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Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
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Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR
We have no employees. The personnel and various services we require to operate our business are provided to us by RMR. We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us: (1) a business management agreement, which relates to our business generally; and (2) a property management agreement, which relates to our property level operations.
We are generally responsible for all of our operating expenses, including certain expenses incurred or arranged by RMR on our behalf. We are generally not responsible for payment of RMR’s employment, office or administrative expenses incurred to provide management services to us, except for the employment and related expenses of RMR’s employees assigned to work exclusively or partly at our properties, our share of the wages, benefits and other related costs of RMR’s centralized accounting personnel, our share of RMR’s costs for providing our internal audit function and as otherwise agreed. Our property level operating expenses are generally incorporated into the rents charged to our tenants, including certain payroll and related costs incurred by RMR.
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, the business management fees, property management fees and construction supervision fees and expense reimbursements recognized in our condensed consolidated financial statements were as follows:
Financial StatementThree Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
Line Item2025202420252024
Pursuant to business management agreement:
Business management fees (1)
General and administrative expenses$3,063 $3,052 $9,214 $9,919 
Pursuant to property management agreement:
Property management fees (2)
Other operating expenses$2,890 $3,234 $8,586 $10,391 
Construction supervision fees
Buildings and improvements (3)
325 478 974 2,284 
$3,215 $3,712 $9,560 $12,675 
Expense reimbursement:
Property level expensesOther operating expenses$4,584 $6,651 $15,753 $19,455 
Other reimbursed expensesGeneral and administrative expenses51 83 152 248 
$4,635 $6,734 $15,905 $19,703 
(1)The net business management fees we recognized for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 each reflect a reduction of $150 and for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 each reflect a reduction of $452 for the amortization of the liability we recorded in connection with our former investment in The RMR Group Inc., or RMR Inc.
(2)The net property management fees we recognized for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 each reflect a reduction of $121 and for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 each reflect a reduction of $363 for the amortization of the liability we recorded in connection with our former investment in RMR Inc.
(3)Amounts capitalized as buildings and improvements are depreciated over the estimated useful lives of the related assets.
Based on our common share total return, as defined in our business management agreement, as of September 30, 2025, no estimated incentive fees are included in the net business management fees we recognized for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025. The actual amount of annual incentive fees for 2025, if any, will be based on our common share total return for the three year period ending December 31, 2025, and will be payable in January 2026. We did not incur an incentive fee payable to RMR for the year ended December 31, 2024. See Note 1 for further information regarding our agreements with RMR as it relates to the Plan.

In January 2025, in connection with a $100,000 credit agreement and related security agreement entered into by RMR and certain of its subsidiaries with Citibank, N.A., or Citibank, and the other lenders party thereto, we consented to the pledge and assignment of RMR’s interest in our management agreements under the security agreement. Pursuant to the consent, we agreed, among other things, that upon notice that an event of default under the RMR credit agreement has occurred and is continuing, we will continue to make all payments under our management agreements in accordance with the instructions of Citibank, and that if there is an event of default by RMR under our management agreements that would allow us to terminate or suspend our obligations, we will not terminate or suspend without notice to Citibank and providing Citibank 30 days to cure the default on RMR’s behalf. The consent was approved by our Independent Trustees.

Management Agreement Between Our Joint Venture and RMR. RMR provides management services to our unconsolidated joint venture. We are not obligated to pay management fees to RMR under our management agreement with RMR for the services it provides regarding the joint venture. The joint venture pays management fees directly to RMR.