Company: PEB
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001474098-25-000039
Chunk: 131

Company: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 131
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this report. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is a Maryland real estate investment trust that conducts its operations so as to qualify as a REIT under the Code. Substantially all of the operations are conducted through Pebblebrook Hotel, L.P. (our "Operating Partnership"), a Delaware limited partnership of which Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is the sole general partner. In this report, we use the terms "the Company", "we" or "our" to refer to Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Overview

Our 2024 operating results showed continued improvement in group and business transient demand. Leisure demand remained healthy and was boosted by customers returning to the cities for cultural, sporting and entertainment events. Our recently redeveloped properties performed well, gaining market share versus the prior year. Our properties in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland muted our overall performance, but strong markets such as San Diego, Boston, and Chicago helped to offset the weaker results.

Certain of our properties experienced demand headwinds in 2024, including our Los Angeles properties, which were affected by the entertainment industry strikes in 2023, which slowed production into 2024, and our LaPlaya Beach Resort & Club ("LaPlaya"), which was impacted by Hurricane Helene on September 26, 2024 and Hurricane Milton on October 9, 2024. The damage to LaPlaya primarily impacted the ground floor of the Beach House, pool complex, landscaping and parking garage. LaPlaya closed following Hurricane Milton to facilitate clean-up, repairs and a full assessment of damage. The property's Bay Tower and Gulf Tower reopened November 1, 2024 and the upper floors of the Beach House reopened in January 2025. The ground floor of the Beach House is expected to open in the second quarter of 2025. In 2024, we recorded a loss of $10.0 million related to the damage from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and we expect our property and flood insurance proceeds to cover the physical damage and business interruption losses from the hurricanes in excess of the applicable deductibles.

During 2024, we had the following transactions and events:

•We finalized a settlement agreement with our insurance carriers for damage caused by Hurricane Ian in 2022 totaling $146.5 million and recognized