Taxes, insurance and lease expense from continuing operations were comprised of the following (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2015		2014
Hotel lease expense^(a)	$	2,104	$	10,391
Land lease expense^(b)	3,059		2,462
Real estate and other taxes	7,860		8,109
Property insurance, general liability insurance and other	1,953		2,671
Total taxes, insurance and lease expense	$	14,976	$	23,633

(a)

Hotel lease expense is recorded by the consolidated operating lessees of hotels owned by unconsolidated entities and is partially (generally 49%) offset through noncontrolling interests in other partnerships. Our 50% share of the corresponding lease income is recorded through equity in income from unconsolidated entities. Hotel lease expense includes percentage rent of $936,000 and $4.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, and reflects a decrease attributable to the unwinding of our 10-hotel unconsolidated joint ventures in July 2014.


(b)	Land lease expense includes percentage rent of $1.5 million and $1.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.