ORGANIZATION

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

ORGANIZATION

ORGANIZATION

Pacific Oak 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 is externally managed by Pacific Oak Advisors, LLC (the “Advisor”), an affiliate of the Company, pursuant to an advisory agreement (the “Advisory Agreement”) which is currently effective through November 1, 2023; however, the Company or the Advisor may terminate the Advisory Agreement without cause or penalty upon providing 60 days’ written notice. The Advisor conducts the Company’s operations and manages its portfolio of real estate and other real estate-related investments, with the exception of the Company’s residential homes portfolio. The Company’s residential homes portfolio, held through its subsidiary Pacific Oak Residential Trust, Inc. (“PORT”), is managed by an affiliate of the Advisor.

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 suspended offering shares under its dividend reinvestment plan as of March 28, 2023.

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, 2022, the Company had sold 6,851,969 shares of common stock under its dividend reinvestment plan for gross offering proceeds of $76.5 million. On October 5, 2020, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT II ("POSOR II") merged with an indirect subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). At the effective time of the Merger, each issued and outstanding share of POSOR II’s common stock converted into 0.9643 shares of the Company’s common stock or 28,973,906 shares. Also, as of December 31, 2021, the Company had redeemed 27,951,857 shares for $324.1 million. As of December 31, 2022, 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 27, 2020, the Company issued 3,411,737 restricted shares of its common stock (the “Restricted Stock”) to its former external advisor, KBS Capital Advisors LLC (“KBS Capital Advisors”) pursuant to a Restricted Stock Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2020 (the “Restricted Stock Agreement”). On September 1, 2021, the Company repurchased 584,267 shares of the Restricted Stock for $5.7 million and 2,254,289 shares of Restricted Stock were transferred to GKP Holding LLC (“GKP”), a company owned by Keith D. Hall and Peter McMillan III. See Note 14 for further details.

As of December 31, 2022, the Company consolidated eight office properties, one office portfolio consisting of two office buildings and 25 acres of undeveloped land, two apartment properties, one hotel property, one residential home portfolio consisting of 2,456 residential homes, two investments in undeveloped land with approximately 742 developable acres, one office/retail development property and owned three investments in unconsolidated entities and three investments in real estate equity securities.