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10-Q 1 breit-10q_20190331.htm 10-Q breit-10q_20190331.htm

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED MARCH 31, 2019

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM TO

Commission File Number: 000-55931

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland

81-0696966

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

345 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10154

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(212) 583-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.    Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes No

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None

As of May 15, 2019, the issuer had the following shares outstanding: 356,946,820 shares of Class S common stock, 30,378,974 shares of Class T common stock, 46,242,127 shares of Class D common stock, and 151,588,240 shares of Class I common stock.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

1

ITEM 1.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1

Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited):

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

1

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 and 2018

2

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 and 2018

3

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2019 and 2018

4

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

5

ITEM 2.

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

22

ITEM 3.

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

39

ITEM 4.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

39

PART II.

OTHER INFORMATION

40

ITEM 1.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

40

ITEM 1A.

RISK FACTORS

40

ITEM 2.

UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

41

ITEM 3.

DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

42

ITEM 4.

MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

42

ITEM 5.

OTHER INFORMATION

42

ITEM 6.

EXHIBITS

43

SIGNATURES

44


PART I. FINANCIA L INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Assets

Investments in real estate, net

$

11,322,056

$

10,259,687

Investments in real estate-related securities and loans

2,386,131

2,259,913

Cash and cash equivalents

152,756

68,089

Restricted cash

488,100

238,524

Other assets

386,749

410,945

Total assets

$

14,735,792

$

13,237,158

Liabilities and Equity

Mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities, net

$

7,195,847

$

6,833,269

Repurchase agreements

1,781,149

1,713,723

Due to affiliates

317,970

301,581

Accounts payable, accrued expenses, and other liabilities

817,987

464,398

Total liabilities

10,112,953

9,312,971

Commitments and contingencies

Redeemable non-controlling interest

31,135

9,233

Equity

Preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share, 100,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued

and outstanding as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018

Common stock — Class S shares, $0.01 par value per share, 500,000,000 shares authorized;

318,995,204 and 276,989,019 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2019 and

December 31, 2018, respectively

3,190

2,770

Common stock — Class T shares, $0.01 par value per share, 500,000,000 shares authorized;

26,702,162 and 23,313,429 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2019 and

December 31, 2018, respectively

267

233

Common stock — Class D shares, $0.01 par value per share, 500,000,000 shares authorized;

38,119,939 and 30,375,353 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2019 and

December 31, 2018, respectively

381

304

Common stock — Class I shares, $0.01 par value per share, 500,000,000 shares authorized;

132,218,607 and 108,261,331 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2019 and

December 31, 2018, respectively

1,322

1,083

Additional paid-in capital

5,115,490

4,327,444

Accumulated deficit and cumulative distributions

(703,936

)

(587,548

)

Total stockholders' equity

4,416,714

3,744,286

Non-controlling interests attributable to third party joint ventures

77,173

75,592

Non-controlling interests attributable to BREIT OP unitholders

97,817

95,076

Total equity

4,591,704

3,914,954

Total liabilities and equity

$

14,735,792

$

13,237,158

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

1


Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

Revenues

Rental revenue

$

212,197

$

87,561

Hotel revenue

75,266

17,821

Other revenue

9,628

4,302

Total revenues

297,091

109,684

Expenses

Rental property operating

87,811

38,618

Hotel operating

51,320

11,614

General and administrative

3,181

2,045

Management fee

17,177

6,969

Performance participation allocation

20,163

7,873

Depreciation and amortization

139,479

74,124

Total expenses

319,131

141,243

Other income (expense)

Income from real estate-related securities and loans

61,683

13,235

Interest income

194

77

Interest expense

(91,587

)

(31,391

)

Other income (expense)

1,654

Total other income (expense)

(28,056

)

(18,079

)

Net loss

$

(50,096

)

$

(49,638

)

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in third party joint ventures

$

2,036

$

1,716

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in BREIT OP

1,214

374

Net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders

$

(46,846

)

$

(47,548

)

Net loss per share of common stock — basic and diluted

$

(0.10

)

$

(0.23

)

Weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding, basic and diluted

488,760,077

206,104,310

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

2


Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity (Unaudited)

(in thousands, except per share data)

Non-

controlling

Non-

controlling

Par Value

Accumulated

Interests

Interests

Common

Common

Common

Common

Additional

Deficit and

Total

Attributable

Attributable

Stock

Stock

Stock

Stock

Paid-in

Cumulative

Stockholders'

to Third Party

to BREIT OP

Total

Class S

Class T

Class D

Class I

Capital

Distributions

Equity

Joint Ventures

Unitholders

Equity

Balance at December 31, 2017

$

1,301

$

56

$

40

$

307

$

1,616,720

$

(132,633

)

$

1,485,791

$

23,848

$

$

1,509,639

Common stock issued

325

42

28

163

593,143

593,701

593,701

Offering costs

(37,361

)

(37,361

)

(37,361

)

Distribution reinvestment

11

4

16,482

16,497

16,497

Common stock repurchased

(1

)

(1

)

(2,294

)

(2,296

)

(2,296

)

Amortization of restricted stock grant

25

25

25

Net loss ($347 allocated to redeemable non-controlling interest)

(47,548

)

(47,548

)

(1,716

)

(49,264

)

Distributions declared on common stock ($0.1552 per share)

(28,384

)

(28,384

)

(28,384

)

Contributions from non-controlling interests

6,940

6,940

Distributions to non-controlling interests

(581

)

(581

)

Allocation to redeemable non-controlling interest

(883

)

(883

)

(883

)

Balance at March 31, 2018

$

1,636

$

98

$

68

$

473

$

2,185,832

$

(208,565

)

$

1,979,542

$

28,491

$

$

2,008,033

Balance at December 31, 2018

$

2,770

$

233

$

304

$

1,083

$

4,327,444

$

(587,548

)

$

3,744,286

$

75,592

$

95,076

$

3,914,954

Common stock issued

414

38

75

245

843,347

844,119

844,119

Offering costs

(50,847

)

(50,847

)

(50,847

)

Distribution reinvestment

24

2

2

11

41,995

42,034

42,034

Common stock repurchased

(18

)

(6

)

(18

)

(45,468

)

(45,510

)

(45,510

)

Amortization of compensation awards

1

99

100

500

600

Net loss ($277 allocated to redeemable non-controlling interest)

(46,846

)

(46,846

)

(2,036

)

(937

)

(49,819

)

Distributions declared on common stock ($0.1582 per share)

(69,542

)

(69,542

)

(69,542

)

Contributions from non-controlling interests

4,894

4,714

9,608

Distributions to non-controlling interests

(1,277

)

(1,536

)

(2,813

)

Allocation to redeemable non-controlling interest

(1,080

)

(1,080

)

(1,080

)

Balance at March 31, 2019

$

3,190

$

267

$

381

$

1,322

$

5,115,490

$

(703,936

)

$

4,416,714

$

77,173

$

97,817

$

4,591,704

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

3


Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)

(in thousands)

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

Cash flows from operating activities:

Net loss

$

(50,096

)

$

(49,638

)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:

Management fee

17,177

6,969

Performance participation allocation

20,163

7,873

Depreciation and amortization

139,479

74,124

Unrealized gain on changes in fair value of financial instruments

(30,003

)

(1,789

)

Other items

1,477

813

Change in assets and liabilities:

(Increase) / decrease in other assets

(26,092

)

(14,876

)

Increase / (decrease) in due to affiliates

(981

)

(455

)

Increase / (decrease) in accounts payable, accrued expenses, and other liabilities

1,912

18,469

Net cash provided by operating activities

73,036

41,490

Cash flows from investing activities:

Acquisitions of real estate

(735,508

)

(2,030,126

)

Capital improvements to real estate

(32,672

)

(6,086

)

Purchase of real estate-related securities and loans

(124,258

)

(259,553

)

Proceeds from settlement of real estate-related securities and loans

28,948

115,619

Net cash used in investing activities

(863,490

)

(2,180,146

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

Proceeds from issuance of common stock

649,725

479,821

Offering costs paid

(14,134

)

(7,979

)

Subscriptions received in advance

423,943

150,213

Repurchase of common stock

(38,427

)

(1,260

)

Redemption of redeemable non-controlling interest

(4,314

)

Borrowings from mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities

896,861

1,821,620

Repayments from mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities

(823,483

)

(336,100

)

Borrowings under repurchase agreements

82,045

216,987

Settlement of repurchase agreements

(14,619

)

(89,557

)

Borrowings from affiliate line of credit

206,500

Repayments on affiliate line of credit

(211,750

)

Payment of deferred financing costs

(8,343

)

(11,180

)

Contributions from non-controlling interests

2,374

6,940

Distributions to non-controlling interests

(3,158

)

(581

)

Distributions

(23,773

)

(9,079

)

Net cash provided by financing activities

1,124,697

2,214,595

Net change in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash

334,243

75,939

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period

306,613

157,729

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period

$

640,856

$

233,668

Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash to the condensed consolidated balance sheets:

Cash and cash equivalents

$

152,756

$

51,034

Restricted cash

488,100

182,634

Total cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash

$

640,856

$

233,668

Non-cash investing and financing activities:

Assumption of mortgage notes in conjunction with acquisitions of real estate

$

291,618

$

67,140

Assumption of other liabilities in conjunction with acquisitions of real estate

$

4,527

$

33,456

Recognition of financing lease liability

$

56,008

$

Contributions from non-controlling interests

$

2,520

$

Accrued capital expenditures and acquisition related costs

$

4,362

$

1,870

Accrued distributions

$

3,839

$

2,808

Accrued stockholder servicing fee due to affiliate

$

36,936

$

28,868

Accrued offering costs due to affiliate

$

$

508

Redeemable non-controlling interest issued as settlement of performance participation allocation

$

37,484

$

16,974

Exchange of redeemable non-controlling interest for Class I shares

$

11,620

$

1,036

Allocation to redeemable non-controlling interest

$

1,080

$

883

Distribution reinvestment

$

42,034

$

16,497

Accrued common stock repurchases

$

5,046

$

1,036

Accrued common stock repurchases due to affiliate

$

2,037

$

Issuance of BREIT OP units as settlement of affiliate incentive compensation awards

$

4,714

$

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

4


Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

1. Organization and Business Purpose

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (“BREIT” or the “Company”) was formed on November 16, 2015 as a Maryland corporation and qualifies as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Company invests primarily in stabilized income-oriented commercial real estate in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in real estate-related securities and loans. The Company is the sole general partner of BREIT Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“BREIT OP”). BREIT Special Limited Partner L.P. (the “Special Limited Partner”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Blackstone Group L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Blackstone”), owns a special limited partner interest in BREIT OP. Substantially all of the Company’s business is conducted through BREIT OP. The Company and BREIT OP are externally managed by BX REIT Advisors L.L.C. (the “Adviser”), an affiliate of Blackstone.

The Company had registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) an offering of up to $5.0 billion in shares of common stock, consisting of up to $4.0 billion in shares in its primary offering and up to $1.0 billion in shares pursuant to its distribution reinvestment plan (the “Initial Offering”). The Company accepted aggregate gross offering proceeds of $4.9 billion during the period January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2019 and ceased offering shares of common stock under the Initial Offering on January 1, 2019. The Company has registered with the SEC a follow-on offering of up to $12.0 billion in shares of common stock, consisting of up to $10.0 billion in shares in its primary offering and up to $2.0 billion in shares pursuant to its distribution reinvestment plan, which the Company began using to offer shares of common stock in January 2019 (the “Current Offering” and with the Initial Offering, the “Offering”). The Company intends to sell any combination of four classes of shares of its common stock, with a dollar value up to the maximum aggregate amount of the Current Offering. The share classes have different upfront selling commissions, dealer manager fees and ongoing stockholder servicing fees. As of March 31, 2019, the Company had received net proceeds of $5.5 billion from selling shares in the Offering. The Company intends to continue selling shares on a monthly basis.

As of March 31, 2019, the Company owned 491 properties and had 118 positions in real estate-related securities and loans. The Company currently operates in five reportable segments: Multifamily, Industrial, Hotel, and Retail Properties, and Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans. Multifamily includes various forms of rental housing including apartments, student housing and manufactured housing. Financial results by segment are reported in Note 13 — Segment Reporting.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. The condensed consolidated financial statements, including the condensed notes thereto, are unaudited and exclude some of the disclosures required in audited financial statements. Management believes it has made all necessary adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring items, so that the condensed consolidated financial statements are presented fairly and that estimates made in preparing its condensed consolidated financial statements are reasonable and prudent. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC.

Certain amounts in the Company’s prior period condensed consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. The Company has chosen to aggregate certain financial statement line items in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations and condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. Such reclassifications had no effect on total revenues or net loss on the condensed consolidated statements of operations or previously reported totals or subtotals in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, the Company’s subsidiaries and joint ventures in which the Company has a controlling interest. For consolidated joint ventures, the non-controlling partner’s share of the assets, liabilities and operations of the joint ventures is included in non-controlling interests as equity of the Company. The non-controlling partner’s interest is generally computed as the joint venture partner’s ownership percentage. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

5


The Company consolidates partially owned entities in which it has a controlling financial interest. In determining whether t he Company has a controlling financial interest in a partially owned entity and the requirement to consolidate the accounts of that entity, the Company considers whether the entity is a variable interest entity (“VIE”) and whether it is the primary benefic iary. The Company is the primary beneficiary of a VIE when it has (i) the power to direct the most significant activities impacting the economic performance of the VIE and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses or receive benefits significant to the VIE. BRE IT OP and each of the Company’s joint ventures are considered to be a VIE. The Company consolidates these entities because it has the ability to direct the most significant activities of the entities such as purchases, dispositions, financings, budgets, an d overall operating plans.

As of March 31, 2019, the total assets and liabilities of the Company’s consolidated VIEs, excluding BREIT OP, were $3.6 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively, compared to $2.8 billion and $1.9 billion as of December 31, 2018. Such amounts are included on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the balance sheet. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Fair Value Option

The Company elected the fair value option (“FVO”) for its investments in term loans. Unrealized gains and losses on the value of financial instruments for which the FVO has been elected are recorded as a component of net income or loss. The Company records any unrealized gains or losses on its investments in term loans as a component of Income from Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Fair Value Measurements

Under normal market conditions, the fair value of an investment is the amount that would be received to sell an asset or transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (i.e., the exit price). Additionally, there is a hierarchal framework that prioritizes and ranks the level of market price observability used in measuring investments at fair value. Market price observability is impacted by a number of factors, including the type of investment and the characteristics specific to the investment and the state of the marketplace, including the existence and transparency of transactions between market participants. Investments with readily available active quoted prices or for which fair value can be measured from actively quoted prices generally will have a higher degree of market price observability and a lesser degree of judgment used in measuring fair value.

Investments measured and reported at fair value are classified and disclosed in one of the following levels within the fair value hierarchy:

Level 1 — quoted prices are available in active markets for identical investments as of the measurement date. The Company does not adjust the quoted price for these investments.

Level 2 — quoted prices are available in markets that are not active or model inputs are based on inputs that are either directly or indirectly observable as of the measurement date.

Level 3 — pricing inputs are unobservable and include instances where there is minimal, if any, market activity for the investment. These inputs require significant judgment or estimation by management or third parties when determining fair value and generally represent anything that does not meet the criteria of Levels 1 and 2. Due to the inherent uncertainty of these estimates, these values may differ materially from the values that would have been used had a ready market for these investments existed.

As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company’s $2.4 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively, of investments in Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans were classified as Level 2.

Valuation

The Company’s investments in real estate-related securities and loans are reported at fair value. As of March 31, 2019, the Company’s investments in real estate-related securities and loans consisted of commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”), which are mortgage-related fixed income securities, corporate bonds, and term loans of real estate-related companies. The Company generally determines the fair value of its real estate-related securities and loans by utilizing third-party pricing service providers and broker-dealer quotations on the basis of last available bid price.

6


In determining the fair value of a particular investment, pricing service providers may use broker-dealer quotations, reported trades or valuation estimates from their internal pri cing models to determine the reported price. The pricing service providers’ internal models for securities such as real estate-related securities and loans generally consider the attributes applicable to a particular class of the security (e.g., credit rat ing, seniority), current market data, and estimated cash flows for each class and incorporate deal collateral performance such as prepayment speeds and default rates, as available.

As of March 31, 2019, the fair value of the Company’s mortgage notes, term loans, revolving credit facilities, repurchase agreements, and affiliate line of credit was approximately $17.6 million above carrying value. Fair value of the Company’s indebtedness is estimated by modeling the cash flows required by the Company’s debt agreements and discounting them back to the present value using the appropriate discount rate. Additionally, the Company considers current market rates and conditions by evaluating similar borrowing agreements with comparable loan-to-value ratios and credit profiles. The inputs used in determining the fair value of the Company’s indebtedness are considered Level 3.

Stock-Based Compensation

The Company’s stock-based compensation consists of incentive compensation awards issued to certain employees of affiliate portfolio company service providers. Such awards vest over the life of the awards and stock-based compensation expense is recognized for these awards in net income on a straight-line basis over the applicable vesting period of the award, based on the value of the awards at grant. Refer to Note 10 for additional information.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update 2016-02 (“ASU 2016-02”), “Leases,” and all related amendments (codified in Accounting Standards Codification Topic 842 (“Topic 842”)). Certain of the Company’s investments in real estate are subject to ground leases, for which lease liabilities and corresponding right-of-use (“ROU”) assets were recognized as a result of adoption. The Company calculated the amount of the lease liabilities and ROU assets by taking the present value of the remaining lease payments, and adjusted the ROU assets for any existing straight-line ground rent liabilities and acquired ground lease intangibles. The Company’s estimated incremental borrowing rate of a loan with a similar term as the corresponding ground leases was used as the discount rate, which was determined to be approximately 7.0%. Considerable judgment and assumptions were required to estimate the Company’s incremental borrowing rate which was determined by considering the Company’s credit quality, ground lease duration, and debt yields observed in the market.

Three of the Company’s existing ground leases were classified as operating leases and upon adoption the Company recognized operating lease liabilities and corresponding ROU assets of $31.3 million. The Company’s existing below-market ground lease intangible asset of $4.5 million, above-market ground lease intangible liability of $4.6 million, and straight-line ground rent liability of $1.2 million were reclassified as of January 1, 2019 to be presented net of the operating ROU assets. In addition, the Company’s existing prepaid ground lease intangible asset of $15.7 million was reclassified as of January 1, 2019 to be presented along with the operating ROU assets.

On March 29, 2019, the Company made an acquisition which was subject to ground leases. The present value of the future lease payments under such leases exceeded the fair value of the underlying asset, as such the Company recorded financing lease liabilities and corresponding ROU assets of $56.0 million. The Company’s existing financing ROU asset of $6.1 million is presented along with the acquired financing ROU assets for total ROU assets of $62.1 million as of March 31, 2019. The Company’s financing lease liabilities include the Company’s existing financing lease liability in the amount of $4.3 million.

The lease liabilities are included as a component of Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses, and Other Liabilities and the related ROU assets are recorded as a component of Investments in Real Estate, Net on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. Refer to Note 3 and Note 8 for additional information.

In transition, the Company elected the package of practical expedients to not reassess (i) whether existing arrangements are or contain a lease, (ii) the classification of an operating or financing lease in a period prior to adoption, and (iii) any initial direct costs for existing leases. Additionally, the Company elected to not use hindsight and carried forward its lease term assumptions when adopting Topic 842 and did not recognize lease liabilities and lease assets for leases with a term of 12 months or less. The Company applied ASU 2016-02 as of the effective date of January 1, 2019 and there was no impact to retained earnings as a result of the Company’s adoption.

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The adoption of ASU 2016-02 for leases in which the Company is lessor did not have a material impact on the Company ’s condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company elected to not separate non-lease components from lease components and presented lease related revenues as a single line item, net of bad debt expense on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated State ment of Operations. Prior to the adoption of ASU 2016-02 the Company separated lease related revenue between “rental revenue” and “tenant reimbursement income” and bad debt expense as a component of “rental property operating” expense. As a result of adopt ion, the Company reclassified the prior period balances of “tenant reimbursement income” to “rental revenue” to conform to the current period presentation. The Company did not reclassify the prior period balance of bad debt expense on its condensed consoli dated statement of operations. The prior period operating lease income presented in “rental revenue” includes $9.0 million previously classified as “tenant reimbursement income” which was determined under the standard in effect prior to the Company’s adopt ion of ASU 2016-02. Refer to Note 3 for additional information.

3. Investments in Real Estate

Investments in real estate, net consisted of the following ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Building and building improvements

$

9,285,485

$

8,389,864

Land and land improvements

2,090,200

1,961,977

Furniture, fixtures and equipment

204,182

182,418

Right of use asset - operating leases

45,678

Right of use asset - financing leases

62,130

Total

11,687,675

10,534,259

Accumulated depreciation

(365,619

)

(274,572

)

Investments in real estate, net

$

11,322,056

$

10,259,687

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company acquired interests in 4 real estate investments, which were comprised of one industrial, 15 multifamily and one hotel property.

The following table provides further details of the properties acquired during the three months ended March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands):

Investment

Ownership

Interest (1)

Number of

Properties

Location

Segment

Acquisition

Date

Purchase

Price (2)

4500 Westport Drive

100%

1

Harrisburg, PA

Industrial

Jan. 2019

$

11,975

Roman Multifamily Portfolio

100%

14

Various (3)

Multifamily

Feb. 2019

857,540

Gilbert Heritage Apartments

90%

1

Phoenix, AZ

Multifamily

Feb. 2019

60,984

Courtyard Kona

100%

1

Kailua-Kona, HI

Hotel

Mar. 2019

105,587

17

$

1,036,086

(1)

Certain of the investments made by the Company provide the seller or the other partner a profits interest based on certain internal rate of return hurdles being achieved. Such investments are consolidated by the Company and any profits interest due to the other partner is reported within non-controlling interests.

(2)

Purchase price is inclusive of acquisition related costs.

(3)

The Roman Multifamily Portfolio is primarily concentrated in Riverside, CA (18% of units), Denver, CO (13%), Tampa, FL (10%), Orlando, FL (9%), Charlotte, NC (9%), Portland, OR (8%), and Dallas, TX (8%).

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The following table summarizes the purchase price allocation for the properties acquired during the thre e months ended March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands):

Roman Multifamily

Portfolio

All Other

Total

Building and building improvements

$

714,941

$

151,401

$

866,342

Land and land improvements

110,206

17,526

127,732

Furniture, fixtures and equipment

8,538

7,364

15,902

In-place lease intangibles

23,855

2,623

26,478

Above-market lease intangibles

10

10

Below-market lease intangibles

(378

)

(378

)

Total purchase price

857,540

178,546

1,036,086

Assumed mortgage notes (1)

237,981

53,637

291,618

Net purchase price

$

619,559

$

124,909

$

744,468

(1)

Refer to Note 6 for additional details on the Company’s mortgage notes.

The weighted-average amortization periods for the acquired in-place lease intangibles, above-market lease intangibles, and below-market lease intangibles of the properties acquired during the three months ended March 31, 2019 were one, two, and five years, respectively.

Leases - Lessee

Certain of the Company’s investments in real estate are subject to ground leases. The Company’s ground leases are classified as either operating leases or financing leases based on the characteristics of each lease. As of March 31, 2019, the Company had four ground leases classified as operating and three ground leases classified as financing. Each of the Company’s ground leases were acquired as part of the acquisition of real estate and no incremental costs were incurred for such ground leases. The Company’s ground leases are non-cancelable and do not contain renewal options. The following table presents the future lease payments due under the Company’s ground leases ($ in thousands):

Operating

Leases

Financing

Leases

2019 (remaining)

$

1,059

$

2,189

2020

1,445

2,991

2021

1,481

3,081

2022

1,518

3,174

2023

1,556

3,269

2024

1,596

3,367

Thereafter

457,749

330,546

Total undiscounted future lease payments

466,404

348,617

Difference between undiscounted cash flows and discounted cash flows

434,921

288,309

Total right of use lease liability

$

31,483

$

60,308

The Company utilized its incremental borrowing rate of approximately 7% to determine its lease liabilities. As of March 31, 2019, the weighted average remaining lease term of the Company’s operating leases and financing leases was 78 years and 77 years, respectively.

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Payments under the Company’s ground leases primarily conta in fixed payment components that may include periodic increases fixed to an index or periodic fixed percentage escalations. One of the Company’s ground leases contains a variable component based on a percentage of revenue. The following table summarizes th e fixed and variable components of the Company’s operating leases ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

Fixed ground rent expense

$

359

$

68

Variable ground rent expense

18

6

Total cash portion of ground rent expense

377

74

Non-cash ground rent expense

1,092

51

Total operating lease costs

$

1,469

$

125

Lease costs related to the Company’s financing leases were $15,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, and the Company did not incur any lease costs during the corresponding period of the prior year. Additionally, lease costs recognized during the prior period are presented under the standard in effect prior to the Company’s adoption of ASU 2016-02.

Leases – Lessor

The Company’s rental revenue primarily consists of rent earned from operating leases at the Company’s multifamily, industrial, and retail properties. Leases at the Company’s industrial and retail properties generally include a fixed base rent and certain leases also contain a variable component. The variable component of the Company’s operating leases at its industrial and retail properties primarily consist of the reimbursement of operating expenses such as real estate taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance costs. Leases at the Company’s industrial and retail properties are generally longer term and may contain extension and termination options at the lessee’s election. Rental revenue earned from leases at the Company’s multifamily properties primarily consist of a fixed base rent and certain leases contain a variable component that allow for the pass-through of certain operating expenses such as utilities. Leases at the Company’s multifamily properties are short term in nature, generally not greater than 12 months in length.

The following table details the components of operating lease income from leases in which the Company is the lessor ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

Fixed lease payments

$

188,855

$

78,513

Variable lease payments

23,342

9,048

Rental revenue

$

212,197

$

87,561

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4. Intangibles

The gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization of the Company’s intangible assets and liabilities consisted of the following ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Intangible assets:

In-place lease intangibles

$

368,599

$

354,261

Above-market lease intangibles

21,621

21,626

Prepaid ground lease intangibles

16,114

Below-market ground lease intangibles

5,415

Other

5,676

5,676

Total intangible assets

395,896

403,092

Accumulated amortization:

In-place lease amortization

(140,752

)

(104,745

)

Above-market lease amortization

(6,265

)

(4,903

)

Prepaid ground lease amortization

(378

)

Below-market ground lease amortization

(162

)

Other

(289

)

(246

)

Total accumulated amortization

(147,306

)

(110,434

)

Intangible assets, net

$

248,590

$

292,658

Intangible liabilities:

Below-market lease intangibles

$

62,338

$

62,199

Above-market ground lease intangibles

4,657

Total intangible liabilities

62,338

66,856

Accumulated amortization:

Below-market lease amortization

(14,074

)

(11,132

)

Above-market ground lease amortization

(15

)

Total accumulated amortization

(14,074

)

(11,147

)

Intangible liabilities, net

$

48,264

$

55,709

The estimated future amortization on the Company’s intangibles for each of the next five years and thereafter as of March 31, 2019 is as follows ($ in thousands)

In-place Lease

Intangibles

Above-market

Lease Intangibles

Below-market

Lease Intangibles

2019 (remaining)

$

71,595

$

3,502

$

(9,267

)

2020

49,829

3,957

(10,254

)

2021

37,330

3,406

(7,907

)

2022

25,628

2,334

(5,958

)

2023

15,464

1,017

(4,414

)

2024

8,674

489

(2,680

)

Thereafter

19,327

651

(7,784

)

$

227,847

$

15,356

$

(48,264

)


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5. Investments in Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans

The following tables detail the Company’s investments in real estate-related securities and loans ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

Number of Positions

Credit

Rating (1)

Collateral (2)

Weighted

Average

Coupon (3)

Weighted

Average

Maturity Date (4)

Face

Amount/

Notional (5)

Cost

Basis

Fair

Value

CMBS - Floating:

40

BB

Hospitality, Industrial, Multifamily, Office, Retail

L+2.81%

8/7/2024

$

978,540

$

976,867

$

977,019

24

BBB

Hospitality, Industrial, Multifamily, Office

L+2.23%

6/26/2024

556,025

555,630

554,861

22

B

Hospitality, Multifamily, Office

L+3.55%

8/17/2024

496,019

494,747

494,646

3

A

Hospitality, Industrial, Retail

L+1.82%

1/3/2023

78,320

78,337

78,231

8

Other

Multifamily

L+2.44%

8/12/2025

41,574

41,326

41,369

CMBS - Fixed:

5

BBB

Multifamily

4.2%

7/16/2027

28,213

26,256

27,668

1

BB

Hospitality

4.4%

9/22/2022

24,613

24,049

24,850

1

B

Multifamily

5.2%

8/26/2022

6,704

6,687

6,767

3

Other

Multifamily

4.3%

10/17/2027

16,998

15,762

16,354

CMBS - Interest Only:

2

AAA

Multifamily

0.1%

4/19/2026

1,801,735

9,886

9,887

1

BBB

Multifamily

0.1%

1/5/2028

225,802

1,417

1,418

1

A

Multifamily

0.1%

5/2/2025

194,399

1,004

1,004

CMBS - Zero Coupon:

2

Other

Multifamily

N/A

12/1/2026

166,793

82,572

87,600

Corporate Bonds:

2

BB

Hospitality, Diversified

6.5%

7/7/2026

57,329

57,300

59,715

Term Loans:

2

B

Hospitality

L+3.90%

10/2/2024

3,809

3,715

3,702

1

BB

Hospitality

L+2.25%

8/29/2025

1,046

1,044

1,040

118

$

2,376,599

$

2,386,131

December 31, 2018

Number of Positions

Credit

Rating (1)

Collateral (2)

Weighted

Average

Coupon (3)

Weighted

Average

Maturity Date (4)

Face

Amount/

Notional (5)

Cost

Basis

Fair

Value

CMBS:

38

BB

Hospitality, Industrial, Multifamily, Office, Retail

L+2.83%

9/4/2024

$

941,240

$

939,742

$

930,411

26

BBB

Hospitality, Industrial, Multifamily, Office

L+2.15%

11/18/2024

578,771

576,601

571,171

21

B

Hospitality, Multifamily, Office

L+3.56%

9/19/2024

496,383

495,095

490,019

3

A

Hospitality, Industrial, Retail

L+1.81%

3/10/2023

89,165

89,184

88,358

7

Other

Multifamily

L+1.99%

6/13/2026

35,442

34,876

34,951

CMBS - Interest Only:

2

AAA

Multifamily

0.1%

3/12/2027

1,802,581

9,959

9,957

1

BBB

Multifamily

0.1%

5/25/2028

225,802

1,414

1,415

1

A

Multifamily

0.1%

7/25/2025

194,399

1,001

1,001

CMBS - Zero Coupon:

2

Other

Multifamily

N/A

3/2/2027

166,793

80,892

81,875

Corporate Bond:

1

BB

Hospitality

6.5%

9/15/2026

52,652

52,652

50,755

102

$

2,281,416

$

2,259,913

(1)

AAA represents credit ratings of AAA and AAA-, A represents credit ratings of A+, A, and A-, BBB represents credit ratings of BBB+, BBB, and BBB-, BB represents credit ratings of BB+, BB, and BB-, and B represents credit ratings of B+, B, and B-. Other consists of investments that, as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, were either not ratable or have not been submitted to rating agencies.

(2)

Multifamily real estate-related securities and loans are collateralized by various forms of rental housing including single-family homes and apartments.

(3)

The term “L” refers to the one-month U.S. dollar-denominated London Interbank Offer Rate (“LIBOR”). As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, one-month LIBOR was equal to 2.5%.

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(4)

Weighted average maturity date is based on the fully extended maturity date of the instrument or, in the case of CMBS, the underlying collateral.

(5)

Represents notional amount for interest only positions.

The Company’s investments in real estate-related securities and loans included CMBS collateralized by properties owned by Blackstone-advised investment vehicles and CMBS collateralized by loans originated or acquired by Blackstone-advised investment vehicles. The following table details the Company’s affiliate CMBS positions ($ in thousands):

Fair Value

Interest Income

March 31,

December 31,

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

CMBS collateralized by properties

$

901,274

$

919,392

$

12,426

$

7,024

CMBS collateralized by a loan

165,818

163,404

2,097

686

Total

$

1,067,092

$

1,082,796

$

14,523

$

7,710

For additional information regarding the Company’s investments in affiliated CMBS, see Note 5 to the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. The terms and conditions of such affiliated CMBS held as of March 31, 2019 are consistent with the terms described in such Note.

The Company’s investments in real estate-related securities and loans also included $66.5 million of CMBS collateralized by pools of commercial real estate debt, a portion of which included certain of the Company’s mortgage notes. The Company recognized $1.3 million of interest income related to such CMBS during the three months ended March 31, 2019.

During the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded an unrealized gain of $31.0 million and $1.8 million, respectively, as a component of Income from Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

The Company did not sell any real estate-related securities or loans during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018.

6. Mortgage Notes, Term Loans, and Revolving Credit Facilities

On February 21, 2019, the Company entered into a $350.0 million unsecured line of credit with a third party. The line of credit expires on February 22, 2022 and may be extended for up to one year. Interest under the line of credit is determined based on one-month U.S. dollar-denominated LIBOR plus 2.50%. The maximum facility size has been included in the variable rate revolving credit facilities in the table below. There was no outstanding balance on the line of credit as of March 31, 2019.

The following table is a summary of the mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities ($ in thousands):

Principal Balance Outstanding (3)

Indebtedness

Weighted

Average

Interest Rate (1)

Weighted

Average

Maturity Date (2)(3)

Maximum

Facility Size

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Fixed rate

Fixed rate mortgages

4.06%

11/4/2025

N/A

$

5,255,269

$

4,782,326

Mezzanine loan

5.85%

4/5/2025

N/A

200,000

200,000

Total fixed rate loans

4.13%

10/27/2025

5,455,269

4,982,326

Variable rate

Floating rate mortgages

L+1.71%

5/13/2026

N/A

678,694

675,116

Variable rate term loans

L+1.69%

12/27/2022

N/A

603,500

603,500

Variable rate revolving credit facilities

L+1.74%

9/5/2022

$

903,500

512,675

624,200

Total variable rate loans

L+1.71%

3/5/2024

1,794,869

1,902,816

Total loans secured by the Company's properties

4.15%

5/31/2025

7,250,138

6,885,142

Deferred financing costs, net

(55,491

)

(53,546

)

Premium on assumed debt, net

1,200

1,673

Total loans secured by the Company's properties, net (4)

7,195,847

6,833,269

Unsecured variable rate revolving credit facilities

L+2.40%

4/10/2021

600,000

Mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities, net

$

7,195,847

$

6,833,269

(1)

The term “L” refers to the one-month LIBOR. As of March 31, 2019, one-month LIBOR was equal to 2.5%.

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(2)

For loans where the Company, at its sole discretion, has extension options, the maximum maturity date has been assumed.

(3)

The majority of the Company’s mortgages contain yield or spread maintenance provisions.

(4)

Includes $250 million affiliate line of credit.

The following table presents the future principal payments due under the Company’s mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities as of March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands):

Year

Amount

2019 (remaining)

$

17,624

2020

98,122

2021

252,193

2022

718,650

2023

539,413

2024

1,027,524

Thereafter

4,596,612

Total

$

7,250,138

7. Repurchase Agreements

The Company has entered into master repurchase agreements with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (the “Citi MRA”), Royal Bank of Canada (the “RBC MRA”), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (the “BAML MRA”), Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A. (the “MS MRA”), MUFG Securities EMEA PLC (the “MUFG MRA”), HSBC Bank USA, National Association (the “HSBC MRA”), and Barclays Bank PLC (the “Barclays MRA”) to provide the Company with additional financing capacity secured by certain of the Company’s investments in real estate-related securities. The terms of the Citi MRA, RBC MRA, BAML MRA, MS MRA, MUFG MRA, and HSBC MRA provide the lenders the ability to determine the size and terms of the financing provided based upon the particular collateral pledged by the Company from time-to-time. The Barclays MRA has a maximum facility size of $750.0 million and repurchase agreements under the Barclays MRA have longer dated maturity compared to the Company’s other master repurchase agreements. Additionally, the Barclays MRA contains specific spread and advance rate provisions based on the rating of the underlying CMBS. The Company is in compliance with all financial covenants of the Barclays MRA.

The following tables are a summary of the Company’s repurchase agreements ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

Facility

Weighted Average

Maturity Date (1)

Security

Interests

Collateral

Assets (2)

Outstanding

Balance

Prepayment

Provisions

Barclays MRA

9/29/2021

CMBS (3)

$

1,000,900

$

750,000

None

RBC MRA

8/12/2019

CMBS

914,020

734,083

None

MS MRA

4/15/2019

CMBS

174,220

146,558

None

MUFG MRA

4/30/2020

CMBS

104,868

81,173

None

Citi MRA

4/13/2019

CMBS

82,826

69,335

None

$

2,276,834

$

1,781,149

December 31, 2018

Facility

Weighted Average

Maturity Date (1)

Security

Interests

Collateral

Assets (2)

Outstanding

Balance

Prepayment

Provisions

Barclays MRA

9/29/2021

CMBS (3)

$

989,059

$

750,000

None

RBC MRA

6/18/2019

CMBS

794,917

650,018

None

Citi MRA

1/13/2019

CMBS

193,372

154,736

None

MS MRA

1/15/2019

CMBS

173,050

146,569

None

MUFG MRA

4/30/2020

CMBS

15,266

12,400

None

$

2,165,664

$

1,713,723

(1)

Subsequent to quarter end, the Company rolled its repurchase agreement contracts expiring in April 2019 into new contracts.

(2)

Represents the fair value of the Company’s investments in real estate-related securities that serve as collateral.

(3)

As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the security interests pledged under the Barclays MRA include one corporate bond.

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The weighted average interest rate of the Company’s repurchase agreements was 3.85% (L+1.35%) as of March 31, 2019. The term “L” refers to the one-month, three-month or 12-month U.S. dollar-denominated London Interbank Offer Rate (“LIBOR”).

8. Other Assets and Other Liabilities

The following table summarizes the components of other assets ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Real estate intangibles, net

$

248,590

$

292,658

Receivables

59,869

45,799

Prepaid expenses

17,965

10,746

Straight-line rent receivable

13,562

10,337

Pre-acquisition costs

9,925

15,361

Deferred leasing costs, net

9,208

7,621

Deferred financing costs, net

8,910

5,822

Other

18,720

22,601

Total

$

386,749

$

410,945

The following table summarizes the components of accounts payable, accrued expenses, and other liabilities ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Subscriptions received in advance

$

423,943

$

166,542

Accounts payable and accrued expenses

66,559

53,247

Right of use lease liability - financing leases

60,308

4,300

Real estate taxes payable

48,538

56,555

Intangible liabilities, net

48,264

55,709

Right of use lease liability - operating leases

31,483

Prepaid rental income

26,897

29,112

Distribution payable

25,199

21,360

Accrued interest expense

25,112

24,432

Tenant security deposits

24,920

23,493

Other

36,764

29,648

Total

$

817,987

$

464,398

9. Equity and Redeemable Non-controlling Interest

Common Stock

The following table details the movement in the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock (in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31, 2019

Class S

Class T

Class D

Class I

Total

December 31, 2018

276,989

23,313

30,375

108,261

438,938

Common stock issued

41,453

3,787

7,547

24,640

77,427

Distribution reinvestment

2,386

176

244

1,069

3,875

Common stock repurchased

(1,833

)

(574

)

(46

)

(1,751

)

(4,204

)

March 31, 2019

318,995

26,702

38,120

132,219

516,036

Share Repurchase Plan

For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company repurchased 4,204,958 shares of common stock representing a total of $45.5 million. The Company had no unfulfilled repurchase requests during the three months ended March 31, 2019.

Distributions

The Company generally intends to distribute substantially all of its taxable income, which does not necessarily equal net income as calculated in accordance with GAAP, to its stockholders each year to comply with the REIT provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Each class of common stock receives the same gross distribution pe r share. The net distribution varies for each class based on the applicable stockholder servicing fee, which is deducted from the monthly distribution per share and paid directly to the applicable distributor.

The following table details the aggregate distributions declared for each applicable class of common stock for the three months ended March 31, 2019:

Class S

Class T

Class D

Class I

Aggregate gross distributions declared per share of common stock

$

0.1582

$

0.1582

$

0.1582

$

0.1582

Stockholder servicing fee per share of common stock

(0.0229

)

(0.0226

)

(0.0067

)

Net distributions declared per share of common stock

$

0.1353

$

0.1356

$

0.1515

$

0.1582

Redeemable Non-controlling Interest

In connection with its performance participation interest, the Special Limited Partner holds Class I units in BREIT OP. See Note 10 for further details of the Special Limited Partner’s performance participation interest. Because the Special Limited Partner has the ability to redeem its Class I units for Class I shares in the Company or cash, at the election of the Special Limited Partner, the Company has classified these Class I units as Redeemable Non-controlling Interest in mezzanine equity on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Redeemable Non-controlling Interest is recorded at the greater of the carrying amount, adjusted for their share of the allocation of income or loss and dividends, or the redemption value, which is equivalent to fair value, of such units at the end of each measurement period. As the redemption value was greater than the adjusted carrying value at March 31, 2019, the Company recorded an allocation adjustment of $1.1 million between Additional Paid-in Capital and Redeemable Non-controlling Interest.

The following table summarizes the redeemable non-controlling interest activity for the three months ended March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands):

December 31, 2018

$

9,233

Settlement of 2018 performance participation allocation

37,484

Conversion to Class I shares

(11,620

)

Repurchases

(4,314

)

GAAP income allocation

(277

)

Distributions

(451

)

Fair value allocation

1,080

March 31, 2019

$

31,135

10. Related Party Transactions

Management Fee

The Adviser is entitled to an annual management fee equal to 1.25% of the Company’s NAV, payable monthly, as compensation for the services it provides to the Company. The management fee can be paid, at the Adviser’s election, in cash, shares of common stock, or BREIT OP units. The Adviser has elected to receive the management fee in shares of the Company’s common stock to date. During the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company incurred management fees of $17.2 million and $7.0 million, respectively.

The Company issued 1,021,790 unregistered Class I shares to the Adviser as payment for the management fee and also had a payable of $6.1 million related to the management fee as of March 31, 2019, which is included in Due to Affiliates on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. During April 2019, the Adviser was issued 555,647 unregistered Class I shares as payment for the $6.1 million management fee accrued as of March 31, 2019. The shares issued to the Adviser for payment of the management fee were issued at the applicable NAV per share at the end of each month for which the fee was earned. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Adviser submitted 1,425,427 Class I shares for repurchase resulting in a total repurchase of $15.5 million.

Performance Participation Allocation

The Special Limited Partner holds a performance participation interest in BREIT OP that entitles it to receive an allocation of BREIT OP’s total return to its capital account. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company recognized $20.2 million of Performance Participation Allocation expense in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as the

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performance hurdle was achieved as of March 31, 2019. During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recognized $7.9 milli on of Performance Participation Allocation expense as the performance hurdle was achieved as of March 31, 2018.

In January 2019, the Company issued approximately 3.5 million Class I units in BREIT OP to the Special Limited Partner as payment for the 2018 performance participation allocation. Such Class I units were issued at the NAV per unit as of December 31, 2018.  Subsequent to the Class I units being issued, 0.4 million of such units were redeemed for $4.3 million and 1.1 million of such units were exchanged for unregistered Class I shares in the Company. The remaining Class I units held by the Special Limited Partner are included in Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Due to Affiliates

The following table details the components of due to affiliates ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Accrued stockholder servicing fee (1)

$

275,432

$

238,496

Performance participation allocation

20,163

37,484

Advanced organization and offering costs

7,670

8,181

Accrued management fee

6,069

5,124

Accrued affiliate service provider expenses

2,187

3,115

Accrued affiliate incentive compensation awards

4,714

Other

6,449

4,467

Total

$

317,970

$

301,581

(1)

The Company accrues the full amount of the future stockholder servicing fees payable to the Dealer Manager for Class S, Class T, and Class D shares up to the 8.75% of gross proceeds limit at the time such shares are sold. The Dealer Manager has entered into agreements with the selected dealers distributing the Company’s shares in the Offering, which provide, among other things, for the re-allowance of the full amount of the selling commissions and dealer manager fee and all or a portion of the stockholder servicing fees received by the Dealer Manager to such selected dealers.

Accrued affiliate service provider expenses and incentive compensation awards

For further details on the Company’s relationships with its affiliated service providers, see Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. The following table details the amounts incurred for such providers during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 ($ in thousands). Affiliate service provider expenses and portfolio company incentive compensation awards are included as a component of Rental Property Operating and Hotel Operating expense, as applicable, in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Transaction support fees were capitalized to Investments in Real Estate on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Affiliate Service Provider

Expenses

Affiliate Service Provider

Incentive Compensation Awards

Capitalized Transaction Support

Services

For the Three Months Ended March 31,

For the Three Months Ended March 31,

For the Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

2019

2018

2019

2018

LivCor, L.L.C.

$

4,028

$

1,143

$

141

$

$

358

$

Gateway Industrial Properties L.L.C. (1)

2,095

405

236

27

179

ShopCore Properties TRS Management LLC

402

240

5

15

BRE Hotels and Resorts LLC

654

147

118

Revantage Corporate Services, L.L.C.

259

Total

$

7,438

$

1,935

$

500

$

$

400

$

179

(1)

In March 2019, the Company engaged Link Industrial Properties LLC (“Link”), a portfolio company owned by a Blackstone-advised fund, to provide property management, expense management, construction management, corporate support (including leasing, accounting, legal, and tax), capital expenditure project management and transaction support services. As of March 31, 2019, the Company had not paid or accrued any fees due to Link. Gateway Industrial Properties L.L.C. is winding down and will no longer be providing services to the Company in the near future. For further detail on other affiliate relationships, see Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

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The Company issued incentive compensation awards to certain employees of affiliate portfolio company service providers on January 1, 2019 that entitles them to receive an allocation of total return over a certain hurdle amount, as determined by the Company. The value of the award at January 1, 2019 was $8.0 million and will be amortized over the four year service period. As of March 31, 2019, the total unrecognized compensation cost relating to the portfolio company incentive compensation awards was $7.5 million and is expected to be recognized over a period of 3.8 years from March 31, 2019. Neither Blackstone nor the Adviser receives any fees or incentive payments from agreements between the Company and such portfolio companies or their management teams.

The 2018 portfolio company incentive compensation awards of $4.7 million became payable on December 31, 2018 and, in January 2019, the Company issued approximately 0.4 million of fully vested Class I units in BREIT OP to certain employees of such companies.

Affiliate Title Service Provider

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company paid Lexington National Land Services $0.1 million for title services related to two investments and such costs were capitalized to Investments in Real Estate on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. For additional information regarding this affiliate relationship, see Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Other

As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Adviser had advanced $1.0 million and $1.1 million, respectively, of expenses on the Company’s behalf for general corporate expenses provided by unaffiliated third parties.  Additionally, as of March 31, 2019, the Company had $5.4 million of accrued repurchases due to the Adviser compared to $3.4 million as of December 31, 2018.

11. Commitments and Contingencies

As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company was not subject to any material litigation nor is the Company aware of any material litigation threatened against it.

The following table presents the future lease payments due under the Company’s ground leases as of December 31, 2018, prior to the adoption of ASU 2016-02 ($ in thousands):

Year

Future Commitments

2019

$

1,470

2020

1,508

2021

1,547

2022

1,586

2023

1,622

Thereafter

460,055

Total

$

467,788

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12. Five Year Minimum Rental Payments

The following table presents the undiscounted future minimum rents the Company expects to receive for its industrial and retail properties ($ in thousands). Leases at the Company’s multifamily properties are short term, generally 12 months or less, and are therefore not included.

Year

Future Minimum Rents

2019 (remaining)

$

180,925

2020

221,858

2021

191,997

2022

150,483

2023

109,448

2024

70,788

Thereafter

221,991

Total

$

1,147,490

The following table presents the future minimum rents the Company expects to receive for its industrial and retail properties as of December 31, 2018, prior to the adoption of ASU 2016-02 ($ in thousands):

Year

Future Minimum Rents

2019

$

238,043

2020

215,327

2021

185,419

2022

144,186

2023

102,609

Thereafter

285,981

Total

$

1,171,565

13. Segment Reporting

The Company operates in five reportable segments: Multifamily properties, Industrial properties, Hotel properties, Retail properties, and real estate-related securities and loans. The Company allocates resources and evaluates results based on the performance of each segment individually. The Company believes that segment net operating income is a key performance metric that captures the operating performance of each segment.

The following table sets forth the total assets by segment ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Multifamily

$

6,288,497

$

5,396,457

Industrial

3,956,750

3,966,796

Hotel

1,446,887

1,268,992

Retail

135,711

136,273

Real estate-related securities and loans

2,395,217

2,281,033

Other (Corporate)

512,730

187,607

Total assets

$

14,735,792

$

13,237,158

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The following table sets forth the financial results by segment for the three months ended March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands):

Multifamily

Industrial

Hotel

Retail

Real Estate-

Related

Securities and Loans

Total

Revenues:

Rental revenue

$

127,898

$

81,301

$

$

2,998

$

$

212,197

Hotel revenue

75,266

75,266

Other revenue

7,611

217

1,727

73

9,628

Total revenues

135,509

81,518

76,993

3,071

297,091

Expenses:

Rental property operating

61,824

24,861

1,126

87,811

Hotel operating

51,320

51,320

Total expenses

61,824

24,861

51,320

1,126

139,131

Income from real estate-related securities and loans

61,683

61,683

Segment net operating income

$

73,685

$

56,657

$

25,673

$

1,945

$

61,683

$

219,643

Depreciation and amortization

$

78,534

$

45,022

$

14,426

$

1,497

$

$

139,479

Other income (expense):

General and administrative

(3,181

)

Management fee

(17,177

)

Performance participation allocation

(20,163

)

Interest income

194

Interest expense

(91,587

)

Other income (expense)

1,654

Net loss

$

(50,096

)

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in third party joint ventures

$

2,036

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in BREIT OP

1,214

Net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders

$

(46,846

)

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The following table sets forth the financial results by segment for the three months ended March 31, 2018 ($ in thousands):

Multifamily

Industrial

Hotel

Retail

Real Estate-

Related

Securities

and Loans

Total

Revenues:

Rental revenue

$

60,743

$

24,601

$

$

2,217

$

$

87,561

Hotel revenue

17,821

17,821

Other revenue

4,237

38

8

19

4,302

Total revenues

64,980

24,639

17,829

2,236

109,684

Expenses:

Rental property operating

30,620

7,185

813

38,618

Hotel operating

11,614

11,614

Total expenses

30,620

7,185

11,614

813

50,232

Income from real estate-related securities and loans

13,235

13,235

Segment net operating income

$

34,360

$

17,454

$

6,215

$

1,423

$

13,235

$

72,687

Depreciation and amortization

$

55,873

$

13,998

$

3,210

$

1,043

$

$

74,124

Other income (expense):

General and administrative

(2,045

)

Management fee

(6,969

)

Performance participation allocation

(7,873

)

Interest income

77

Interest expense

(31,391

)

Other income (expense)

Net loss

$

(49,638

)

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in third party joint ventures

$

1,716

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in BREIT OP

374

Net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders

$

(47,548

)

14. Subsequent Events

Acquisitions

Subsequent to March 31, 2019, the Company acquired an aggregate of $1.6 billion of real estate, exclusive of closing costs, across 13 separate transactions.

Subsequent to March 31, 2019, the Company acquired an aggregate of $552.8 million of real estate-related securities and loans.

Proceeds from the Issuance of Common Stock

As of May 15, 2019, the Company had received net proceeds of $6.8 billion from the issuance of its common stock.

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ITEM 2.

M ANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

References herein to “Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust,” “BREIT,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. and its subsidiaries unless the context specifically requires otherwise.

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements about our business, operations and financial performance, including, in particular, statements about our plans, strategies and objectives. You can generally identify forward-looking statements by our use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “continue” or other similar words. These statements include our plans and objectives for future operations, including plans and objectives relating to future growth and availability of funds, and are based on current expectations that involve numerous risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Assumptions relating to these statements involve judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive and market conditions and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to accurately predict and many of which are beyond our control. Although we believe the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements, and the forward-looking statements themselves, are reasonable, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate and, therefore, there can be no assurance that these forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and our actual results, performance and achievements may be materially different from that expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including but not limited to those discussed under Item 1A. Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and elsewhere in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in these forward looking statements, the inclusion of this information should not be regarded as a representation by us or any other person that our objectives and plans, which we consider to be reasonable, will be achieved.

Overview

BREIT is a non-exchange traded, perpetual life real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that acquires primarily stabilized income-oriented commercial real estate in the United States and, to a lesser extent, real estate-related securities and loans. We are externally managed by BX REIT Advisors L.L.C. (the “Adviser”), a subsidiary of The Blackstone Group L.P. (“Blackstone”). We are the sole general partner of BREIT Operating Partnership L.P. (“BREIT OP”), a Delaware limited partnership, and we own all or substantially all of our assets through BREIT OP. As of March 31, 2019, we operated our business in five reportable segments: Multifamily, Industrial, Hotel, and Retail Properties, and real estate-related securities and loans. Multifamily includes various forms of rental housing including apartments, student housing and manufactured housing.

We qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code for U.S. federal income tax purposes and will generally not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes on our taxable income to the extent we annually distribute all of our net taxable income to stockholders and maintain our qualification as a REIT.

We had registered with the SEC an offering of up to $5.0 billion in shares of common stock (in any combination of purchases of Class S, Class T, Class D and Class I shares of our common stock), consisting of up to $4.0 billion in shares in our primary offering and up to $1.0 billion in shares pursuant to our distribution reinvestment plan (the “Initial Offering”). We accepted aggregate gross offering proceeds of $4.9 billion during the period January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2019 and ceased offering shares of common stock under the Initial Offering on January 1, 2019. We have registered with the SEC a follow-on offering of up to $12.0 billion in shares of common stock (in any combination of purchases of Class S, Class T, Class D and Class I shares of our common stock), consisting of up to $10.0 billion in shares in our primary offering and up to $2.0 billion in shares pursuant to our distribution reinvestment plan, which we began using to offer shares of our common stock in January 2019 (the “Current Offering” and with the Initial Offering, the “Offering”). The share classes have different upfront selling commissions and ongoing stockholder servicing fees.

As of May 15, 2019, we had received net proceeds of $6.8 billion from the Offering and the sale of unregistered shares of our common stock. We have contributed the net proceeds to BREIT OP in exchange for a corresponding number of Class S, Class T, Class D, and Class I units. BREIT OP has primarily used the net proceeds to make investments in real estate and real estate-related securities and loans as further described below under “— Portfolio”. We intend to continue selling shares on a monthly basis.

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We are not aware of any material trends or uncertainties, favorable or unfavorable, other than national economic conditions affecting real estate generally, that may be r easonably anticipated to have a material impact on either capital resources or the revenues or income to be derived from acquiring properties or real estate-related securities and loans, other than those disclosed in Item 1A. Risk Factors in our Annual Rep ort on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, our prospectus dated January 4, 2019 and filed with the SEC, as supplemented, and elsewhere in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

Q1 2019 Highlights

Operating Results:

Raised $853.1 million of net proceeds during the three months ended March 31, 2019.

Declared monthly net distributions totaling $69.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019.

Inception through March 31, 2019 annualized total return, without upfront selling commissions, was 9.3% for Class S, 9.5% for Class T, 10.5% for Class D, and 10.2% for Class I shares. Inception to date annualized total return assuming full upfront selling commissions of 7.5% for Class S, 7.3% for Class T, and 9.5% for Class D shares.

Investments:

Our 491 properties as of March 31, 2019 consisted of Multifamily (54% based on fair value), Industrial (34%), Hotel (11%), and Retail (1%) and our portfolio of real estate was concentrated in the following regions: South (40%), West (37%), East (15%), and Midwest (8%).

Investments in real estate-related securities and loans as of March 31, 2019 were diversified by credit rating — BB (45% based on fair value), BBB (24%), B (21%), Other (6%), A (3%), and AAA (1%) and collateral backing — Hospitality (58%), Office (27%), Multifamily (10%), Industrial (4%), and Retail (1%).

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we acquired 15 multifamily, one industrial and one hotel property across four transactions with a total purchase price of $1.0 billion, inclusive of closing costs, consistent with our strategy of acquiring diversified, income producing, commercial real estate assets concentrated in high growth markets across the U.S.

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we made 16 investments in real estate-related securities and loans with a total cost basis of $117.0 million consisting of commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”), corporate bonds and term loans of real estate-related companies and we held 118 positions as of March 31, 2019.

Financings:

Closed a $350.0 million unsecured line of credit with a third party. The line of credit expires on February 22, 2022 and may be extended for up to one year. Interest under the line of credit is determined based on one-month U.S. dollar-denominated LIBOR plus 2.50%.

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we closed or assumed an aggregate $476.5 million in property-level financing and obtained an additional $67.4 million of financings secured by our investments in real estate-related securities and loans.

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Portfolio

Summary of Portfolio

The following charts further describe our portfolio composition in real properties based on fair value as of March 31, 2019:

The following chart outlines the percentage of our investments in real properties and investments in real estate-related securities and loans based on fair value as of March 31, 2019:


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The following map identifies the top 10 markets of our portfolio composition in real properties based on fair value as of March 31, 2019:

Investments in Real Estate

As of March 31, 2019, we had acquired 491 properties with a total purchase price of $11.9 billion, inclusive of closing costs. Our diversified portfolio of income producing assets primarily consists of Multifamily and Industrial properties, and to a lesser extent Hotel and Retail properties, located in growth markets across the U.S. The following table provides a summary of our portfolio as of March 31, 2019:

Segment

Number of

Properties

Sq. Feet (in

thousands)/

Units/Keys (1)

Occupancy

Rate (2)

Average Effective

Annual Base Rent

Per Leased Square

Foot/Units/Keys (3)

Gross Asset

Value (4)

($ in thousands)

Segment

Revenue

Percentage of

Segment

Revenue

Multifamily

136

43,211 units

94%

$

13,165

$

6,759,387

$

135,509

46%

Industrial

326

50,827 sq. ft.

96%

$

4.97

4,163,958

81,518

27%

Hotel

26

4,590 keys

80%

$163/$130

1,384,037

76,993

26%

Retail

3

494 sq. ft.

98%

$

18.94

138,807

3,071

1%

Total

491

$

12,446,189

$

297,091

100%

(1)

Multifamily includes other types of rental housing such as manufactured and student housing. Multifamily units include manufactured housing sites and student housing beds.

(2)

The occupancy rate is as of March 31, 2019 for non-hotels. The occupancy rate for our hotel investments is the average occupancy rate for the twelve months ended March 31, 2019. Hotels owned less than twelve months are excluded from the average occupancy rate calculation.

(3)

For multifamily properties, industrial properties, and retail properties, represents the annualized March 31, 2019 base rent per leased square foot or unit and excludes tenant recoveries, straight-line rent and above-market and below-market lease amortization. For hotel properties, represents Average Daily Rate (“ADR”) and Revenue Per Available Room (“RevPAR”), respectively, for the twelve months ended March 31, 2019. Hotels owned less than twelve months are excluded from the ADR and RevPAR calculations.

(4)

Based on fair value as of March 31, 2019.

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Real Estate

The following table provides information regarding our portfolio of real properties as of March 31, 2019:

Segment and Investment

Number

of

Properties

Location

Acquisition Date

Ownership

Interest (1)

Sq. Feet (in

thousands)/

Units/Keys (2)

Occupancy

Rate (3)

Multifamily:

Sonora Canyon Apartments

1

Mesa, AZ

Feb. 2017

100%

388 units

95%

TA Multifamily Portfolio

6

Various (4)

Apr. 2017

100%

2,514 units

94%

Emory Point

1

Atlanta, GA

May 2017

100%

750 units

97%

Nevada West Multifamily

3

Las Vegas, NV

May 2017

100%

972 units

96%

Mountain Gate & Trails Multifamily

2

Las Vegas, NV

June 2017

100%

539 units

96%

Elysian West Multifamily

1

Las Vegas, NV

July 2017

100%

466 units

93%

Harbor 5 Multifamily

5

Dallas, TX

Aug. 2017

100%

1,192 units

94%

Gilbert Multifamily

2

Gilbert, AZ

Sept. 2017

90%

748 units

95%

Domain & GreenVue Multifamily

2

Dallas, TX

Sept. 2017

100%

803 units

94%

ACG II Multifamily

4

Various (5)

Sept. 2017

94%

932 units

93%

Olympus Multifamily

3

Jacksonville, FL

Nov. 2017

95%

1,032 units

93%

Amberglen West Multifamily

1

Hillsboro, OR

Nov. 2017

100%

396 units

95%

Aston Multifamily Portfolio

20

Various (6)

Nov. 2017 & Jan. 2018

90%

4,584 units

94%

Talavera and Flamingo Multifamily

2

Las Vegas, NV

Dec. 2017

100%

674 units

94%

Walden Pond & Montair Multifamily Portfolio

2

Everett, WA & Thornton, CO

Dec. 2017

95%

635 units

93%

Signature at Kendall Multifamily

1

Miami, FL

Dec. 2017

100%

546 units

93%

The Boulevard

1

Phoenix, AZ

April 2018

100%

294 units

94%

Blue Hills Multifamily

1

Boston, MA

May 2018

100%

472 units

92%

Wave Multifamily Portfolio

6

Various (7)

May 2018

100%

2,199 units

92%

ACG III Multifamily

2

Gresham, OR & Turlock, CA

May 2018

95%

475 units

93%

Carroll Florida Multifamily

2

Jacksonville & Orlando, FL

May 2018

100%

716 units

94%

Solis at Flamingo

1

Las Vegas, NV

June 2018

95%

524 units

93%

Velaire at Aspera

1

Phoenix, AZ

July 2018

100%

286 units

91%

Coyote Multifamily Portfolio

6

Phoenix, AZ

Aug. 2018

100%

1,751 units

95%

Avanti Apartments

1

Las Vegas, NV

Dec. 2018

100%

414 units

95%

Gilbert Heritage Apartments

1

Phoenix, AZ

Feb. 2019

90%

256 units

95%

Roman Multifamily Portfolio

14

Various (8)

Feb. 2019

100%

3,743 units

94%

Highroads MH

3

Phoenix, AZ

April 2018

99%

265 units

94%

Evergreen Minari MH

2

Phoenix, AZ

June 2018

99%

114 units

96%

Southwest MH

14

Various (9)

June 2018

99%

3,065 units

90%

Hidden Springs MH

1

Desert Hot Springs, CA

July 2018

99%

317 units

87%

SVPAC MH

2

Phoenix, AZ

July 2018

99%

233 units

96%

Royal Vegas MH

1

Las Vegas, NV

Oct. 2018

99%

176 units

73%

Riverest MH

1

Tavares, FL

Dec. 2018

99%

130 units

93%

EdR Student Housing Portfolio

20

Various (10)

Sept. 2018

95%

10,610 units

97%

Total Multifamily

136

43,211 units

Industrial:

Stockton Industrial Park

1

Stockton, CA

Feb. 2017

100%

878 sq. ft.

100%

HS Industrial Portfolio

38

Various (11)

Apr. 2017

100%

5,972 sq. ft.

96%

Fairfield Industrial Portfolio

11

Fairfield, NJ

Sept. 2017

100%

578 sq. ft.

100%

Southeast Industrial Portfolio

5

Various (12)

Nov. 2017

100%

1,927 sq. ft.

100%

Kraft Chicago Industrial Portfolio

3

Aurora, IL

Jan. 2018

100%

1,693 sq. ft.

100%

Canyon Industrial Portfolio

146

Various (13)

Mar. 2018

100%

21,719 sq. ft.

96%

HP Cold Storage Industrial Portfolio

6

Various (14)

May 2018

100%

2,252 sq. ft.

94%

Meridian Industrial Portfolio

106

Various (15)

Nov. 2018

99% (15)

14,011 sq. ft.

93%

Stockton Distribution Center

1

Stockton, CA

Dec. 2018

100%

987 sq. ft.

100%

Summit Industrial Portfolio

8

Atlanta, GA

Dec. 2018

100%

631 sq. ft.

98%

4500 Westport Drive

1

Harrisburg, PA

Jan. 2019

100%

179 sq. ft.

100%

Total Industrial

326

50,827 sq. ft.

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Segment and Investment

Number of

Properties

Location

Acquisition Date

Ownership

Interest (1)

Sq. Feet (in

thousands)/

Units/Keys (2)

Occupancy

Rate (3)

Hotel:

Hyatt Place UC Davis

1

Davis, CA

Jan. 2017

100%

127 keys

85%

Hyatt Place San Jose Downtown

1

San Jose, CA

June 2017

100%

236 keys

80%

Florida Select-Service 4-Pack

4

Tampa & Orlando, FL

July 2017

100%

469 keys

79%

Hyatt House Downtown Atlanta

1

Atlanta, GA

Aug. 2017

100%

150 keys

77%

Boston/Worcester Select-Service 3-Pack

3

Boston & Worcester, MA

Oct. 2017

100%

374 keys

81%

Henderson Select-Service 2-Pack

2

Henderson, NV

May 2018

100%

228 keys

N/A

Orlando Select-Service 2-Pack

2

Orlando, FL

May 2018

100%

254 keys

N/A

Corporex Select Service Portfolio

5

Various (16)

Aug. 2018

100%

601 keys

N/A

JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort

1

San Antonio, TX

Aug. 2018

100%

1,002 keys

N/A

Hampton Inn & Suites Federal Way

1

Seattle, WA

Oct. 2018

100%

142 keys

N/A

Staybridge Suites Reno

1

Reno, NV

Nov. 2018

100%

94 keys

N/A

Salt Lake City Select Service 3 Pack

3

Salt Lake City, UT

Nov. 2018

60%

461 keys

N/A

Courtyard Kona

1

Kailua-Kona, HI

Mar. 2019

100%

452 keys

N/A

Total Hotel

26

4,590 keys

Retail:

Bakers Centre

1

Philadelphia, PA

Mar. 2017

100%

237 sq. ft

99%

Plaza Del Sol Retail

1

Burbank, CA

Oct. 2017

100%

166 sq. ft.

100%

Vista Center

1

Miami, FL

Aug. 2018

100%

91 sq. ft.

92%

Total Retail

3

494 sq. ft.

Total Investments in Real Estate

491

(1)

Certain of the joint venture agreements entered into by the Company provide the seller or the other partner a profits interest based on certain internal rate of return hurdles being achieved. Such investments are consolidated by us and any profits interest due to the other partner is reported within non-controlling interests.

(2)

Multifamily includes other types of rental housing such as manufactured housing and student housing. Multifamily units include manufactured housing sites and student housing beds.

(3)

The occupancy rate is as of March 31, 2019 for non-hotels. The occupancy rate for our hotel investments is the average occupancy rate for the twelve months ended March 31, 2019. The occupancy rate is excluded for hotels owned less than twelve months.

(4)

The TA Multifamily Portfolio consists of a 32-floor property in downtown Orlando, FL (19% of units) and five garden style properties located in the suburbs of Palm Beach Gardens, FL (19%), Chicago, IL (19%), Orlando, FL (17%), Dallas, TX (14%), and Kansas City, KS (12%) .

(5)

The A CG II Multifamily Portfolio consists of four garden style properties in Gilbert, AZ (30% of units), Modesto, CA (25%), Olympia, WA (24%), and Flagstaff, AZ (21%).

(6)

The Aston Multifamily Portfolio is located in four markets: Austin/San Antonio, TX (47% of units), Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (21%), Nashville, TN (18%) , and Louisville, KY (14%) .

(7)

The Wave Multifamily Portfolio is located in five markets: Greater Seattle, WA (29% of units), Sacramento, CA (28%), Las Vegas, NV (22%), Spokane, WA (14%), and Portland, OR (7%).

(8)

The Roman Multifamily Portfolio is primarily concentrated in Riverside, CA (18% of units), Denver, CO (13%), Tampa, FL (10%), Orlando, FL (9%), Charlotte, NC (9%), Portland, OR (8%), and Dallas, TX (8%).

(9)

Southwest MH is located in three markets: Phoenix, AZ (86% of sites), San Diego, CA (11%), and Palm Desert, CA (3%).

(10)

The EdR Student Housing Portfolio consists of 10,610 beds primarily concentrated at Penn State University (15% of beds), University of Arizona (10%), University of Virginia (8%), Arizona State University (8%) and Virginia Tech (8%).

(11)

The HS Industrial Portfolio is located in six submarkets: Atlanta, GA (38% of sq. ft.), Chicago, IL (23%), Houston, TX (17%), Harrisburg, PA (10%), Dallas, TX (10%) and Orlando, FL (2%).

(12)

The Southeast Industrial Portfolio is located in Jacksonville, FL (53% of sq. ft.), Atlanta, GA (26%), and Nashville, TN (21%).

(13)

The Canyon Industrial Portfolio is primarily concentrated in Chicago, IL (19% of sq. ft.), Dallas, TX (15%), Indianapolis, IN (11%), Baltimore/Washington, D.C. (9%), and Columbus, OH (7%).

(14)

The HP Cold Storage Industrial Portfolio is located in four markets: Stockton, CA (52% of sq. ft.), Atlanta, GA (24%), Baltimore, MD (18%), and Austin, TX (6%).

(15)

The Meridian Industrial Portfolio consists of 106 industrial properties primarily concentrated in Memphis, TN (23% of sq. ft.), Orlando, FL (19%), Jacksonville, FL (10%), Atlanta, GA (9%), Richmond, VA (7%), and Winston-Salem, NC (7%). We own a 99% joint venture interest in 74 of the properties and wholly own the other 32 properties.

(16)

The Corporex Select Service Portfolio is located in five markets: Phoenix, AZ (24% of keys), Reno, NV (23%), Salt Lake City, UT (20%), Sonoma, CA (17%), and Tampa, FL (16%).

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Subsequent to March 31, 2019, we acquired an aggregate of $1.6 billion of real estate, exclusive of closing costs, across 13 separate transactions.

Investments in Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we invested $117.0 million in real estate-related securities and loans. The following table details our investments in real estate-related securities and loans as of March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands):

March 31, 2019

Number of Positions

Credit

Rating (1)

Collateral (2)

Weighted

Average

Coupon (3)

Weighted

Average

Maturity Date (4)

Face

Amount/

Notional (5)

Cost

Basis

Fair

Value

CMBS - Floating:

40

BB

Hospitality, Industrial, Multifamily, Office, Retail

L+2.81%

8/7/2024

$

978,540

$

976,867

$

977,019

24

BBB

Hospitality, Industrial, Multifamily, Office

L+2.23%

6/26/2024

556,025

555,630

554,861

22

B

Hospitality, Multifamily, Office

L+3.55%

8/17/2024

496,019

494,747

494,646

3

A

Hospitality, Industrial, Retail

L+1.82%

1/3/2023

78,320

78,337

78,231

8

Other

Multifamily

L+2.44%

8/12/2025

41,574

41,326

41,369

CMBS - Fixed:

5

BBB

Multifamily

4.2%

7/16/2027

28,213

26,256

27,668

1

BB

Hospitality

4.4%

9/22/2022

24,613

24,049

24,850

1

B

Multifamily

5.2%

8/26/2022

6,704

6,687

6,767

3

Other

Multifamily

4.3%

10/17/2027

16,998

15,762

16,354

CMBS - Interest Only:

2

AAA

Multifamily

0.1%

4/19/2026

1,801,735

9,886

9,887

1

BBB

Multifamily

0.1%

1/5/2028

225,802

1,417

1,418

1

A

Multifamily

0.1%

5/2/2025

194,399

1,004

1,004

CMBS - Zero Coupon:

2

Other

Multifamily

N/A

12/1/2026

166,793

82,572

87,600

Corporate Bonds:

2

BB

Hospitality, Diversified

6.5%

7/7/2026

57,329

57,300

59,715

Term Loans:

2

B

Hospitality

L+3.90%

10/2/2024

3,809

3,715

3,702

1

BB

Hospitality

L+2.25%

8/29/2025

1,046

1,044

1,040

118

$

2,376,599

$

2,386,131

(1)

AAA represents credit ratings of AAA and AAA-, A represents credit ratings of A+, A, and A-, BBB represents credit ratings of BBB+, BBB, and BBB-, BB represents credit ratings of BB+, BB, and BB-, and B represents credit ratings of B+, B, and B-. Other consists of investments that, as of March 31, 2019, were either not ratable or have not been submitted to ratings agencies.

(2)

Multifamily real estate-related securities and loans are collateralized by various forms of rental housing including single-family homes and apartments.

(3)

The term “L” refers to the one-month U.S. dollar-denominated London Interbank Offer Rate (“LIBOR”). As of March 31, 2019, one-month LIBOR was 2.5%.

(4)

Weighted average maturity date is based on the fully extended maturity date of the instrument or, in the case of CMBS, the underlying collateral.

(5)

Represents notional amount for CMBS interest only positions.

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The following charts further describe the diversification of our real estate-related securities and loans by credit rating and collateral type based on fair value as of March 31, 2019:

Credit Rating (1)

Collateral Type

Credit Rating(1)

(1)

AAA represents credit ratings of AAA and AAA-, A represents credit ratings of A+, A, and A-, BBB represents credit ratings of BBB+, BBB, and BBB-, BB represents credit ratings of BB+, BB, and BB-, and B represents credit ratings of B+, B, and B-. Other consists of investments that, as of March 31, 2019, were either not ratable or have not been submitted to ratings agencies.

Subsequent to March 31, 2019, we purchased an aggregate of $552.8 million of real estate-related securities and loans.

Lease Expirations

The following schedule details the expiring leases at our industrial and retail properties by annualized base rent and square footage as of March 31, 2019 ($ and square feet data in thousands). The table below excludes our multifamily properties as substantially all leases at such properties expire within 12 months:

Year

Number of

Expiring Leases

Annualized

Base Rent (1)

% of Total

Annualized Base

Rent Expiring

Square

Feet

% of Total Square

Feet Expiring

2019 (remaining)

10

$

20,118

7%

3,188

7%

2020

136

42,025

14%

6,689

14%

2021

153

53,292

17%

8,700

18%

2022

181

46,351

15%

6,638

14%

2023

149

53,548

18%

8,977

19%

2024

119

28,416

9%

4,354

9%

2025

63

19,896

6%

2,840

6%

2026

34

11,233

4%

2,036

4%

2027

17

9,169

3%

1,395

3%

2028

15

7,467

2%

759

1%

Thereafter

29

14,182

5%

2,617

5%

Total

906

$

305,697

100%

48,193

100%

(1)

Annualized base rent is determined from the annualized base rent per leased square foot of the applicable year and excludes tenant recoveries, straight-line rent and above-market and below-market lease amortization.

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Affiliate Service Providers

For details regarding our affiliate service providers, see Note 10 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included herein and Note 11 to the consolidated finance statements included in our Annual Report on form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Results of Operations

Due to the significant amount of acquisitions of real estate and real estate-related securities and loans we have made since we commenced principal operations in January 2017, our results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 are not comparable. However, certain properties in our portfolio were owned for both the full three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 and are discussed further below.

Same Property Results of Operations

We evaluate our consolidated results of operations on a same property basis, which allows us to analyze our property operating results excluding acquisitions during the periods under comparison. Properties in our portfolio are considered same property if they were owned for the full periods presented, otherwise they are considered non-same property. Recently developed properties that have not achieved stabilized occupancy (defined as 90% or greater) are excluded from same property results and are considered non-same property. We do not consider our real estate-related securities and loans segment to be same property.

For the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, our same property portfolio consisted of 44 multifamily, 55 industrial, 10 hotel, and two retail properties.

Same property operating results are measured by calculating same property net operating income (“NOI”). Same property NOI is a supplemental non-GAAP disclosure of our operating results that we believe is meaningful as it enables management to evaluate the impact of occupancy, rents, leasing activity, and other controllable property operating results at our real estate properties. We define same property NOI as operating revenues less operating expenses, which exclude (i) depreciation and amortization, (ii) interest expense and other non-property related revenue and expense items such as (a) general and administrative expenses, (b) management fee, (c) performance participation allocation, (d) affiliate incentive compensation awards, (e) interest income, and (f) income from real estate-related securities and loans.

Our same property NOI may not be comparable to that of other REITs and should not be considered to be more relevant or accurate in evaluating our operating performance than the current GAAP methodology used in calculating net income (loss).

The following table reconciles GAAP net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders to same property NOI for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019 vs.

2018

2019

2018

$

Net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders

$

(46,846

)

$

(47,548

)

$

702

Adjustments to reconcile to same property NOI

General and administrative

3,181

2,045

1,136

Management fee

17,177

6,969

10,208

Performance participation allocation

20,163

7,873

12,290

Affiliate incentive compensation awards

500

500

Depreciation and amortization

139,479

74,124

65,355

Income from real estate-related securities and loans

(61,683

)

(13,235

)

(48,448

)

Interest income

(194

)

(77

)

(117

)

Interest expense

91,587

31,391

60,196

Other income (expense)

(1,654

)

(1,654

)

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in third party joint ventures

(2,036

)

(1,716

)

(320

)

Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests in BREIT OP

(1,214

)

(374

)

(840

)

NOI

158,460

59,452

99,008

Non-same property NOI

107,713

10,634

97,079

Same property NOI

$

50,747

$

48,818

$

1,929

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The following table details the components of same property NOI for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019 vs. 2018

2019

2018

$

%

Same property NOI

Rental revenue

$

70,331

$

67,620

$

2,711

4%

Hotel revenue

18,826

17,821

1,005

6%

Other revenue

3,704

3,722

(18

)

0%

Total revenues

92,861

89,163

3,698

4%

Rental property operating

29,897

28,735

1,162

4%

Hotel operating

12,217

11,610

607

5%

Total expenses

42,114

40,345

1,769

4%

Same property NOI

$

50,747

$

48,818

$

1,929

4%

Same Property – Rental Revenue

Same property rental revenue increased $2.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The following table details the changes in rental revenue period over period ($ in thousands):

2019 vs. 2018

Change in Average

Effective Annual

Three Months Ended March 31,

Change in

Change in

Base Rent Per Leased

2019

2018

Rental Revenue

Occupancy Rate

Square Foot/Unit

Multifamily

$

53,823

$

51,445

$

2,378

+1%

+3%

Industrial

14,261

13,980

281

+2%

+2%

Retail

2,247

2,195

52

+2%

+3%

Total rental revenue

$

70,331

$

67,620

$

2,711

Same Property – Hotel Revenue

Same property hotel revenue increased $1.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to the corresponding period in 2018 primarily due to an increase of $0.6 million at our hotel property located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The Hyatt House Downtown Atlanta experienced increased occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR during the three months ended March 31, 2019 as a result of increased demand associated with the Super Bowl. The remaining increase in hotel revenue was due to an increase in ADR and RevPAR across the remaining hotel properties in our portfolio. ADR for the hotels increased from $161 to $172 while occupancy decreased 1% and with RevPAR increasing from $131 to $138 during the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the corresponding period in 2018.

Same Property – Rental Property Operating Expenses

Same property rental property operating expenses increased $1.2 million during the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase in rental property operating expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2019 was primarily a result of an increase in general operating expenses related to the increase in occupancy at our multifamily (1%), industrial (2%), and retail (2%) properties.

Same Property – Hotel Operating Expenses

Same property hotel operating expenses increased $0.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase in hotel operating expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2019 was primarily a result of an increase in payroll costs at certain hotels within our portfolio, along with an increase in general operating expenses across the portfolio associated with the overall increase in revenues.

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Other Operating Income and Expense Items

General and Administrative Expenses

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, general and administrative expenses increased $1.1 million compared to the corresponding period in 2018, primarily due to various corporate level expenses that are related to the increased size of our portfolio.

Management Fee

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the management fee increased by $10.2 million compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase was due to the growth in our net asset value (“NAV”).

Performance Participation Allocation

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the unrealized performance participation allocation accrual increased $12.3 million compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase was the result of our increased NAV and a higher total return than the corresponding period in 2018. Such amount was allocated to the Special Limited Partner.

Depreciation and amortization

Depreciation and amortization increased significantly compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase was driven by the growth in our portfolio, which increased from 272 properties as of March 31, 2018 to 491 properties as of March 31, 2019.

Income from Real Estate-Related Securities and Loans

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, income from real estate-related securities and loans increased $48.4 million compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase was primarily due to the growth of our portfolio of investments in real estate-related securities and loans which increased from 51 positions as of March 31, 2018 to 118 positions as of March 31, 2019.

Interest Expense

During the three months ended March 31, 2019, interest expense increased $60.2 million compared to the corresponding period in 2018. The increase was primarily due to the growth in our portfolio of real estate and real estate-related securities and loans and the related indebtedness of such investments.

Non-same Property NOI

Due to our substantial fundraising and continued deployment of the net proceeds raised into new property acquisitions, non-same property NOI is not comparable period over period. We expect the non-same property NOI variance period over period to continue as we raise more proceeds from selling shares of our common stock.

Funds from Operations, Adjusted Funds from Operations and Funds Available for Distribution

We believe funds from operations (“FFO”) is a meaningful supplemental non-GAAP operating metric. Our consolidated financial statements are presented under historical cost accounting which, among other things, requires depreciation of real estate investments to be calculated on a straight-line basis. As a result, our operating results imply that the value of our real estate investments will decrease evenly over a set time period. However, we believe that the value of real estate investments will fluctuate over time based on market conditions and as such, depreciation under historical cost accounting may be less informative. FFO is a standard REIT industry metric defined by the National Associational of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”). FFO, as defined by NAREIT and presented below, is calculated as net income or loss (computed in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”)), excluding (i) gains or losses from sales of depreciable real property, (ii) impairment write-downs on depreciable real property, plus (iii) real estate-related depreciation and amortization, and (iv) similar adjustments for non-controlling interests.

We also believe that adjusted FFO (“AFFO”) is a meaningful non-GAAP supplemental disclosure of our operating results. AFFO further adjusts FFO in order for our operating results to reflect the specific characteristics of our business by adjusting for items we believe are not related to our core operations. Our adjustments to FFO to arrive at AFFO include removing the impact of (i) straight-line rental income and expense, (ii) amortization of above- and below-market lease intangibles, (iii) amortization of mortgage premium/discount, (iv) unrealized (gains) losses from changes in the fair value of real estate-related securities and loans, (v) amortization of restricted stock awards, (vi) non-cash performance participation allocation or other non-cash incentive compensation even if repurchased by us, (vii) gain or loss on involuntary conversion, and (viii) similar adjustments for non-controlling interests.

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We also believe funds available for distribution (“FAD”) is an additional meaningful non-GAAP supplemental disclosure that provides useful information for considering our operat ing results and certain other items relative to the amount of our distributions by removing the impact of certain non-cash items on our distributions. FAD is calculated as AFFO excluding (i) realized gains (losses) on real estate-related securities and loa ns and (ii) management fee paid in shares or BREIT OP units even if repurchased by us, and including deductions for (iii) recurring tenant improvements, leasing commissions, and other capital projects, (iv) stockholder servicing fees paid during the period , and (v) similar adjustments for non-controlling interests. FAD is not indicative of cash available to fund our cash needs and does not represent cash flows from operating activities in accordance with GAAP, as it excludes adjustments for working capital items and actual cash receipts from interest income recognized on real estate-related securities and loans. Cash flows from operating activities in accordance with GAAP would generally be adjusted for such items.  Furthermore, FAD is adjusted for stockhold er servicing fees and recurring tenant improvements, leasing commissions, and other capital expenditures, which are not considered when determining cash flows from operating activities in accordance with GAAP.

The following table presents a reconciliation of FFO, AFFO and FAD to net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

Net loss attributable to BREIT stockholders

$

(46,846

)

$

(47,548

)

Adjustments to arrive at FFO:

Real estate depreciation and amortization

139,479

74,124

Amount attributable to non-controlling interests for above adjustment

(7,198

)

(2,896

)

FFO attributable to BREIT stockholders

85,435

23,680

Adjustments to arrive at AFFO:

Straight-line rental income and expense

(2,191

)

(1,089

)

Amortization of above- and below-market lease intangibles

(1,715

)

(505

)

Amortization of mortgage premium/discount

(18

)

(46

)

Unrealized (gains) losses from changes in the fair value of real estate-related securities and loans

(30,003

)

(1,789

)

Amortization of restricted stock awards

100

25

Non-cash performance participation allocation

20,163

7,873

Non-cash incentive compensation awards to affiliated service providers

500

Gain on involuntary conversion

(1,314

)

Amount attributable to non-controlling interests for above adjustments

349

(33

)

AFFO attributable to BREIT stockholders

71,306

28,116

Adjustments to arrive at FAD:

Realized (gains) losses on real estate-related securities and loans

(15

)

Management fee paid in shares

17,177

6,969

Recurring tenant improvements, leasing commissions and other capital expenditures (1)

(9,248

)

(2,705

)

Stockholder servicing fees

(7,758

)

(3,627

)

Amount attributable to non-controlling interests for above adjustments

(211

)

(33

)

FAD attributable to BREIT stockholders

$

71,251

$

28,720

(1)

Recurring tenant improvements and leasing commissions are related to second-generation leases and other capital expenditures required to maintain our investments. Second generation leases are for space that had previously been leased. Other capital expenditures exclude underwritten capital projects in conjunction with acquisitions and projects that we believe will enhance the value of our investments.

FFO, AFFO, and FAD should not be considered to be more relevant or accurate than the GAAP methodology in calculating net income (loss) or in evaluating our operating performance. In addition, FFO, AFFO, and FAD should not be considered as alternatives to net income (loss) as indications of our performance or as alternatives to cash flows from operating activities as indications of our liquidity, but rather should be reviewed in conjunction with these and other GAAP measurements. Further, FFO, AFFO, and FAD are not intended to be used as liquidity measures indicative of cash flow available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to make distributions to our stockholders.


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Net Asset Value

The purchase price per share for each class of our common stock will generally equal our prior month’s NAV per share, as determined monthly, plus applicable selling commissions and dealer manager fees. Our NAV for each class of shares is based on the net asset values of our investments (including real estate-related securities and loans), the addition of any other assets (such as cash on hand) and the deduction of any liabilities, including the allocation/accrual of any performance participation, and any stockholder servicing fees applicable to such class of shares.

The following table provides a breakdown of the major components of our NAV ($ and shares/units in thousands):

Components of NAV

March 31, 2019

Investments in real properties

$

12,446,189

Investments in real estate-related securities and loans

2,386,131

Cash and cash equivalents

145,926

Restricted cash

488,100

Other assets

130,590

Mortgage notes, term loans, and revolving credit facilities, net

(7,213,409

)

Repurchase agreements

(1,781,149

)

Subscriptions received in advance

(423,943

)

Other liabilities

(275,994

)

Accrued performance participation allocation

(20,163

)

Management fee payable

(6,069

)

Accrued stockholder servicing fees (1)

(2,829

)

Non-controlling interests in joint ventures

(101,721

)

Net Asset Value

$

5,771,659

Number of outstanding shares/units

528,592

(1)

Stockholder servicing fees only apply to Class S, Class T, and Class D shares. See Reconciliation of Stockholders’ Equity to NAV below for an explanation of the difference between the $2.8 million accrued for purposes of our NAV and the $275.4 million accrued under U.S. GAAP.

The following table provides a breakdown of our total NAV and NAV per share by share class as of March 31, 2019 ($ and shares in thousands, except per share data):

NAV Per Share

Class S

Shares

Class T

Shares

Class D

Shares

Class I

Shares

Third-party

Operating

Partnership

Units (1)

Total

Monthly NAV

$

3,491,647

$

287,053

$

411,767

$

1,444,061

$

137,131

$

5,771,659

Number of outstanding shares/units

318,995

26,702

38,120

132,219

12,556

528,592

NAV Per Share/Unit as of March 31, 2019

$

10.9458

$

10.7502

$

10.8019

$

10.9218

$

10.9218

(1)

Includes the partnership interests of BREIT OP held by the Special Limited Partner, Class B unitholders, and other BREIT OP interests held by parties other than the Company.

Set forth below are the weighted averages of the key assumptions in the discounted cash flow methodology used in the March 31, 2019 valuations, based on property types.

Property Type

Discount Rate

Exit Capitalization Rate

Multifamily

7.8%

5.5%

Industrial

7.3%

6.3%

Hotel

9.7%

9.3%

Retail

7.7%

6.6%

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These assumptions are determined by the Adviser and reviewed by our independent valuation advisor. A change in these assumptions would impact the calculation of the value of our property investments. For example, assuming all other factors remain unchanged, the changes listed below would res ult in the following effects on our investment values:

Input

Hypothetical

Change

Multifamily

Investment

Values

Industrial

Investment

Values

Hotel

Investment

Values

Retail

Investment

Values

Discount Rate

0.25% decrease

+1.9%

+1.9%

+1.0%

+1.8%

(weighted average)

0.25% increase

(1.8%)

(1.9%)

(1.0%)

(1.8%)

Exit Capitalization Rate

0.25% decrease

+2.9%

+2.7%

+2.4%

+2.3%

(weighted average)

0.25% increase

(2.7%)

(2.5%)

(2.2%)

(2.2%)

The following table reconciles stockholders’ equity per our condensed consolidated balance sheet to our NAV ($ in thousands):

Reconciliation of Stockholders’ Equity to NAV

March 31, 2019

Stockholders’ equity under U.S. GAAP

$

4,416,714

Non-controlling interests attributable to Class B units

97,817

Redeemable non-controlling interest

31,135

Total partners' capital of BREIT OP

4,545,666

Adjustments:

Accrued stockholder servicing fee

272,603

Organization and offering costs

7,670

Accrued affiliate incentive compensation awards

(1,873

)

Unrealized real estate appreciation

300,486

Accumulated depreciation and amortization

647,107

NAV

$

5,771,659

The following details the adjustments to reconcile GAAP stockholders’ equity to our NAV:

-

Accrued stockholder servicing fee represents the accrual for the full cost of the stockholder servicing fee for Class S, Class T, and Class D shares. Under GAAP, we accrued the full cost of the stockholder servicing fee payable over the life of each share (assuming such share remains outstanding the length of time required to pay the maximum stockholder servicing fee) as an offering cost at the time we sold the Class S, Class T, and Class D shares. Refer to Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for further details of the GAAP treatment regarding the stockholder servicing fee. For purposes of NAV we recognize the stockholder servicing fee as a reduction of NAV on a monthly basis when such fee is paid.

-

The Adviser agreed to advance certain organization and offering costs on our behalf through December 31, 2017. Such costs are being reimbursed to the Adviser pro-rata basis over 60 months beginning January 1, 2018. Under GAAP, organization costs are expensed as incurred and offering costs are charged to equity as such amounts are incurred. For NAV, such costs will be recognized as a reduction to NAV as they are reimbursed ratably over 60 months.

-

Under GAAP, the affiliate incentive compensation awards are valued as of grant date and compensation expense is recognized over the service period on a straight-line basis with the offset to equity resulting in no impact to Stockholders’ Equity. For purposes of NAV, we value the awards based on the performance of the applicable period and deduct such value from NAV.

-

Our investments in real estate are presented under historical cost in our GAAP consolidated financial statements. Additionally, our mortgage notes, term loans, revolving credit facilities, and repurchase agreements (“Debt”) are presented at their carrying value in our consolidated GAAP financial statements. As such, any increases or decreases in the fair market value of our investments in real estate or our Debt are not included in our GAAP results. For purposes of determining our NAV, our investments in real estate and our Debt are recorded at fair value.

-

In addition, we depreciate our investments in real estate and amortize certain other assets and liabilities in accordance with GAAP. Such depreciation and amortization is not recorded for purposes of determining our NAV.

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Distributions

We declared monthly distributions for each class of our common stock which are generally paid 20 days after month-end. Each class of our common stock received the same gross distribution per share, which was $0.1582 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2019. The net distribution varies for each class based on the applicable stockholder servicing fee, which is deducted from the monthly distribution per share and paid directly to the applicable distributor. The table below details the net distribution for each of our share classes for the three months ended March 31, 2019:

Class S

Shares

Class T

Shares

Class D

Shares

Class I

Shares

January 31, 2019

$

0.0451

$

0.0452

$

0.0507

$

0.0530

February 28, 2019

0.0451

0.0452

0.0501

0.0522

March 31, 2019

0.0451

0.0452

0.0507

0.0530

Total

$

0.1353

$

0.1356

$

0.1515

$

0.1582

The following tables summarize our distributions declared during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31, 2019

Three Months Ended March 31, 2018

Amount

Percentage

Amount

Percentage

Distributions

Payable in cash

$

24,968

36

%

$

10,148

36

%

Reinvested in shares

44,574

64

%

18,236

64

%

Total distributions

$

69,542

100

%

$

28,384

100

%

Sources of Distributions

Cash flows from operating activities

$

69,542

100

%

$

28,384

100

%

Offering proceeds

%

%

Total sources of distributions

$

69,542

100

%

$

28,384

100

%

Cash flows from operating activities

$

73,036

$

41,490

Funds from Operations

$

85,435

$

23,680

Adjusted Funds from Operations

$

71,306

$

28,116

Funds Available for Distribution

$

71,251

$

28,720

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our primary needs for liquidity and capital resources are to fund our investments, make distributions to our stockholders, repurchase shares of our common stock pursuant to our share repurchase plan, repurchasing shares or redeeming BREIT OP units from the Adviser or the Special Limited Partner, pay our organization and offering costs (including reimbursement of organization and offering costs advanced by the Adviser), operating expenses, capital expenditures and to pay debt service on our outstanding indebtedness. Our operating expenses include, among other things, the management fee we pay to the Adviser (to the extent the Adviser elects to receive the management fee in cash), the performance participation allocation that BREIT OP pays to the Special Limited Partner (to the extent the Special Limited Partner elects to receive the performance participation in cash), general corporate expenses, and fees and expenses related to managing our properties and other investments. We do not have any office or personnel expenses as we do not have any employees.

Our cash needs for acquisitions and other investments will be funded primarily from the sale of shares of our common stock and through the assumption or incurrence of debt. Through March 31, 2019, our distributions have been funded entirely from cash flows from operations.

As of March 31, 2019, our indebtedness included loans secured by our properties, master repurchase agreements with Royal Bank of Canada (the “RBC MRA”), Barclays Bank PLC (the “Barclays MRA”), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (the “Citi MRA”), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (the “BAML MRA”), Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A. (the “MS MRA”), MUFG Securities EMEA PLC (the “MUFG MRA”), and HSBC Bank USA, National Association (the “HSBC MRA”) secured by our investments in real estate-related securities.

On February 21, 2019, the Company entered into a $350.0 million unsecured line of credit with a third party. The line of credit expires on February 22, 2022 and may be extended for up to one year. Interest under the line of credit is determined based on a one-month U.S. dollar-denominated LIBOR plus 2.50%. The maximum facility size has been included in the variable rate revolving credit facilities in the table below. There was no outstanding balance on the line of credit as of March 31, 2019.

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The following table is a summary of our indebtedness ($ in thousands):

Principal Balance as Of

Indebtedness

Weighted

Average

Interest Rate (1)

Weighted

Average

Maturity Date (2)(3)

Maximum

Facility

Size

March 31, 2019

December 31, 2018

Fixed rate loans:

Fixed rate mortgages

4.06%

11/4/2025

N/A

$

5,255,269

$

4,782,326

Mezzanine loan

5.85%

4/5/2025

N/A

200,000

200,000

Total fixed rate loans

4.13%

10/27/2025

5,455,269

4,982,326

Variable rate loans:

Floating rate mortgages

L+1.71%

5/13/2026

N/A

678,694

675,116

Variable rate term loans

L+1.69%

12/27/2022

N/A

603,500

603,500

Variable rate revolving credit facilities

L+1.74%

9/5/2022

$

903,500

512,675

624,200

Total variable rate loans

L+1.71%

3/5/2024

1,794,869

1,902,816

Total loans secured by our properties

4.15%

5/31/2025

7,250,138

6,885,142

Unsecured loans:

Unsecured variable rate revolving credit facilities (4)

L+2.40%

4/10/2021

600,000

Repurchase agreement borrowings secured by our real estate-related securities:

Barclays MRA

9/29/2021

750,000

750,000

750,000

Other MRAs (5)

8/8/2019

N/A

1,031,149

963,723

Total repurchase agreement borrowings secured by our real estate-related securities (6)

3.85%

1,781,149

1,713,723

Total indebtedness

$

9,031,287

$

8,598,865

(1)

The term “L” refers to (i) the one-month LIBOR with respect to the Line of Credit, Revolving Credit Facilities, and Term Loans, and (ii) the one-month, three-month and twelve-month LIBOR with respect to the repurchase agreement borrowings.

(2)

For loans where we, at our sole discretion, have extension options, the maximum maturity date has been assumed.

(3)

Subsequent to quarter end, we rolled our repurchase agreement contracts expiring in April 2019 into new contracts.

(4)

Includes $250 million affiliate line of credit.

(5)

Includes RBC MRA, Citi MRA, MS MRA, BAML MRA, MUFG MRA, and HSBC MRA.

(6)

Weighted average interest rate based on L+1.35%.

As of May 15, 2019, we had received net proceeds of $1.4 billion from selling an aggregate of 127,196,180 shares of our common stock in the Current Offering (consisting of 69,580,706 Class S shares, 6,585,065 Class T shares, 13,642,669 Class D shares, and 37,387,740 Class I shares).

Other potential future sources of capital include secured or unsecured financings from banks or other lenders and proceeds from the sale of assets. If necessary, we may use financings or other sources of capital in the event of unforeseen significant capital expenditures. We have not yet identified any sources for these types of financings.

Cash Flows

The following table provides a breakdown of the net change in our cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash ($ in thousands):

Three Months Ended March 31,

2019

2018

Cash flows provided by operating activities

$

73,036

$

41,490

Cash flows used in investing activities

(863,490

)

(2,180,146

)

Cash flows provided by financing activities

1,124,697

2,214,595

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash

$

334,243

$

75,939

Cash flows provided by operating activities increased $31.5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the corresponding period in the 2018 due to increased cash flows from the operations of the investments in real estate and income on our investments in real estate-related securities and loans.

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Cash flows used in investing activities decreased $1.3 billion during the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the corresponding period in 2018 primarily due to a decrease of $1.3 billion in the acquisition of real estate investments.

Cash flows provided by financing activities decreased $1.1 billion during the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the corresponding period in 2018 primarily due to a net decrease of $1.5 billion in borrowings, partially offset by an increase of $0.2 billion in proceeds from issuance of our common stock, and a $0.2 billion increase in subscriptions received in advance.

Critical Accounting Policies

The preparation of the financial statements in accordance with GAAP involves significant judgments and assumptions and requires estimates about matters that are inherently uncertain. These judgments will affect our reported amounts of assets and liabilities and our disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the dates of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. With different estimates or assumptions, materially different amounts could be reported in our condensed consolidated financial statements. We consider our accounting policies over investments in real estate and lease intangibles, investments in real estate-related securities and loans, and revenue recognition to be our critical accounting policies. See Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for further descriptions of such accounting policies.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 2 — “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our condensed consolidated financial statements in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q for a discussion concerning recent accounting pronouncements.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We currently have no off-balance sheet arrangements that are reasonably likely to have a material current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

Contractual Obligations

The following table aggregates our contractual obligations and commitments with payments due subsequent to March 31, 2019 ($ in thousands).

Obligations

Total

Less than

1 year

1-3 years

3-5 years

More than

5 years

Indebtedness (1)

$

10,842,435

$

1,398,736

$

1,769,326

$

1,726,171

$

5,948,202

Ground leases

815,021

4,344

9,061

9,584

792,032

Organizational and offering costs

7,670

2,045

4,091

1,534

Other

16,830

2,398

7,577

5,332

1,523

Total

$

11,681,956

$

1,407,523

$

1,790,055

$

1,742,621

$

6,741,757

(1)

The allocation of our indebtedness includes both principal and interest payments based on the current maturity date and interest rates in effect at March 31, 2019.

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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITAT IVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Indebtedness

We are exposed to interest rate risk with respect to our variable-rate indebtedness, whereas an increase in interest rates would directly result in higher interest expense costs. We seek to manage our exposure to interest rate risk by utilizing a mix of fixed and floating rate financings with staggered maturities and through interest rate protection agreements to fix or cap a portion of our variable rate debt. As of March 31, 2019, the outstanding principal balance of our variable rate indebtedness was $1.8 billion and consisted of mortgage notes, term loans, revolving credit facilities, and repurchase agreements.

Certain of our mortgage notes, term loans, revolving credit facilities and repurchase agreements are variable rate and indexed to one-month, three-month, or 12-month U.S. Dollar denominated LIBOR. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, a 10% increase in one-month, three-month, or 12-month U.S. Dollar denominated LIBOR would have resulted in increased interest expense of $1.9 million.

Investments in real estate-related securities and loans

As of March 31, 2019, we held $2.4 billion of real estate-related securities and loans. Our investments in real estate-related securities and loans are primarily floating-rate and indexed to one-month U.S. denominated LIBOR and as such, exposed to interest rate risk. Our net income will increase or decrease depending on interest rate movements. While we cannot predict factors which may or may not affect interest rates, for the three months ended March 31, 2019, a 10% increase or decrease in the one-month U.S. denominated LIBOR rate would have resulted in an increase or decrease to income from real estate-related securities and loans of $1.4 million.

We may also be exposed to market risk with respect to our investments in real estate-related securities and loans due to changes in the fair value of our investments. We seek to manage our exposure to market risk with respect to our investments in real estate-related securities and loans by making investments in securities and loans backed by different types of collateral and varying credit ratings. The fair value of our investments may fluctuate, thus the amount we will realize upon any sale of our investments in real estate-related securities and loans is unknown. As of March 31, 2019, the fair value at which we may sell our investments in real estate-related securities and loans is not known, but a 10% change in the fair value of our investments in real estate-related securities and loans may result in a change in the carrying value of our real estate-related securities and loans of $238.6 million.

ITEM 4.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

An evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report on Form 10-Q was made under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). Based upon this evaluation, our CEO and CFO have concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this report our disclosure controls and procedures (a) were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by SEC rules and forms and (b) included, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in our “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that occurred during the period covered by this quarterly report on Form 10-Q that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we may be involved in various claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business. As of March 31, 2019, we were not involved in any material legal proceedings.

ITEM  1A.

RISK FACTORS

There have been no material changes to the risk factors previously disclosed under Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

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ITEM  2.

UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUI TY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

Except as described below, during the three months ended March 31, 2019, we did not sell any equity securities that were not registered under the Securities Act. As described in Note 10 to our condensed consolidated financial statements, the Adviser is entitled to an annual management fee payable monthly in cash, shares of common stock, or BREIT OP Units, in each case at the Adviser's election. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Adviser elected to receive its management fee in Class I shares and we issued 1,021,790 unregistered Class I shares to the Adviser in satisfaction of the management fee for January through February 2019. Additionally, we issued 555,647 unregistered Class I shares to the Adviser in April 2019 in satisfaction of the March 2019 management fee.

The Special Limited Partner is also entitled to an annual performance participation allocation. As further described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, the 2018 performance participation allocation became payable on December 31, 2018 and in January 2019, we issued approximately 3.5 million Class I units in BREIT OP to the Special Limited Partner as payment for the 2018 performance participation allocation. Each Class I unit is exchangeable into one Class I share. Each issuance to the Adviser and the Special Limited Partner was made pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

As further described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 , we issued incentive compensation awards to certain employees of affiliated portfolio company service providers that entitle them to receive an allocation of total return over a certain hurdle amount, as determined by us. The portfolio company incentive compensation awards of $4.7 million became payable on December 31, 2018 and in January 2019, we issued approximately 0.4 million Class I units in BREIT OP to certain employees of our affiliated portfolio companies. Each issuance of Class I units in BREIT OP to these employees was made pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

Share Repurchases

Under our share repurchase plan, to the extent we choose to repurchase shares in any particular month, we will only repurchase shares as of the opening of the last calendar day of that month (each such date, a “Repurchase Date”). Repurchases will be made at the transaction price in effect on the Repurchase Date (which will generally be equal to our prior month’s NAV per share), except that shares that have not been outstanding for at least one year will be repurchased at 95% of the transaction price (an “Early Repurchase Deduction”) subject to certain limited exceptions. Settlements of share repurchases will be made within three business days of the Repurchase Date. The Early Repurchase Deduction will not apply to shares acquired through our distribution reinvestment plan.

The total amount of aggregate repurchases of Class S, Class T, Class D, Class I shares, and Class B Units is limited to no more than 2% of our aggregate NAV per month and no more than 5% of our aggregate NAV per calendar quarter.

Should repurchase requests, in our judgment, place an undue burden on our liquidity, adversely affect our operations or risk having an adverse impact on the company as a whole, or should we otherwise determine that investing our liquid assets in real properties or other illiquid investments rather than repurchasing our shares is in the best interests of the Company as a whole, then we may choose to repurchase fewer shares than have been requested to be repurchased, or none at all. Further, our board of directors may modify, suspend or terminate our share repurchase plan if it deems such action to be in our best interest and the best interest of our stockholders. In the event that we determine to repurchase some but not all of the shares submitted for repurchase during any month, shares repurchased at the end of the month will be repurchased on a pro rata basis.

If the transaction price for the applicable month is not made available by the tenth business day prior to the last business day of the month (or is changed after such date), then no repurchase requests will be accepted for such month and stockholders who wish to have their shares repurchased the following month must resubmit their repurchase requests.

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During the three months ended March 31, 2019 , we repurchased shares of our common stock in the following amounts, which represented all of the share repurchase requests received for the same period.

Month of:

Total Number

of Shares

Repurchased (1)

Repurchases as

a Percentage

of Shares

Outstanding

Average

Price Paid

per Share

Total Number of

Shares Repurchased

as Part of Publicly

Announced Plans

or Programs

Maximum Number of

Shares Pending

Repurchase Pursuant

to Publicly

Announced Plans

or Programs (2)

January 2019

1,198,262

0.26

%

$

10.80

1,198,262

February 2019

1,719,572

0.35

%

10.80

1,719,572

March 2019

1,287,124

0.25

%

10.87

1,287,124

Total

4,204,958

N/M

$

10.82

4,204,958

(1)

Includes 1,425,427 Class I shares previously issued to the Adviser as payment for the management fee. The shares were repurchased at the then current transaction price resulting in a total repurchase of $15.5 million. As of March 31, 2019, the Adviser owned 2.6 million of our Class I common shares.

(2)

Repurchases are limited under the share repurchase plan as described above. Under the share repurchase plan, we would have been able to repurchase up to an aggregate of $271.4 million of Class S, Class T, Class D, Class I shares, and Class B Units based on our February 28, 2019 NAV in the first quarter of 2019 (if such repurchase requests were made). Pursuant to the share repurchase plan, this amount resets at the beginning of each quarter.

The Special Limited Partner continues to hold 2.9 million Class I units in BREIT OP. The redemption of Class I units are not considered part of our share repurchase plan as described above.

ITEM 3.

DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.

ITEM 4.

MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

ITEM  5.

OTHER INFORMATION

Not applicable.


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ITEM 6.

E XHIBITS

31.1

Certification of Chief Executive Officer, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

31.2

Certification of Chief Financial Officer, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.1 +

Certification of Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

32.2 +

Certification of Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

101.INS

XBRL Instance Document

101.SCH

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

101.SCH

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.LAB

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

101.DEF

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

+

This exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liability of that Section. Such exhibit shall not be deemed incorporated into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.

The agreements and other documents filed as exhibits to this report are not intended to provide factual information or other disclosure other than with respect to the terms of the agreements or other documents themselves, and you should not rely on them for that purpose. In particular, any representations and warranties made by us in these agreements or other documents were made solely within the specific context of the relevant agreement or document and may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time.

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SIGNAT URES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

BLACKSTONE REAL ESTATE INCOME TRUST, INC.

May 15, 2019

/s/ Frank Cohen

Date

Frank Cohen

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

May 15, 2019

/s/ Paul D. Quinlan

Date

Paul D. Quinlan

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(Principal Financial Officer)

May 15, 2019

/s/ Paul Kolodziej

Date

Paul Kolodziej

Chief Accounting Officer

(Principal Accounting Officer)

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