BREIT 2017 Annual Report

F-11 shares issued under the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan with respect thereto). The Company will accrue the full cost of the stockholder servicing fee as an offering cost at the time each Class S, Class T, and Class D share is sold during the Offering. As of December 31, 2017, the Company had accrued $102.1 million of stockholder servicing fees related to Class S shares, Class D shares and Class T shares sold and recorded such amount as a component of Due to Affiliates on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets. Income Taxes The Company intends to make an election to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), commencing with its taxable year ended December 31, 2017. If the Company qualifies for taxation as a REIT, the Company generally will not be subject to federal corporate income tax to the extent it distributes 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. REITs are subject to a number of other organization and operational requirements. Even if the Company qualifies for taxation as a REIT, it may be subject to certain state and local taxes on its income and property, and federal income and excise taxes on its undistributed income. The Company leases its hotel investments to wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”). The TRSs are subject to taxation at the federal, state and local levels, as applicable. Revenues related to the hotels’ operations such as room revenue, food and beverage revenue and other revenue are recorded in the TRS along with corresponding expenses. The Company accounts for applicable income taxes by utilizing the asset and liability method. As such, the Company records deferred tax assets and liabilities for the future tax consequences resulting from the difference between the carrying value of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis. A valuation allowance for deferred tax assets is provided if the Company believes all or some portion of the deferred tax asset may not be realized. As of December 31, 2017, the Company recorded a deferred tax asset of $0.3 million due to its hotel investments within Other Assets on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets and recorded such amount as a tax benefit within Other Income on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. Fair Value Measurement 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 under GAAP 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 December 31, 2017, the Company’s $915.7 million of investments in real estate-related securities were classified as Level 2. Valuation The Company’s investments in real estate-related securities are reported at fair value. As of December 31, 2017, the Company’s investments in real estate-related securities consisted of CMBS, which are mortgage-related fixed income securities. Mortgage-related securities are usually issued as separate tranches, or classes, of securities within each deal. The Company generally determines the fair value of its CMBS by utilizing third-party pricing service providers and broker-dealer quotations on the basis of last available bid price.