BASIS OF PRESENTATION

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

2. BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Basis of Presentation

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for interim financial statements. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, all adjustments consist solely of normal recurring matters, and result in a fair statement of the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2022, the results of its operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 and its cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021. The results of operations for such interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results for a full year. These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Parent Company’s and the Operating Partnership’s consolidated financial statements and footnotes included in their combined Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on February 24, 2022.

The consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2021 has been derived from the audited financial statements as of that date but does not include all the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements.

The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 contains a discussion of its significant accounting policies under Note 2, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies". There have been no significant changes in the Company's significant accounting policies since December 31, 2021.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The estimates and assumptions include, but are not limited to, common development cost estimates for the Company's contributions to development joint ventures. The common development cost estimates for development joint venture contributions are highly judgmental, covering significant future time horizons and are sensitive to cost escalation, sales price escalation and absorption, which are affected by expectations about future market or economic conditions. Actual results could differ from these and other estimates.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04 Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting. The amendments provide practical expedients for reference rate reform related activities that impact debt, leases, derivatives and other contracts. The guidance is optional and is effective between March 12, 2020 and December 31, 2022. The guidance may be elected over time as reference rate reform activities occur. During the second quarter of 2022, the Company elected to apply the hedge accounting expedients related to probability and the assessments of effectiveness for future LIBOR-indexed cash flows to assume that the index upon which future hedged transactions will be based matches the index on the corresponding derivatives. In addition, the Company elected to apply the hedge accounting expedients related to changes in critical terms of derivative or hedged transactions, and bilaterally negotiated contract changes for the refinance of the Company's term loan and associated interest rate swap. The Company continues to evaluate the impact of the guidance and may apply elections as applicable as additional changes in the market occur.