Real Estate Assets

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Real Estate [Abstract]

Real Estate Assets

Real Estate Assets

Acquisitions

During 2017, we acquired fee simple title to land in Raleigh that was previously subject to a ground lease for a purchase price, including capitalized acquisition costs and contingent consideration, of $2.6 million.

During 2016, we acquired a building in Raleigh, which encompasses 243,000 rentable square feet, for a net purchase price of $76.9 million. We expensed $0.3 million of acquisition costs (included in general and administrative expenses) related to this acquisition. The assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at fair value as determined by management, with the assistance of third party specialists, based on information available at the acquisition date and on current assumptions as to future operations.

During 2016, we also acquired:

• fee simple title to the land underneath one of our buildings in Pittsburgh that was previously subject to a ground lease for a purchase price of $18.5 million. We expensed $0.5 million of acquisition costs (included in general and administrative expenses) related to this acquisition;

• an acre of development land in Raleigh for a purchase price, including capitalized acquisition costs, of $5.8 million; and

• 14 acres of development land in Nashville for a purchase price, including capitalized acquisition costs, of $9.1 million.

During 2015, we acquired:

• a building in Tampa encompassing 528,000 rentable square feet for a net purchase price of $113.5 million and an adjacent land parcel for a purchase price of $2.2 million;

• two buildings in Atlanta encompassing 896,000 rentable square feet for a net purchase price of $290.3 million;

• land in Atlanta for a purchase price and related transaction costs of $5.2 million (including contingent consideration of $0.9 million); and

• our Highwoods DLF 98/29, LLC joint venture partner’s 77.2% interest in a building in Orlando encompassing 168,000 rentable square feet in exchange for the assumption of secured debt recorded at fair value of $19.3 million (see Note 6).

2. Real Estate Assets - Continued

We expensed $1.0 million of acquisition costs (included in general and administrative expenses) in 2015 related to these acquisitions. The assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at fair value as determined by management, with the assistance of third party specialists, based on information available at the acquisition date and on current assumptions as to future operations.

The following table sets forth a summary of the fair value of the major assets acquired and liabilities assumed relating to the above-referenced acquisition of two buildings in Atlanta during 2015:

	Total Purchase Price Allocation
Real estate assets	$	275,639
Acquisition-related intangible assets (in deferred leasing costs)	23,722
Acquisition-related below market lease liabilities (in accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities)	(9,076		)
Total allocation	$	290,285

The following table sets forth the Company's revenues and net income, adjusted for interest expense, straight-line rental income, depreciation and amortization related to purchase price allocations and acquisition costs, assuming the above-referenced acquisition of two buildings in Atlanta during 2015 had been completed as of January 1, 2014:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2015
	(unaudited)
Pro forma revenues	$	626,067
Pro forma net income	$	103,485
Pro forma net income available for common stockholders	$	96,797
Pro forma earnings per share - basic	$	1.03
Pro forma earnings per share - diluted	$	1.02

The above-referenced acquisition of two buildings in Atlanta during 2015 resulted in revenues of $7.3 million and net loss of $1.2 million recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the year ended December 31, 2015.

Dispositions

During 2017, we sold a total of 15 buildings and land for an aggregate sale price of $135.6 million (before closing credits to buyer of $3.7 million) and recorded aggregate gains on disposition of property of $54.2 million.

During 2016, we sold:

• substantially all of our wholly-owned Country Club Plaza assets in Kansas City (which we refer to as the “Plaza assets”) for a sale price of $660.0 million (before closing credits to buyer of $4.8 million). We recorded gains on disposition of discontinued operations of $414.5 million and a gain on disposition of property of $1.3 million related to the land; and

• a 32,000 square foot building for a sale price of $4.7 million (before closing credits to buyer of $0.1 million) and recorded a gain on disposition of property of $1.1 million. The buyer, which leased 79% of the building, is a family business controlled by a director of the Company. The sale price exceeded the value set forth in an appraisal performed by a reputable independent commercial real estate services firm that has no relationship with the director or any of his affiliates.

2. Real Estate Assets - Continued

During 2016, we also sold two buildings and various land parcels for an aggregate sale price of $31.1 million (before closing credits to buyer of $0.5 million) and recorded aggregate gains on disposition of property of $12.4 million. We deferred $0.4 million of gain related to a land sale for a portion of the sale price that was escrowed for contingent future infrastructure work.

During 2015, we sold a total of three buildings and various land parcels for an aggregate sale price of $27.8 million and recorded aggregate gains on disposition of property of $9.2 million, net of $0.5 million in taxes payable by our taxable REIT subsidiary.

Impairments

During 2017, we recorded aggregate impairments of real estate assets of $1.4 million, which resulted from a change in market-based inputs and our assumptions about the use of the assets.