Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Segment Information

Segment Information

Note 15. Segment Information

        Our primary business is the ownership and operation of a nationwide portfolio of properties. We account for each of our individual properties as a separate operating segment. We have aggregated our separate operating segments into two reportable segments based on our primary method of internal reporting: CBD properties and suburban properties. More than 90% our CBD and suburban properties are office properties. As a result of our deconsolidation of SIR in 2013, we no longer include "industrial and other" among our reportable segments. Each of our reportable segments includes within its segments properties with similar operating and economic characteristics that are subject to unique supply and demand conditions. Geographic regions described in our prior year financial statements were eliminated primarily because one of these regions included properties owned primarily by SIR which are no longer included in our consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2013, and the remaining two regions no longer represent a meaningful portion of our consolidated portfolio. See Note 6 for financial information relating to SIR. Our operating segments (i.e., our individual properties) are managed and operated consistently in accordance with our standard operating procedures, and our management responsibilities do not vary significantly from location to location based on the size of the property or geographic location within each primary reporting segment. We use property net operating income, or NOI, to evaluate the performance of our operating segments. We define NOI as income from our real estate including lease termination fees received from tenants less our property operating expenses, which expenses include property marketing costs. NOI excludes amortization of capitalized tenant improvement costs and leasing commissions.

        As of December 31, 2013, we owned 38 CBD properties (51 buildings) and 87 suburban properties (144 buildings), excluding properties classified as held for sale. Prior periods have been restated to reflect properties reclassified to discontinued operations during 2013.

        The following items are accounted for on a corporate level and are not allocated among our segments: depreciation and amortization expense, general and administrative expense, loss on asset impairment, acquisition related costs, interest and other income and expense, loss on early extinguishment of debt, gain on sale of equity investment, gain on issuance of shares by an equity investee, income tax expense, equity in earnings of investees, income (loss) from discontinued operations and gain on sale of properties. The accounting policies of our segments are the same as the accounting policies described in our summary of significant accounting policies.

        Property level information by operating segment as of December 31, 2013, and for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, is as follows:

	As of December 31,
	2013		2012
Square feet (in thousands):
CBD properties		20,975		21,224
Suburban properties		16,298		40,582
Total properties		37,273		61,806

	Year Ended December 31,
	2013		2012		2011
Rental income:
CBD properties	$	432,812	$	408,144	$	320,564
Suburban properties		274,568		301,246		281,068
Total properties	$	707,380	$	709,390	$	601,632
Tenant reimbursements and other income:
CBD properties	$	118,314	$	112,083	$	79,277
Suburban properties		59,842		60,432		60,435
Total properties	$	178,156	$	172,515	$	139,712
NOI:
CBD properties	$	291,544	$	280,036	$	221,737
Suburban properties		223,123		245,265		222,199
Total properties	$	514,667	$	525,301	$	443,936

        As of December 31, 2013, our investments in CBD properties and suburban properties, net of accumulated depreciation, excluding properties classified as held for sale, were $3,001,397 and $1,640,709, respectively, including $141,966 of CBD properties and $88,935 of suburban properties located in Australia. As of December 31, 2012, our investment in CBD properties and suburban properties, net of accumulated depreciation, excluding properties classified as held for sale, were $3,176,446 and $3,645,357, respectively, including $168,220 of CBD properties and $104,010 of suburban properties located in Australia.

        The following table includes the reconciliation of NOI to net loss, the most directly comparable financial measure under GAAP reported in our consolidated financial statements. We consider NOI to be an appropriate supplemental measure to net loss because it may help both investors and management to understand the operations of our properties. We use NOI internally to evaluate individual, regional and company wide property level performance, and we believe that NOI provides useful information to investors regarding our results of operations because it reflects only those income and expense items that are incurred at the property level and may facilitate comparisons of our operating performance between periods and with other REITs. The calculation of NOI excludes certain components of net loss in order to provide results that are more closely related to our properties' results of operations. NOI does not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net loss, net loss attributable to CommonWealth REIT, net loss available for CommonWealth REIT common shareholders, operating income or cash flow from operating activities, determined in accordance with GAAP, or as an indicator of our financial performance or liquidity, nor is this measure necessarily indicative of sufficient cash flow to fund all of our needs. This measure should be considered in conjunction with net loss, net loss attributable to CommonWealth REIT, net loss available for CommonWealth REIT common shareholders, operating income and cash flow from operating activities as presented in our consolidated statements of operations, consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income and consolidated statements of cash flows. Other REITs and real estate companies may calculate NOI differently than we do. A reconciliation of NOI to net loss for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 is as follows:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2013			2012			2011
Rental income	$	707,380		$	709,390		$	601,632
Tenant reimbursements and other income		178,156			172,515			139,712
Operating expenses		(370,869	)		(356,604	)		(297,408	)
NOI	$	514,667		$	525,301		$	443,936
NOI	$	514,667		$	525,301		$	443,936
Depreciation and amortization		(218,854	)		(209,759	)		(171,662	)
General and administrative		(77,209	)		(46,057	)		(38,221	)
Loss on asset impairment		—			—			(3,036	)
Acquisition related costs		(318	)		(5,648	)		(9,731	)
Operating income		218,286			263,837			221,286
Interest and other income		1,229			1,404			1,662
Interest expense		(173,011	)		(201,840	)		(191,876	)
Loss on early extinguishment of debt		(60,052	)		(287	)		(35	)
Gain on sale of equity investment		66,293			—			—
Gain on issuance of shares by an equity investee		—			7,246			11,177
Income from continuing operations before income tax expense and equity in earnings of investees		52,745			70,360			42,214
Income tax expense		(2,634	)		(3,207	)		(1,347	)
Equity in earnings of investees		25,754			11,420			11,377
Income from continuing operations		75,865			78,573			52,244
Income from discontinued operations		15,867			9,783			22,307
Loss on asset impairment from discontinued operations		(227,122	)		(168,632	)		(7,319	)
Loss on early extinguishment of debt from discontinued operations		(1,011	)		(1,608	)		—
Net (loss) gain on sale of properties from discontinued operations		(22,162	)		2,039			42,752
(Loss) income before gain on sale of properties		(158,563	)		(79,845	)		109,984
Gain on sale of properties		1,596			—			—
Net (loss) income	$	(156,967	)	$	(79,845	)	$	109,984