1.	Nature of Business and Financial Statement Presentation

Nature of Business

DDR Corp. and its related consolidated real estate subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company” or “DDR”) and unconsolidated joint ventures are primarily engaged in the business of acquiring, owning, developing, redeveloping, expanding, leasing, financing and managing shopping centers. Unless otherwise provided, references herein to the Company or DDR include DDR Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries and consolidated joint ventures. The Company’s tenant base primarily includes national and regional retail chains and local retailers. Consequently, the Company’s credit risk is concentrated in the retail industry.

Use of Estimates in Preparation of Financial Statements

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the year. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Reclassifications

Certain reclassifications have been made to the Company’s 2016 financial statements to conform to the 2017 presentation.

Unaudited Interim Financial Statements

These financial statements have been prepared by the Company in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, they do not include all information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. However, in the opinion of management, the interim financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair statement of the results of the periods presented. The results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the results of the Company and all entities in which the Company has a controlling interest or has been determined to be the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity (“VIE”). All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Investments in real estate joint ventures in which the Company has the ability to exercise significant influence, but does not have financial or operating control, are accounted for using the equity method of accounting. Accordingly, the Company’s share of the earnings (or loss) of these joint ventures is included in consolidated net income (loss).

The Company has two unconsolidated joint ventures included in the Company’s joint venture investments that are considered VIEs for which the Company is not the primary beneficiary. The Company’s maximum exposure to losses associated with these VIEs is limited to its aggregate investment, which was $325.3 million and $405.4 million as of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.

Statements of Cash Flows and Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Investing and Financing Information

Non-cash investing and financing activities are summarized as follows (in millions):

	Six Months
	Ended June 30,
	2017		2016
Accounts payable related to construction in progress	$	15.7	$	20.8
Dividends declared		76.7		75.1

Common Shares

Common share dividends declared per share were as follows:

	Three Months				Six Months
	Ended June 30,				Ended June 30,
	2017		2016		2017		2016
Common share dividends declared per share	$	0.19	$	0.19	$	0.38	$	0.38

Fee and Other Income

Fee and other income was composed of the following (in thousands):

	Three Months				Six Months
	Ended June 30,				Ended June 30,
	2017		2016		2017		2016
Management and other fee income	$	8,787	$	11,465	$	18,226	$	19,643
Ancillary and other property income		4,660		4,512		8,993		8,616
Lease termination fees		630		216		808		1,445
Other		31		34		98		44
Total fee and other income	$	14,108	$	16,227	$	28,125	$	29,748

New Accounting Standards Adopted

Business Combinations

In September 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2015-16, Business Combinations (Topic 805). ASU No. 2015-16 provides guidance pertaining to entities that have reported provisional amounts for items in a business combination for which the accounting is incomplete by the end of the reporting period in which the combination occurs and during the measurement period have an adjustment to provisional amounts recognized. The guidance requires that an acquirer recognize adjustments to provisional amounts that are identified during the measurement period in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined. Any adjustments should be calculated as if the accounting had been completed at the acquisition date. The guidance is effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. In addition, in January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805) - Clarifying the Definition of a Business. ASU No. 2017-01 clarifies the definition and provides a more robust framework to use in determining when a set of assets and activities constitutes a business. ASU No. 2017-01 is intended to provide guidance when evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The guidance is effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted for both standards. Application of the guidance is prospective.

The Company adopted the standards effective January 1, 2017, with respect to its asset acquisitions. Under these new standards, the Company’s purchase of a shopping center is expected to be classified as an acquisition of an asset and not classified as an acquisition of a business. Transaction costs from the acquisition of a business are expensed as incurred, in contrast to transaction costs from the acquisition of an asset, which are capitalized to real estate assets upon acquisition. As a result of these new standards, the majority of the transaction costs incurred related to the acquisition of shopping centers are capitalized to real estate assets (Note 3). This change did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

Statement of Cash Flows

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows: Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. ASU No. 2016-15 provides guidance on certain specific cash flow issues, including, but not limited to, debt prepayment or extinguishment costs, contingent consideration payments made after a business combination and distributions received from equity method investees. In addition, in November 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230: Restricted Cash. ASU No. 2016-18 clarifies certain existing principles in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 230, including providing additional guidance related to transfers between cash and restricted cash and how entities present, in their statements of cash flows, the cash receipts and cash payments that directly affect the restricted cash accounts. These standards are effective for periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and shall be applied retrospectively where practicable. Early adoption is permitted.

The Company adopted the updated standards effective January 1, 2017. The adoption of these standards modified the Company's 2017 presentation of certain activities within the consolidated statements of cash flows and related disclosures.

New Accounting Standards to Be Adopted

Revenue Recognition

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The objective of ASU No. 2014-09 is to establish a single comprehensive five-step model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers that will supersede most of the existing revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. The core principle of this standard is that an entity recognizes revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. ASU No. 2014-09 applies to all contracts with customers except those that are within the scope of other topics in the ASC. The new guidance is effective for public companies for annual reporting periods (including interim periods within those periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. Entities have the option of using either a full retrospective or modified retrospective approach to adopt ASU No. 2014-09. The Company expects to adopt using the modified retrospective approach for financial statements issued after January 1, 2018.

Most significantly for the real estate industry, leasing transactions are not within the scope of the new standard. A majority of the Company’s tenant-related revenue is recognized pursuant to lease agreements and will be governed by the recently issued leasing guidance discussed below. The Company completed its assessment of ASU No. 2014-09 and has concluded that the guidance will not have a material impact on the method of revenue recognition, excluding tenant-related revenue with respect to leasing transactions. The Company anticipates that upon adoption of ASU No. 2014-09, the recognition of lease commission income earned pursuant to its management agreements with unconsolidated joint ventures most likely will be accelerated into an earlier quarter than recognized in current GAAP. The majority of the Company’s lease commission income is recognized 50% upon lease execution and 50% upon tenant rent commencement. Under the new standard, the Company anticipates that a lease commission will be recognized in its entirety upon lease execution. This revenue is not considered material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Accounting for Leases

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The amendments in this update govern a number of areas including, but not limited to, accounting for leases, replacing the existing guidance in ASC No. 840, Leases. Under this standard, among other changes in practice, a lessee’s rights and obligations under most leases, including existing and new arrangements, would be recognized as assets and liabilities, respectively, on the balance sheet. Other significant provisions of this standard include (i) defining the “lease term” to include the noncancellable period together with periods for which there is a significant economic incentive for the lessee to extend or not terminate the lease, (ii) defining the initial lease liability to be recorded on the balance sheet to contemplate only those variable lease payments that depend on an index or that are in substance “fixed,” (iii) a dual approach for determining whether lease expense is recognized on a straight-line or accelerated basis, depending on whether the lessee is expected to consume more than an insignificant portion of the leased asset’s economic benefits and (iv) a requirement to bifurcate certain lease and non-lease components. The lease standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, (including interim periods within those fiscal years) with early adoption permitted. The Company has not yet selected the method of adoption.

The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU No. 2016-02 will have on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures. The Company has currently identified several areas within its accounting policies it believes could be impacted by the new standard. The Company may have a change in presentation on its consolidated statement of operations with regards to Recoveries from Tenants which includes reimbursements from tenants for certain operating expenses, real estate taxes and insurance. Tenant expense reimbursements with a service obligation are not covered within the scope of ASU No. 2016-02. The Company also has certain lease arrangements with its tenants for space at its shopping centers in which the contractual amounts due under the lease by the lessee are not allocated between the rental and expense reimbursement components (“Gross Leases”). The aggregate revenue earned under Gross Leases is presented as Minimum Rents in the consolidated statements of operations. As a result, the Company anticipates it will be required to bifurcate the presentation of certain expense reimbursements as well as allocate the fair value of the embedded revenue associated with these reimbursements for Gross Leases, which represent an immaterial portion of the Company’s lease portfolio, and separately present such amounts in its consolidated statements of operations based upon materiality. In addition, the Company has ground lease agreements in which the Company is the lessee for land underneath all or a portion of the buildings at five shopping centers. Currently, the Company accounts for these arrangements as operating leases. Under the new standard, the Company will record its rights and obligations under these leases as an asset and liability on its consolidated balance sheets. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the inputs required to calculate the amount that will be recorded on its balance sheet for each ground lease. Lastly, this standard impacts the lessor’s ability to capitalize costs related to the leasing of vacant space. However, the Company does not believe this change regarding capitalization will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.