a 159 unit multi-family rental property as of December 31, 2018. The properties are located in Fort Lee, Newark, Paramus, Bridgewater, Morris Plains and Rahway, New Jersey. The total estimated sales proceeds, net of selling costs, from the sales which were all completed in 2019, were approximately $123.1 million. The Company determined that the carrying value of four of the properties was not expected to be recovered from estimated net sales proceeds and accordingly recognized an unrealized loss allowance of $20.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.
The following table summarizes the real estate held for sale, net, as of December 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following office properties during the year ended December 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):
The Company disposed of the following developable land holdings during the year ended December 31, 2018 (dollars in thousands):
Other assets and liabilities related to the rental properties held for sale, as of December 31, 2018, include $2.9 million in Deferred charges and other assets, $1.7 million in Unbilled rents receivable and $2.3 million in Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities. Approximately $3.9 million of these assets and $1.7 million of these liabilities are expected to be removed with the completion of the sales.
Land Impairments
The Company owned two separate developable land parcels in Conshohocken and Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, that were being considered for development into multi-family rental properties. During the fourth quarter 2018, the Company changed its plans regarding pursuing development in Pennsylvania and made the decision to pursue selling the land parcels as opposed to development. Due to the shortening of the expected periods of ownership, the Company determined that the carrying value of the land parcels was impaired and recorded an adjustment to its carrying value to their estimated fair value and recorded land impairments charges of $24.6 million at December 31, 2018. The land parcels were subsequently sold during the year ended December 31, 2019.
Unconsolidated Joint Venture Activity
On February 28, 2019, the Company sold its interest in the Red Bank Corporate Plaza joint venture which owns an operating property located in Red Bank, New Jersey for a sales price of $4.2 million, and realized a gain on the sale of the unconsolidated joint venture of $0.9 million.
On December 11, 2018, the Company acquired one of its partner’s interest in the Metropolitan and Shops at 40 Park and the Lofts at 40 Park for $1.3 million and as a result, increased its ownership from 12.5 percent interest to 25 percent interest in the Metropolitan and Shops at 40 Park and from 25 percent interest to 50 percent interest in the Lofts at 40 Park.
Rockpoint Transaction
On February 27, 2017, the Company, Roseland Residential Trust (“RRT”), the Company’s subsidiary through which the Company conducts its multi-family residential real estate operations, Roseland Residential, L.P. (“RRLP”), the operating partnership through which RRT conducts all of its operations, and certain other affiliates of the Company entered into a preferred equity investment agreement (the “Original Investment Agreement”) with certain affiliates of Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. (Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. and its affiliates, collectively, “Rockpoint”). The Original Investment Agreement provided for RRT to contribute property to RRLP in exchange for common units of limited partnership interests in RRLP (the “Common Units”) and for multiple equity investments by Rockpoint in RRLP from time to time for up to an aggregate of $300 million of preferred units of limited partnership interests in RRLP (the “Preferred Units”). The initial closing under the Original Investment Agreement occurred on March 10, 2017 for $150 million of Preferred Units and the parties agreed that the Company’s contributed equity value (“RRT Contributed Equity Value”), was $1.23 billion at closing. During the year ended December 31, 2018, a total additional amount of $105 million of Preferred Units were issued and sold to Rockpoint pursuant to the Original Investment Agreement. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, a total additional amount of $45 million of Preferred Units were issued and sold to Rockpoint pursuant to the Original Investment Agreement, which brought the Preferred Units to the full balance of $300 million. In addition, certain contributions of property to RRLP by RRT subsequent to the execution of the Original Investment Agreement resulted in RRT being issued approximately $46 million of Preferred Units and Common Units in RRLP prior to June 26, 2019.
On June 26, 2019, the Company, RRT, RRLP, certain other affiliates of the Company and Rockpoint entered into an additional preferred equity investment agreement (the “Add On Investment Agreement”). The closing under the Add On Investment Agreement occurred on June 28, 2019. Pursuant to the Add On Investment Agreement, Rockpoint invested an additional $100 million in Preferred Units and the Company and RRT agreed to contribute to RRLP two additional properties located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Company used the $100 million in proceeds received to repay outstanding borrowings under its unsecured revolving credit facility and other debt by June 30, 2019. In addition, Rockpoint has a right of first refusal to invest another $100 million in Preferred Units in the event RRT determines that RRLP requires additional capital prior to March 1, 2023 and, subject thereto, RRLP may issue up to approximately $154 million in Preferred Units to RRT or an affiliate so long as at the time of such funding RRT determines in good faith that RRLP has a valid business purpose to use such proceeds. See Note 15: Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests for additional information about the Add On Investment Agreement and the related transactions with Rockpoint.
RRLP has been identified as a variable interest entity in which the Company is deemed to be the primary beneficiary. As of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company’s consolidated RRLP entity had total assets of $3.1 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively, total mortgages and loan payable of $1.4 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively, and other liabilities of $115.2 million and $57 million, respectively. |