The Company:Senior Housing Properties Trust, or SNH, is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns independent and assisted living properties, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes and hospitals located throughout the United States. We are included in a number of stock indices, including the Russell 2000®, the MSCI US REIT Index, FTSE EPRA/NAREIT United States Index and the S&P REIT Composite Index. Management: Senior Housing Properties Trust is managed by Reit Management & Research LLC, or RMR. RMR is a real estate management company which was founded in 1986 to manage public investments in real estate. As of June 30, 2007, RMR managed one of the largest portfolios of publicly owned real estate in the United States, including over 1,270 properties, with 300 million square feet, located in 44 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and Ontario, Canada. RMR has over 460 employees in its headquarters and regional offices located throughout the Country. In addition to managing SNH, RMR and its affiliates also manage Hospitality Properties Trust, a publicly traded REIT that owns hotels and travel centers, HRPT Properties Trust, a publicly traded REIT that primarily owns office buildings, and six mutual funds which invest in unaffiliated real estate companies. The public companies managed by RMR and its affiliates had combined total market capitalization of approximately $16 billion as of June 30, 2007. We believe that being managed by RMR is a competitive advantage for SNH because RMR provides SNH with a depth of management and experience which may be unequaled in the real estate industry. We also believe RMR is able to provide management services to SNH at costs that are lower than SNH would have to pay for similar quality services. | | Strategy:Our present business plan is to maintain an investment portfolio of independent and assisted living properties, continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes and to acquire additional senior living properties primarily for income and secondarily for appreciation potential. Our current growth strategy is generally focused on making acquisitions of geographically diverse, primarily independent and assisted senior living properties where the majority of the residents pay for occupancy and services with their private resources rather than through government programs. We base our acquisition decisions on the historical and projected operating results of the target properties and the financial strength of the proposed tenants and their guarantors, among other considerations. We also sometimes consider investing in properties other than senior living properties. Our present financial strategy is to maintain a conservative capital structure which limits the amount of debt that we issue. We do not have any investments in joint ventures or partnerships. Also, the majority of our debt is fixed rate, and we have no significant debt maturities until 2016. Stock Exchange Listing: New York Stock Exchange Corporate Headquarters: 400 Centre Street Newton, MA 02458 (t) (617) 796-8350 (f) (617) 796-8349 Trading Symbol: Common Shares -- SNH Senior Unsecured Debt Ratings: Moody's -- Ba2 Standard & Poor's -- BB+ |