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ORGANIZATION
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION
Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc. (formerly known as KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc.) (the “Company”) was formed on October 8, 2008 as a Maryland corporation and elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) beginning with the taxable year ended December 31, 2010. The Company conducts its business primarily through Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity (BVI) Holdings, Ltd. (“Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI”), a private company limited by shares according to the British Virgin Islands Business Companies Act, 2004, which was incorporated on December 18, 2015 and is authorized to issue a maximum of 50,000 common shares with no par value. Upon incorporation, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI issued one certificate containing 10,000 common shares with no par value to Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity Limited Partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership formed on December 10, 2008. The Company is the sole general partner of, and owns a 0.1% partnership interest in, the Operating Partnership. Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity Holdings, LLC (“REIT Holdings”), a Delaware limited liability company formed on December 9, 2008, owns the remaining 99.9% interest in the Operating Partnership and is its sole limited partner. The Company is the sole member and manager of REIT Holdings.
Subject to certain restrictions and limitations, the business of the Company was externally managed by KBS Capital Advisors LLC (“KBS Capital Advisors”), an affiliate of the Company, pursuant to an advisory agreement the Company renewed with KBS Capital Advisors on October 7, 2019. KBS Capital Advisors conducted the Company’s operations and managed its portfolio of real estate and other real estate-related investments. On October 31, 2019, KBS Capital Advisors ceased to serve as the Company’s advisor or have any advisory responsibility to the Company immediately following the filing of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ending September 30, 2019 (filed November 8, 2019) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). On November 1, 2019, the Company entered into an advisory agreement with Pacific Oak Capital Advisors, LLC (the “Advisor”). The new advisory agreement is effective as of November 1, 2019 through November 1, 2020; however the Company may terminate the advisory agreement without cause or penalty upon providing 30 days’ written notice and the Advisor may terminate the new advisory agreement without cause or penalty upon providing 90 days’ written notice. The terms of the advisory agreement are consistent with those of the advisory agreement that was previously in effect with KBS Capital Advisors, except as discussed in Note 11.
On January 8, 2009, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-11 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to offer a minimum of 250,000 shares and a maximum of 140,000,000 shares of common stock for sale to the public (the “Offering”), of which 100,000,000 shares were registered in a primary offering and 40,000,000 shares were registered to be sold under the Company’s dividend reinvestment plan. The SEC declared the Company’s registration statement effective on November 20, 2009. The Company ceased offering shares of common stock in its primary offering on November 14, 2012 and continues to offer shares under its dividend reinvestment plan.
The Company sold 56,584,976 shares of common stock in its primary offering for gross offering proceeds of $561.7 million. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had sold 6,827,324 shares of common stock under its dividend reinvestment plan for gross offering proceeds of $76.3 million. Also, as of December 31, 2019, the Company had redeemed 23,819,074 shares for $285.4 million. As of December 31, 2019, the Company had issued 25,976,746 shares of common stock in connection with special dividends. Additionally, on December 29, 2011 and October 23, 2012, the Company issued 220,994 shares and 55,249 shares of common stock, respectively, for $2.0 million and $0.5 million, respectively, in private transactions exempt from the registration requirements pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933.
On March 2, 2016, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI filed a final prospectus with the Israel Securities Authority for a proposed offering of up to 1,000,000,000 Israeli new Shekels of Series A debentures (the “Debentures”) at an annual interest rate not to exceed 4.25%. On March 1, 2016, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI commenced the institutional tender of the Debentures and accepted application for 842.5 million Israeli new Shekels. On March 7, 2016, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI commenced the public tender of the Debentures and accepted 127.7 million Israeli new Shekels. In the aggregate, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI accepted 970.2 million Israeli new Shekels (approximately $249.2 million as of March 8, 2016) in both the institutional and public tenders at an annual interest rate of 4.25%. Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI issued the Debentures on March 8, 2016.
In connection with the above-referenced offering, on March 8, 2016, the Operating Partnership assigned to Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI all of its interests in the subsidiaries through which the Company indirectly owns all of its real estate and real estate-related investments. The Operating Partnership owns all of the issued and outstanding equity of Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI. As a result of these transactions, the Company now holds all of its real estate and real estate-related investments indirectly through Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI.
On February 16, 2020, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity BVI issued 254.1 million Israeli new Shekels (approximately $74.1 million as of February 16, 2020) of Series B debentures (the “Series B Debentures”) to Israeli investors pursuant to a public offering registered with the Israel Securities Authority. The Series B Debentures will bear interest at the rate of 3.93% per year. The Series B Debentures have principal installment payments equal to 33.33% of the face amount of the Series B Debentures on January 31st of each year from 2024 to 2026.
As of December 31, 2019, the Company consolidated six office properties, one office portfolio consisting of four office buildings and 14 acres of undeveloped land, one apartment property and three investments in undeveloped land with approximately 1,000 developable acres, one residential home portfolio consisting of 993 single-family homes and owned five investments in unconsolidated joint ventures and three investments in real estate equity securities.