FAQs About UPREITs and OP Unit Transactions

What is an UPREIT? – A common operating structure for publicly traded equity REITs is the umbrella partnership real estate investment trust (“UPREIT”) structure. In a typical UPREIT structure, the REIT holds substantially all of its assets, and conducts substantially all of its operations, through a single operating partnership subsidiary (the “Operating Partnership”). In most cases, the REIT or a wholly owned subsidiary of the REIT serves as the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and, as a result, the REIT has the exclusive power and authority to manage the Operating Partnership’s business, subject to certain limited rights maintained by holders of units of limited partnership interest (“OP Units”) in the Operating Partnership pursuant to the partnership agreement of the Operating Partnership (the “Partnership Agreement”). Click to read more at www.jdsupra.com.