Company: CIO
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-062248
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Company: City Office REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
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Our future income, cash flows and fair values relevant to financial instruments are dependent upon prevailing market interest rates. Market risk refers to the risk of loss from adverse changes in market prices and interest rates.  We use derivative financial instruments to manage or hedge interest rate risks related to borrowings.  We do not use derivatives for trading or speculative purposes. We have entered, and we will only enter into, contracts with major financial institutions based on their credit rating and other factors. See Note 6 to our condensed consolidated financial statements in Item 1 of this Report for more information regarding our derivatives.

We currently consider our interest rate exposure to be moderate because as of March 31, 2025, approximately $533.1 million, or 82.3%, of our debt had fixed interest rates, or effectively fixed rates when factoring in interest rate swaps, and $115.0 million, or 17.7%, had variable interest rates. The interest rate swaps effectively fix the SOFR component of the borrowing rates until maturity of the debt. A 1% increase in SOFR would result in a $1.2 million increase to our annual interest costs on debt outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and would decrease the fair value of our outstanding debt, as well as increase interest costs associated with future debt issuances or borrowings under our Unsecured Credit Facility. A 1% decrease in SOFR would result in a $1.2 million decrease to our annual interest costs on debt outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and would increase the fair value of our outstanding debt, as well as decrease interest costs associated with future debt issuances or borrowings under our Unsecured Credit Facility.

Interest rate risk amounts are our management’s estimates based on our Company’s capital structure and were determined by considering the effect of hypothetical interest rates on our financial instruments. These analyses do not consider the effect of any change in overall economic activity that could occur in that environment. We may take actions to further mitigate our exposure to changes in interest rates. However, due to the uncertainty of the specific actions that would be taken and their possible effects, these analyses assume no changes in our Company’s financial structure.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Based on the most recent evaluation, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer determined that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act