RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS | 3 Months Ended |
Mar. 31, 2014 |
Related Party Transactions [Abstract] | ' |
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS | ' |
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS |
The Company has entered into the Advisory Agreement with the Advisor and the Dealer Manager Agreements with the Dealer Manager. These agreements entitle the Advisor and the Dealer Manager to specified fees upon the provision of certain services with regard to the Offerings and the investment of proceeds from the Offerings in real estate related investments, among other services, as well as reimbursement of organization and offering costs incurred by the Advisor and the Dealer Manager on behalf of the Company and certain costs incurred by the Advisor in providing services to the Company. The Company has also entered into a fee reimbursement agreement (the “AIP Reimbursement Agreement”) with the Dealer Manager pursuant to which the Company agreed to reimburse the Dealer Manager for certain fees and expenses it incurs for administering the Company’s participation in the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (“DTCC”) Alternative Investment Product Platform with respect to certain accounts of the Company’s investors serviced through the platform. The Advisor and Dealer Manager also serve as the advisor and dealer manager, respectively, for KBS Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc., KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc and KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT II, Inc. During the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, no transactions occurred between the Company and these other KBS-sponsored programs. |
On January 6, 2014, the Company, together with KBS Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc., KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc., KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT II, Inc., the Dealer Manager, the Advisor and other KBS-affiliated entities, entered into an errors and omissions and directors and officers liability insurance program where the lower tiers of coverage are shared. The cost of these lower tiers is allocated by the Advisor and its insurance broker among each of the various entities covered by the plan, and is billed directly to each entity. The allocation of these shared coverage costs is proportionate to the pricing by the insurance marketplace for the first tiers of directors and officers liability coverage purchased individually by each REIT. The Advisor’s and the Dealer Manager’s portion of the shared lower tiers’ cost is proportionate to the respective entities’ prior cost for the errors and omissions insurance. |
During the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, no other transactions occurred between the Company and KBS Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc., KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc. and KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT II, Inc. |
Pursuant to the terms of these agreements, summarized below are the related-party costs incurred by the Company for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and any related amounts payable as of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 (in thousands): |
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| | Incurred | | Receivable as of | | Payable as of |
| | Three Months Ended March 31, | | March 31, | | December 31, | | March 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2014 | | 2013 | | 2014 | | 2013 | | 2014 | | 2013 |
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Asset management fees (1) | | $ | 595 | | | $ | 659 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 3,048 | | | $ | 2,454 | |
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Reimbursable operating expenses (2) | | 214 | | | 103 | | | — | | | — | | | 23 | | | 63 | |
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Acquisition fees on real properties | | 701 | | | 389 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Property management fees (3) | | 62 | | | 45 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Capitalized | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Construction management fees | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 134 | |
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Additional Paid-in Capital | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Selling commissions | | 336 | | | 2,557 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Dealer manager fees | | 160 | | | 1,496 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Reimbursable other offering costs (4) | | 58 | | | 315 | | | 865 | | | — | | | — | | | 19 | |
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| | $ | 2,126 | | | $ | 5,564 | | | $ | 865 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 3,071 | | | $ | 2,670 | |
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(1) See “Amendments to the Advisory Agreement” below. |
(2) Reimbursable operating expenses primarily consists of marketing research costs and property pursuit costs incurred by the Sub-Advisor. In addition, the Advisor may seek reimbursement for employee costs under the Advisory Agreement. Beginning July 1, 2010, the Company has reimbursed the Advisor for the Company’s allocable portion of the salaries, benefits and overhead of internal audit department personnel providing services to the Company. These amounts totaled $23,000 and $15,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and were the only employee costs reimbursable under the Advisory Agreement through March 31, 2014. The Company will not reimburse for employee costs in connection with services for which the Advisor earns acquisition or disposition fees (other than reimbursement of travel and communication expenses) or for the salaries or benefits the Advisor or its affiliates may pay to the Company’s executive officers. |
(3) See “— Property Management — Account Services Agreements.” |
(4) See “— Other Offering Costs.” |
Other Offering Costs |
From inception of the Follow-on Offering through March 31, 2014, the Company has recognized and paid $1.3 million in selling commissions and dealer manager fees related to the Follow-on Offering. Additionally, the Company has incurred $2.7 million of other organization and offering costs related to the Follow-on Offering. As of March 31, 2014, the selling commissions, dealer manager fees, and organization and other offering costs related to the Follow-on Offering exceeded 15% of the gross offering proceeds. Through March 31, 2014, including shares issued through the Company’s dividend reinvestment plan, the Company had sold 1,966,777 shares in the Follow-on Offering for gross offering proceeds of $20.6 million. Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, the Advisor is obligated to reimburse the Company to the extent selling commissions, dealer manager fees and other organization and offering costs incurred by the Company in each of the Offerings exceed 15% of the gross offering proceeds of the respective Offering. Due to this limitation, the Company recorded $3.1 million of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and other organization and offering costs as additional paid-in capital and $0.9 million of amounts due from affiliates. |
Amendments to the Advisory Agreement |
On January 8, 2013, the Company entered into an amendment to the advisory agreement with the Advisor, which defers the Company’s obligation to pay asset management fees, without interest, accruing from February 1, 2013 through July 31, 2013. The Company will only be obligated to pay the Advisor such deferred amounts if and to the extent that the Company’s funds from operations, as such term is defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and interpreted by the Company, as adjusted for the effects of straight-line rents and acquisition costs and expenses (“AFFO”) for the immediately preceding month exceeds the amount of distributions declared for record dates of such prior month (an “AFFO Surplus”). The amount of any AFFO Surplus in a given month shall be applied first to pay to the Advisor asset management fees currently due with respect to such month (including any that would otherwise have been deferred for that month in accordance with this amendment) and then to pay asset management fees previously deferred by the Advisor in accordance with this amendment that remain unpaid. As of March 31, 2014, the Company had accrued and deferred payment of $1.5 million of asset management fees for February through July 2013 under this amendment, as the Company believes the payment of this amount to the Advisor is probable. These fees will be reimbursed in accordance with the terms noted above. |
On August 14, 2013, the Company and the Advisor entered into an amendment to the advisory agreement between the parties. The amendment reduces the asset management fee payable by the Company to the Advisor with respect to investments in real estate to a monthly fee equal to the lesser of one-twelfth of (i) 1.0% of the amount paid or allocated to fund the acquisition, development, construction or improvement of the property (whether at or subsequent to acquisition), including acquisition expenses and budgeted capital improvement costs (regardless of the level of debt used to finance the investment), and (ii) 2.0% of the amount paid or allocated to fund the acquisition, development, construction or improvement of the property, including acquisition expenses and budgeted capital improvement costs, less any debt used to finance the investment. In addition, the amendment defers without interest under certain circumstances, the Company’s obligation to pay asset management fees accruing from August 1, 2013. Specifically, the amendment defers the Company’s obligation to pay an asset management fee for any month in which the Company’s modified funds from operations (“MFFO”), as such term is defined in the practice guideline issued by the Investment Program Association (“IPA”) in November 2010 and interpreted by the Company, excluding asset management fees, does not exceed the amount of distributions declared for record dates of the corresponding month. The Company remains obligated to pay the Advisor an asset management fee in any month in which the MFFO, excluding asset management fees, for such month exceeds the amount of distributions declared for the record dates of that month (such excess amount, an “MFFO Surplus”), but any amount of the asset management fee for such month in excess of the MFFO Surplus will also be deferred under the amendment. If the MFFO Surplus for any month exceeds the amount of the asset management fee payable for such month, any remaining MFFO Surplus will not be applied to pay asset management fee amounts previously deferred by the Advisor in accordance with this amendment. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, any and all deferred asset management fees shall be immediately due and payable at such time as the stockholders have received, together as a collective group, aggregate distributions (including distributions that may constitute a return of capital for federal income tax purposes) sufficient to provide (i) a return of their net invested capital, or the amount calculated by multiplying the total number of shares purchased by stockholders by the issue price, reduced by any amounts to repurchase shares pursuant to the Company’s share redemption plan, and (ii) an 8.0% per year cumulative, non-compounded return on such net invested capital (the “Stockholders’ 8% Return”). The Stockholders’ 8% Return is not based on the return provided to any individual stockholder. Accordingly, it is not necessary for each of the Company’s stockholders to have received any minimum return in order for the Advisor to receive deferred asset management fees. As of March 31, 2014, the Company accrued and deferred payment of $1.5 million of asset management fees for August 2013 through March 2014 under this amendment, as the Company believes the payment of this amount to the Advisor is probable. These fees will be reimbursed in accordance with the terms noted above. |
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Property Management — Account Services Agreements |
In connection with each of its acquisitions of Poplar Creek, The Residence at Waterstone, Legacy Crescent Park, Legacy at Martin’s Point, Wesley Village, Millennium Apartment Homes, Legacy Grand at Concord and Lofts at the Highlands, the Company, through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a separate Property Management — Account Services Agreement (collectively, the “Services Agreement”) with Legacy Partners Residential L.P. (“LPR”), an affiliate of the Sub-Advisor, pursuant to which LPR will provide certain account maintenance and bookkeeping services related to these properties. Under each Services Agreement, the Company pays LPR a monthly fee in an amount equal to 1% of each property’s gross monthly collections. Unless otherwise provided for in an approved operating budget for a property, LPR will be responsible for all expenses that it incurs in rendering services pursuant to each Services Agreement. Each Services Agreement has an initial term of one year and will continue thereafter on a month-to-month basis unless either party gives 30 days’ prior written notice of its desire to terminate the Services Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may terminate each Services Agreement at any time without cause upon 30 days’ prior written notice to LPR. The Company may also terminate each Services Agreement with cause immediately upon notice to LPR and the expiration of any applicable cure period. LPR may terminate each Services Agreement at any time without cause upon 90 days’ prior written notice to the Company. |