# EDGAR Filing Document

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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000104894-26-000011

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 10-K

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**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251231

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260227

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260227

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Elme Communities
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000104894
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 05 Real Estate & Construction
- **EIN:** 530261100
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MD
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 10-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-06622
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26699586

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 7550 WISCONSIN AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 900
- **CITY:** BETHESDA
- **STATE:** MD
- **ZIP:** 20814
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 2027743200

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 7550 WISCONSIN AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 900
- **CITY:** BETHESDA
- **STATE:** MD
- **ZIP:** 20814

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** WASHINGTON REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**___________________________________________________**

**FORM 10-K** 

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☒ **ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**For fiscal year ended December 31, 2025** 

**OR**

☐ **TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**COMMISSION FILE NO. 001-06622** 

**___________________________________________________**

**ELME COMMUNITIES**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

**___________________________________________________**

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| **Maryland** | **53-0261100** |
| **(State of incorporation)** | **(IRS Employer Identification Number)** |

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**7550 WISCONSIN AVE, SUITE 900, BETHESDA, MD 20814** 

**(Address of principal executive office) (Zip code)**

**Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (202) 774-3200** 

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**Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:**

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| **<u>Title of each class</u>** | **<u>Trading Symbol(s)</u>** | **<u>Name of each exchange on which registered</u>** |
| Shares of Beneficial Interest | ELME | NYSE |

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**Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None**

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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

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| Large accelerated filer | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | ☐ |
| | | Emerging growth company | ☐ |

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for

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complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management's assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant's executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of June 30, 2025, the aggregate market value of such shares held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $1,382,385,686 (based on the closing price of the shares on June 30, 2025).

As of February 24, 2026, 88,857,883 common shares were outstanding.

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**DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE**

The information called for by Part III will be included in an amendment to this Form 10-K or incorporated by reference from the registrant's definitive Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

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ELME COMMUNITIES

2025 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT

INDEX

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| <u>PART I</u> |  |  | Page |
|  | Item 1. | Business | <u>[4](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_13)</u> |
|  | Item 1A. | Risk Factors | <u>[8](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_16)</u> |
|  | Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | <u>[18](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_19)</u> |
|  | Item 1C. | Cybersecurity | <u>[18](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_22)</u> |
|  | Item 2. | Properties | <u>[20](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_25)</u> |
|  | Item 3. | Legal Proceedings | <u>[20](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_28)</u> |
|  | Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | <u>[20](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_31)</u> |
| <u>PART II</u> |  |  |  |
|  | Item 5. | Market for the Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | <u>[21](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_37)</u> |
|  | Item 6. | Reserved | <u>[23](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_40)</u> |
|  | Item 7. | Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | <u>[23](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_43)</u> |
|  | Item 7A. | Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures about Market Risk | <u>[34](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_70)</u> |
|  | Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | <u>[35](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_73)</u> |
|  | Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure | <u>[35](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_76)</u> |
|  | Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures | <u>[35](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_79)</u> |
|  | Item 9B. | Other Information | <u>[35](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_82)</u> |
|  | Item 9C. | Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections | <u>[36](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_85)</u> |
| <u>PART III</u> |  |  |  |
|  | Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance | <u>[36](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_91)</u> |
|  | Item 11. | Executive Compensation | <u>[36](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_94)</u> |
|  | Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | <u>[36](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_97)</u> |
|  | Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | <u>[36](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_100)</u> |
|  | Item 14. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | <u>[36](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_103)</u> |
| <u>PART IV</u> |  |  |  |
|  | Item 15. | Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules | <u>[37](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_109)</u> |
|  | Item 16. | Form 10-K Summary | <u>[38](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_112)</u> |
|  |  | Signatures | <u>[39](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_115)</u> |

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**PART I**

**<u>ITEM 1: BUSINESS</u>**

**Elme Communities Overview**

Elme Communities, a Maryland real estate investment trust, formerly known as Washington Real Estate Investment Trust ("Elme" or the "Company"), is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust ("REIT") within the meaning of Sections 856-860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") and successor to a trust organized in 1960. Our business primarily consists of the ownership of apartment communities in the greater Washington, DC metro and Sunbelt regions. As of December 31, 2025, we owned nine apartment communities and one office property.

**Plan of Liquidation**

On February 13, 2025, the Company announced that its Board of Trustees (the "Board") had initiated a formal review to evaluate strategic alternatives. On August 4, 2025, the Company announced that its Board had completed its review, that Elme had entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2025, for the sale of 19 multifamily properties from Elme for approximately $1.6 billion in cash, subject to certain adjustments and prorations (the "Portfolio Sale Transaction"), and that the Board had also approved a plan of sale and liquidation (the "Plan of Sale and Liquidation"), which contemplates the sale or disposition of all the Company's assets, the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and the termination of the Company's existence by voluntary dissolution. The Plan of Sale and Liquidation includes a plan of liquidation that provides for the Company's complete liquidation and dissolution in accordance with Section 331, Section 336 and Section 346(a) of the Code.

On October 30, 2025, our shareholders approved the Portfolio Sale Transaction and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, and on November 12, 2025, Elme completed the Portfolio Sale Transaction. Also on November 12, 2025, certain indirect subsidiaries of the Company, as borrowers (collectively, the "Borrowers"), and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as lender (the "Lender"), entered into that certain Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") pursuant to which the Lender has made a senior secured term loan of $520.0 million (the "Secured Term Loan") to the Borrowers. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Secured Term Loan was secured by first priority mortgages and security interests on all ten properties that remained under the Company following the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction (which are directly owned by the Borrowers) and included: Riverside Apartments, Elme Bethesda, Elme Germantown, Elme Watkins Mill, 3801 Connecticut Avenue, Kenmore Apartments, Elme Conyers, Elme Marietta, Elme Sandy Springs, and Watergate 600 (the "Remaining Company Properties" and "Loan Collateral"). In addition, the Secured Term Loan was secured by pledges of all equity interests in the Borrowers, along with all other personal property of the Borrowers.

Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, which comprise approximately 800 residential apartment homes – for gross proceeds of approximately $112.75 million, a portion of which was used to partially repay the Secured Term Loan, and those properties were released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan. As of February 27, 2026, we have also entered into purchase and sale agreements, which are no longer subject to ongoing inspection periods, pursuant to which we expect to sell three of the Remaining Company Properties: Elme Watkins Mill, Elme Conyers and Watergate 600 (the "Properties Under Contract"), to various buyers for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $128.78 million, which are expected to close in the first or second quarter of 2026, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including, in the case of Elme Watkins Mill, regulatory requirements related to the sale of multifamily properties in Montgomery County, Maryland. The marketing and sale process with respect to the other five Remaining Company Properties remains ongoing. In January 2026, we began a formal marketing process for Riverside Apartments and continued the marketing and sale process with respect to Kenmore, 3801 Connecticut, Elme Bethesda and Elme Germantown (the "Other Remaining Properties"). The Company currently expects to finalize the sale of Elme Germantown in the second quarter of 2026 and the sale of Elme Bethesda by mid-year 2026. The Company also expects to continue the marketing process for the DC and Virginia properties with a goal to have these three properties under contract by mid-May. The Company continues to target completion of the sales of all Remaining Company Properties by mid-year 2026.

Given the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, our efforts are focused on selling the remaining properties, winding down the Company's affairs and, when appropriate and in the Board's discretion, distributing the net proceeds to our shareholders, subject to the creation of necessary reserves for, and payment or other satisfaction of, the Company's expenses and other liabilities and obligations. We do not intend to continue or to engage in the conduct of a trade or business, except as necessary for the orderly liquidation of our assets.

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Elme is not required to obtain any further shareholder approval with respect to its liquidation and dissolution. Under the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Board may modify, amend or terminate the Plan of Sale and Liquidation (and authorize us to seek to dispose of all our assets through a merger, business combination or similar transaction) without approval by the shareholders if it determines that such action would be advisable and in the best interests of Elme. Elme has no present plans or intentions to modify, amend or abandon the Plan of Sale and Liquidation.

Elme is aiming to complete the sales of the Remaining Company Properties by mid-year 2026. Because the sales of our remaining properties are subject to, among other things, completion of the marketing and sale process and the negotiation of terms and completion of the sales, as applicable, the exact timing of completing the remaining property sales cannot be determined at this time and the Company cannot predict how long it will take to sell all of its remaining properties.

If we have not sold all of our remaining properties and paid all of our liabilities within 24 months after shareholder approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which was received on October 30, 2025, or if the Board otherwise determines that it is advantageous to do so earlier, we may transfer our remaining assets and liabilities to a liquidating trust and distribute interests in the liquidating trust to our shareholders or otherwise convert Elme to a liquidating limited liability company, partnership, or trust. We cannot predict the exact amount to be distributed or the timing of the completion of the liquidation and termination of the Elme's existence.

As a result of the approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation by our shareholders on October 30, 2025, we adopted the liquidation basis of accounting on November 1, 2025, as described further in Note 3.

**Initial Liquidating Distribution**

In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, following completion of the Portfolio Sale Transaction in November 2025, the Board approved a special liquidating distribution of $14.67 per share to our shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 22, 2025. The special liquidating distribution was paid on January 7, 2026.

**Our Portfolio**

As of December 31, 2025, we owned approximately 3,570 residential apartment homes in the Washington, DC metro and Atlanta metro regions. We also owned approximately 300,000 square feet of commercial space in the Washington, DC metro region. As of February 27, 2026, we owned approximately 2,500 residential apartment homes and approximately 300,000 square feet of commercial space in the Washington, DC metro region and approximately 200 residential apartment homes in the Atlanta metro region.

All of our residential communities are under Elme management and Stream Realty Partners ("Stream") provides property management and leasing services at our sole office property, Watergate 600.

Further description of the properties is contained in Item 2, Properties, and note 16 to the consolidated financial statements, Segment Information, and in Schedule III. Reference is also made to Item 7, Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

**Environmental Sustainability**

We implement sustainable policies and practices at all of our properties, for purposes of ensuring occupants and residents work and live in efficient, healthy spaces and to drive value to shareholders. We track annual asset-level performance of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water consumption, utilizing ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager as well as Measurabl ESG software. We apply industry standard rating systems such as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ("LEED") and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method ("BREEAM") to establish sustainable practices for building design, construction, operations, and maintenance.

**Governance**

At Elme, we hold ourselves, our suppliers, and the Board to high ethical standards and seek to foster a collaborative, innovative corporate culture. Our team is required to read and certify their knowledge on our Code of Ethics, in addition to receiving ethics training throughout the year. Our Board is responsible for corporate policy and management oversight to enhance long-term shareholder value.

Some of our policies, including our Human Rights Statement, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Vendor Code of Conduct,

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and Environmental Policy, can be found on our website at elmecommunities.com/esg/governance/. The reference to our website address does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained in the website and such information should not be considered part of this document.

**Human Capital**

*Employees, Training and Development*

On February 27, 2026, after giving effect to the sales of Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, we had 91 employees, including 55 persons engaged in community management functions, and 36 persons engaged in corporate, financial, asset management and other functions. Of the 55 persons engaged in community management functions, 6 are employed in the Atlanta metro region at one community, with the remainder in the Washington, DC metro region. All of our officers and substantially all of our corporate-level employees live and work in or near the greater Washington, DC metro region, and our community management employees live and work in or near their respective communities.

Following the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction and the approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Company has and expects to continue, as appropriate, downsizing with a focus on retaining an appropriate level of personnel with the necessary skill set commensurate with the reduced size of the Company, including those executive officers and other key personnel necessary for the continued operation of the remaining assets and completion of the wind-down activities, which downsizing is expected to affect both officers and other employees.

*Health, Safety and Well-being*

We support our employees with a robust and competitive employee benefits program, including flexible paid leave policies, parental leave, 401(k) matching, tuition reimbursement, an Employee Assistance Program, and other programs.

Our technological capabilities allow our corporate-level employees the flexibility to work from anywhere at any time. This allows us to easily meet our residents' needs as well as those of our employees.

**Regulation**

*REIT Tax Status* 

We believe that we qualify as a REIT under the Code. To maintain our status as a REIT, we are, among other things, required to distribute 90% of our REIT taxable income (determined before the deduction for dividends paid and excluding net capital gains), to our shareholders on an annual basis.

Generally, and subject to our ongoing qualification as a REIT, no provisions for income taxes are necessary except for taxes on undistributed taxable income and taxes on the income generated by our taxable REIT subsidiary. Our taxable REIT subsidiary is subject to corporate U.S. federal, state and local income tax on its taxable income at regular statutory rates (see note 1 to the consolidated financial statements for further disclosure).

We expect to remain qualified as a REIT until the end of our final REIT tax year in accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which we anticipate, but cannot be certain, will occur after most of the remaining assets have been sold.

*Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA")*

The properties in our portfolio must comply with Title III of the ADA, to the extent that such properties are "public accommodations" as defined by the ADA. The ADA may require removal of structural barriers to access by persons with disabilities in certain public areas of our properties where such removal is readily achievable. We believe that our properties are in substantial compliance with the ADA and that we will not be required to make substantial capital expenditures to address the requirements of the ADA. However, noncompliance with the ADA could result in an imposition of fines or an award of damages to private litigants. The obligation to make readily accessible accommodations is an ongoing one, and we will continue to assess our properties and make alterations as appropriate in this respect.

*Fair Housing Act ("FHA")*

The FHA, its state law counterparts and the regulations promulgated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

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Development and various state agencies, prohibit discrimination in housing on the basis of race or color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18) or handicap (disability) and, in some states, financial capability or other bases. A failure to comply with these laws in our operations could result in litigation, fines, penalties or other adverse claims, or could result in limitations or restrictions on our ability to operate, any of which could materially and adversely affect us. We believe that we operate our properties in substantial compliance with the FHA.

*Environmental Matters*

We are subject to numerous federal, state and local environmental, health, safety and zoning laws and regulations that govern our operations, including with respect to air emissions, wastewater, and the use, storage and disposal of hazardous and toxic substances and petroleum products. The cost to comply with such laws and regulations may be significant, and such laws may become more stringent over time. If we fail to comply with such laws, including if we fail to obtain any required permits or licenses, we could face substantial fines or possible revocation of our authority to conduct some of our operations.

In addition, under various federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the environment, as a current or former owner or operator of real property, we may be liable for costs and damages resulting from the presence or discharge of hazardous or toxic substances, waste or petroleum products at, on, in, under, or migrating from such property, including costs to investigate and remediate such contamination and liability for natural resources damage. Such laws often impose liability without regard to whether the owner or operator knew of, or was responsible for, the presence of such contamination, and the liability may be joint and several, meaning that we could be required to bear 100% of the liability even if other parties are also liable. Further, from time to time, we may be required to investigate and clean-up hazardous substances or petroleum products or remove, abate or manage asbestos, mold, radon gas, lead or other hazardous conditions at our properties, and the costs of those efforts may be substantial and could exceed the value of the property and/or our aggregate assets. It is our policy to retain independent environmental consultants to conduct Phase I environmental site assessments and asbestos surveys prior to our acquisition of properties. However, there is a risk that these assessments will not identify all potential environmental issues at a given property. In addition, we also may be liable for the costs of investigating or remediating contamination at off-site waste disposal facilities to which we have arranged for the disposal or treatment of hazardous substances, without regard to whether we complied with environmental laws in doing so. These liabilities for investigation and remediation could be substantial and the cost of any required remediation, fines, or other costs could exceed the value of the property and/or our aggregate assets. In addition, the presence of hazardous substances or the failure to remediate contamination at our current or former properties may expose us to third-party liability for costs of remediation bodily injury claims, such as tort claims by tenants, or occupational health and safety or workers compensation claims by our employees, and/or property damage, or may materially adversely affect our ability to sell, lease, operate or develop our current properties or to borrow using the properties as collateral. In addition, environmental laws may create liens on contaminated sites in favor of the government for damages and costs it incurs to address such contamination. Moreover, if contamination is discovered on our properties, environmental laws may impose restrictions on the manner in which property may be used or businesses may be operated, and these restrictions may require substantial expenditures.

**Availability of Reports**

Copies of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to such reports are available, free of charge, on our website www.elmecommunities.com. All required reports are made available on the website as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The reference to our website address does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained in the website and such information should not be considered part of this document.

The Securities and Exchange Commission maintains a website (*https://www.sec.gov*) that contains reports, proxy statements, information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with Securities and Exchange Commission.

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**<u>ITEM 1A: RISK FACTORS</u>**

*Set forth below are the risks that we believe are material to our shareholders. We refer to the shares of beneficial interest in Elme Communities as our "common shares," and the investors who own shares as our "shareholders." This section includes or refers to certain forward-looking statements. You should refer to the explanation of the qualifications and limitations on such forward-looking statements beginning on page [30](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_61).*<br>

***<u>Risks Related to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation</u>***

***The pendency of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, including the proposed sale of the Company's remaining properties, presents certain risks to our ongoing business and operations.***

On October 30, 2025, the Company's shareholders approved the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. Pursuant to such Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Company intends to complete the sales of the Company's remaining properties, including the Properties Under Contract and the Other Remaining Properties, by mid-year 2026, wind down the Company's business and affairs and terminate the Company's existence. Because the sales of these remaining properties are subject to, among other things, completion of the marketing and sale process and negotiation of sale terms and completion of the sales, as applicable, the exact timing of completing the Plan of Sale and Liquidation cannot be determined at this time.

The wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and termination of the Company's existence in accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, including the sales of the Company's remaining properties, present certain risks to our business and operations, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial results, and the amount of any additional liquidating distributions, including, among other things, that:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• we may have difficulty completing the sales of our remaining properties for the prices and on the terms anticipated, or at all;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• we expect to incur substantial expenses related to the sale of the remaining properties and the implementation of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• our business and operations could be adversely affected, including by diverting significant focus of management, employees and other resources, by impacting our ability to retain our employees and our relationships with residents, tenants, vendors and other third parties, and as a result of limitations on our conduct under purchase agreements for the Remaining Company Properties during the pendency of sales;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• additional liabilities and obligations could arise during the liquidation process, including obligations and liabilities which may be retained by us following the closing of the sales of the Remaining Company Properties;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• we may be unable to find buyers for our remaining properties on a timely basis or at our expected sales prices, which may reduce or delay our liquidating distributions;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• our ability to implement the Plan of Sale and Liquidation depends upon the participation of key personnel who may not remain in place;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• we may require additional capital or financing to complete the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs, dissolution and termination of the Company's existence under the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which may reduce the amount available for distribution to shareholders;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• shareholders may be liable to our creditors, up to the amounts received from us pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, if our reserve fund or the assets transferred to a liquidating entity are inadequate;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• costs and expenses of continuing to operate the Company, including as a public company, such as the need for additional retention costs, particularly if the liquidation takes longer than expected, may be higher than estimated; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• we anticipate that our common shares will be delisted from the NYSE at a future date to be determined by the Board.

Additionally, prior to completing the sales of all of the Remaining Company Properties, we will remain subject to all of the risks of operating our properties, including the risk that the cash flow and net working capital generated from the Company's operations prior to completing the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and termination of the Company's existence may be lower than we anticipate, and the risks and the costs associated with remaining a public company.

***We cannot determine at this time the amount or timing of the remaining liquidating distributions, if any, to our shareholders in connection with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation because there are many factors that could affect the amount or timing***

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***of such liquidating distributions, if any, some of which are not within our control***.

Although we provided an updated estimated range of remaining liquidating distributions to shareholders of between $2.35 and $2.80 per share on January 23, 2026 (after giving effect to the initial liquidating distribution of $14.67 per share paid in January 2026), there can be no assurances regarding the amounts of the remaining liquidating distributions, if any, or the timing thereof. The remaining amounts, if any, that may ultimately be available for distribution to our shareholders are not yet fully known, and there are many factors that may affect the amounts available for distribution to our shareholders, including, among other things, our results of operations, the operating costs and amounts to be set aside for claims, liabilities and other obligations prior to and during the liquidation and winding-up process, and the time required to complete our liquidation and winding up.

The estimated range of remaining liquidating distributions disclosed in our January 23, 2026 press release was estimated as of January 23, 2026 and did not take into account, among other things, interest rate, market volatility or other changes since that time or in the future and was derived, in part, from the estimated range of gross asset sales for the properties, which reflected actual contract pricing for the Remaining Company Properties then under contract and other gross asset value estimate adjustments discussed in the press release issued by the Company on January 23, 2026, less estimates for transaction costs, (including updates to reflect actual transaction costs associated with closing the Portfolio Sale Transaction and finalizing the Secured Term Loan), debt service costs, debt repayment amounts for the Secured Term Loan and establishment of reserves to satisfy known liabilities and estimated, unascertained or contingent liabilities and expenses, estimated operating costs to run the Company until completion of the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and dissolution of the Company, capital expenditure requirements and REIT compliance costs, but adjusted upwards for estimated cash flow/net working capital to be generated from the Company's property operations prior to completing sales of the Remaining Company Properties. These estimates may overstate the proceeds from asset sales or understate the actual expenses, which means actual remaining liquidating distributions may be significantly less or more than the estimated range.

Other uncertainties that could cause the aggregate amount of remaining liquidating distributions to be less than our estimate, or the timing of distributions to be delayed, in addition to other risks described elsewhere in this section, include the following:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the price that potential buyers of our properties may be willing to pay for our remaining company properties may change due to a number of factors beyond our control, including changes in general economic or local conditions, changes in interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, supply and demand dynamics, changes in tax, real estate, environmental and zoning laws and regulations, occupancy percentages, lease rates, competition, operating performance and the perceived quality and dependability of income flows from tenancies, potential major repairs or other contingent liabilities associated with the properties, and a number of other factors, both local and national;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• delays in our ability to find suitable buyers, complete the asset sales on the terms we currently expect and the wind-down of our business and affairs and termination of our existence could require us to incur expenses for a longer period than anticipated;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• our ability to comply with the covenants and other terms of the Secured Term Loan which could impact our ability to make, or the timing of, additional liquidating distributions;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the costs and expenses of executing the Plan of Sale and Liquidation may differ from our estimates;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the current market conditions in the DC area, which have continued to soften throughout our marketing and sale process for the Remaining Company Properties, could continue to soften;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the estimated amount of cash flow/net working capital to be generated from our property operations prior to completing the wind-down of our business and affairs and termination of our existence pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation may be lower than we anticipate;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• costs and expenses of continuing to operate the Company, including as a public company, such as the need for additional retention costs, particularly if the liquidation takes longer than expected, may be higher than estimated;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• unanticipated or emergency capital expenditures may result in the need to incur additional debt financing or other costs and expenses that are not included in our estimates and which we cannot reasonably estimate at this time;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• unknown or additional costs or liabilities that arise in the future, including future litigation, which we cannot reasonably estimate at this time, could delay completion of our liquidation and cause us to incur additional costs and expenses;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• costs incurred to maintain our REIT status may be higher than estimated;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the number of issued and outstanding shares used to calculate the estimated range of the additional liquidating distributions could change; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the reserve amounts we may establish to satisfy known liabilities and liquidating expenses and estimated, unascertained or contingent liabilities and expenses may be insufficient.

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Any of these uncertainties could impact the amount and timing of the estimated remaining liquidating distributions. For further information regarding the uncertainties and assumptions used in the estimated range of remaining liquidating distributions, please see the Company's Form 8-K filed on January 23, 2026.

Additionally, there can be no assurances regarding the amount of your potential total return from receiving all liquidating distributions. Your total return will depend on the amount you paid for your common shares and the date on which you purchased such common shares.

***The Plan of Sale and Liquidation may not be completed.***

Pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, we are authorized to engage in the wind-down of our business and affairs, discharge, pay or set aside reserves for our liabilities, including contingent liabilities, dispose of our assets and distribute our remaining assets available for distribution to our shareholders (as determined by the Board in its discretion), and establish one or more reserve funds to satisfy known liabilities and liquidating expenses and estimated, unascertained or contingent liabilities and expenses. As of February 27, 2026, the Properties Under Contract are expected to close in the first or second quarter of 2026, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including, in the case of Elme Watkins Mill, regulatory requirements related to the sale of multifamily properties in Montgomery County, Maryland. The Company continues to target completion of the sales of all Remaining Company Properties by mid-year 2026.

In addition, the Board may amend or terminate the Plan of Sale and Liquidation without shareholder approval at the Board's discretion, at any time prior to the filing of a notice of termination with the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, if it determines that doing so is in the best interest of the Company and our shareholders. Thus, the Board could decide to conduct our liquidation and termination of the Company's existence differently than as currently planned, or not at all. If the Board amends, modifies or terminates the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, it may impact the timing and amount of the liquidating distributions to our shareholders, our share price, our results of operations and our on-going business.

***If we are unable to find buyers for all of our remaining properties on a timely basis or at our expected sales prices, our liquidating distributions may be delayed or reduced.***

As of February 27, 2026, we have sold two of the Remaining Company Properties and also entered into purchase and sale agreements, which are no longer subject to ongoing inspection periods, pursuant to which we expect to sell three of the Remaining Company Properties. In estimating the range of remaining liquidating distributions disclosed in our January 23, 2026 press release, we reflected actual contract pricing for those Remaining Company Properties then under contract and assumed that we will be able to find buyers for all of our other assets at amounts based on our estimated range of gross real estate sales prices for the other remaining assets. However, actual sales prices ultimately achieved for these assets may differ from current estimated sales prices. For example, we may decide to sell groups of properties together, at a price that could be lower than the price we could get over a longer period of time if we sold each asset separately, in order to complete sales more quickly and reduce the risk of a lengthy liquidation process, or we could be required to lower our asking prices below the low end of our current estimate of one or more assets' market value in order to find buyers in a timely manner. Additionally, our public announcement of our intent to liquidate the Company may adversely impact the prices we will ultimately be able to obtain for our remaining properties, which could result in lower sale proceeds.

Furthermore, investments in real properties are relatively illiquid and real estate sales prices are regularly changing and fluctuate with changes in general economic or local conditions, changes in interest rates or availability of mortgage funds that may render the sale of a property difficult or unattractive, supply and demand dynamics for similar or competing properties in an area, changes in tax, real estate, environmental and zoning laws and regulations, occupancy percentages, lease rates, competition, the availability of suitable buyers, operating performance and the perceived quality and dependability of income flows from tenancies, potential major repairs or other contingent liabilities associated with the assets and a number of other factors, both local and national. If we are not able to find buyers for these assets in a timely manner or at all, or incur expenses for a longer period than anticipated, or if the sales prices we will receive differ from our current estimates, our liquidating distributions to our shareholders could be delayed or reduced accordingly and the liquidating distributions may ultimately be lower than the prevailing market or trading price of our common shares prior to the sales of all of the Remaining Company Properties pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation.

***Defaults under future sales agreements may delay or reduce liquidating distributions.***

The closing of the transactions contemplated by the Plan of Sale and Liquidation will be subject to our entering into and consummating sales agreements covering the sales of the remaining properties. If any of the transactions contemplated by these sales agreements do not close because of a buyer default, failure of a closing condition or for any other reason, including failure to find a buyer, we may not be able to enter into a new agreement on a timely basis or on terms that are as favorable as the original sales agreement. Any delay in the completion of asset sales could delay our payment of additional liquidating distributions to our shareholders. We will also incur additional costs involved in locating a new buyer and negotiating a new

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sales agreement for the asset.

***Our ability to implement the Plan of Sale and Liquidation depends upon the participation of key personnel and there is no assurance such key personnel will remain in place.***

Our ability to implement the Plan of Sale and Liquidation will depend to a significant degree upon the contributions of key personnel to continue to maintain corporate and property-level operations while we complete the sales of our remaining properties and wind-down of our business and affairs, including maintaining financing arrangements and accounting services, preparing and filing all reports required to be filed by it with the SEC, the IRS and other regulatory agencies, maintaining our REIT status (to the extent applicable) and maintaining our compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company has begun and plans to continue, as appropriate, downsizing with a focus on retaining an appropriate level of personnel with the necessary skill set commensurate with the reduced size of the Company, including those executive officers and other key personnel necessary for the continued operation of our remaining properties until they are sold and completion of the wind-down activities, which downsizing is expected to affect both officers and other employees. There can be no assurance that we will be able to retain or replace key personnel needed to successfully maintain operations while we implement the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. The loss of, or inability to retain or replace, key personnel could adversely impact our business and our ability to successfully implement the Plan of Sale and Liquidation and could result in delays.

***Additional liabilities and obligations could arise during the liquidation process.***

Following the sales of the Remaining Company Properties, we will retain liabilities that must be satisfied prior to any final distribution to our shareholders, and some of those liabilities are uncertain or unknown at this time. Significant time could be required to resolve some of these liabilities, including as a result of factors beyond our control, which could impact both the timing and the amount of any final distribution to our shareholders. Also, some liabilities may involve third party disputes. If we have underestimated our existing obligations and liabilities, such as future litigation, or if unanticipated or contingent liabilities arise, the amount of distributions to our shareholders could be less than the amounts we have estimated or the timing could be delayed. For the foregoing reasons, among others, there can be no assurance as to the timing and amount of any final distributions to our shareholders.

***We may require additional capital or financing to complete the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs, dissolution and termination of the Company's existence under the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which may reduce the amount available for distribution to shareholders.***

The Company has set aside cash for operations during the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and sales of our remaining properties. However, there can be no assurance this amount, together with funds from operations of our remaining properties until they are sold, and proceeds from the sales of the Remaining Company Properties will be sufficient for all required purposes. If such funds are insufficient, we may require additional capital to fund our other capital needs, including funds that will be needed to implement the Plan of Sale and Liquidation effectively. For example, we have been and may in the future be required to invest capital to correct defects or to make improvements before a property can be sold. We cannot assure you that we will have funds available to correct these defects or to make these improvements or be able to raise such additional capital, if needed. Reductions in the amounts that we receive when we sell our assets, or our failure to comply with the covenants in the Secured Term Loan, our failure to meet our capital needs with the cash on hand, or other financing that is on favorable terms, could reduce, eliminate or delay the liquidating distributions we make to our shareholders, or otherwise adversely affect our financial condition.

***If our transaction costs, liquidation costs or unpaid liabilities are greater than we expect, our liquidating distributions may be delayed or reduced.***

Before making a final liquidating distributions, if any, to our shareholders, we will need to pay or arrange for the payment of all of our transaction costs in the liquidation, all other costs and all valid claims of our creditors. The Board may also decide to establish a reserve fund to pay these contingent claims or incur additional expenses to acquire one or more insurance policies covering unknown or contingent claims against us, or both. The total amounts of the transaction costs relating to the liquidation are not yet final, so we have used estimates of these costs, as applicable. To the extent that we have underestimated these costs in calculating our estimated range of remaining liquidating distributions or we incur unforeseen additional costs, our actual liquidating distributions may be lower than our estimated range. In addition, if the claims of our creditors are greater than we have anticipated or we decide to acquire one or more insurance policies covering unknown or contingent claims against us, our liquidating distributions may be delayed or reduced. Further, if a reserve fund is established, payment of liquidating distributions, if any, to our shareholders may be delayed or reduced.

***Shareholders may be liable to our creditors, up to the amounts received from us pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation if our reserve fund or the assets transferred to a liquidating entity are inadequate.***

We intend to dispose of our assets, discharge, pay or set aside reserves for our liabilities, including contingent liabilities, and

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distribute to our shareholders any remaining assets pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation as soon as practicable. In the event that it should not be feasible, in the opinion of the Board, for the Company to pay, or adequately provide for, all of our debts and liabilities, or if the Board shall determine it is advisable, the Board may establish a liquidating entity to which the Company could distribute in kind its unsold assets.

Any reserve fund or assets transferred to a liquidating entity established by us may not be adequate to cover any contingent expenses and liabilities. Under Maryland law, if we make distributions and fail to maintain an adequate reserve fund or fail to transfer adequate assets in a liquidating entity for payment of our contingent expenses and liabilities, each shareholder could be held liable for payment to our creditors of such amounts owed to creditors which we fail to pay. The liability of any shareholder would be limited to the amount of such liquidating distributions previously received by such shareholder from us or the liquidating entity. Accordingly, in such event, a shareholder could be required to return all such distributions received from the Company or the liquidating entity. If a shareholder has paid taxes on liquidating distributions previously received, a repayment of all or a portion of such amount could result in a shareholder incurring a net tax cost if the shareholder's repayment of an amount previously distributed does not cause a commensurate reduction in taxes payable. If we decide to establish a reserve fund or transfer assets to a liquidating entity to provide for any unknown or outstanding liabilities and expenses, it may delay or reduce distributions our shareholders would otherwise receive.

***The Company will likely continue to incur the expenses of complying with public company reporting requirements during the wind-down process.***

We intend to, and may be required to, continue to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, even if compliance with these reporting requirements is economically burdensome. To the extent such compliance is required, in order to curtail expenses, we may seek relief from the SEC from certain of the reporting requirements under the Exchange Act. We anticipate that, if such relief is granted, we would continue to file annual reports on Form 10-K and current reports on Form 8-K to disclose material events relating to our liquidation, along with any other reports that might be required by the SEC. Although the financial statements contained in such reports will be prepared in accordance with GAAP and will be reviewed by our independent registered public accounting firm, it is not contemplated that the financial statements will be audited by independent registered public accountants. We anticipate that, if such relief is granted, we would not prepare or distribute quarterly financial statements.

***We anticipate that our common shares will be delisted from the NYSE at a future date to be determined by the Board.***

In connection with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, at a future date as the Board determines, we anticipate that we will voluntarily delist our common shares from the NYSE, subject to the rules of the NYSE and our declaration of trust, in order to reduce our operating expenses and maximize our liquidating distributions. In addition, the NYSE may commence delisting proceedings against us if (i) the average closing price of our common shares over a 30-day consecutive trading period falls below $1.00 per common share, (ii) our average market capitalization over a 30-day consecutive trading period falls below $15 million or (iii) we lose our REIT qualification. If our common shares are delisted, you may have difficulty trading your common shares on the secondary market. In addition, if the Board determines, in its sole discretion, to transfer our remaining assets and liabilities to a liquidating entity, our liquidating entity will likely provide for a prohibition on the transfer of trust interests, subject to certain limited exceptions.

***As a result of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, certain institutional shareholders may be required to sell their common shares if the common shares fail to meet the requirements to be on certain indexes.***

Since we have approved the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the governing documents of certain of our institutional investors may prohibit them from holding our common shares and they may be forced to divest their ownership for our common shares. If our common shares are dropped from certain indexes, as they were from the Russell 2000 or the SmallCap 600 in January 2026, investors who invest in stocks included on such indexes may be forced to divest their ownership for our common shares. If either or both of these were to be the case, it would create downward pressure on the trading price of our common shares. If this were to occur, shareholders who sell common shares prior to our completion of the liquidation may receive less than shareholders who receive all liquidating distributions ultimately made.

***The Portfolio Sale Transaction and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, and the actions and transactions contemplated thereby, may lead to shareholder litigation which could result in substantial costs and distract management.***

Historically, extraordinary corporate actions such as the Portfolio Sale Transaction and Plan of Sale and Liquidation, and the actions and transactions contemplated thereby, sometimes lead to securities class action lawsuits being filed against the company taking such actions, which can delay or prevent altogether the completion of such actions. We may become involved in this type of litigation as a result of the shareholder votes on the Portfolio Sale Transaction and/or the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. In October 2025, two purported holders of the Company's common shares filed substantially similar complaints against the Company and its members of the Board in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York,

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alleging that the proxy statement negligently misrepresented or omitted material information in violation of New York common law and seeking, among other things, to enjoin or rescind the Portfolio Sale Transaction and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, an award of damages if the Portfolio Sale Transaction and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation were consummated and an award of expenses and attorneys' fees. With respect to any lawsuits filed against us, the litigation costs may be expensive, and, even if we ultimately prevail, the process will divert our attention from the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and termination of the Company's existence. If we were not to prevail in such a lawsuit, we cannot predict the amount of any damages for which we may be obligated and if any plaintiffs are successful in obtaining an injunction, it may prohibit us from conducting the wind-down and termination of the Company's existence under the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. If applicable, any such damages may be significant, may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and may reduce, eliminate or delay the amounts available for distribution to our shareholders.

***<u>Risks Related to our Business and Operations</u>***

***Our operating performance and value are subject to risks associated with our apartment communities and with the real estate industry, which could adversely affect the value at which we are able to sell our apartment communities.***

Any of the following factors, among others, may adversely affect the operating performance of our remaining properties prior to their sale and therefore the value at which we are able to sell them and could reduce the amounts ultimately available for distribution to our shareholders:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a decrease in demand for rental properties over home ownership resulting from, among other reasons, resident preferences, decreases in housing prices and mortgage interest rates, government programs to promote home ownership or subsidize rental housing, employment growth and household formation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• our ability to provide high quality housing and consistent operation of our communities;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• competition with other housing alternatives, including owner occupied single and residential apartment homes;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• declines in the financial condition of our residents and their ability to pay rent;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• economic and market conditions, including significant job losses in the regions in which we operate, migration to areas outside of the major metropolitan areas where our properties are located, changes in immigration policy and enforcement, new construction, excess inventory of residential and owned housing/condominiums, and increasing portions of owned housing/condominium stock being converted to rental use;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the effects of government regulation in the real estate industry;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• our ability to retain qualified personnel with knowledge of the market;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• political conditions, civil disturbances, earthquakes and other natural disasters, actual or threatened acts of violence, including terrorist acts or acts of war and actual or anticipated geopolitical instability;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the concentration of almost all of our assets in the multifamily asset class;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• macroeconomic trends, including inflation, high interest rates and a decline in the market values of real estate in the regions in which we operate;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• our dependence upon the economic and regulatory climate of the Washington, DC metro region and to a lesser extent the Atlanta metro region, including the impact of zoning, taxes, unemployment and job growth;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• short-term leases expose us to the effects of declining market rents sooner than long-term leases;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• expenses, including any payments required under the Secured Term Loan, may increase or remain constant even if our revenues decrease;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• risks related to our commercial operations, including difficulties in reletting the commercial space and in achieving desired rental rates and the risk of tenant bankruptcies;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• rent control, rent stabilization legislation and other regulatory restrictions may impact the manner in which we make rent decisions, including restrictions on the use of algorithmic devices or systems, our ability to increase rents and pass through new or increased operating costs to our residents and to evict residents;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• corporate social responsibility, including those risks related to negative responses to our ESG efforts, may constrain our business operations, impose additional costs and expose us to new risks;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• changes in U.S. federal administration and trade policy, including tariffs;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• climate change and regulation regarding climate change in the regions in which we operate;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the fact that some potential losses are not covered by insurance;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• compliance with and liabilities arising under certain federal, state and local laws and regulations, including environmental and ADA, state and local fair housing, rent control and fire and life safety laws, regulations and

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requirements;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• litigation risk, including legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business and class actions, inquiries and governmental investigations;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a pandemic and measures intended to prevent its spread, including the effect on international trade and varying unemployment levels; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• risks related to the actions of our partners in real estate joint ventures and other investments.

***Litigation risk could affect our business and the amount of our liquidating distributions.***

We are involved and may continue to be involved in legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business and may also be involved in class actions, inquiries and governmental investigations. These legal proceedings may include, but are not limited to, proceedings related to consumer, shareholder, securities, antitrust, employment, environmental, development, condominium conversion, tort, eviction and commercial legal issues. In addition, other multifamily apartment owners could become involved in legal proceedings, the outcome of which could affect their business as well as the way we conduct our business. For example, one of our vendors, RealPage, has been involved in lawsuits alleging that RealPage and others conspired to artificially inflate the prices of multifamily residential real estate above competitive levels. Litigation can be lengthy and expensive, and it can divert management's attention and resources. Results of such legal proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, and resolution of these types of matters against us may result in our having to pay significant fines, judgments, or settlements, which, if uninsured, or if the fines, judgments, and settlements exceed insured levels, could adversely impact our ability to pay our liquidating distributions.

***We face cybersecurity risks which have the potential to disrupt our operations, cause material harm to our financial condition, result in misappropriation of assets, compromise confidential information and/or damage our business relationships, and we can provide no assurance that the steps we and our service providers take in response to these risks will be effective.***

We are dependent on our information technology networks and systems, as well as those of third parties, to access, process, transmit and store proprietary and confidential information, including personal information of residents, employees, and vendors. We face cybersecurity threats, including system, network or internet failures, cyber-attacks, ransomware and other malware, social engineering, phishing schemes and workforce member error, negligence, or fraud. The risk of a cyber-attack, including by hackers, nation-state affiliated actors and cyber terrorists, has generally increased as the number, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks around the world have increased. We have made and may continue to make public statements regarding our intentions to liquidate and sell our remaining properties, which may increase the risk that we are targeted in a cyber-attack by a malicious third party, and operations linked to any such sales or related efforts might increase the chances or magnitude of a cybersecurity incident. Any such cybersecurity incident, including those impacting personal information, may result in disruption of our operations, material harm to our financial condition, cash flows and our ability to sell our remaining properties, reduce the amount or delay the timing of distributions, misappropriation of assets, compromise or corruption of confidential information (including personal information) collected in the course of conducting our business, liability for impacted information or assets, increased cybersecurity protection and insurance costs, regulatory scrutiny or enforcement, litigation and damage to our stakeholder relationships. A cybersecurity incident could also interfere with our ability to comply with financial reporting requirements. In addition, increased regulation of data collection, use and retention practices, including self-regulation and industry standards, changes in existing laws and regulations, enactment of new laws and regulations, increased enforcement activity, and changes in interpretation of laws, could increase our cost of compliance and operation or otherwise harm the Company.

We also rely on third-party service providers in our conduct of our business, and we can provide no assurance that the security measures of those providers will be effective. While we may be entitled to damages if our third-party service providers fail to satisfy their security-related obligations to us, any award may be insufficient to cover our damages, or we may be unable to recover such award.

Although we and our third-party service providers make efforts to maintain the security and integrity of our information, including the implementation of security measures on our remaining properties, required employee awareness training and the existence of a disaster recovery plan, we can provide no assurance that our data security measures will be able to detect or prevent all cybersecurity incidents. These risks require significant resources from us to analyze and mitigate, and there is no assurance that our efforts will be effective. Further, adoption of artificial intelligence ("AI") tools by us or by third parties may pose new cybersecurity challenges. Threat actors may use AI tools to automate and enhance cybersecurity attacks against us, and such threats could become more sophisticated and harder to detect and counteract, which may pose significant risks to our data security and systems. Additionally, as a result of the internalization of community management services for our properties, which was completed in 2023, we collect and retain greater amounts of personal information, both from employees and current and potential residents, which increases the risks and potential effects of such a cybersecurity incident.

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We have identified and expect to continue to identify cyber-attacks and cybersecurity incidents affecting our systems and those of third parties, but none of the cyber-attacks and incidents we have identified to date has had a material impact on our business or operations. While we have purchased cybersecurity insurance, there are no assurances that the coverage would be adequate in relation to any incurred losses. Moreover, as cyber-attacks increase in frequency and magnitude, we may be unable to obtain cybersecurity insurance in amounts and on terms we view as adequate for our operations.

***The market price and trading volume of our common shares may be volatile and may decline regardless of our operating performance, and shareholders may lose all or part of their investment.***

Our share price and trading volume have experienced significant volatility in the past, particularly following the payment of the initial special liquidating distribution, which was paid on January 7, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 22, 2025, and may continue to do so in the future. A variety of factors may cause significant price and volume variations, including the factors discussed in this "Risk Factors" section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Additionally, broader fluctuations in equity markets or loss of investor confidence in a particular sector or geographic area could also affect the market for our securities, regardless of our actual operating performance. As a result of these fluctuations, investors in our shares may experience a decrease in the value of their shares. In the past, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against companies following periods of volatility in their stock price. This type of litigation could result in substantial costs and divert our management's attention and resources.

***<u>Risks Related to Financing</u>***

***High interest rates would increase our interest costs.***

We have incurred indebtedness that bears interest at a variable rate. As a result, high interest rates will increase our interest expense, which could adversely affect our cash flow and our ability to service debt. As a protection against high interest rates, we are required under the Secured Term Loan to enter, and have entered, into agreements such as interest rate caps. These agreements, however, increase our risks, including other parties to the agreements not performing or that the agreements may be unenforceable. Also, if prevailing interest rates or other factors, such as the reluctance of lenders to make commercial real estate loans or the loss of the benefits of hedging arrangements, result in higher interest rates on our indebtedness, the increased interest expenses would adversely affect our cash flow, financial condition, results of operation and amount of liquidating distributions.

***Delay in sales of our remaining properties will increase our expenses and funding costs.***

Under the terms of the Secured Term Loan, the net proceeds from the sales of our remaining properties are to be applied to repay the amounts that remain outstanding on the Secured Term Loan. In the event the Secured Term Loan is not prepaid in part or in full by certain dates, certain mandatory prepayment events arise and the increased interest rates and fees will apply. Any delay in the sales of our remaining properties may prohibit us from complying with the terms of the Secured Term Loan, including repayment provisions, and will increase the costs of such indebtedness, which could adversely affect our ability to service debt, our cash flow, financial conditions, results of operation and amount of liquidating distributions.

***We face risks associated with the use of debt, including refinancing risk.***

In the past, the commercial real estate debt markets have experienced significant volatility due to a number of factors, including the tightening of underwriting standards by lenders and credit rating agencies and the diminished market sentiment and prices with respect to certain asset classes. These conditions, which increase the cost and reduce availability of debt, may worsen in the future. Circumstances could again arise in which we may not be able to obtain debt financing in the future on favorable terms, or at all. Similarly, global equity markets have experienced significant price volatility and liquidity disruptions in recent years, and similar circumstances could significantly and negatively impact liquidity in the financial market in the future. Any disruption could negatively impact our ability to access additional financing at reasonable terms or at all. If we are unable to complete the sales of all of our remaining properties in a timely manner, we are likely to need to refinance a significant portion of our outstanding debt as it matures. There is a risk that we may not be able to refinance existing debt or that the terms of any refinancing will not be as favorable as the terms of the Secured Term Loan. The materialization of any of the foregoing risks would adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

***Covenants in our debt agreements could adversely affect our financial condition.***

The Secured Term Loan contains customary restrictions, requirements and other limitations on our ability to incur indebtedness, encumber properties, transfer properties and other customary restrictions and covenants. Failure to comply with any of the

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covenants under the Secured Term Loan could permit the lender to declare a default and, since the debt is secured, take possession of the property securing the defaulted loan, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, operations, financial condition and liquidity, including the ability to complete the Plan of Sale and Liquidation.

***<u>Risks Related to Our Organizational Structure</u>***

***Our rights and the rights of our shareholders to take action against our trustees and officers are limited, which could limit your recourse in the event of actions that you do not believe are in your best interests.***

Maryland law provides that a trustee has no liability in that capacity if he or she satisfies his or her duties to us and our shareholders. Under current Maryland law, our trustees and officers will not have any liability to us or our shareholders for money damages, except for liability resulting from:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• actual receipt of an improper benefit or profit in money, property or services; or

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a final judgment based upon a finding of active and deliberate dishonesty by the trustee or officer that was material to the cause of action adjudicated.

In addition, our declaration of trust authorizes and our bylaws require us to indemnify our trustees for actions taken by them in those capacities to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law. Our bylaws also require us to indemnify our officers for actions taken by them in those capacities to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law. As a result, we and our shareholders may have more limited rights against our trustees and officers than might otherwise exist. Accordingly, in the event that actions taken in good faith by any of our trustees or officers impede the performance of Elme Communities, your ability to recover damages from such trustees or officers will be limited with respect to trustees and may be limited with respect to officers. In addition, we have agreed to obligations to advance the defense costs incurred by our trustees and our executive officers, and may, in the discretion of our Board, advance the defense costs incurred by our officers, our employees and other agents, in connection with legal proceedings.

***<u>Risks Related to Taxes and our Status as a REIT</u>***

***We may fail to continue to qualify as a REIT, which would reduce the amount of any potential distributions.***

So long as we qualify as a REIT and distribute all of our REIT taxable income each year, we generally will not be subject to federal income tax. While the Board does not presently intend to terminate our REIT status prior to the final liquidating distribution of our assets and our termination by voluntary dissolution, pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Board may take actions that would result in such a loss of REIT status. To qualify as a REIT, we must satisfy various ongoing requirements relating to the nature of our gross assets and income, the timing and amount of distributions and the composition of our shareholders. There can be no assurance that we will be able to maintain our REIT qualification. We may encounter difficulties satisfying these requirements as part of the liquidation process. If we lose our REIT status and take no action to convert into a liquidating entity, we would be taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and would be liable for federal income taxes, including any applicable alternative minimum tax, at the corporate rate with respect to our entire income from operations and from liquidating sales of our assets for the taxable year in which our qualification as a REIT terminates and in any subsequent years, and we would not be entitled to a tax deduction for distributions that we make. We would also be subject to increased state and local taxes. As a result of these consequences, our failure to qualify as a REIT could substantially reduce the funds available for distribution to our shareholders.

***The sale of properties may cause us to incur penalty taxes, or own and sell properties through taxable REIT subsidiaries ("TRS"), each of which would reduce the amount available for distribution to our shareholders.***

The sale of one or more of our properties may be considered a prohibited transaction under the Code. Any "inventory-like" sales or dealer sales could be considered such a prohibited transaction. If we are deemed to have engaged in a "prohibited transaction" (i.e., sale of a property held by us primarily for sale in the ordinary course of our trade or business), all net gain that we derive from such sale would be subject to a 100% penalty tax. The Code sets forth a safe harbor for REITs that wish to sell property without risking the imposition of the 100% penalty tax. The sale of our properties in anticipation of or in connection with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation may not satisfy the prohibited transaction safe harbor, depending on the circumstances in which such sales are completed.

If we desire to sell a property pursuant to a transaction that does not satisfy the safe harbor, we may be able to avoid the prohibited transaction tax if, among other alternatives, we hold and sell the property through a TRS. In that case, any gain would be taxable to the TRS at regular corporate income tax rates.

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As a result of the foregoing circumstances, the amount available for distribution to our shareholders could be significantly reduced.

***Distributing interests in a liquidating trust (or other liquidating entity) may cause you to recognize gain prior to the receipt of cash.***

The REIT provisions of the Code generally require that each year we distribute as dividends to our shareholders at least 90% of our REIT taxable income (determined without regard to the dividends paid deduction and by excluding any net capital gains). Our liquidating distributions generally will not qualify as deductible dividends for this purpose unless, among other things, we make such distributions within 24 months after the adoption of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. Conditions may arise which cause us not to be able to liquidate within such 24-month period or otherwise maintain our REIT status. In such event, rather than retain our assets and risk losing our status as a REIT, we may elect, for tax purposes, to transfer our remaining assets and liabilities to a liquidating trust or convert the Company to a liquidating entity that is a limited liability company, partnership or a trust. In addition, the Board may cause the Company to transfer its remaining assets and liabilities to a liquidating trust or to convert the Company to another form of liquidating entity if the Board determines, in its discretion, that it is advantageous or appropriate to do so. Such a transfer or conversion would be treated as a distribution of our remaining assets to our shareholders, together with a contribution of the assets to the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity. As a result, you would recognize gain to the extent that your share of the cash and the net fair market value of any assets (less liabilities assumed) received or initially held by the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity was greater than your basis in your Company common shares, regardless of whether you contemporaneously receive a distribution of cash with which to satisfy any resulting tax liability, and the Company may have withholding tax obligations with respect to foreign shareholders. In addition, it is possible that the fair market value of the assets received or initially held by the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity, as estimated for purposes of determining the extent of your gain at the time at which interests in the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity are distributed to the shareholders, will exceed the cash or fair market value of property received by the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity on a later sale of the assets. In this case, you could recognize a loss in a taxable year subsequent to the taxable year in which the gain was recognized, the deductibility of which may be limited under the Code. The distribution to shareholders of interests in a liquidating trust or the conversion of the Company to a liquidating entity may also cause ongoing adverse tax consequences (particularly to tax-exempt and foreign shareholders, which may be required to file U.S. tax returns with respect to their share of income generated by the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity).

***Because liquidating distributions will be made in multiple tax years, if we were to abandon the Plan of Sale and Liquidation in a tax year subsequent to one in which we already made liquidating distributions, the timing and character of your taxation with respect to liquidating distributions made to you in the prior tax year could change, which may subject you to tax liability (which tax liability could be at ordinary income rates, subject to the Code section 199A deduction, if available, rather than capital gains rates) in the prior tax year that you would not otherwise have been subject to and we could lose our REIT status as of the beginning of such prior tax year.***

The U.S. federal income tax consequences of abandoning a plan of liquidation are not entirely clear once we have begun making liquidating distributions, in particular because liquidating distributions could be made in multiple tax years during the 24 months we have for U.S. federal income tax purposes to complete our liquidation after the Plan of Sale and Liquidation has been adopted by our shareholders. In general, distributions to you under the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, including your pro rata share of the fair market value of any assets that are transferred to a liquidating trust or other liquidating entity, should not be taxable to you for U.S. federal income tax purposes until the aggregate amount of liquidating distributions to you exceeds your adjusted tax basis in your common shares, and then should be taxable to you as capital gain (assuming you hold your shares as a capital asset). However, if we abandon the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the U.S. federal income tax treatment of any liquidating distributions already made pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation would change because they would no longer be treated as having been made as part of our complete liquidation. Instead, any such distributions would be treated as either a distribution made with respect to the shares you hold, subject to the normal rules of U.S. federal income tax the distributions you currently receive are subject to, or as payment to you for the sale or exchange of your shares in partial redemption of them.

Whether sale or distribution treatment would apply to you depends on your particular circumstances and we cannot predict which would apply; however, regardless of which treatment would apply, each distribution likely would be at least partially taxable to you. Accordingly, if we made liquidating distributions in the tax year we adopted the Plan of Sale and Liquidation which did not exceed your tax basis in your shares (and therefore were not taxable to you), and we abandoned the Plan of Sale and Liquidation in the subsequent tax year, you may now have a tax liability with respect to the distributions made to you in the prior tax year, and, if they are treated as distributions rather than a sale or exchange, whether you are taxed at ordinary (subject to the Code section 199A deduction, if available), or capital gains rates, may depend on whether we had declared any portion of such distributions as capital gain dividends.

In addition, liquidating distributions we make pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation qualify for the dividends paid deduction (which helps us ensure we meet our annual distribution requirement during our liquidation process), provided that they are made within 24 months of the adoption of such plan (within the meaning of the Code (which was effective upon

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approval by the shareholders of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation)); however, if such distributions were no longer made pursuant to our complete liquidation within 24 months of such adoption of our Plan of Sale and Liquidation whether any part of such distributions qualify for the dividends paid deduction will depend on different criteria. If we made some liquidating distributions in one tax year and we abandoned the Plan of Sale and Liquidation in a subsequent tax year, it is possible that we may not have made sufficient distributions in that first tax year to satisfy our annual distribution requirement for that tax year which, if we are unable to cure such failure, could result in the loss of our REIT status effective as of the beginning of that first tax year.

***Partnership tax audit rules could have a material adverse effect on us.***

Under current federal partnership tax audit rules, subject to certain exceptions, any audit adjustment to items of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of a partnership (and a partner's allocable share thereof) is determined, and taxes, interest, and penalties attributable thereto are assessed and collected, at the partnership level. With respect to any partnership in which we currently invest (or in recent years had invested, but no longer invest), unless such partnership makes an election or takes certain steps to require the partners to pay their tax on their allocable shares of the adjustment, it is possible that such partnership would be required to pay additional taxes, interest, and penalties as a result of an audit adjustment. We could be required to bear the economic burden of those taxes, interest, and penalties even though we, as a REIT, may not otherwise have been required to pay additional corporate-level taxes had we owned the assets of the partnership directly.

***There is a risk of changes in the tax laws which may adversely affect our taxation as a REIT and taxation of our shareholders.***

The Internal Revenue Service, the United States Treasury Department and Congress frequently review U.S. federal income tax legislation, regulations and other guidance. In addition, according to publicly released statements, a top legislative priority of the current Trump administration and Congress may be significant reform of the Code, including significant changes to taxation of business entities. We cannot predict whether, when or to what extent new U.S. federal tax laws, regulations, interpretations or rulings will be adopted. Further, from time to time, changes in state and local tax laws or regulations are enacted, which may result in an increase in our tax liability. Any legislative action may prospectively or retroactively modify our tax treatment and, therefore, may adversely affect our taxation or taxation of our shareholders. We urge you to consult with your tax advisor with respect to the status of legislative, regulatory or administrative developments and proposals and their potential effect on an investment in our common shares.

**<u>ITEM 1B: UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS</u>**

None.

**<u>ITEM 1C: CYBERSECURITY</u>**

We seek to ensure the safeguarding of data entrusted to us as we complete our Plan of Sale and Liquidation. Our cybersecurity strategy combines prevention with resiliency to help enhance our organization's cyber posture. In addition to monitoring the cyber threat landscape and managing our protection methodology, we focus on identification of, response to, and recovery from a cyber-attack. Our program employs the strengths of people, processes, and technology to protect resident, employee, and organization data.

***Cybersecurity Risk Management Processes***

Our cybersecurity policies, processes and practices are informed by well-recognized security frameworks such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") Cybersecurity Framework. The NIST framework and others provide a robust set of guidelines and leading practices, enabling us to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from cyber threats and potential cybersecurity incidents.

The IT team reviews risks, threats, and trends related to cybersecurity and formally discusses the Company's cybersecurity strategy periodically. To manage cyber risks we identify through our overall risk management process, we take various actions, including the following:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• perform in-house vulnerability management and third-party network penetration testing,

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• secure insurance coverage for cybersecurity incidents,

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• routinely benchmark our cybersecurity practices against well-recognized frameworks,

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• conduct incident response tabletop exercises to test our security countermeasures and incident response program,

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• engage a third-party firm to audit our cybersecurity procedures, and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• engage a third-party Managed Security Service Provider to perform network and endpoints monitoring.

These actions help us identify opportunities for improvement in our incident preparedness and response processes, as we continue to manage cyber risk through the Plan of Sale and Liquidation.

In the event of a cybersecurity incident, we maintain a regularly tested cybersecurity incident response program ("CIRP"). Pursuant to the program and its escalation protocols, designated personnel are responsible for assessing the severity of the incident and associated threat, containing the threat, remediating the threat, including recovery of data and access to systems, analyzing any reporting and disclosure obligations associated with the incident, and performing post-incident analysis and program enhancements. While the personnel assigned to an incident response team may depend on the particular facts and circumstances, the team is generally led by a member of the IT team and will include other information technology and legal personnel. The incident response team regularly reports to senior management, in the event of a potentially notable incident. A member of the incident response team also reports periodically to the Company's Board regarding cybersecurity incidents impacting us.

We use third parties for various services such as property management, enterprise resource planning software and cloud computing. We mitigate potential risks from third parties by assessing cybersecurity practices of new providers, reviewing and monitoring the cybersecurity practices of our major service providers, conducting periodic reviews of the cybersecurity strategy and posture of our other significant providers, and including security terms in our contracts where applicable. We also consider cybersecurity incidents at our third-party providers in our business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

***Governance***

Elme's leadership is committed to maintaining a secure environment that upholds high standards of privacy and data protection. The executive team reviews industry specific cybersecurity statistics and updates monthly from the IT team. We have documented control procedures that govern access to sensitive data and changes made to critical business systems. Our CIRP helps ensure timely notification of cybersecurity incidents to management and the Board.

Our Senior Director, IT Operations is responsible for the oversight of our cybersecurity programs and has played a key role in the development, enhancement, and oversight of cybersecurity programs in his various roles at the Company for over a decade.

The Board is responsible for review and oversight of Elme's cybersecurity risks and the programs and steps implemented by management to assess, manage and mitigate such risks. In the event of a cybersecurity incident, the Board is informed and updated by the incident response team as appropriate. Executive management provides regular updates during board meetings to help ensure that our trustees are informed about the evolving threat landscape and our risk management strategies. The Board receives a cyber update on an annual basis. The Board receives communications via email from management on topics of interest throughout the year.

***Risks, Threats, and Material Incidents***

As of December 31, 2025, cybersecurity threats, including as a result of any previous cybersecurity incidents, have not materially affected and we believe are not reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our business strategy, results of operations or financial condition, during any of the prior three fiscal years. However, we and our third-party providers have been the target of cybersecurity threats and expect them to continue. Notwithstanding the extensive approach we take to address cybersecurity, there can be no assurance that our cybersecurity efforts and measures will be effective or that attempted cybersecurity incidents or disruptions would not be successful or damaging. See Item 1A. "Risk Factors" for further discussion of cybersecurity risks.

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**<u>ITEM 2: PROPERTIES</u>**

The schedule on the following pages lists our real estate investment portfolio as of December 31, 2025, which consisted of nine residential communities, one office building and land held for development. Cost information is included in Schedule III to our financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

<u>Schedule of Properties</u><sup>(1)</sup>

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| **Properties** | **Location** | **Year Acquired** | **Year Constructed/Renovated** | **# of Homes** | **Average Occupancy, year ended**<br>**December 31, 2025** | **Ending Occupancy, as of December 31, 2025** |
| <u>Residential Communities</u> |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Riverside Apartments <sup>(2)</sup> | Alexandria, VA | 2016 | 1971 | 1222 | 95.2% | 94.1% |
| 3801 Connecticut Avenue | Washington, DC | 1963 | 1951 | 307 | 93.8% | 90.2% |
| Kenmore Apartments | Washington, DC | 2008 | 1948 | 371 | 92.1% | 87.6% |
| Elme Bethesda | Bethesda, MD | 1997 | 1986 | 193 | 95.9% | 94.8% |
| Elme Watkins Mill | Gaithersburg, MD | 2019 | 1975 | 210 | 95.6% | 96.2% |
| Elme Germantown | Germantown, MD | 2019 | 1990 | 218 | 96.0% | 91.3% |
| Elme Conyers | Conyers, GA | 2021 | 1999 | 240 | 90.0% | 85.8% |
| Elme Marietta | Marietta, GA | 2022 | 1975 | 420 | 89.0% | 90.5% |
| Elme Sandy Springs | Sandy Springs, GA | 2022 | 1972 | 389 | 89.4% | 91.0% |
| Subtotal Residential Communities |  |  |  | 3570 | 93.2% | 91.8% |

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| **Property** | **Location** | **Year Acquired** | **Year Constructed/Renovated** | **Net Rentable Square Feet** | **Percent Leased, as of**<br>**December 31, 2025** <sup>(3)</sup> | **Ending Occupancy, as of December 31, 2025** <sup>(3)</sup> |
| <u>Office Building</u> |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Watergate 600 | Washington, DC | 2017 | 1972/1997 | 300000 | 81.6% | 81.6% |

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<sup>(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</sup>See Note 7 for a discussion of the Secured Term Loan.

<sup>(2)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Includes an undeveloped land parcel held for development adjacent to the Riverside Apartments. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

<sup>(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</sup>Percent leased and ending occupancy calculations are based on square feet and includes temporary lease agreements for Watergate 600. Percent leased is the percentage of net rentable area for which fully executed leases exist and may include signed leases for space not yet occupied by the tenant.

<sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</sup>

As of December 31, 2025, pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Secured Term Loan was secured by first priority mortgages and security interests on the Company's ten remaining properties. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, which comprise approximately 800 residential apartment homes – for gross proceeds of approximately $112.75 million, a portion of which was used to partially repay the Secured Term Loan, and those properties were released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan.

**<u>ITEM 3: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS</u>**

We are involved from time to time in various legal proceedings, lawsuits, examinations by various tax authorities and claims that have arisen in the ordinary course of business. Management believes that the resolution of any such current matters will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. Matters that arise out of allegations of bodily injury, property damage and employment practices are generally covered by insurance.

**<u>ITEM 4: MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES</u>**

None.

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**PART II**

**<u>ITEM 5: MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES</u>**

*Market and Shareholder Information:* Our shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ELME. As of February 24, 2026, there were 2,219 shareholders of record.

*Regular Distributions:* On each of January 6, 2025, April 3, 2025, July 3, 2025 and October 3, 2025, the Company paid quarterly dividends of $0.18 per share to shareholders of record on December 19, 2024, March 19, 2025, June 17, 2025 and September 17, 2025, respectively. Since the Plan of Sale and Liquidation has been approved, the Company does not intend to declare and pay future regular quarterly dividends but, when appropriate and in the Board's discretion, does intend to declare a liquidating distribution, subject to the creation of necessary reserves for, and payment or other satisfaction of, the Company's expenses and other liabilities and obligations.

*Initial Liquidating Distribution*: In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, following completion of the Portfolio Sale Transaction in November 2025, the Board approved a special liquidating distribution of $14.67 per share to its shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 22, 2025. On January 7, 2026, we paid this special liquidating distribution to such shareholders in the aggregate amount of $1.3 billion.

*Issuer Repurchases; Unregistered Sales of Securities:* A summary of our repurchases of our common shares of beneficial interest for the three months ended December 31, 2025 was as follows:

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| **Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities** | **Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities** | **Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities** | **Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities** | **Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities** |
| **Period** | **Total Number of Shares Purchased** <sup>(1)</sup> | **Average Price Paid per Share** | **Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs** <sup>(2)</sup> | **Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value) of Shares that May Yet be Purchased** |
| October 1 - October 31, 2025 |  | $— |  | $50000000 |
| November 1 - November 30, 2025 | 548636 | 16.61 |  |  |
| December 1 - December 31, 2025 |  |  |  |  |
| Total | 548636 | $16.61 |  |  |

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<sup>(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</sup>Represents restricted shares surrendered by employees to Elme Communities to satisfy such employees' applicable statutory minimum tax withholding obligations in connection with the vesting of restricted shares. See Note 12 for additional information on the vesting of restricted shares in connection with the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction.

<sup>(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</sup>On October 26, 2023, the Board authorized and approved a share repurchase program of up to $50.0 million of the Company's common shares of beneficial interest over a period of two years, subject to any applicable limitations or restrictions set forth in our existing credit facility and other debt agreements. The share repurchase program expired on October 25, 2025. No shares were repurchased under this program in 2025.

*Performance Graph:*

The following line graph sets forth, for the period from December 31, 2020, through December 31, 2025, a comparison of the percentage change in the cumulative total shareholder return on our common shares compared to the cumulative total return of the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index and the MSCI US REIT Index. The graph assumes that $100 was invested on December 31, 2020, in shares of our common shares and each of the aforementioned indices and that all dividends were reinvested without the payment of any commissions. There can be no assurance that the performance of our shares will continue in line with the same or similar trends depicted in the graph below.

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This performance graph shall not be deemed "filed" for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or incorporated by reference into any filing by us under the Securities Act of 1933, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

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**<u>ITEM 6: RESERVED</u>**

**<u>ITEM 7: MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS</u>**

We provide Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations ("MD&A") in addition to the accompanying consolidated financial statements and notes to assist readers in understanding our results of operations and financial condition.

Prior to adoption of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, for purposes of evaluating comparative operating performance, we categorized our properties as "same-store" or "non-same-store." Same-store portfolio properties included properties that were owned for the entirety of the years being compared and excluded properties under redevelopment or development and properties acquired, sold or classified as held for sale during the years being compared. Following our adoption of a liquidation basis of accounting, our properties are no longer categorized in this manner and therefore we have not provided operating metrics on a same-store/non same-store basis.

**Overview**

On February 13, 2025, the Company announced that its Board had initiated a formal review to evaluate strategic alternatives. On August 4, 2025, the Company announced that its Board had completed its review, that Elme had entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2025, for the Portfolio Sale Transaction, and that the Board had also approved the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which contemplates the sale or disposition of all the Company's assets, the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and the termination of the Company's existence by voluntary dissolution. The Plan of Sale and Liquidation includes a plan of liquidation that provides for the Company's complete liquidation and dissolution in accordance with Section 331, Section 336 and Section 346(a) of the Code.

On October 30, 2025, our shareholders approved the Portfolio Sale Transaction and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, and on November 12, 2025, Elme completed the Portfolio Sale Transaction. Also on November 12, 2025, certain indirect subsidiaries of the Company, as Borrowers, and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Lender, entered into the Loan Agreement pursuant to which the Lender has made the Secured Term Loan of $520.0 million to the Borrowers. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, as of on November 12, 2025, the Secured Term Loan was secured by first priority mortgages and security interests on the ten Remaining Company Properties (which are directly owned by the Borrowers) and included: Riverside Apartments, Elme Bethesda, Elme Germantown, Elme Watkins Mill, 3801 Connecticut Avenue, Kenmore Apartments, Elme Conyers, Elme Marietta, Elme Sandy Springs, and Watergate 600. In addition, the Secured Term Loan was secured by pledges of all equity interests in the Borrowers, along with all other personal property of the Borrowers. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, for gross proceeds of approximately $112.75 million, a portion of which was used to partially repay the Secured Term Loan, and those properties were released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan.

Given the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, our efforts are focused on selling the remaining properties, winding down the Company's affairs and, when appropriate and in the Board's discretion, distributing the net proceeds to our shareholders subject to the creation of necessary reserves for, and payment or other satisfaction of, the Company's expenses and other liabilities and obligations.

Elme is aiming to complete the sales of the Remaining Company Properties by mid-year 2026. Because the sales of our remaining properties are subject to, among other things, completion of the marketing and sale process and the negotiation of terms and completion of the sales, as applicable, the exact timing of completing the remaining property sales cannot be determined at this time and the Company cannot predict how long it will take to sell all of its remaining properties.

If we have not sold all of our remaining properties and paid all of our liabilities within 24 months after shareholder approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which was received on October 30, 2025, or if the Board otherwise determines that it is advantageous to do so earlier, we may transfer our remaining assets and liabilities to a liquidating trust and distribute interests in the liquidating trust to our shareholders or otherwise convert Elme to a liquidating limited liability company, partnership, or trust. We cannot predict the exact amount to be distributed or the timing of the completion of the liquidation and termination of the Elme's existence.

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As of December 31, 2025, our portfolio consisted of the following assets, seven of which are located in the Washington, DC metro region and three of which are located in the Atlanta metro region.

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| **Properties** | **Location** |
| <u>Residential Communities</u> |  |
| Riverside Apartments <sup>(1)</sup> | Alexandria, VA |
| 3801 Connecticut Avenue | Washington, DC |
| Kenmore Apartments | Washington, DC |
| Elme Bethesda | Bethesda, MD |
| Elme Watkins Mill | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Elme Germantown | Germantown, MD |
| Elme Conyers | Conyers, GA |
| Elme Marietta <sup>(2)</sup> | Marietta, GA |
| Elme Sandy Springs <sup>(2)</sup> | Sandy Springs, GA |
| <u>Office Building</u> |  |
| Watergate 600 | Washington, DC |

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>(1)</sup>Includes an undeveloped land parcel held for development adjacent to the Riverside Apartments.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>(2)</sup>Sold subsequent to year end.

*Washington, DC metro region (6 apartment communities)*

Per research by CBRE, a global leader in commercial real estate services and investment, macroeconomic conditions in the Washington, DC metro region, where the majority of our remaining assets are located, will continue to be impacted in 2026, with federal government employment expected to decrease by 6,000 jobs, following a decrease of over 22,000 jobs in 2025. For our remaining multifamily assets in the in the Washington, DC metro region, we experienced lower occupancy and lower new lease rates caused by a reduction in demand during the fourth quarter of 2025. We believe this market softness is primarily due to the effects of the federal government shutdown during the fourth quarter of 2025, together with federal government and other workforce reductions in the region. While we anticipate the softness in the Washington, DC metro region area to continue during the first half of 2026, we expect seasonal improvement in leasing fundamentals during the spring and summer season.

*Initial Liquidating Distribution*

In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Board approved a special liquidating distribution of $14.67 per share to its shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 22, 2025. The special liquidating distribution was paid on January 7, 2026.

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 *Investment Activity*

On November 12, 2025, we sold a portfolio of 19 multifamily communities for $1.6 billion. The communities included in the portfolio are as follows:

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| Cascade at Landmark | The Wellington | Elme Manassas |
| Clayborne | Trove | The Ashby at McLean |
| Elme Alexandria | Roosevelt Towers | Yale West |
| Bennett Park | Elme Dulles | Elme Druid Hills |
| Park Adams | Elme Herndon | Elme Cumberland |
| The Maxwell | Elme Leesburg | Elme Eagles Landing |
| The Paramount | | |

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Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, which comprise approximately 800 residential apartment homes – for gross proceeds of approximately $112.75 million, a portion of which was used to partially repay the Secured Term Loan, and those properties were released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan. As of February 27, 2026, we have also entered into purchase and sale agreements, which are no longer subject to ongoing inspection periods, pursuant to which we expect to sell three of the Remaining Company Properties: Elme Watkins Mill, Elme Conyers and Watergate 600, to various buyers for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $128.78 million, which are expected to close in the first or second quarter of 2026, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including, in the case of Elme Watkins Mill, regulatory requirements related to the sale of multifamily properties in Montgomery County, Maryland. The marketing and sale process with respect to the other five Remaining Company Properties remains ongoing. In January 2026, we began a formal marketing process for Riverside Apartments and continued the marketing and sale process with respect to Kenmore, 3801 Connecticut, Elme Bethesda and Elme Germantown. The Company currently expects to finalize the sale of Elme Germantown in the second quarter of 2026 and the sale of Elme Bethesda by mid-year 2026. The Company also expects to continue the marketing process for the DC and Virginia properties with a goal to have these three properties under contract by mid-May. The Company continues to target completion of the sales of all Remaining Company Properties by mid-year 2026.

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*Financing Activity*

On November 12, 2025, in connection with the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction, the Company caused the repayment in full of all indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations under, and terminated, each of (i) the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated July 10, 2024, by and among the Company, as borrower, the financial institutions party thereto as lenders, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, (ii) the Term Loan Agreement, dated January 10, 2023, with Truist Bank, as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto, as amended, and (iii) the Note Purchase Agreement, dated September 29, 2020, by and among the Company and other parties named therein as purchasers. The Company did not incur any material early termination penalties as a result of such terminations.

On November 12, 2025, in connection with the Portfolio Sale Transaction, the Company provided notice to the holders of its 7.25% senior notes due 2028 (the "Senior Notes") of its intention to redeem on December 12, 2025 all of the outstanding $50 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes at the applicable redemption price and on the terms set forth in the indenture, dated as of August 1, 1996 (as amended or supplemented as of the date hereof, the "Indenture"), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor to The First National Bank of Chicago, as trustee. In connection with the redemption of the Senior Notes, on November 12, 2025, the Company caused funds sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Senior Notes and all other sums payable by the Company under the Indenture to be irrevocably deposited with the trustee and, accordingly, the Indenture with respect to the Senior Notes was satisfied and discharged, except with respect to those obligations under the Indenture that expressly survive satisfaction and discharge. The Senior Notes were redeemed on December 12, 2025.

On November 12, 2025, the Borrowers and Lender entered into the Loan Agreement pursuant to which the Lender has made the Secured Term Loan to the Borrowers as described above. The Company has provided a customary non-recourse carveout guaranty. The Loan Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants with which Borrowers must comply, including maintenance of insurance, single-purpose bankruptcy, remote entity requirements, reporting requirements and restrictions on property and equity transfers and the granting of liens. Customary events of default are included in the Loan Agreement, including nonpayment of principal and other amounts when due, nonperformance of covenants, breach of representations and warranties, certain bankruptcy or insolvency events and changes in control, the occurrence of which give Lender the right to accelerate repayment of the Secured Term Loan.

The Secured Term Loan matures on November 9, 2026, subject to a one-year Borrowers' extension option, which is subject to satisfaction of certain specified conditions, including the payment of an extension fee equal to 0.25% of the then outstanding principal amount of the Secured Term Loan and the requirement that no more than $312 million of the Secured Term Loan may be outstanding on the first day of the extended term. The Secured Term Loan bears interest at a per annum rate equal to the one-month term SOFR (subject to a term SOFR floor of 3.00%) plus the spread. The spread is 2.25%, and will increase in June 2026 to 2.75% and further increase to 4.00% in June 2027 (if extended). The Company has purchased an interest rate cap that effectively caps term SOFR at 5.00% per annum. On February 9, 2026, a duration fee equal to 0.20% of the then outstanding principal amount of the Secured Term Loan was paid to the Lender.

The Secured Term Loan requires that the Company enter into cash management arrangements set forth in the certain cash management agreements pursuant to which the Company maintains a restricted account into which all revenue from the Loan Collateral is deposited during the term of the Secured Term Loan. Amounts on deposit in the restricted account will be transferred: weekly to an account under the sole control of the lender, and provided an event of default is not continuing under the Secured Term Loan, funds deposited in the account controlled by the lender will be applied to pay items such as real estate taxes, insurance premiums, debt service obligations, the lender required reserves for budgeted capital expenditures and operating expenses, with excess funds deposited available to pay general and administrative expenses subject to certain limitations.

Excess cash remaining after the sale of Loan Collateral and the payment of a release price paid to the lender to release the lien of its mortgages shall be deposited with the Lender as additional cash collateral unless certain conditions, including a minimum balance of $10 million in the shortfall account, certain debt yield requirements, and no events of default, are met, in which case such excess cash may be disbursed to the Company for distribution. The cash management agreement contains provisions for the cure of certain of these events.

The Secured Term Loan is intended to be repaid with the net proceeds from one or more sales of the properties securing the Secured Term Loan, and such properties shall be released from the mortgages securing the Term Loan as they are sold, upon satisfaction of certain conditions and payment of a minimum release price applied to the prepayment of the Secured Term Loan. An exit fee equal to 0.50% of the principal amount of the Secured Term Loan repaid is payable with any prepayment or repayment of the Secured Term Loan, including at maturity, provided, that no exit fee is payable (i) if the Secured Term Loan is refinanced by the lender or its

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affiliates or (ii) if the Secured Term Loan is repaid with the proceeds of an arm's length sale of one or more of the properties securing the Secured Term Loan.

As of December 31, 2025, the interest rate on the Secured Term Loan is 6.00%, which is based on the one-month term SOFR plus 2.25% applicable margin. As of February 27, 2026, after giving effect to the sales of Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta and corresponding partial paydown of the Secured Term Loan, $415.2 million of the principal under the Secured Term Loan remains outstanding at the current interest rate of 5.91%.

**Results of Operations**

As of December 31, 2025, we owned approximately 3,570 residential apartment homes in the Washington, DC and Atlanta metro regions compared to 9,400 residential apartment homes in the Washington, DC and Atlanta metro regions as of December 31, 2024. We also owned and operated approximately 300,000 square feet of commercial space in the Washington, DC metro region as of both December 31, 2025 and 2024. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta. As of February 27, 2026, we owned approximately 2,500 residential apartment homes and approximately 300,000 square feet of commercial space in the Washington, DC metro region and approximately 200 residential apartment homes in the Atlanta metro region.

Our revenues are derived primarily from the ownership and operation of income producing property. While we discuss certain financial metrics below, in light of the approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation on October 30, 2025 and the adoption of the liquidation basis of accounting as of November 1, 2025 and sale of 19 assets in the Portfolio Sale Transaction, the results of operations for the current year are not comparable to the prior year. The information provided below compares the ten months ended October 31, 2025 to the year ended December 31, 2024.

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** |
| Real estate rental revenue | $206360 | $241935 |
| Real estate operating (loss) income | (122208) | 23469 |
| Net loss | (154162) | (13103) |

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Real estate operating loss for the ten months ended October 31, 2025 is primarily due to real estate impairment and an increase in general and administrative expenses. During the third quarter of 2025, the Company recognized an aggregate impairment charge of $111.7 million related to several properties not included as part of the Portfolio Sale Transaction. The estimated cash flows for those certain properties were less than their respective carrying values primarily due to a revision of their estimated holding periods. The increase in general and administrative expenses primarily includes accrued severance and professional fees incurred in association with our Plan of Sale and Liquidation and the Portfolio Sale Transaction.

*Operating Metrics*

Average Occupancy and Ending Occupancy for our nine remaining residential properties for the year ended December 31, 2025 was 93.2% and 91.8%, respectively, compared to 94.0% and 94.4%, respectively, for the same nine properties for the year ended December 31, 2024. Watergate 600 was 81.6% leased and had an ending occupancy of 81.6% for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to 84.7% and 84.7%, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2024.

*2024 Compared to 2023*

For a discussion comparing the Company's financial condition and results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023, refer to subsection "Results of Operations - 2024 Compared to 2023" of Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

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**Liquidity and Capital Resources**

As described in the "Overview" section, our Board and our shareholders approved the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, our objectives are to pursue an orderly liquidation of our company by selling or otherwise disposing of our remaining assets, paying or otherwise settling our debts and our known liabilities, providing for the payment of unknown or contingent liabilities, when appropriate and in the Board's discretion, distributing the net proceeds to our shareholders, subject to the creation of necessary reserves for, and payment or other satisfaction of, the Company's expenses and other liabilities and obligations and winding up our operations and dissolving our company. On November 25, 2025, we announced a special liquidating distribution of $14.67 per share which was paid on January 7, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 22, 2025. We may pay one or more additional liquidating distribution(s) to our shareholders during the remainder of the liquidation process. We expect to pay the final liquidating distribution after we sell all of our assets, pay or provide for all of our known liabilities and obligations and provide for unknown liabilities and obligations. We expect to complete these activities within 24 months of October 30, 2025, the day we received shareholder approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. A final liquidating distribution to our shareholders may not be paid until all of our liabilities have been satisfied.

Our expectations about the amount of liquidating distributions that we will pay and when we will pay them are based on many estimates and assumptions, one or more of which may prove to be incorrect. As a result, the actual amount of the remaining liquidating distributions we pay to our shareholders may be more or less than we estimate and the remaining liquidating distributions may be paid later than we predict. We intend to maintain adequate cash reserves for liquidity, debt repayments and other future capital needs.

We expect our principle demands for funds during the liquidation period are and will be for the payment of operating expenses, principal and interest payments on our Secured Term Loan, general and administrative expenses, including expenses in connection with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, transaction costs related to asset sales and payments of distributions to shareholders pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. We expect to use our cash on hand and net sales proceeds from the sale of our assets as our primary source of liquidity. To the extent available, we also intend to use cash flow generated by our real estate assets; however, asset sales will further reduce cash flow from these sources.

As of December 31, 2025, our cash and cash equivalents were approximately $1.3 billion and we had $17.3 million of restricted cash (funds held by the Lender in lender-controlled reserve accounts under the Secured Term Loan, including reserves for property taxes and insurance premiums, capital expenditures and certain other approved operating expenses and capital items). The cash and cash equivalents included approximately $1.3 billion paid as the special liquidating distribution on January 7, 2026.

*Liquidating Distributions*

On January 23, 2026, the Company announced that its current estimate of the total amount of remaining liquidating distributions to be funded from the net proceeds of sales of the Remaining Company Properties was estimated to be between $2.35 and $2.80 per share. Based on this updated estimate, the total amount of liquidating distributions (including the initial $14.67 per share liquidating distribution paid in January 2026) was estimated to be between $17.02 and $17.47 per share. The Company's estimate of the ranges of liquidating distributions were derived from a number of assumptions and estimates, including the estimated range of gross asset sales proceeds for the Remaining Company Properties, many of which are outside the Company's control and may not prove to be accurate, which could cause actual liquidating distributions, to be less or more than the estimated ranges. For more information regarding the estimates and assumptions, and various risks associated with such estimates and assumptions, see the risk factor titled "We cannot determine at this time the amount or timing of the remaining liquidating distributions, if any, to our shareholders in connection with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation because there are many factors that could affect the amount or timing of any such liquidating distributions, if any, some of which are not within our control".

*Debt Financing*

Aside from the Secured Term Loan described in the "Overview" section, the Company does not have any other outstanding debt obligations as of December 31, 2025.

*Debt Covenants*

As of December 31, 2025, we were in compliance with the covenants related to the Secured Term Loan, including those

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covenants with respect to maintenance of insurance, single-purpose bankruptcy, remote entity requirements, reporting requirements and restrictions on property and equity transfers and the granting of liens.

*Common Equity* 

We have authorized for issuance 150.0 million common shares, of which approximately 88.6 million shares were outstanding at December 31, 2025.

On February 20, 2024, we entered into an equity distribution agreement (the "Equity Distribution Agreement") with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., TD Securities (USA) LLC and Truist Securities, Inc. as agents and forward sellers, as applicable, (collectively, the "Agents" or "Forward Sellers", as applicable), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, The Bank of New York Mellon, Citibank, N.A., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., The Toronto-Dominion Bank and Truist Bank as forward purchasers pursuant to which up to an aggregate gross sales price of $350.0 million of Elme Communities' common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share, may be offered and sold from time to time through the Agents, acting as the Company's sales agents or, if applicable, the Forward Sellers, or directly to the Agents as principals for their own accounts. In connection with entry into the Equity Distribution Agreement, we terminated our prior at-the-market offering program. At the time of such termination, approximately $340.0 million remained unsold under such prior program. No common shares have been issued under the Equity Distribution Agreement, and subsequent to year-end, we terminated the Equity Distribution Agreement.

We have a dividend reinvestment program, whereby shareholders were able to use their dividends and optional cash payments to purchase common shares. The common shares sold under this program were either be common shares issued by us or common shares purchased in the open market. In September 2025, the Company suspended its dividend reinvestment program. During the suspension period, dividend payments are not automatically reinvested in additional shares of our common shares of beneficial interest and participants in the dividend reinvestment program are not able to purchase shares of our common shares of beneficial interest through optional cash investments under the dividend reinvestment program. We do not intend to restart the dividend reinvestment program.

We did not issue common shares under the dividend reinvestment program during 2025 or 2024. In 2023 we issued approximately 28,000 shares at a weighted average price per share of $17.64 for net proceeds of $0.5 million.

On October 26, 2023, the Board authorized and approved a share repurchase program of up to $50.0 million of the Company's common shares of beneficial interest over a period of two years, subject to any applicable limitations or restrictions set forth in our existing credit facility and other debt agreements. The share repurchase program expired on October 25, 2025.

*Preferred Equity*

Our Board can, at its discretion, authorize the issuance of up to 10.0 million preferred shares. The ability to issue preferred equity provides Elme Communities an additional financing tool that may be used to raise capital for business purposes. As of December 31, 2025, no preferred shares were issued and outstanding.

*Contractual Obligations* 

As of December 31, 2025, we owed $520.0 million on our Secured Term Loan. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, and after giving effect to the sales of Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta and corresponding partial paydown of the Secured Term Loan, $415.2 million of the principal amount remains outstanding under our Secured Term Loan.

We currently lease and occupy office space for our corporate headquarters. The corporate office lease has an expiration date of September 30, 2033 and we would expect to incur approximately $3.2 million in prepayment penalties if we terminate the lease during 2026. We are actively exploring alternatives to reduce the total cost of our corporate headquarters.

We have and will continue to incur severance, retention and benefit obligations in association with our Plan of Sale and Liquidation. We estimate that payments related to such obligations in 2026 will total approximately $17.3 million.

In addition to our Secured Term Loan, office lease and severance obligations, we have various standing or renewable contracts with vendors. The majority of these contracts can be canceled with immaterial or no cancellation penalties, with the exception of our elevator maintenance agreements and our electricity and gas purchase agreements. Contract terms on leases that can be canceled are generally one year or less.

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*Historical Cash Flows*

Cash provided by operating activities was $62.2 million for the ten months ended October 31, 2025.

Cash used in investing activities was $27.0 million for the ten months ended October 31, 2025, primarily due to capital improvement expenditures at our residential communities.

Cash used in financing activities was $35.0 million for the ten months ended October 31, 2025, primarily due to the payment of quarterly dividends partially offset by net borrowings on the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility.

Consolidated cash flows for the two years ended December 31, 2024 are summarized as follows (in thousands):

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| | **2024** | **2023** | **2024 vs. 2023** |
| Cash provided by operating activities | $95243 | $84669 | $10574 |
| Cash used in investing activities | (43740) | (146221) | 102481 |
| Cash (used in) provided by financing activities | (51432) | 60238 | (111670) |

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Net cash provided by operating activities increased in 2024 as compared to 2023 was primarily due to higher rental revenue from the acquisition of Elme Druid Hills in 2023 and from same-store communities. Net cash used in investing activities decreased in 2024 as compared to 2023 primarily due to the acquisition of Elme Druid Hills during 2023. Net cash used in financing activities increased in 2024 primarily due to executing the $125.0 million 2023 Term Loan during 2023, partially offset by the prepayment of a $100.0 million portion of an existing $250.0 million unsecured term loan during 2023 and higher net borrowings on the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility during 2024.

*Off Balance Sheet Arrangements*

We have no off-balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2025 that are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

**Forward-Looking Statements**

Some of the statements contained in this Form 10-K constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans and strategies, anticipated events or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," or "potential" or the negative of these words and phrases or similar words or phrases which are predictions of or indicate future events or trends and which do not relate solely to historical matters. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of Elme Communities to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Additional factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Elme Communities to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)changes in the amount and timing of the additional liquidating distributions, including as a result of unexpected levels of transaction costs, delayed or terminated closings, liquidation costs or unpaid or additional liabilities and obligations;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)the possibility of converting to a liquidating trust or other liquidating entity;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)the ability of our Board to terminate the Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d)the response of our residents, tenants and business partners to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(e)potential difficulties in employee retention as a result of the on-going Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(f)the outcome of legal proceedings, including any that may be instituted against Elme, its trustees and others related to Elme's recently completed 19-property multifamily portfolio, future property sales and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(g)the risk that disruptions caused by or relating to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation will harm Elme's business, including current plans and operations;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(h)risks relating to the market value of Elme's common shares;

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and/or other provisions that may be triggered by the Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(j)general risks affecting the real estate industry and local real estate markets (including, without limitation, the market value of Elme's properties and potential illiquidity of Elme's remaining real estate investments);

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(k)whether or not the sale of one or more of Elme's properties may be considered a prohibited transaction under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(l)Elme's ability to maintain its status as a real estate investment trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(m)the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(n)the risks associated with ownership of real estate in general and our real estate assets in particular;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(o)general economic and market developments and conditions;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(p)volatility and uncertainty in the financial markets; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(q)other factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors."

While forward-looking statements reflect our good faith beliefs, they are not guarantees of future performance. For a further discussion of these and other factors that could cause our future results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors." We undertake no obligation to update our forward-looking statements or risk factors to reflect new information, future events, or otherwise.

**Non-GAAP Measures**

Due to the adoption of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, we are no longer reporting NAREIT Funds From Operations, Net Operating Income or other non-GAAP measures, as we no longer consider these to be key performance measures.

**Critical Accounting Estimates**

We base the discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. We evaluate these estimates on an on-going basis, including those related to estimated useful lives of real estate assets, estimated fair value of acquired leases, cost reimbursement income, bad debts, contingencies and litigation. We base the estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. We cannot assure you that actual results will not differ from those estimates.

We believe the following accounting estimates are the most critical to aid in fully understanding our reported financial results, and they require our most difficult, subjective or complex judgments, resulting from the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain.

*Liquidation Basis*

*Income Producing Property*

As of November 1, 2025, our investments in real estate were adjusted to their estimated net realizable value, or liquidation value, to reflect the change to the liquidation basis of accounting. The liquidation value represents the estimated amount of cash that we expect to receive through the disposal of our assets as we carry out the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. We estimated the liquidation value of our real estate investments generally based on either contractual purchase prices or offers received on the properties or, if no contracts or offers had been received yet, on management's estimate of a property's liquidation value, taking into account information obtained during the marketing and sale process for the properties, including with respect to levels of interest and valuation levels received. The liquidation values of our investments in real estate are presented on an undiscounted basis and investments in real estate are no longer depreciated. Subsequent to November 1, 2025, all changes in the estimated liquidation value of the investments in real estate are reflected as a change to our net assets in liquidation.

*Accrued Liquidation Costs*

We accrue for certain estimated liquidation costs to the extent we have a reasonable basis for estimation. These costs include transaction costs, debt service costs, debt repayment amounts, capital expenditures for repair and maintenance, costs to run the Company until completion of the wind-down, including retention and severance costs, other compensation-related expenses, known financial obligations, other general and administrative costs, estimate REIT compliance costs and, other dissolution

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costs, including legal costs, final audit/tax costs, insurance, and transfer agent related costs.

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*Going Concern Basis*

*Real Estate Impairment*

We recognize impairment losses on long-lived assets used in operations or land held for future development, if indicators of impairment are present and the net undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are less than the assets' carrying amount. Estimates of undiscounted cash flows are based on forward-looking assumptions, including annual and residual cash flows and our estimated holding period for each property. Such assumptions involve a high degree of judgment and could be affected by future economic and market conditions. When determining if a property has indicators of impairment, we evaluate the property's occupancy, our expected holding period for the property, strategic decisions regarding the property's future operations or development and other market factors. If such carrying amount is in excess of the estimated undiscounted cash flows from the operation and disposal of the property, we would recognize an impairment loss equivalent to an amount required to adjust the carrying amount to its estimated fair value, calculated in accordance with current GAAP fair value provisions. Assets held for sale are recorded at the lower of cost or fair value less costs to sell.

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**<u>ITEM 7A: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK</u>**

The principal material financial market risk to which we are exposed is interest rate risk.

The table below presents principal, interest and related weighted average interest rates by year of maturity, with respect to debt outstanding, which consists exclusively of the Secured Term Loan on December 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands).

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| | **2026** | **2027** | **2028** | **2029** | **2030** | **Thereafter** | **Total** | **Fair Value** |
| Secured variable rate debt | Secured variable rate debt |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Principal | $520000 | $— | $— | $— | $— | $— | $520000 | $520000 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Variable interest rate on debt maturities | 6.0% |  |  |  |  |  | 6.0% |  |

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The Company has purchased an interest rate cap that effectively caps term SOFR with respect to the Secured Term Loan at 5.00% per annum.

We previously entered into the interest rate swap arrangements designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges to reduce our exposure to the variability in future cash flows attributable to changes in interest rates. Derivative instruments expose us to credit risk in the event of non-performance by the counterparty under the terms of the interest rate hedge agreement. We believe that we minimize our credit risk on these transactions by dealing with major, creditworthy financial institutions. As part of our ongoing control procedures, we monitor the credit ratings of counterparties and our exposure to any single entity, thus minimizing our credit risk concentration.

The following table sets forth information pertaining to interest rate swap contracts in place as of December 31, 2024 and their respective fair value (dollars in thousands). There were no interest rate swap contracts in place as of December 31, 2025:

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| **Notional Amount** | | **Floating Index Rate** | | | |
| **Notional Amount** |<br>**Fixed Rate** | **Floating Index Rate** |<br>**Effective Date** | **Termination/**<br>**Expiration Date** | **Fair Value as of:**<br>**December 31, 2024** |
| $75000 | 3.677% | USD-SOFR | July 21, 2023 | January 10, 2025 | $14 |
| 50000 | 3.676% | USD-SOFR | July 21, 2023 | January 10, 2025 | 9 |
| 100000 | 4.719% | USD-SOFR | January 10, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | (624) |
| 50000 | 4.720% | USD-SOFR | January 10, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | (312) |
|  |  |  |  |  | $(913) |

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**<u>ITEM 8: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA</u>**

The financial statements and supplementary data appearing on pages <u>[45](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_130)</u> to <u>[80](#i836c327ec1b24a8b8db45c00a2f89dba_4962)</u> are incorporated herein by reference.

**<u>ITEM 9: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE</u>**

None.

**<u>ITEM 9A: CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES</u>**

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our Securities Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC's rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.

We carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2025. Based on the foregoing, our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level.

*Internal Control over Financial Reporting*

See the Report of Management in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

See the Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

While there have been changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the three months ended December 31, 2025, including the addition of controls related to the liquidation basis accounting for our consolidated financial statements and disclosures, we do not believe these changes materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

**<u>ITEM 9B: OTHER INFORMATION</u>**

During the three months ended December 31, 2025, no trustee or officer of Elme Communities adopted or terminated a "Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement" or "non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement," as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.

*Trustee Matters*

As previously disclosed, on January 21, 2026, Ellen M. Goitia and Ron D. Sturzenegger each notified Paul McDermott, the Chairman of the Board and President and Chief Executive Officer of Elme, that they intended to resign from the Board, effective as of the end of the first business day after the date of filing of the Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ms. Goitia's and Mr. Sturzenegger's resignations will be effective on March 2, 2026.

*Chief Financial Officer Matters*

As previously disclosed, on January 21, 2026, Mr. Freishtat and the Company agreed that Mr. Freishtat would step down from his role as Chief Financial Officer and as an employee of the Company effective as of the end of the first business day after the date of filing of the Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Also on January 21, 2026, the Board approved the appointment of W. Drew Hammond to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, in addition to his roles as Chief Administrative Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, subject to and effective at the beginning of the first day immediately

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following the effective date of Mr. Freishtat's departure (the "Appointment Date"), subject to Mr. Hammond's continued employment through the Appointment Date. Mr. Freishtat will step down on March 2, 2026, and Mr. Hammond will assume the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, in addition to his existing roles, effective March 3, 2026.

As a condition to Mr. Freishtat receiving his previously disclosed payment pursuant to his Retention Agreement, dated January 21, 2026, Mr. Freishtat will execute an agreement and release of claims ("Release Agreement"), pursuant to which Mr. Freishtat will agree to a general release of claims and other customary provisions, including confidentiality, cooperation in transition, and the return of Company property. The description of the Release Agreement set forth above is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Release Agreement filed herewith as Exhibit 10.19 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K and incorporated by reference herein.

**<u>ITEM 9C: DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.</u>**

Not applicable.

**PART III**

**<u>ITEM 10: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE</u>**

The information required by this Item will be included in an amendment to this Annual Report on Form 10-K or incorporated by reference from our definitive Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

**<u>ITEM 11: EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION</u>**

The information required by this Item will be included in an amendment to this Annual Report on Form 10-K or incorporated by reference from our definitive Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

**<u>ITEM 12: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS</u>**

The information required by this Item will be included in an amendment to this Annual Report on Form 10-K or incorporated by reference from our definitive Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

**<u>ITEM 13: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE</u>**

The information required by this Item will be included in an amendment to this Annual Report on Form 10-K or incorporated by reference from our definitive Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

**<u>ITEM 14: PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES</u>**

The information required by this Item will be included in an amendment to this Annual Report on Form 10-K or incorporated by reference from our definitive Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A.

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**PART IV**

**<u>ITEM 15: EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES</u>**

(A). The following documents are filed as part of this Form 10-K:

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| 1 | <u>Financial Statements</u> | <u>Page</u> |
|  | Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting | <u>[40](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_118)</u> |
|  | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 42) | <u>[41](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_121)</u> |
|  | Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting | <u>[43](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_124)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Statement of Net Assets (Liquidation Basis) as of December 31, 2025 | <u>[44](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_4947802326776)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Balance Sheet (Going Concern Basis) as of December 31, 2024 | <u>[45](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_130)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Statement of Changes in Net Assets (Liquidation Basis) for the Period from November 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025 | <u>[46](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_4947802326792)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Statements of Operations (Going Concern Basis) for the Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025 and Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 | <u>[47](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_133)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Going Concern Basis) for the Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025 and Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 | <u>[48](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_136)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Statements of Equity (Going Concern Basis) for the Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025 and Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 | <u>[49](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_139)</u> |
|  | Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Going Concern Basis) for the Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025 and Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 | <u>[50](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_142)</u> |
|  | Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements | <u>[52](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_148)</u> |
| 2 | <u>Financial Statement Schedules</u> |  |
|  | Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | <u>[78](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_208)</u> |
|  | Schedule III – Consolidated Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation | <u>[79](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_211)</u> |
|  | All other schedules are omitted because they are either not required or the required information is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto. |  |
| 3 | <u>Exhibits:</u> |  |

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| | | | | | | |
|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| | | **Incorporated by Reference** | **Incorporated by Reference** | **Incorporated by Reference** | **Incorporated by Reference** | |
|<br>**Exhibit<br>Number** |<br>**Exhibit Description** | **Form** | **File<br>Number** | **Exhibit** | **Filing Date** |<br>**Filed<br>Herewith** |
| 2.1 | <u>[Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated August 1, 2025, by and among Elme Communities, WashREIT OP LLC, Echo Sub LLC, CEVF VI Capital Holdings, LLC and CEVF VI Co-Invest I Venture, LLC](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000119312525172118/d38155dex21.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 2.1 | 8/4/2025 |  |
| 2.2 | <u>[Plan of Sale and Liquidation](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000119312525172118/d38155dex22.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 2.2 | 8/4/2025 |  |
| 3.1 | <u>[Articles of Amendment and Restatement of Declaration of Trust of the Company, as amended](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489423000028/elmearticlesofamendmentand.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 3.1 | 2/17/2023 |  |
| 3.2 | <u>[Articles Supplementary of Elme Communities](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489425000023/articlessupplementary.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 3.1 | 3/20/2025 |  |
| 3.3 | <u>[Amended and Restated Bylaws of Elme Communities, as amended](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489423000101/a31elme-bylaws2023amendment.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 3.1 | 9/20/2023 |  |
| 4.1 | <u>[Description of Registrant's Securities](exhibit41.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 10.1\* | <u>[Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan II dated January 1, 2008](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489423000028/a10-01x2008preparedfinalxa.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 10.1 | 2/17/2023 |  |
| 10.2\* | <u>[Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between Washington REIT and the indemnitee](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000119312509155803/dex10nn.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10(nn) | 7/27/2009 |  |
| 10.3\* | <u>[Deferred Compensation Plan for Officers, effective January 1, 2007, as amended and restated on January 1, 2011](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489423000028/asamended1-1x2011xwritdefe.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 10.3 | 2/17/2023 |  |
| 10.4\* | <u>[Amendment to Amended and Restated Deferred Compensation Plan for Officers, adopted December 31, 2012](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489413000032/amendmenttoofficerdcp.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 10.37 | 2/27/2013 |  |
| 10.5\* | <u>[Amendment to Amended and Restated Deferred Compensation Plan for Officers, adopted February 13, 2013](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489413000054/q12013amendmenttoofficerdcp.htm)</u> | 10-Q | 001-06622 | 10.45 | 5/9/2013 |  |
| 10.6\* | <u>[Amendment to Amended and Restated Deferred Compensation Plan for Officers, adopted February 18, 2014](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489414000026/ex1045-defcompofficers.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 10.45 | 3/3/2014 |  |
| 10.7\* | <u>[Amended and Restated Trustee Deferred Compensation Plan, effective October 21, 2015](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489415000109/amendedtrusteedcp.htm)</u> | 10-Q | 001-06622 | 10.61 | 11/4/2015 |  |
| 10.8\* | <u>[Amendment to Amended and Restated Trustee Deferred Compensation Plan](amendmenttoamendedandresta.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| | | **Incorporated by Reference** | **Incorporated by Reference** | **Incorporated by Reference** | **Incorporated by Reference** | |
|<br>**Exhibit<br>Number** |<br>**Exhibit Description** | **Form** | **File<br>Number** | **Exhibit** | **Filing Date** |<br>**Filed<br>Herewith** |
| 10.9\* | <u>[Elme Communities 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan (as amended and restated effective as of May 30, 2024)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489424000062/elmecommunitiesamendedandr.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.1 | 6/4/2024 |  |
| 10.10 | <u>[Cooperation Agreement, dated March 19, 2025, by and among Elme Communities, Argosy-Lionbridge Real Estate Securities, L.P. and the Related Persons on Schedule A thereto](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489425000023/argosy-elmexcooperationagr.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.1 | 3/20/2025 |  |
| 10.11\* | <u>[Retention Agreement between Paul McDermott and Elme Communities](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/pmcdermottpost-closingrete.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.1 | 1/23/2026 |  |
| 10.12\* | <u>[Retention Agreement between Tiffany Butcher and Elme Communities](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/tbutcherpost-closingretent.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.2 | 1/23/2026 |  |
| 10.13\* | <u>[Retention Agreement between W. Drew Hammond and Elme Communities](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/dhammondpost-closingretent.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.3 | 1/23/2026 |  |
| 10.14\* | <u>[Retention Agreement between Steven Freishtat and Elme Communities](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/sfreishtatpost-closingrete.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.4 | 1/23/2026 |  |
| 10.15\* | <u>[Executive Officer Short-Term Incentive Plan for the performance period beginning November](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/elme-newstip.htm)[13](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/elme-newstip.htm)[, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489426000004/elme-newstip.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.5 | 1/23/2026 |  |
| 10.16\* | <u>[Separation Agreement and Release of Claims (Susan L. Gerock)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489425000132/elme-gerockxseparationagre.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.1 | 11/14/2025 |  |
| 10.17 | <u>[Loan Agreement, dated as of November 12, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000110465925110656/tm2530977d1_ex10-1.htm)</u> | 8-K | 001-06622 | 10.1 | 11/13/2025 |  |
| 10.18 | <u>[Form of Agreement and Release of Claims](formofagreementandreleaseo.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 19 | <u>[Elme Communities Policy on Inside Information and Insider Trading](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489425000020/insidertradingpolicy.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 19 | 2/14/2025 |  |
| 21 | <u>[Subsidiaries of Registrant](q42025exhibit21-entities.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 23 | <u>[Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm](exhibit23-consent.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 24 | <u>[Power of Attorney](q42025ex24-powerofattorney.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 31.1 | <u>[Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended ("the Exchange Act")](elme-123125exhibit311.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 31.2 | <u>[Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act](elme-123125exhibit312.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 31.3 | <u>[Certification of the Chief Administrative Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act](elme-123125exhibit313.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 32 | <u>[Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) of the Exchange Act and 18U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002](elme-123125exhibit32.htm)</u> |  |  |  |  | X |
| 97 | <u>[Elme Communities Compensation Recovery Policy](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489424000019/exhibit97-elmecompensation.htm)</u> | 10-K | 001-06622 | 97 | 2/16/2024 |  |
| 101 | INS-XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. |  |  |  |  | X |
| 101.SCH | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document |  |  |  |  | X |
| 101.CAL | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document |  |  |  |  | X |
| 101.DEF | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document |  |  |  |  | X |
| 101.LAB | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document |  |  |  |  | X |
| 101.PRE | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document |  |  |  |  | X |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document and contained in Exhibit 101) |  |  |  |  |  |

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\* Management contracts or compensation plans or arrangements in which trustees or executive officers are eligible to participate.

In accordance with Item 601(b)(4)(iii)(A) of Regulation S-K, copies of certain instruments defining the rights of holders of long-term debt of Elme Communities or its subsidiaries are not filed herewith. Pursuant to this regulation, we hereby agree to furnish a copy of any such instrument to the SEC upon request.

**<u>ITEM 16: FORM 10-K SUMMARY</u>**

We have chosen not to include a Form 10-K Summary.

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ELME COMMUNITIES

Date: February 27, 2026

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>/s/ Paul T. McDermott</u> 

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Paul T. McDermott

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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| Signature | Title | Date |
| /s/ Paul T. McDermott | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | February 27, 2026 |
| Paul T. McDermott |  |  |
| /s/ Benjamin S. Butcher\* | Lead Independent Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin S. Butcher |  |  |
| /s/ Jennifer S. Banner\* | Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Jennifer S. Banner |  |  |
| /s/ Susan Carras\* | Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Susan Carras |  |  |
| /s/ Ellen M. Goitia\* | Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Ellen M. Goitia |  |  |
| /s/ Thomas H. Nolan, Jr.\* | Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Thomas H. Nolan, Jr. |  |  |
| /s/ Ron D. Sturzenegger\* | Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Ron D. Sturzenegger |  |  |
| /s/ Anthony L. Winns\* | Trustee | February 27, 2026 |
| Anthony L. Winns |  |  |
| /s/ Steven M. Freishtat | Executive Vice President and | February 27, 2026 |
| Steven M. Freishtat | Chief Financial Officer |  |
|  | (Principal Financial Officer) |  |
| /s/ W. Drew Hammond | Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Treasurer | February 27, 2026 |
| W. Drew Hammond | (Principal Accounting Officer) |  |

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\* By: <u>/s/ W. Drew Hammond</u> through power of attorney

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;W. Drew Hammond

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**MANAGEMENT'S REPORT ON**

**INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING**

Management of Elme Communities is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting and for the assessment of the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. Elme Communities' internal control system over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of Elme Communities' principal executive and principal financial officers to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions.

In connection with the preparation of Elme Communities' annual consolidated financial statements, management has undertaken an assessment of the effectiveness of Elme Communities' internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued in 2013 by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the 2013 COSO Framework). Management's assessment included an evaluation of the design of Elme Communities' internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of those controls.

Based on this assessment, management has concluded that as of December 31, 2025, Elme Communities' internal control over financial reporting was effective at a reasonable assurance level regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Ernst & Young LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that audited Elme Communities' consolidated financial statements included in this report, has issued an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of Elme Communities' internal control over financial reporting, a copy of which appears on page <u>[43](#i871608d9e333463383382b8fadbfdbd3_124)</u> of this annual report.

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**Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Elme Communities

**Opinion on the Financial Statements**

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Elme Communities and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), equity and cash flows for the period from January 1, 2025 to October 31, 2025 and for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the consolidated statement of net assets in liquidation as of December 31, 2025, the related consolidated statement of changes in net assets in liquidation for the period from November 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, and the related notes and financial statement schedules listed in the Index at Item 15(A) (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements"). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024, the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and for the period from January 1, 2025 to October 31, 2025, its net assets in liquidation as of December 31, 2025, and the changes in its net assets in liquidation for the period from November 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles applied on the basis described below.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 27, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

**Adoption of Liquidation Basis of Accounting**

As described in Note 1 to the financial statements, the shareholders of the Company approved a plan of liquidation on October 30, 2025, and the Company commenced liquidation shortly thereafter. As a result, the Company has changed its basis of accounting for periods subsequent to October 31, 2025 from the going concern basis to a liquidation basis.

**Basis for Opinion**

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

**Critical Audit Matter**

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

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| ***Valuation of Income Producing Properties*** | ***Valuation of Income Producing Properties*** |
| *Description of the Matter* | As of December 31, 2025, the Company reported income producing property of $776.4 million on the consolidated statement of net assets (liquidation basis). As described in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements as a result of the adoption of the liquidation basis of accounting, the Company's real estate was adjusted to its estimated net realizable value, or liquidation value, which represents the estimated amount of cash or other consideration that the Company expected to realize through the disposal of its assets. Prior to the adoption of the liquidation basis of accounting and as described in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements, during the ten months ended October 31, 2025, the Company recognized impairment charges of $111.7 million on certain income producing properties included in the consolidated statement of operations. If a property is determined to be impaired, the Company recognizes an impairment loss equivalent to an amount required to adjust the carrying amount to its estimated fair value. Management's valuation of income producing properties at net realizable value under the liquidation basis of accounting or at fair value when an asset's carrying amount is in excess of its undiscounted cash flows under the going concern basis of accounting was determined using various valuation methodologies, as well as consideration of purchase offers or contractual sales agreements and comparable market transactions.<br>Auditing the Company's valuation of income producing properties was complex and involved a high degree of subjectivity in evaluating management's use of assumptions and estimates inherent in the determination of the estimated fair value when an asset's carrying value is not deemed recoverable or liquidation value of the properties. In particular, management's assumptions and estimates included estimated future operating results and capitalization rates, which were sensitive to expectations about market or economic conditions, as well as the use of comparable sales values. |
| *How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit* | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company's real estate valuation process. We tested controls over management's process for evaluating the assumptions used to determine fair value when the asset's carrying value is not deemed recoverable or liquidation value subsequent to adoption of the liquidation basis of accounting. <br>To test the Company's valuation of income producing properties, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, evaluating the methodologies applied and tested the significant assumptions in the valuation analyses. We involved our valuation specialists to assist in performing these procedures. For example, we evaluated the significant assumptions used to estimate future cash flows and comparable sales values for reasonableness by comparing them to the Company's historical accounting records or to available market data.  |

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/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2002.

Tysons, Virginia

February 27, 2026

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**Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Elme Communities

**Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting**

We have audited Elme Communities and Subsidiaries' internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Elme Communities and Subsidiaries (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the 2025 consolidated financial statements of the Company and our report dated February 27, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

**Basis for Opinion** 

The Company's management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

**Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting** 

A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Tysons, Virginia

February 27, 2026

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF NET ASSETS**

**(LIQUIDATION BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS)**

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| | |
|:---|:---|
| | **December 31,**<br>**2025** |
| Assets |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Income producing property | $776425 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | 1331882 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rents and other receivables | 5974 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total assets | $2114281 |
| Liabilities |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation | 43599 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Debt payable | 520000 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accounts payable and accrued expenses | 8044 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Liquidating distribution payable | 1303723 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total liabilities | $1875366 |
| Net assets in liquidation | $238915 |

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See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS**

**(GOING CONCERN BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)**

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| | |
|:---|:---|
| | **December 31,**<br>**2024** |
| Assets |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Land | $383808 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Income producing property | 1999525 |
|  | 2383333 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accumulated depreciation and amortization | (618299) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Net income producing property | 1765034 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Properties under development or held for future development | 30980 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total real estate held for investment, net | 1796014 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cash and cash equivalents | 6144 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Restricted cash | 2465 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rents and other receivables | 12511 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prepaid expenses and other assets | 28628 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total assets | $1845762 |
| Liabilities |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Notes payable, net | $522953 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Line of credit | 176000 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accounts payable and other liabilities | 36293 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dividend payable | 15898 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Advance rents | 6257 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tenant security deposits | 6283 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total liabilities | 763684 |
| Equity |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shareholders' equity |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Preferred shares; $0.01 par value; 10,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value; 150,000 shares authorized: 88,029 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2024 | 880 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additional paid in capital | 1740078 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Distributions in excess of net income | (646095) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (13066) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total shareholders' equity | 1081797 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Noncontrolling interests in subsidiaries | 281 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total equity | 1082078 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total liabilities and equity | $1845762 |

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS**

**(LIQUIDATION BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS)**

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|:---|:---|
| | **For the Period from November 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025** |
| Net assets in liquidation, beginning of period | $1589456 |
| *Changes in net assets in liquidation* |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Liquidation value of income producing property | (46375) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remeasurement of assets and liabilities, net | (443) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net decrease in liquidation value | (46818) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Liquidating distributions payable | (1303723) |
| Changes in net assets in liquidation | (1350541) |
| Net assets in liquidation, end of period | $238915 |

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See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS**

**(GOING CONCERN BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)**

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Revenue |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate rental revenue | $206360 | $241935 | $227911 |
| Expenses |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Property operating and maintenance | 49962 | 56282 | 50985 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate taxes and insurance | 26640 | 32419 | 28845 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Property management | 7494 | 8861 | 8108 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General and administrative | 54591 | 24969 | 25887 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Transformation costs |  |  | 6339 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation and amortization | 78162 | 95935 | 88950 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate impairment | 111719 |  | 41860 |
|  | 328568 | 218466 | 250974 |
| Real estate operating (loss) income | (122208) | 23469 | (23063) |
| Other income (expense) |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest expense | (31954) | (37835) | (30429) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Loss on extinguishment of debt, net |  | (147) | (54) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other income |  | 1410 | 569 |
|  | (31954) | (36572) | (29914) |
| Net loss | $(154162) | $(13103) | $(52977) |
| Basic net loss per share | $(1.75) | $(0.15) | $(0.61) |
| Diluted net loss per share | $(1.75) | $(0.15) | $(0.61) |
| Weighted average shares outstanding – basic | 88092 | 87920 | 87735 |
| Weighted average shares outstanding – diluted | 88092 | 87920 | 87735 |

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See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)**

**(GOING CONCERN BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS)**

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Net loss | $(154162) | $(13103) | $(52977) |
| Other comprehensive loss: |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unrealized gain (loss) on interest rate derivatives | 598 | (2147) | (764) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reclassification of unrealized loss on interest rate derivatives to earnings | 1698 | 2039 | 2039 |
| Comprehensive loss | $(151866) | $(13211) | $(51702) |

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See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY**

**(GOING CONCERN BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS)**

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| | **Shares** | **Shares of<br>Beneficial<br>Interest at<br>Par Value** | **Additional<br>Paid in<br>Capital** | **Distributions in Excess<br>of Net Income** | **Accumulated<br>Other<br>Comprehensive<br>Income (Loss)** | **Total<br>Shareholders'<br>Equity** | **Non- controlling<br>Interests in<br>Subsidiary** | **Total<br>Equity** |
| Balance, December 31, 2022 | 87534 | $875 | $1729854 | $(453008) | $(14233) | $1263488 | $298 | $1263786 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss |  |  |  | (52977) |  | (52977) |  | (52977) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unrealized loss on interest rate hedges |  |  |  |  | (764) | (764) |  | (764) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Amortization of swap settlements |  |  |  |  | 2039 | 2039 |  | 2039 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Distributions to noncontrolling interests |  |  |  |  |  |  | (8) | (8) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Dividends ($0.72 per common share) |  |  |  | (63406) |  | (63406) |  | (63406) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shares issued under Dividend Reinvestment Program | 28 |  | 497 |  |  | 497 |  | 497 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Share grants, net of forfeitures and tax withholdings | 305 | 4 | 5179 |  |  | 5183 |  | 5183 |
| Balance, December 31, 2023 | 87867 | 879 | 1735530 | (569391) | (12958) | 1154060 | 290 | 1154350 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss |  |  |  | (13103) |  | (13103) |  | (13103) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Unrealized loss on interest rate hedges |  |  |  |  | (2147) | (2147) |  | (2147) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Amortization of swap settlements |  |  |  |  | 2039 | 2039 |  | 2039 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Distributions to noncontrolling interests |  |  |  |  |  |  | (9) | (9) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Dividends ($0.72 per common share) |  |  |  | (63601) |  | (63601) |  | (63601) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Share grants, net of forfeitures and tax withholdings | 162 | 1 | 4548 |  |  | 4549 |  | 4549 |
| Balance, December 31, 2024 | 88029 | 880 | 1740078 | (646095) | (13066) | 1081797 | 281 | 1082078 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss |  |  |  | (154162) |  | (154162) |  | (154162) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unrealized gain on interest rate hedges |  |  |  |  | 598 | 598 |  | 598 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Amortization of swap settlements |  |  |  |  | 1698 | 1698 |  | 1698 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Distributions to noncontrolling interests |  |  |  |  |  |  | (7) | (7) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Dividends ($0.54 per common share) |  |  |  | (47809) |  | (47809) |  | (47809) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Share grants, net of forfeitures and tax withholdings | 132 | 2 | 5089 |  |  | 5091 |  | 5091 |
| Balance, October 31, 2025 | 88161 | $882 | $1745167 | $(848066) | $(10770) | $887213 | $274 | $887487 |

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See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** | **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** | **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** | **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** |
| **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** | **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** | **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** | **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** |
| **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** | **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** | **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** | **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** |
| **(IN THOUSANDS)** | **(IN THOUSANDS)** | **(IN THOUSANDS)** | **(IN THOUSANDS)** |
| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
|  | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Cash flows from operating activities |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss | $(154162) | $(13103) | $(52977) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation and amortization | 78162 | 95935 | 88950 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Credit losses on lease related receivables | 3553 | 5164 | 4833 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate impairment | 111719 |  | 41860 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Share-based compensation expense | 5351 | 5218 | 5538 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Amortization of debt premiums, discounts and related financing costs | 3570 | 4421 | 4218 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Loss on extinguishment of debt, net |  | 147 | 54 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gain on land easements |  | (1410) | **—** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Changes in other assets | (10290) | (6894) | (11294) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Changes in other liabilities | 24340 | 5765 | 3487 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net cash provided by operating activities | 62243 | 95243 | 84669 |
| Cash flows from investing activities |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate acquisitions, net |  |  | (107595) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Capital improvements to real estate | (26925) | (47390) | (38218) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Non-real estate capital improvements | (61) | (212) | (408) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Payments received for land easements |  | 3862 |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net cash used in investing activities | (26986) | (43740) | (146221) |
| Cash flows from financing activities |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Line of credit borrowings, net | 29000 | 19000 | 102000 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dividends paid | (63707) | (63636) | (64335) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Repayments of unsecured term loan debt |  |  | (100000) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Proceeds from term loan |  |  | 125000 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Payment of financing costs | (26) | (5676) | (844) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Distributions to noncontrolling interests | (7) | (9) | (8) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Proceeds from dividend reinvestment program |  |  | 497 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Payment of tax withholdings for restricted share awards | (229) | (1111) | (2072) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities | (34969) | (51432) | 60238 |
| Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | 288 | 71 | (1314) |
| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period | 8609 | 8538 | 9852 |
| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period | $8897 | $8609 | $8538 |
| Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized interest expense | $29874 | $32220 | $23502 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Change in accrued capital improvements and development costs | 226 | (7864) | 9556 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dividend payable |  | 15898 | 15863 |

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** | **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** | **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** | **ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES** |
| **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** | **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** | **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** | **CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS** |
| **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** | **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** | **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** | **(GOING CONCERN BASIS)** |
| **(IN THOUSANDS)** | **(IN THOUSANDS)** | **(IN THOUSANDS)** | **(IN THOUSANDS)** |
| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
|  | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash: |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Cash and cash equivalents | $6587 | $6144 | $5984 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Restricted cash | 2310 | 2465 | 2554 |
| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $8897 | $8609 | $8538 |

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See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**

**<u>NOTE 1: NATURE OF BUSINESS</u>**

Elme Communities, a Maryland real estate investment trust, formerly known as Washington Real Estate Investment Trust ("Elme" or the "Company"), is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust ("REIT") within the meaning of Sections 856-860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") and successor to a trust organized in 1960. Our business primarily consists of the ownership of apartment communities in the greater Washington, DC metro and Sunbelt regions. As of December 31, 2025, we owned nine apartment communities, six in the Washington, DC metro region and three in the Atlanta metro region, and one office property. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, which comprise approximately 800 residential apartment homes.

**Plan of Liquidation**

On February 13, 2025, the Company announced that its Board of Trustees (the "Board") had initiated a formal review to evaluate strategic alternatives. On August 4, 2025, the Company announced that its Board had completed its review, that Elme had entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2025, for the sale of 19 multifamily properties from Elme for approximately $1.6 billion in cash, subject to certain adjustments and prorations (the "Portfolio Sale Transaction"), and that the Board had also approved a plan of sale and liquidation (the "Plan of Sale and Liquidation"), which contemplates the sale or disposition of all the Company's assets, the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and the termination of the Company's existence by voluntary dissolution. The Plan of Sale and Liquidation includes a plan of liquidation that provides for the Company's complete liquidation and dissolution in accordance with Section 331, Section 336 and Section 346(a) of the Code.

On October 30, 2025, our shareholders approved the Portfolio Sale Transaction and the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, and on November 12, 2025, Elme completed the Portfolio Sale Transaction. Also on November 12, 2025, certain indirect subsidiaries of the Company, as borrowers (collectively, the "Borrowers"), and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as lender (the "Lender"), entered into that certain Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") pursuant to which the Lender has made a senior secured term loan of $520.0 million (the "Secured Term Loan") to the Borrowers. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Secured Term Loan was secured by first priority mortgages and security interests on all ten properties that remained under the Company following the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction (which are directly owned by the Borrowers) and included: Riverside Apartments, Elme Bethesda, Elme Germantown, Elme Watkins Mill, 3801 Connecticut Avenue, Kenmore Apartments, Elme Conyers, Elme Marietta, Elme Sandy Springs, and Watergate 600 (the "Remaining Company Properties" and "Loan Collateral"). In addition, the Secured Term Loan was secured by pledges of all equity interests in the Borrowers, along with all other personal property of the Borrowers.

Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, which comprise approximately 800 residential apartment homes – for gross proceeds of approximately $112.75 million, a portion of which was used to partially repay the Secured Term Loan, and those properties were released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan. As of February 27, 2026, we have also entered into purchase and sale agreements, which are no longer subject to ongoing inspection periods, pursuant to which we expect to sell three of the Remaining Company Properties: Elme Watkins Mill, Elme Conyers and Watergate 600, to various buyers for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $128.78 million, which are expected to close in the first or second quarter of 2026, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including, in the case of Elme Watkins Mill, regulatory requirements related to the sale of multifamily properties in Montgomery County, Maryland. The marketing and sale process with respect to the other five Remaining Company Properties remains ongoing. In January 2026, we began a formal marketing process for Riverside Apartments and continued the marketing and sale process with respect to Kenmore, 3801 Connecticut, Elme Bethesda and Elme Germantown. The Company currently expects to finalize the sale of Elme Germantown in the second quarter of 2026 and the sale of Elme Bethesda by mid-year 2026. The Company also expects to continue the marketing process for the DC and Virginia properties with a goal to have these three properties under contract by mid-May. The Company continues to target completion of the sale of all Remaining Company Properties by mid-year 2026.

In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, our objectives are to pursue an orderly liquidation of our Company by selling or otherwise disposing of our remaining assets, paying or otherwise settling our debts and our known liabilities, providing for the payment of unknown or contingent liabilities, when appropriate and in the Board's discretion, distributing the net proceeds from liquidation to our shareholders, subject to the creation of necessary reserves for, and the payment or other satisfaction of, the Company's expenses and other liabilities and obligations, and winding up our operations and dissolving our

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Company. We do not intend to continue or to engage in the conduct of a trade or business, except as necessary for the orderly liquidation of our assets.

Elme is not required to obtain any further shareholder approval with respect to its liquidation and dissolution. Under the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Board may modify, amend or terminate the Plan of Sale and Liquidation (and authorize us to seek to dispose of all our assets through a merger, business combination or similar transaction) without approval by the shareholders if it determines that such action would be advisable and in the best interests of Elme. Elme has no present plans or intentions to modify, amend or abandon the Plan of Sale and Liquidation.

As a result of the approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation by our shareholders in October 2025, we adopted the liquidation basis of accounting on November 1, 2025, as described further in note 3 to the consolidated financial statements.

**Initial Liquidating Distribution**

In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, following completion of the Portfolio Sale Transaction in November 2025, the Board approved a special liquidating distribution of $14.67 per share to our shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 22, 2025. The special liquidating distribution was paid on January 7, 2026.

*U.S. Federal Income Taxes*

We believe that we qualify as a REIT under Sections 856-860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). We expect to remain qualified as a REIT until the end of our final REIT tax year in accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which we anticipate, but cannot be certain, will occur after most of the remaining assets have been sold. To maintain our status as a REIT, we are, among other things, required to distribute 90% of our REIT taxable income (which is generally our ordinary taxable income, with certain modifications), excluding any net capital gains and any deductions for dividends paid to our shareholders on an annual basis.

Generally, and subject to our ongoing qualification as a REIT, no provisions for income taxes are necessary except for taxes on undistributed taxable income and taxes on the income generated by our taxable REIT subsidiary ("TRS"). Our TRS is subject to corporate federal and state income tax on its taxable income at regular statutory rates. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023 our TRS had a deferred tax asset of $1.4 million that was fully reserved.

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| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Ordinary income/Section 199A dividends | 20% | 11% | 33% |
| Non-dividend distributions | 80% | 79% | 67% |
| Qualified dividends | —% | —% | —% |
| Unrecaptured Section 1250 gain | —% | —% | —% |
| Capital gain | —% | 10% | —% |

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**<u>NOTE 2: PLAN OF SALE AND LIQUIDATION</u>**

In accordance with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, our objectives are to pursue an orderly liquidation of our Company by selling or otherwise disposing of our remaining assets, paying or otherwise settling our debts and our known liabilities, providing for the payment of unknown or contingent liabilities, when appropriate and in the Board's discretion, distributing the net proceeds from liquidation to our shareholders, subject to the creation of necessary reserves for, and the payment or other satisfaction of, the Company's expenses and other liabilities and obligations, and winding up our operations and dissolving our Company. In connection with the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Company paid a special liquidating distribution on January 7, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 22, 2025.

The Plan of Sale and Liquidation enables the Company to sell any and all of its assets without further approval of its shareholders and provides that the amounts and timing of liquidating distributions will be determined by the Board in its discretion. Pursuant to applicable REIT rules, liquidating distributions the Company pays pursuant to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation will qualify for the dividends paid deduction, provided that they are paid within 24 months of the October 30, 2025 approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation by the Company's shareholders. However, if the Company cannot sell its

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properties and pay its debts within such time period, or if the Board determines that it is otherwise advisable to do so, the Company may transfer and assign its remaining assets to a liquidating trust or other liquidating entity. Upon such transfer and assignment, the Company's shareholders would receive beneficial interests in the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity.

The liquidating trust or other liquidating entity would pay or provide for all of the Company's liabilities and distribute any remaining net proceeds from liquidation to the holders of beneficial interests in the liquidating trust or other liquidating entity. If the Company is not able to sell its properties and pay its debt within the 24-month period and the remaining assets are not transferred to a liquidating trust or other liquidating entity, any distributions made during the 24 months may not qualify for the dividends paid deduction and may increase the Company's tax liability.

No assurance can be given that any liquidating distributions the Company pays to its shareholders will equal or exceed the estimate of net assets in liquidation presented on the Consolidated Statement of Net Assets as of December 31, 2025. For a discussion of risks related to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, see Item 1A—Risk Factors.

The Company expects to comply with the requirements necessary to continue to qualify as a REIT through the completion of the liquidation process, or until such time as the Company terminates its status as a REIT and/or any remaining assets are transferred into a liquidating trust or other liquidating entity. The Board shall use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to cause the Company to maintain its REIT status; provided, however, that the Board may elect to terminate the Company's status as a REIT if it determines that such termination would be in the best interest of the shareholders.

**<u>NOTE 3: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION</u>**

**Recent Accounting Pronouncements**

In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses ("DISE"), which will require additional disclosure of the nature of expenses included in the income statement in response to longstanding requests from investors for more information about an entity's expenses. The new standard requires disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement as well as disclosures about selling expenses. The new standard will be effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. The requirements will be applied prospectively with the option for retrospective application. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this accounting standard update on our consolidated financial statements.

**Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation**

The accompanying audited consolidated financial statements include the consolidated accounts of Elme Communities and our subsidiaries and entities in which Elme Communities has a controlling financial interest. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. As a result of the change to the liquidation basis of accounting, the Company no longer presents a consolidated balance sheet, a consolidated statement of operations, a consolidated statement of equity or a consolidated statement of cash flows subsequent to October 31, 2025. These statements are only presented for prior year periods to the extent required.

We have prepared the accompanying audited consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP, as contained within the FASB's ASC, including Subtopic 205-30, "Liquidation Basis of Accounting," as indicated, and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Pursuant to the Company's shareholders' approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation on October 30, 2025, the Company adopted the liquidation basis of accounting as of and for the periods subsequent to November 1, 2025 (as the approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation by the Company's shareholders became imminent in late October 2025 based on the results of the Company's solicitation of proxies from its shareholders for their approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation). Accordingly, on November 1, 2025, assets were adjusted to their estimated net realizable value, also referred to as liquidation value, which represents the estimated amount of cash or other consideration that the Company expected to realize through the disposal of assets. The liquidation values of the Company's real estate properties are presented on a net realizable value basis at December 31, 2025. Liabilities are carried at their contractual amounts due or estimated settlement amounts.

The Company accrues costs and revenues that it expects to incur and earn as it carries out its liquidation activities through the end of the projected liquidation period to the extent it has a reasonable basis for estimation. Estimated costs expected to be incurred through the end of the liquidation period included budgeted property expenses and corporate overhead, costs to dispose of its real estate property, costs associated with satisfying known and contingent liabilities, including repayment of the Secured

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Term Loan, and other costs associated with the winding down and dissolution of the Company. These amounts are classified as a liability for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation on the consolidated statement of net assets. Actual costs and income may differ from amounts reflected in the financial statements because of the inherent uncertainty in estimating future events. These differences may be material. See Note 2, "Plan of Sale and Liquidation" and Note 4, "Liabilities for Estimated Costs in Excess of Estimated Receipts During Liquidation" for further discussion. Revenues are based on in place leases and forecasted operations at properties prior to their sale.

Actual costs incurred but unpaid prior to the Company's adoption of the liquidation basis of accounting on November 1, 2025, are included in accounts payable and accrued expenses at December 31, 2025 on the consolidated statement of net assets. All our liabilities under either the going concern basis of accounting or the liquidation basis of accounting are derecognized when we pay the obligation or when we are legally released from being the primary obligor under the liability.

Net assets in liquidation at December 31, 2025 represents the remaining estimated liquidation value available to shareholders upon liquidation. Due to the uncertainty in the estimated cash flows from operations and the time required to complete the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, actual liquidation costs and sale proceeds may differ materially from the amounts estimated.

All financial results and disclosure through October 31, 2025, prior to the adoption of the liquidation basis of accounting, are presented on a going concern basis. As a result, the balance sheet as of December 31, 2024, the statements of operations, the statements of comprehensive income, the statements of equity and the statements of cash flow for the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are presented using the going concern basis of accounting.

**Use of Estimates in the Financial Statements**

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts in these financial statements and related notes. The Company is required to estimate all costs and revenue it expects to incur and earn through the end of liquidation. All of the estimates and evaluations are susceptible to change and actual results could differ from these estimates.

**Revenue Recognition**

*Liquidation Basis of Accounting*

The Company accrues all income that it expects to earn through the completion of its liquidation to the extent it has a reasonable basis for estimation. Rental and other revenue are estimated based on projected multifamily operations and contractual in-place leases at Watergate 600 through the anticipated disposition date of the properties as of December 31, 2025. These amounts are presented net of estimated expenses and other liquidation costs and are classified in liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation on the consolidated statement of net assets.

*Going Concern Basis*

We primarily lease residential properties under operating leases with terms of generally one year or less. Rental revenues are recognized in accordance with ASC Topic 842, *Leases*, using a method that represents straight-line basis over the term of the leases. In circumstances where a lease concession is provided to the resident, primarily in lease-up, we recognize a reduction of rental revenues on a straight-line basis.

We also generate other property-related revenue associated with the leasing of apartment homes, including parking income, move-in charges, pet rent and other miscellaneous revenue. Similar to rental income, such revenues are recorded when due from residents and recognized monthly as they are earned.

We recognize cost reimbursement income at our residential properties from pass-through expenses on an accrual basis over the periods in which the expenses were incurred. Pass-through expenses are primarily comprised of utility costs which are reimbursed by residents in accordance with specific allowable costs per resident lease agreements.

We recognize gains on sales of real estate when we have executed a contract for sale of the asset, transferred controlling financial interest in the asset to the buyer and determined that it is probable that we will collect substantially all of the consideration for the asset. Our real estate sale transactions typically meet these criteria at closing.

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**Rents and Other Receivables**

*Liquidation Basis of Accounting*

Rents and other receivables are adjusted to their net realizable value. The Company evaluates the collectability of lease receivables and any changes in collectability are reflected as a change to the Company's net assets in liquidation.

*Going Concern Basis*

Lease related receivables, which include contractual amounts accrued and unpaid from residents and accrued straight-line rents receivable, are reduced for credit losses. Such amounts are recognized as a reduction to real estate rental revenues. We evaluate the collectability of lease receivables on a lease-by-lease basis. We recognize the credit loss on lease related receivables when, in the opinion of management, collection of substantially all lease payments is not probable. When collectability is determined not probable, any lease income recognized subsequent to recognizing the credit loss is limited to the lesser of the lease income reflected on a straight-line basis or cash collected.

**Debt Issuance Costs**

*Liquidation Basis of Accounting*

We record debt issuance costs at their gross amount expected to be incurred as a liability.

*Going Concern Basis*

We amortize external debt issuance costs using the effective interest rate method or the straight-line method, which approximates the effective interest rate method over the estimated life of the related debt. We record debt issuance costs related to notes, net of amortization, on our consolidated balance sheets as an offset to their related debt. We record debt issuance costs related to revolving lines of credit on our consolidated balance sheets with Prepaid expenses and other assets, regardless of whether a balance on the line of credit is outstanding. We record the amortization of all debt issuance costs as interest expense.

**Real Estate and Depreciation**

*Liquidation Basis of Accounting*

The Company's real estate was adjusted to its estimated net realizable value, or liquidation value, to reflect the change to the liquidation basis of accounting. The liquidation value represents the estimated amount of cash or other consideration that the Company expects to realize through the disposal of its assets. The liquidation value of the Company's real estate is presented on an undiscounted basis and real estate is no longer depreciated. Subsequent to November 1, 2025, all changes in the estimated liquidation value of the real estate are reflected as a change to the Company's net assets in liquidation. Costs to sell the property are included in Liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation as of December 31, 2025.

*Going Concern Basis*

We depreciate buildings on a straight-line basis over an estimated useful life of 26 to 40 years. We capitalize all capital improvements associated with replacements, improvements or major repairs to real property that extend its useful life and depreciate them using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives ranging from 3 to 40 years. We also capitalize costs incurred in connection with our development projects, including interest incurred on borrowing obligations and other internal costs during periods in which qualifying expenditures have been made and activities necessary to get the development projects ready for their intended use are in progress. Capitalization of these costs begins when the activities and related expenditures commence and ceases when the project is substantially complete and ready for its intended use, at which time the project is placed into service and depreciation commences.

Real estate depreciation expense was $74.9 million, $89.7 million and $82.7 million during the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

We charge maintenance and repair costs that do not extend an asset's useful life to expense as incurred.

We recognize impairment losses on long-lived assets used in operations, development assets or land held for future development if indicators of impairment are present and the net undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those

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assets are less than the assets' carrying amount. Estimates of undiscounted cash flows are based on forward-looking assumptions, including annual and residual cash flows and our estimated holding period for each property. Such assumptions involve a high degree of judgment and could be affected by future economic and market conditions. When determining if a property has indicators of impairment, we evaluate the property's occupancy, our expected holding period for the property, strategic decisions regarding the property's future operations or development and other market factors. If such carrying amount is in excess of the estimated undiscounted cash flows from the operation and disposal of the property, we would recognize an impairment loss equivalent to an amount required to adjust the carrying amount to its estimated fair value, calculated in accordance with current GAAP fair value provisions. Assets held for sale are recorded at the lower of cost or fair value less costs to sell.

**Asset Acquisitions**

*Going Concern Basis*

The properties we acquire typically are not businesses as defined by ASC 805 ("Topic 805") - Clarifying the Definition of a Business. Per this definition, a set of transferred assets and activities is not a business when substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or group of similar identifiable assets. We therefore account for such acquisitions as asset acquisitions. Acquisition costs are capitalized and identifiable assets (including physical assets and in-place leases), liabilities assumed and any noncontrolling interests are measured by allocating the cost of the acquisition on a relative fair value basis.

We determine the fair values of acquired buildings on an "as-if-vacant" basis considering a variety of factors, including the replacement cost of the property, estimated rental and absorption rates, estimated future cash flows and valuation assumptions consistent with current market conditions. We determine the fair value of land acquired based on comparisons to similar properties that have been recently marketed for sale or sold.

The fair value of in-place leases are based upon our evaluation of the specific characteristics of the leases. Factors considered in the fair value analysis include the estimated cost to replace the leases, including foregone rent and expense reimbursements during the hypothetical expected lease-up periods (referred to as "absorption cost"), consideration of current market conditions and costs to execute similar leases. We classify leasing absorption costs as other assets and amortize absorption costs as amortization expense on a straight-line basis over the remaining life of the underlying leases.

**Software Developed for Internal Use**

*Liquidation Basis of Accounting*

The Company's software developed for internal use was written-off under the assumption that no cash or consideration is expected to be collected for these assets.

*Going Concern Basis*

The costs of software developed for internal use that qualify for capitalization are included with Prepaid expenses and other assets on our consolidated balance sheets. These capitalized costs include external direct costs utilized in developing or obtaining the applications and expenses for employees who are directly associated with the development of the applications. Capitalization of such costs begins when the preliminary project stage is complete and continues until the project is substantially complete and is ready for its intended purpose. Completed projects are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives.

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**Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations**

*Going Concern Basis*

We classify properties as held for sale when they meet the necessary criteria, which include: (a) senior management commits to a plan to sell the assets; (b) the assets are available for immediate sale in their present condition subject only to terms that are usual and customary for sales of such assets; (c) an active program to locate a buyer and other actions required to complete the plan to sell the assets has been initiated; (d) the sale of the assets is probable and transfer of the assets is expected to qualify for recognition as a completed sale within one year; (e) the assets are being actively marketed for sale at a price that is reasonable in relation to its current fair value; and (f) actions required to complete the plan indicate that it is unlikely that significant changes to the plan will be made or that the plan will be withdrawn. Depreciation on these properties is discontinued at the time they are classified as held for sale, but operating revenues, operating expenses and interest expense continue to be recognized until the date of sale.

Revenues and expenses of properties that are either sold or classified as held for sale are presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented in the consolidated statements of operations if the dispositions represent a strategic shift that has (or will have) a major effect on our operations and financial results. Interest on debt that can be identified as specifically attributed to these properties is included in discontinued operations. If the dispositions do not represent a strategic shift that has (or will have) a major effect on our operations and financial results, then the revenues and expenses of the properties that are classified as sold or held for sale are presented as continuing operations in the consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented.

**Segments**

We evaluate performance based upon net operating income from the combined properties in each segment. Our reportable operating segment is a consolidation of similar properties. GAAP requires that segment disclosures present the measure(s) used by the chief operating decision maker for purposes of assessing segments' performance. Net operating income is a key measurement of our segment profit and loss and real estate expenses are a key significant expense. Net operating income is defined as segment real estate rental revenue less segment real estate expenses.

**Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash**

Cash and cash equivalents include cash and commercial paper with original maturities of 90 days or less. We maintain cash deposits with financial institutions that at times exceed applicable insurance limits. We reduce this risk by maintaining such deposits with high quality financial institutions that management believes are credit-worthy.

Restricted cash includes funds escrowed for tenant security deposits.

**Earnings Per Common Share**

*Going Concern Basis*

We determine "Basic earnings per share" using the two-class method as our unvested restricted share awards and units have non-forfeitable rights to dividends and are therefore considered participating securities. We compute basic earnings per share by dividing net income less the allocation of undistributed earnings to unvested restricted share awards and units by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period.

We also determine "Diluted earnings per share" under the two-class method with respect to the unvested restricted share awards. We further evaluate any other potentially dilutive securities at the end of the period and adjust the basic earnings per share calculation for the impact of those securities that are dilutive. Our dilutive earnings per share calculation includes the dilutive impact of operating partnership units under the if-converted method and our share-based awards with performance conditions prior to the grant date and all market condition awards under the contingently issuable method.

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**Share-Based Compensation**

*Going Concern Basis*

We maintained equity based compensation plans for trustees, officers and employees. The closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction constituted a change of control under such equity plans and, as a result, the vesting of outstanding unvested shares awards was accelerated.

We recognize compensation expense for service-based share awards ratably over the period from the service inception date through the vesting period based on the fair market value of the shares on the date of grant. We account for forfeitures as they occur. If an award's service inception date precedes the grant date, we initially measure compensation expense for awards with performance conditions at fair value at the service inception date based on probability of payout, and we remeasure compensation expense at subsequent reporting dates until all of the award's key terms and conditions are known and the grant date is established. We amortize awards with performance conditions using the graded expense method. We measure compensation expense for awards with market conditions based on the grant date fair value, as determined using a Monte Carlo simulation, and we amortize the expense ratably over the requisite service period, regardless of whether the market conditions are achieved and the awards ultimately vest. Compensation expense for the trustee grants, which fully vest immediately, is fully recognized upon issuance based upon the fair market value of the shares on the date of grant.

**Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes**

We can recognize a tax benefit only if it is "more likely than not" that a particular tax position will be sustained upon examination or audit. To the extent that the "more likely than not" standard has been satisfied, the benefit associated with a tax position is measured as the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being recognized upon settlement. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, we did not have any unrecognized tax benefits. We do not believe that there will be any material changes to our uncertain tax positions over the next twelve months.

We are subject to federal income tax as well as income tax of the states of Maryland, Virginia and Georgia, and the District of Columbia. However, as a REIT, we generally are not subject to income tax on our taxable income to the extent it is distributed as dividends to our shareholders.

Tax returns filed for 2022 through 2024 tax years are subject to examination by taxing authorities. We classify interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions, if any, in our financial statements as a component of general and administrative expenses.

**Derivatives**

We have borrowed funds at a combination of fixed and variable rates. Borrowings under our prior revolving credit facility and term loans and under our current Secured Term Loan bear interest at variable rates. Our interest rate risk management objectives are to minimize interest rate fluctuation on long-term indebtedness and limit the impact of interest rate changes on earnings and cash flows. To achieve these objectives, from time to time, we may enter into interest rate hedge contracts such as collars, swaps, caps and treasury lock agreements in order to mitigate our interest rate risk with respect to various debt instruments. We generally do not hold or issue these derivative contracts for trading or speculative purposes.

The interest rate swaps we enter into are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. We assess the effectiveness of our cash flow hedges both at inception and on an ongoing basis. Under the liquidation basis, the effective portion of changes in fair value of the interest rate swaps associated with our cash flow hedges is recorded in changes in estimated cash flow during liquidation on the consolidated statement of net assets. Under the going concern basis, the effective portion of changes in fair value of the interest rate swaps associated with our cash flow hedges is recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) on the consolidated balance sheet. Our cash flow hedges become ineffective if critical terms of the hedging instrument and the debt instrument, such as notional amounts, settlement dates, reset dates, calculation period and SOFR do not perfectly match. In addition, we evaluate the default risk of the counterparty by monitoring its creditworthiness. When ineffectiveness of a cash flow hedge exists, the ineffective portion of changes in fair value of the interest rate swaps associated with our cash flow hedges is recognized in liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation on the consolidated statement of net assets (liquidation basis) or in earnings on the consolidated statement of operations (going concern basis) in the period affected.

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**<u>NOTE 4: LIABILITIES FOR ESTIMATED COSTS IN EXCESS OF ESTIMATED RECEIPTS DURING LIQUIDATION</u>**

The liquidation basis of accounting requires the Company to estimate net cash flows from operations and to accrue all costs associated with implementing and completing the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. As of December 31, 2025, the Company estimated that it will have costs in excess of estimated receipts during the liquidation process. These amounts can vary significantly due to, among other things, the timing and estimates for executing and renewing leases, estimates of tenant improvement costs and capital expenditures, the timing and value of property sales, estimates of direct costs incurred to complete the sales, the timing and estimated amounts associated with discharging known and contingent liabilities and the estimated costs associated with the winding up of operations. These costs are estimated and are anticipated to be paid out over the liquidation period which is estimated to be complete 24 months from October 30, 2025, the date on which the Company received shareholder approval of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation; however, no assurances can be provided that this date will be met.

Upon transition to the liquidation basis of accounting on November 1, 2025, the Company accrued the following revenues and expenses expected to be incurred during liquidation (amounts in thousands):

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| | **As of November 1, 2025** |
| Real estate rental revenue | $59552 |
| Interest income | 6646 |
| Property management | (18825) |
| General and administrative expenses | (17395) |
| Capital expenditures | (5673) |
| Interest expense | (13741) |
| Liquidation transaction costs | (94065) |
| Debt repayment and origination costs, net | (19996) |
| Liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation | $(103497) |

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The change in the liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation as of December 31, 2025 is as follows (in thousands):

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| | **As of November 1, 2025** | **Cash Payments (Receipts)** | **Remeasurements of Assets and Liabilities** | **As of December 31, 2025** |
| Assets |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Estimated net inflows from income producing property | $40727 | $(19374) | $(3262) | $18091 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Estimated net inflows from interest income | 6646 | (4772) |  | 1874 |
|  | 47373 | (24146) | (3262) | 19965 |
| Liabilities |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Liquidation transaction costs<sup>(1)</sup> | (94065) | 58231 | 2388 | (33446) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General and administrative expenses | (17395) | 1468 | (93) | (16020) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Capital expenditures | (5673) | 2808 | (20) | (2885) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest expense | (13741) | 2960 | 396 | (10385) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Debt repayment and origination costs, net | (19996) | 19020 | 148 | (828) |
|  | (150870) | 84487 | 2819 | (63564) |
| Liabilities for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation | $(103497) | $60341 | $(443) | $(43599) |

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<sup>(1)</sup> Liquidation transaction costs primarily include disposal costs and severance expenses.

**<u>NOTE 5: NET ASSETS IN LIQUIDATION</u>**

The increase from total equity under the going concern basis of accounting as of October 31, 2025 to net assets in liquidation under the liquidation basis of accounting as of November 1, 2025 is primarily due to the increase in estimated net realizable value of the income producing property, partially offset by an increase in the liability for estimated costs in excess of estimated receipts during liquidation (see note 4) and the write-off of assets and liabilities.

The net assets in liquidation as of December 31, 2025 were $238.9 million. Net assets in liquidation include projections of costs and expenses to be incurred during the estimated period required to complete the Plan of Sale and Liquidation. There is inherent uncertainty with these estimates and projections, and they could change materially based on the timing of the disposition and value received in the sale of the Company's remaining real estate properties, the performance of the Company's remaining assets and any changes in the underlying assumptions of the projected cash flows from such properties. Cumulative liquidating distributions paid to shareholders will include the $14.67 per share distribution paid on January 7, 2026 to our shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 22, 2025 plus any future distribution of our net assets in liquidation.

**<u>NOTE 6: REAL ESTATE</u>**

As of December 31, 2025 the Company's portfolio was composed of nine multifamily properties and one office property with a liquidation value of real estate of $776.4 million.

*Acquisitions*

There were no acquisitions during 2025 or 2024. We acquired one property during the year ended December 31, 2023 as follows:

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| **Acquisition Date** | **Property** | **Type** | **# of Homes (unaudited)** | **Ending Occupancy** | **Contract<br>Purchase Price<br>(in thousands)** |
| September 29, 2023 | Elme Druid Hills | Residential | 500 | 96.0% | $108000 |

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The results of operations from acquired operating properties are included in the consolidated statements of operations as of their acquisition dates.

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The revenue and earnings of our acquisition during its year of acquisition for the year ended December 31, 2023 is as follows (in thousands):

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| | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2023** |
| Real estate rental revenue | $2549 |
| Net loss | (1511) |

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As discussed in note 3, we record the acquired physical assets (land and building) and in-place leases (absorption costs) and any other assumed liabilities by allocating the total cost of the acquisitions on a relative fair value basis.

We recorded the total cost of the above acquisition as follows (in thousands):

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| | **2023** |
| Land | $25249 |
| Building | 79281 |
| Absorption costs | 3660 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Total acquisition cost and carrying amounts recorded | $108190 |

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The difference in the total acquisition cost of $108.2 million for the 2023 acquisition and the cash paid for the 2023 acquisition per the consolidated statements of cash flows of $107.6 million is due to net credits received at settlement totaling $0.6 million.

*Fair Value of In-place Leases*

Balances, net of accumulated depreciation or amortization, as appropriate, of the components of the fair value of in-place leases at December 31, 2024 were as follows (in thousands):

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| | **December 31,** | **December 31,** | **December 31,** |
| | **2024** | **2024** | **2024** |
| | **Gross Carrying Value** | **Accumulated Amortization** | **Net** |
| Tenant origination costs | $2230 | $804 | $1426 |
| Leasing commissions/absorption costs | 67345 | 63809 | 3536 |
| Net lease intangible liabilities | 13055 | 11208 | 1847 |

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Amortization of these combined components during the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024, was as follows (in thousands):

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Depreciation and amortization expense | $1225 | $3894 | $4530 |
| Real estate rental revenue increase, net | (682) | (766) | (806) |
|  | $543 | $3128 | $3724 |

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*Properties Sold and Held for Sale*

Under the going concern basis, when we classify properties as held for sale, we discontinue the recording of depreciation expense and estimate their fair value less costs to sell. If we determine that the carrying value for these properties exceed their estimated fair value less costs to sell, we record a loss on asset impairment.

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We sold our interests in the following properties in the Portfolio Sale Transaction, which closed on November 12, 2025. We sold no properties in 2024 or 2023.

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| **Property** | **Number of Units (unaudited)** |
| Cascade at Landmark | 277 |
| Clayborne | 74 |
| Elme Alexandria | 532 |
| Bennett Park | 224 |
| Park Adams | 200 |
| The Maxwell | 163 |
| The Paramount | 135 |
| The Wellington | 710 |
| Trove | 401 |
| Roosevelt Towers | 191 |
| Elme Dulles | 328 |
| Elme Herndon | 283 |
| Elme Leesburg | 134 |
| Elme Manassas | 408 |
| The Ashby at McLean | 268 |
| Yale West | 216 |
| Elme Druid Hills | 500 |
| Elme Cumberland | 270 |
| Elme Eagles Landing | 490 |
|  | **5804** |

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We have fully transferred control of the assets associated with these disposed properties and do not have continuing involvement in the operations of these properties.

*Real Estate Impairment*

During the ten months-ended October 31, 2025, the Company recognized an aggregate impairment charge of $111.7 million related to several properties not included as part of the Portfolio Sale Transaction. The estimated cash flows for those certain properties were less than their respective carrying values primarily due to a revision of their estimated holding periods. We recognized an impairment charge of $81.4 million and $30.3 million, respectively, within our Residential segment and Other, defined in note 16 and primarily consisting of Watergate 600.

For all impairment charges recognized, the fair value of the assets fell into Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy due to the reliance on significant unobservable inputs (see note 11). In accordance with ASC 820, we estimated the Watergate 600 fair value using a discounted cash flow model which required certain significant assumptions, including a discounted cash flow term of 5 years, an average economic occupancy of 66.1%, and a terminal capitalization rate of 10.5%. We estimated the residential properties fair value using a model which required certain significant assumptions, including cash flow projections over a term of 5 years, a range of market rent per square foot of $114 to $159, and a range of in-place capitalization rates ranging from 4.75% to 5.77% for each property.

No other properties, including assets held for development, had any recognized impairment charges during the ten months ended October 31, 2025. Subsequent to November 1, 2025, all changes in the estimated liquidation value of the real estate are reflected as a change to the Company's net assets in liquidation.

**<u>NOTE 7: SECURED TERM LOAN PAYABLE</u>**

On November 12, 2025, the Borrowers and the Lender entered into that certain Loan Agreement pursuant to which the Lender has made the Secured Term Loan to the Borrowers. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Secured Term Loan was secured by

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first priority mortgages and security interests on all ten properties that remained under the Company following the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction (which are directly owned by the Borrowers) and included: Riverside Apartments, Elme Bethesda, Elme Germantown, Elme Watkins Mill, 3801 Connecticut Avenue, Kenmore Apartments, Elme Conyers, Elme Marietta, Elme Sandy Springs, and Watergate 600. In addition, the Secured Term Loan was secured by pledges of all equity interests in the Borrowers, along with all other personal property of the Borrowers. The Company has provided a customary non-recourse carveout guaranty. The Loan Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants with which Borrowers must comply, including maintenance of insurance, single-purpose bankruptcy, remote entity requirements, reporting requirements and restrictions on property and equity transfers and the granting of liens. Customary events of default are included in the Loan Agreement, including nonpayment of principal and other amounts when due, nonperformance of covenants, breach of representations and warranties, certain bankruptcy or insolvency events and changes in control, the occurrence of which give Lender the right to accelerate repayment of the Secured Term Loan.

The Secured Term Loan matures on November 9, 2026, subject to a one-year Borrowers' extension option, which is subject to satisfaction of certain specified conditions, including the payment of an extension fee equal to 0.25% of the then outstanding principal amount of the Secured Term Loan and the requirement that no more than $312 million of the Secured Term Loan may be outstanding on the first day of the extended term. The Secured Term Loan bears interest at a per annum rate equal to the one-month term SOFR (subject to a term SOFR floor of 3.00%) plus the spread. The spread is 2.25% and will increase in June 2026 to 2.75% and further increase to 4.00% in June 2027 (if extended). The Company has purchased an interest rate cap that effectively caps term SOFR at 5.00% per annum. On February 9, 2026, a duration fee equal to 0.20% of the then outstanding principal amount of the Secured Term Loan was paid to the Lender.

The Secured Term Loan requires that the Company enter into cash management arrangements set forth in the certain cash management agreements pursuant to which the Company will maintain a restricted account into which all revenue from the Loan Collateral will be deposited during the term of the Secured Term Loan. Amounts on deposit in the restricted account will be transferred: weekly to an account under the sole control of the lender, and provided an event of default is not continuing under the Secured Term Loan, funds deposited in the account controlled by the lender will be applied to pay items such as real estate taxes, insurance premiums, debt service obligations, the lender required reserves for budgeted capital expenditures and operating expenses, with excess funds deposited available to pay general and administrative expenses subject to certain limitations.

Excess cash remaining after the sale of Loan Collateral and the payment of a release price paid to the lender to release the lien of its mortgages shall be deposited with the Lender as additional cash collateral unless certain conditions, including a minimum balance of $10 million in the shortfall account, certain debt yield requirements, and no events of default, are met, in which case such excess cash may be disbursed to the Company for distribution. The cash management agreement contains provisions for the cure of certain of these events. The cash management arrangements could limit or restrict the Company from paying dividends or other distributions during the term of the Secured Term Loan.

The Secured Term Loan is intended to be repaid with the net proceeds from one or more sales of the properties securing the Secured Term Loan, and such properties shall be released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan as they are sold, upon satisfaction of certain conditions and payment of a minimum release price applied to the prepayment of the Secured Term Loan. An exit fee equal to 0.50% of the principal amount of the Secured Term Loan repaid is payable with any prepayment or repayment of the Secured Term Loan, including at maturity, provided, that no exit fee is payable (i) if the Secured Term Loan is refinanced by the lender or its affiliates or (ii) if the Secured Term Loan is repaid with the proceeds of an arm's length sale of one or more of the properties securing the Secured Term Loan.

As of December 31, 2025, the interest rate on the Secured Term Loan is based on the one-month term SOFR plus 2.25% applicable margin and the one-month term SOFR is 3.79%.

Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we completed the sale of two of the Remaining Company Properties, Elme Sandy Springs and Elme Marietta, for gross proceeds of approximately $112.75 million, a portion of which was used to partially repay the Secured Term Loan, and those properties were released from the mortgages securing the Secured Term Loan.

**<u>NOTE 8: UNSECURED LINES OF CREDIT PAYABLE</u>**

During 2024, we entered into a third amended and restated credit agreement (the "Amended Credit Agreement") which provides for aggregate revolving loan commitments of $500.0 million (the "Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility") with an accordion feature that allows us to increase the aggregate revolving loan commitments or add term loans of up to $1.0 billion, subject to the lenders' agreement to provide additional revolving commitments or term loans. The Amended and

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Restated Revolving Credit Facility had a four-year term ending in July 2028, with two six-month extension options. Borrowings under the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility bore interest, at our option, at a rate of either (a)(i) daily SOFR plus 0.10% (the "Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR") or (ii) term SOFR plus 0.10%, plus, in each case, a margin ranging from 0.70% to 1.40% (depending on our credit rating) or (b) the base rate plus a margin ranging from 0.00% to 0.40% (based upon our credit rating). The base rate was the highest of the administrative agent's prime rate, the federal funds rate plus 0.50% and Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR plus 1.0%. In addition, the Amended Credit Agreement required the payment of a facility fee equal to 0.10% to 0.30% (depending on our credit rating) on the $500.0 million committed capacity in respect of the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility, without regard to usage. The initial interest rate is based on Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR plus a margin of 0.85% and the initial facility fee equals 0.20%. Interest only payments were due and payable generally on a monthly basis.

On November 12, 2025, in connection with the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction, the Company caused the repayment in full of all indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations under, and terminated the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility.

For the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024, we recognized interest expense (excluding facility fees) and facility fees as follows (in thousands):

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Interest expense (excluding facility fees) | $8413 | $10509 | $4419 |
| Facility fees | 846 | 1229 | 1454 |

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Information related to revolving credit facilities for the two years ended December 31, 2024 as follows (in thousands, except percentage amounts):

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| | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2024** | **2023** |
| Total revolving credit facilities at December 31 | $500000 | $700000 |
| Borrowings outstanding at December 31 | 176000 | 157000 |
| Weighted average daily borrowings during the year | 169344 | 70578 |
| Maximum daily borrowings during the year | 187000 | 164000 |
| Weighted average interest rate during the year | 6.10% | 6.17% |
| Weighted average interest rate on borrowings outstanding at December 31 | 5.26% | 6.26% |

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**<u>NOTE 9: NOTES PAYABLE</u>**

Our unsecured notes and term loans outstanding as of December 31, 2024 are as follows (in thousands):

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| |<br>**Coupon/Stated Rate** | **Effective**<br>**Rate** <sup>(1)</sup> | **December 31,**<br>**2024** | **Payoff Date/**<br>**Maturity Date** <sup>(2)</sup> |
| 2023 Term Loan | 1 Month SOFR + 95 basis points | 4.73% | $125000 | 1/10/2026 |
| 30-Year Unsecured Notes | 7.25% | 7.36% | 50000 | 2/25/2028 |
| Green Bonds | 3.44% | 4.09% | 350000 | 12/29/2030 |
| Total principal |  |  | 525000 |  |
| Premiums and discounts, net | Premiums and discounts, net |  | (71) |  |
| Deferred issuance costs, net | Deferred issuance costs, net |  | (1976) |  |
| Total | Total |  | $522953 |  |

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<sup>(1) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</sup>For fixed rate notes, the effective rate represents the yield on issuance date, including the effects of discounts on the notes. For variable rate notes, the effective rate represents the rate as fixed by interest rate derivatives (see note 10).

<sup>(2)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No principal amounts are due prior to maturity. On November 12, 2025, in connection with the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction, the Company caused the repayment in full of all indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations under, and terminated, each of the 2023 Term Loan and the Green Bonds. The Company also provided notice to the holders of 30-year unsecured notes (the "Senior Notes") of its intention to redeem on December 12, 2025 all of the outstanding $50 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes. In connection with the redemption of the Senior Notes, on November 12, 2025, the Company caused funds sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Senior Notes and all other sums payable

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by the Company under the applicable indenture to be irrevocably deposited with the trustee and, accordingly, the indenture with respect to the Senior Notes was satisfied and discharged, except with respect to those obligations under the indenture that expressly survive satisfaction and discharge. The Senior Notes were redeemed on December 12, 2025.

During 2023, we executed a $125.0 million unsecured term loan ("2023 Term Loan") with an interest rate of SOFR (subject to a credit spread adjustment of 10 basis points) plus a margin of 95 basis points (subject to adjustment depending on Elme Communities' credit rating). The 2023 Term Loan had a two-year term ending in January 2025, with two one year extension options. We used the proceeds to prepay the remaining $100.0 million portion of an existing $250.0 million unsecured term loan in full and a portion of our borrowings under our Revolving Credit Facility.

During 2024, we entered into a first amendment of the 2023 Term Loan (the "Term Loan Amendment"). The Term Loan Amendment implements various covenant and technical amendments to make the 2023 Term Loan consistent with corresponding provisions in the Amended Credit Agreement. The Term Loan Amendment does not change the maturity or any of the pricing terms of the term loan outstanding under the 2023 Term Loan.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, we exercised one of two one-year extension options on the 2023 Term Loan to extend the maturity of the loan to January 10, 2026.

On September 29, 2020, we entered into a note purchase agreement to issue $350.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.44% senior unsecured 10-year notes payable (the "Green Bonds"). The effective interest rate under the Green Bonds, including amortization of the associated interest rate swaps (see note 10), is 4.09%. The closing and full funding of the Green Bonds occurred on December 17, 2020. We incurred $2.6 million of debt issuance costs associated with the Green Bonds which are reported on our consolidated balance sheets as an offset to their related debt. The Green Bonds are senior unsecured obligations of Elme Communities and rank equal in right to payment with all other senior unsecured indebtedness of Elme Communities.

The proceeds of the sale of the Green Bonds were used to finance or refinance recently completed and future green building and energy efficiency, sustainable water and wastewater management and renewable energy projects.

On November 12, 2025, in connection with the closing of the Portfolio Sale Transaction, the Company caused the repayment in full of all indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations under, and terminated, each of the 2023 Term Loan and the Green Bonds. The Company did not incur any material early termination penalties as a result of such terminations. The Company also provided notice to the holders of the Senior Notes of its intention to redeem on December 12, 2025 all of the outstanding $50 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes at the applicable redemption price and on the terms set forth in the indenture, dated as of August 1, 1996 (as amended or supplemented as of the date hereof, the "Indenture"), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor to The First National Bank of Chicago, as trustee. In connection with the redemption of the Senior Notes, on November 12, 2025, the Company caused funds sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Senior Notes and all other sums payable by the Company under the Indenture to be irrevocably deposited with the trustee and, accordingly, the Indenture with respect to the Senior Notes was satisfied and discharged, except with respect to those obligations under the Indenture that expressly survive satisfaction and discharge.

**<u>NOTE 10: DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS</u>**

During the first quarter of 2023, we entered into two interest rate swap arrangements with an aggregate notional amount of $125.0 million that effectively fixed the interest at 4.73% for the 2023 Term Loan beginning on July 21, 2023 through the 2023 Term Loan's initial maturity date of January 10, 2025. These two interest rate swap arrangements matured on January 25, 2025.

During the second quarter of 2024, we entered into two forward interest rate swap arrangements for the 2023 Term Loan with an aggregate notional amount of $150.0 million beginning on January 10, 2025 through January 10, 2026. These forward interest rate swap arrangements effectively fixed a portion of our variable rate debt based on an adjusted daily SOFR at 4.72% (subject to applicable interest rate margins). These two interest rate swap arrangements were terminated on November 12, 2025 in connection with the prepayment of the Company's unsecured debt, as described in note 9.

The interest rate swap arrangements were recorded at fair value in accordance with GAAP, based on discounted cash flow methodologies and observable inputs. We recorded the effective portion of changes in fair value of the cash flow hedge in Other comprehensive income (loss). We assessed the effectiveness of a cash flow hedge both at inception and on an ongoing basis. If a cash flow hedge is no longer expected to be effective, hedge accounting is discontinued. Hedge ineffectiveness of our cash flow hedges is recorded in earnings.

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The fair values of the interest rate swap as of December, 31 2024, were as follows (in thousands). There were no interest rate swap contracts in place as of December 31, 2025:

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| | **Aggregate<br>Notional<br>Amount** | **Effective Date** | | |
| | **Aggregate<br>Notional<br>Amount** | **Effective Date** | | |
| | **Aggregate<br>Notional<br>Amount** | **Effective Date** | | **Fair Value**<br>**Derivative Assets (Liabilities)**<br>**December 31,** |
|<br><br>**Derivative Instrument** | **Aggregate<br>Notional<br>Amount** | **Effective Date** |<br><br>**Maturity Date** | **2024** |
| Interest rate swap | $75000 | July 21, 2023 | January 10, 2025 | $14 |
| Interest rate swap | 50000 | July 21, 2023 | January 10, 2025 | 9 |
| Interest rate swap | 100000 | January 10, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | (624) |
| Interest rate swap | 50000 | January 10, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | (312) |
|  |  |  |  | $(913) |

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We record interest rate swaps on our consolidated balance sheets with prepaid expenses and other assets when in a net asset position, and with accounts payable and other liabilities when in a net liability position. The current interest rate swaps have been effective since inception. The losses on the effective swaps are recognized in other comprehensive income, as follows (in thousands):

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Unrealized gain (loss) on interest rate hedges | $598 | $(2147) | $(764) |

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The losses reclassified from Accumulated other comprehensive income into interest expense for the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024, were as follows (in thousands):

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Loss reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) into interest expense | $1698 | $2039 | $2039 |

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**<u>NOTE 11: FAIR VALUE DISCLOSURES</u>**

*Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value (Going Concern Basis)*

For assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis, quantitative disclosures about the fair value measurements are required to be disclosed separately for each major category of assets and liabilities, as follows:

Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets

Level 2: Significant other observable inputs

Level 3: Significant unobservable inputs

The only assets or liabilities we had at December 31, 2024 that are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis are the assets held in the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan ("SERP"), which primarily consists of investments in mutual funds, and the interest rate swaps (see note 10).

We base the valuations related to the SERP on quoted prices in active markets and accordingly these valuations fall into Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.

The valuation of the interest rate swaps is determined using widely accepted valuation techniques, including discounted cash flow analysis on the expected cash flows of each interest rate swap. This analysis reflects the contractual terms of the interest rate swaps, including the period to maturity, and uses observable market-based inputs, including interest rate curves and implied volatilities. The fair values of interest rate swaps are determined using the market standard methodology of netting the discounted future fixed cash payments (or receipts) and the discounted expected variable cash receipts (or payments). The variable cash payments (or receipts) are based on an expectation of future interest rates (forward curves) derived from observable market interest rate curves. To comply with the provisions of ASC 820, we incorporate credit valuation adjustments in the fair value measurements to appropriately reflect both our own nonperformance risk and the respective counterparty's

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nonperformance risk. These credit valuation adjustments were concluded to not be significant inputs for the fair value calculations for the periods presented. In adjusting the fair value of our derivative contracts for the effect of nonperformance risk, we have considered the impact of netting and any applicable credit enhancements, such as the posting of collateral, thresholds, mutual puts and guarantees. The valuation of interest rate swaps falls into Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

The fair values of these assets and liabilities at December 31, 2024 were as follows (in thousands):

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| | **December 31, 2024** | **December 31, 2024** | **December 31, 2024** | **December 31, 2024** |
| | **Fair Value** | **Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets<br>(Level 1)** | **Significant Other Observable Inputs<br>(Level 2)** | **Significant Unobservable Inputs<br>(Level 3)** |
| Assets: |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SERP | $2648 | $2648 | $— | $— |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest rate swaps | 23 |  | 23 |  |
| Liabilities: |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest rate swaps | (936) |  | (936) |  |

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*Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis (Going Concern Basis)*

Certain assets not measured at fair value on an ongoing basis but subject to fair value adjustments only in certain circumstances, such as when there is evidence of impairment, are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. In the third quarter of 2025, we measured the fair value of several residential communities and other properties as there was evidence of impairment (see note 6).

*Financial Assets and Liabilities Not Measured at Fair Value (Going Concern Basis)*

The following disclosures of estimated fair value were determined by management using available market information and established valuation methodologies, including discounted cash flow models. Many of these estimates involve significant judgment. The estimated fair value disclosed may not necessarily be indicative of the amounts we could realize on disposition of the financial instruments. The use of different market assumptions or estimation methodologies could have an effect on the estimated fair value amounts. In addition, fair value estimates are made at a point in time and thus, estimates of fair value subsequent to December 31, 2024 may differ significantly from the amounts presented.

Below is a summary of significant methodologies used in estimating fair values and a schedule of fair values at December 31, 2024.

*Cash and Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash (Going Concern Basis)*

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash include cash and commercial paper with original maturities of less than 90 days, which are valued at the carrying value, which approximates fair value due to the short maturity of these instruments (Level 1 inputs).

*Debt*

Mortgage notes payable consisted of instruments in which certain of our real estate assets are used for collateral. We estimate the fair value of the mortgage notes payable by discounting the contractual cash flows at a rate equal to the relevant treasury rates (with respect to the timing of each cash flow) plus credit spreads estimated through independent comparisons to real estate assets or loans with similar characteristics. Line of credit payable consist of bank facilities which we use for various purposes including working capital, acquisition funding and capital improvements. The line of credit advances and term loans with floating interest rates are priced at a specified rate plus a spread. We estimate the market value based on a comparison of the spreads of the advances to market given the adjustable base rate. We estimate the fair value of the notes payable by discounting the contractual cash flows at a rate equal to the relevant treasury rates (with respect to the timing of each cash flow) plus credit spreads derived using the relevant securities' market prices. We classify these fair value measurements as Level 3 as we use significant unobservable inputs and management judgment due to the absence of quoted market prices.

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As of December 31, 2024, the carrying values and estimated fair values of our financial instruments were as follows (in thousands):

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| | **December 31,** | **December 31,** |
| | **2024** | **2024** |
| | **Carrying<br>Value** | **Fair Value** |
| Cash and cash equivalents | $6144 | $6144 |
| Restricted cash | 2465 | 2465 |
| Line of credit payable | 176000 | 176000 |
| Notes payable | 522953 | 472412 |

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**<u>NOTE 12: SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION</u>**

Elme Communities maintained short-term and long-term incentive plans, each effective January 1, 2020, as amended, that allowed for cash and share-based awards to officers ("Prior Officer STIP" and "Officer LTIP"), respectively, and short-term and long-term incentive plans, that allowed for cash and share-based awards, respectively, to non-officer employees. Share-based awards were provided to officers and non-officer employees, as well as trustees, under the Elme Communities 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended and restated effective May 30, 2024 (the "Omnibus Incentive Plan"). An amendment and restatement of the Omnibus Incentive Plan was approved by our Board in April 2024 and approved by our shareholders in May 2024 to, among other changes, increase the number of shares available to be issued by 2,900,000, from 2,400,000 shares to 5,300,000 shares (including shares issued pursuant to awards made under the Omnibus Incentive Plan prior to its amendment). The Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended, allowed for awards in the form of restricted shares, restricted share units, options and other awards up to an aggregate of 5,300,000 shares over the ten-year period in which the plan is in effect. Restricted share units are converted into shares of our stock upon full vesting through the issuance of new shares. There were no options issued or outstanding as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.

*Prior Officer STIP and Non-Officer STIP*

Under the Prior Officer STIP all named executive officers had the opportunity to receive an annual cash bonus based on the achievement of certain performance measures that were established for each performance period. Each year, the Compensation Committee established the threshold, target and high performance goals for each performance measure, as well as the weighting attributable to each such performance measure, with the aggregate weighting for all such performance measures to total 100%. Such performance measures consisted of one or more financial performance measures and, if determined by the Compensation Committee, individual performance measures.

Upon or following completion of a performance period, the degree of achievement of each performance measure was determined by the Compensation Committee. The degree of achievement of any individual financial performance measures were determined by the Compensation Committee in its discretion with respect to the Chief Executive Officer, and by the Chief Executive Officer or other immediate supervisor in his or her discretion with respect to all other participants (subject to final approval by the Compensation Committee), and the Compensation Committee evaluated the degree of achievement of the individual performance measures on a scale of below 1 (below threshold), 1 (threshold), 2 (target) or 3 (high) or any fractional number between 1 and 3.

Each participant's total award under the Prior Officer STIP with respect to a performance period was stated as a percentage of the participant's annual base salary determined as of the first day of that performance period, which percentage depended upon the participant's position and the degree of achievement of threshold, target, and high performance goals for the performance period. The percentages for the performance period beginning January 1, 2025 are as set forth in the table below:

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|  | *Threshold* | *Target* | *High* |
| President and Chief Executive Officer | 63% | 125% | 188% |
| Chief Operating Officer  | 47% | 93% | 158% |
| Chief Financial Officer | 41% | 75% | 133% |
| Chief Information Officer | 35% | 65% | 115% |
| Chief Administrative Officer | 30% | 60% | 105% |

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Because the Portfolio Sale Transaction completed on November 12, 2025 met the criteria for a Change in Control event as defined in the Prior Officer STIP and under the Amended and Restated Short-Term Incentive Plans (for Non-Executive Officers

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and Staff), the participants received prorated awards calculated based on the actual levels of achievement of the prorated performance goals as of the date of the Change in Control. Due to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Prior Officer STIP has been terminated.

*New Officer STIP*

On January 21, 2026, the Board approved the Elme Communities Executive Officer Short-Term Incentive Plan, effective as of November 13, 2025 (the "New Officer STIP"), which provides for an award opportunity based on achievement of three metrics: (i) the value of the additional liquidating distributions to Elme's shareholders, which will be 40% of the award opportunity, (ii) the timing of completion of the sales of Elme's remaining assets, which will be 40% of the award opportunity, and (iii) performance measures in furtherance of implementing the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, consisting of efficient operation of Elme's remaining assets, employee retention and successfully implementing the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which will be 20% of the award opportunity. The performance period under the New Officer STIP runs from November 13, 2025 through the earlier of (i) November 13, 2026 and (ii) the date on which the actual levels of achievement of the additional liquidating distributions and timing metrics discussed above are otherwise determined by the Compensation Committee of the Board.

Each executive officer's total award under the New Officer STIP with respect to the performance period is stated as a percentage of the executive officer's annual base salary (subject to adjustment if the executive officer is promoted during the performance period, in which case the annual base salary shall be prorated for the portion of the performance period such executive officer had each base salary). The percentages of base salary by position are as set forth below:

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|  | *Threshold* | *Target* | *High* |
| President and Chief Executive Officer | 45% | 90% | 135% |
| Executive Vice President | 37% | 75% | 120% |
| Senior Vice President | 30% | 60% | 105% |

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*Officer LTIP* 

Under the Officer LTIP all named executive officers had the opportunity to receive awards based on (i) the achievement of performance measures, which were established for each performance period, and (ii) continued employment with the Company. The aggregate weighting for the performance measures and the time-based measures, as determined by the Compensation Committee, totaled 100%. The performance measures consisted of one or more shareholder return measures and one or more strategic measures. The awards earned under the Officer LTIP, if any, were payable in our common shares of beneficial interest. Each participant's total award under the Officer LTIP with respect to a performance period was stated as a percentage of the participant's annual base salary determined as of the beginning of that performance period. The percentages for the performance period beginning January 1, 2025 are as set forth in the table below:

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|  | *Threshold* | *Target* | *High* |
| President and Chief Executive Officer | 198% | 275% | 440% |
| Chief Operating Officer | 133% | 190% | 280% |
| Chief Financial Officer | 95% | 135% | 196% |
| Chief Information Officer | 100% | 143% | 207% |
| Chief Administrative Officer | 70% | 100% | 145% |

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Any time-based awards under the Officer LTIP were subject to a three-year vesting schedule, with any award vesting in one-third increments on December 15 of each year of the applicable performance period if the participant remains employed by the Company on each of such dates. The Officer LTIP provided that following a performance period, 100% of any performance-based award will vest immediately upon grant.

Each year, the Compensation Committee established the threshold, target and high performance goals for each performance measure. Upon or following completion of a performance period, the degree of achievement of each performance measure was determined by the Compensation Committee in its discretion.

Because the Portfolio Sale Transaction completed on November 12, 2025 met the criteria for a Change in Control event as defined in the Officer LTIP, the participants received the shareholder return measure-based awards calculated based on the actual levels of achievement as of the date of the Change in Control. Due to the Plan of Sale and Liquidation, the Officer LTIP has been terminated.

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We used a binomial model which employs the Monte Carlo method as of the grant date to determine the fair value of the Officer LTIP awards. For three-year performance periods commencing on or after January 1, 2025, on or after January 1, 2024, and on or after January 1, 2023, the market performance condition is based on total shareholder return relative to the FTSE Nareit Residential Index (60% weighting) and a defined population of peer companies (40% weighting).

The assumptions used to value the TSR portion of the officer LTIP awards were as follows:

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| | **2025 Awards** | **2024 Awards** | **2023 Awards** |
| Expected volatility <sup>(1)</sup> | 24.9% | 25.5% | 32.3% |
| Risk-free interest rate <sup>(2)</sup> | 4.3% | 4.7% | 4.2% |
| Expected term <sup>(3)</sup> | 3 years  | 3 years | 3 years |
| Share price at grant date | $15.23 | $15.31 | $19.04 |

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<sup>(1)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expected volatility based upon historical volatility of our daily closing share price.

<sup>(2)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Risk-free interest rate based on U.S. treasury constant maturity bonds on the measurement date with a maturity equal to the market condition performance period.

<sup>(3)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expected term based on the market condition performance period.

The calculated grant date fair value as a percentage of base salary for the officers for the three-year performance period that commenced in 2025 ranged from approximately 50% to 154% for the 60% of the LTIP based on TSR relative to the FTSE Nareit Residential Index and from approximately 59% to 179% for the 40% of the LTIP based on TSR relative to a defined population of peer companies.

The calculated grant date fair value as a percentage of base salary for the officers for the three-year performance period that commenced in 2024 ranged from approximately 51% to 155% for the 60% of the LTIP based on TSR relative to the FTSE Nareit Residential Index and from approximately 64% to 195% for the 40% of the LTIP based on TSR relative to a defined population of peer companies.

The calculated grant date fair value as a percentage of base salary for the officers for the three-year performance period that commenced in 2023 ranged from approximately 27% to 137% for the 60% of the LTIP based on TSR relative to the FTSE Nareit Residential Index and from approximately 32% to 159% for the 40% of the LTIP based on TSR relative to a defined population of peer companies.

During 2022, our chief executive officer was granted a one-time equity award of 100,000 restricted shares. None of the restricted shares were scheduled to vest until the earlier of the fifth anniversary of the grant date or when our chief executive officer become retirement-eligible, at which time 100% of the restricted shares would vest, subject to Mr. McDermott's continued employment with Elme Communities until such vesting date. This share award vested as of November 12, 2025 due to the Change in Control (as defined in the Officer LTIP).

*Non-Officer LTIP*

Our non-executive officers and other employees earned restricted share unit awards under a long-term incentive plan for non-executive officers and staff based upon various percentages of their salaries and annual performance calculations. The restricted share unit awards vested ratably over three years beginning on the December 15 following the grant date based upon continued employment. We recognized compensation expense for these awards according to a graded vesting schedule over the three-year requisite service period. Because the Portfolio Sale Transaction completed on November 12, 2025 met the criteria for a Change in Control event as defined in the Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan (for Non-Executive Officers and Staff), participants received the share awards under such plan effective November 12, 2025.

Restricted share awards made to retirement-eligible employees fully vested on the grant date. Employees were considered retirement-eligible when they were both over the age of 55 and had been employed by Elme Communities for at least 20 years, or over the age of 65. We fully recognized compensation expense for such awards as of the grant date.

*Trustee Awards*

We awarded share-based compensation to our trustees in the form of restricted shares which vested immediately. The value of share-based compensation for each trustee was $100,000 for each of the three years ended December 31, 2025. While a trustee

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serves on the Board, until a trustee owns an aggregate number of common shares the value of which must equal at least five times the annual cash retainer at the time of their election to the Board, the common shares received by trustees as compensation are restricted in transfer.

*Total Compensation Expense*

Total compensation expense recognized in the consolidated financial statements for each of the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024 for all share-based awards was $5.4 million, $5.2 million and $5.5 million, respectively, net of capitalized share-based compensation expense of $0.1 million, $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

*Restricted Share Awards with Performance and Service Conditions*

The activity for the three years ended December 31, 2025 related to our restricted share awards, excluding those subject to market conditions and inclusive of trustee awards, was as follows:

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| | **Shares** | **Weighted Average Grant Fair Value** |
| Unvested at December 31, 2022 | 242369 | $21.35 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Granted | 410928 | 18.40 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vested during year | (367109) | 19.79 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Forfeited | (28453) | 20.85 |
| Unvested at December 31, 2023 | 257735 | 18.89 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Granted | 280008 | 14.61 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vested during year | (237433) | 17.13 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Forfeited | (19823) | 14.86 |
| Unvested at December 31, 2024 | 280487 | 16.27 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Granted | 1202847 | 16.32 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vested during year | (1454661) | 16.33 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Forfeited | (28673) | 16.35 |
| Unvested at December 31, 2025 |  |  |

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The total fair value of share grants vested for each of the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2025 was $1.2 million, $4.1 million and $7.3 million, respectively.

**<u>NOTE 13: OTHER BENEFIT PLANS</u>**

We have a Retirement Savings Plan (the "401(k) Plan"), which permits all eligible employees to defer a portion of their compensation in accordance with the Code. Under the 401(k) Plan, we may make discretionary contributions on behalf of eligible employees. For each of the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024, we made contributions to the 401(k) plan of $0.4 million, $0.7 million and $0.6 million, respectively.

We have adopted non-qualified deferred compensation plans for the officers. The plan allows for a deferral of a percentage of annual cash compensation. The plan is unfunded, and payments are to be made out of the general assets of Elme Communities. The deferred compensation liability was $0.1 million as of December 31, 2024.

We had also previously adopted a non-qualified deferred compensation plans for our trustees. The plan allowed for a deferral of a percentage of annual cash compensation and trustee fees. The deferred compensation plan for trustees was terminated effective as of January 8, 2026.

In November 2005, the Board approved the establishment of a SERP for the benefit of officers. This is a defined contribution plan under which, upon a participant's termination of employment from Elme Communities for any reason other than discharge for cause, the participant will be entitled to receive a benefit equal to the participant's accrued benefit times the participant's vested interest. Because the Portfolio Sale Transaction completed on November 12, 2025 met the criteria for a Change in Control event as defined in the SERP, the accrued benefit for each participant became fully vested as of the date of the Change in Control. We account for this plan in accordance with ASC 710-10 and ASC 320-10, whereby the investments are reported at fair value, and unrealized holding gains and losses are included in earnings. At December 31, 2024, the accrued benefit liability

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was $2.6 million. For each of the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024, we recognized current service cost of $0.3 million, $0.3 million and $0.3 million, respectively.

**<u>NOTE 14: EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE</u>**

We determine "Basic earnings per share" using the two-class method as our unvested restricted share awards and units have non-forfeitable rights to dividends and are therefore considered participating securities. We compute basic earnings per share by dividing net income less the allocation of undistributed earnings to unvested restricted share awards and units by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period.

We also determine "Diluted earnings per share" as the more dilutive of the two-class method or the treasury stock method with respect to the unvested restricted share awards. We further evaluate any other potentially dilutive securities at the end of the period and adjust the basic earnings per share calculation for the impact of those securities that are dilutive. Our dilutive earnings per share calculation includes the dilutive impact of operating partnership units under the if-converted method and our share-based awards with performance conditions prior to the grant date and all market condition awards under the contingently issuable method.

The computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and two years ended December 31, 2024 was as follows (in thousands, except per share data):

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| **Numerator:** |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss | $(154162) | $(13103) | $(52977) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Allocation of earnings to unvested restricted share awards | (260) | (287) | (255) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Adjusted net loss | $(154422) | $(13390) | $(53232) |
| **Denominator:** |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Weighted average shares outstanding – basic and diluted | 88092 | 87920 | 87735 |
| Basic net loss per common share | $(1.75) | $(0.15) | $(0.61) |
| Diluted net loss per common share | $(1.75) | $(0.15) | $(0.61) |
| **Dividends declared per common share** | $0.54 | $0.72 | $0.72 |

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**<u>NOTE 15: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES</u>**

*Development Commitments* 

At December 31, 2025, we had no committed contracts outstanding with third parties in connection with our development and redevelopment projects.

*Litigation*

We are involved from time to time in various legal proceedings, lawsuits, examinations by various tax authorities and claims that have arisen in the ordinary course of business. Management believes that the resolution of any such current matters will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. Matters that arise out of allegations of bodily injury, property damage and employment practices are generally covered by insurance.

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**<u>NOTE 16: SEGMENT INFORMATION</u>**

We operate in a single reportable segment which includes the ownership, development, redevelopment and acquisition of apartment communities. Within the Residential segment, we do not distinguish or group our consolidated operations based on size (only one community, Riverside Apartments, comprises more than 10% of consolidated revenues), type (all assets in the segment are residential) or geography (as of October 31, 2025, all but six communities were within the Washington, DC metro region). Further, our apartment communities have similar long-term economic characteristics and provide similar products and services to our residents.

We have one office property, Watergate 600, which does not meet the quantitative or qualitative criteria for a reportable segment and has been classified within "Other", along with business activities that are not part of an operating segment, on our segment disclosure tables.

Our CODM, the Chief Executive Officer, reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of assessing the performance and allocating resources to the operating segment. The CODM uses net operating income ("NOI"), defined as real estate rental revenue less real estate expenses (the significant segment expense), as the key basis of measurement for the reported segment profit or loss.

Real estate rental revenue as a percentage of the total for the Residential reportable segment and Other for the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, was as follows:

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| | | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **Ten Months Ended October 31,**<br>**2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Residential | 93% | 92% | 92% |
| Other | 7% | 8% | 8% |

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The percentage of income producing real estate assets classified as held and used, at cost, for the Residential reportable segment and Other as of December 31, 2024 was as follows:

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| | **2024** |
| Residential | 96% |
| Other | 4% |

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The following tables present revenues, net operating income, capital expenditures and total assets for the ten months ended October 31, 2025 and years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 from the Residential reportable segment and Other, and reconciles the consolidated net operating income to net loss as reported (in thousands):

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| | **Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025** | **Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025** | **Ten Months Ended October 31, 2025** |
| | **Residential** | **Other** | **Consolidated** |
| Real estate rental revenue | $191525 | $14835 | $206360 |
| Real estate expenses | 71912 | 4690 | 76602 |
| Net operating income | $119613 | $10145 | $129758 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Property management expenses |  |  | (7494) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General and administrative expenses |  |  | (54591) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation and amortization |  |  | (78162) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest expense |  |  | (31954) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate impairment |  |  | (111719) |
| Net loss |  |  | $(154162) |
| Capital expenditures | $26904 | $82 | $26986 |

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| | **Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2024** | **Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2024** | **Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2024** |
| | **Residential** | **Other** | **Consolidated** |
| Real estate rental revenue | $223638 | 18297 | $241935 |
| Real estate expenses | 83066 | 5635 | 88701 |
| Net operating income | $140572 | $12662 | $153234 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Property management expenses |  |  | (8861) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General and administrative expenses |  |  | (24969) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation and amortization |  |  | (95935) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest expense |  |  | (37835) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Loss on extinguishment of debt |  |  | (147) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other income |  |  | 1410 |
| Net loss |  |  | $(13103) |
| Capital expenditures | $47054 | $548 | $47602 |
| Total assets | $1719087 | $126675 | $1845762 |

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| | **Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2023** | **Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2023** | **Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2023** |
| | **Residential** | **Other** | **Consolidated** |
| Real estate rental revenue | $209311 | $18600 | $227911 |
| Real estate expenses | 74535 | 5295 | 79830 |
| Net operating income | $134776 | $13305 | $148081 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Property management expenses |  |  | (8108) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General and administrative expenses |  |  | (25887) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Transformation costs |  |  | (6339) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation and amortization |  |  | (88950) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate impairment |  |  | (41860) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest expense |  |  | (30429) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Loss on extinguishment of debt |  |  | (54) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other income |  |  | 569 |
| Net loss |  |  | $(52977) |
| Capital expenditures | $37782 | $844 | $38626 |
| Total assets | $1768426 | $131602 | $1900028 |

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**<u>NOTE 17: SELECTED QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED)</u>**

Unaudited financial data by quarter for the period ended October 31, 2025 and the year ended December 31, 2024 were as follows (in thousands, except for per share data):

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| | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> | |
| | **First** | **Second** | **Third** | **Fourth** <sup>(2)</sup> |
| **2025** |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate rental revenue | $61493 | $62099 | $62103 | $20665 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss | $(4675) | $(3566) | $(123514) | $(22407) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss per share |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Basic | $(0.05) | $(0.04) | $(1.40) | $(0.25) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Diluted | $(0.05) | $(0.04) | $(1.40) | $(0.25) |
|  | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> | **Quarter**<sup>(1)</sup> |
|  | **First** | **Second** | **Third** | **Fourth** |
| **2024** |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Real estate rental revenue | $59513 | $60103 | $61055 | $61264 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss | $(3647) | $(3471) | $(2970) | $(3015) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net loss per share |  |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Basic | $(0.04) | $(0.04) | $(0.03) | $(0.03) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Diluted | $(0.04) | $(0.04) | $(0.03) | $(0.03) |

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<sup>(1)</sup> With regard to per share calculations, the sum of the quarterly results may not equal full year results due to rounding.

<sup>(2)</sup> The Fourth Quarter only includes unaudited financial data for the month of October 2025.

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**<u>NOTE 18: SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY</u>**

On October 26, 2023, the Board authorized and approved a share repurchase program of up to $50.0 million of the Company's common shares of beneficial interest over a period of two years, subject to any applicable limitations or restrictions set forth in our existing credit facility and other debt agreements. The share repurchase program expired on October 25, 2025.

On February 20, 2024, we entered into an equity distribution agreement (the "Equity Distribution Agreement") with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., TD Securities (USA) LLC and Truist Securities, Inc. as agents and forward sellers, as applicable, (collectively, the "Agents" or "Forward Sellers", as applicable), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, The Bank of New York Mellon, Citibank, N.A., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., The Toronto-Dominion Bank and Truist Bank as forward purchasers pursuant to which up to an aggregate gross sales price of $350.0 million of Elme Communities' common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share, may be offered and sold from time to time through the Agents, acting as the Company's sales agents or, if applicable, the Forward Sellers, or directly to the Agents as principals for their own accounts. In connection with entry into the Equity Distribution Agreement, we terminated our prior at-the-market offering program. At the time of such termination, approximately $340.0 million remained unsold under such prior program.

We did not issue common shares under the Equity Distribution Agreement or any prior equity distribution agreements in 2025, 2024 or 2023, and subsequent to year-end, we terminated the Equity Distribution Agreement.

We have a dividend reinvestment program, whereby shareholders were able to use their dividends and optional cash payments to purchase common shares. The common shares sold under this program were either be common shares issued by us or common shares purchased in the open market. In September 2025, the Company suspended its dividend reinvestment program. During the suspension period, dividend payments are not automatically reinvested in additional shares of our common shares of beneficial interest and participants in the dividend reinvestment program are not able to purchase shares of our common shares of beneficial interest through optional cash investments under the dividend reinvestment program. We do not intend to restart the dividend reinvestment program.

We did not issue common shares under the dividend reinvestment program during 2025 or 2024. Our issuances and net proceeds on the dividend reinvestment program for 2023 were as follows (in thousands; except per share data):

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| | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** | **Year Ended December 31,** |
| | **2025** | **2024** | **2023** |
| Issuance of common shares |  |  | 28 |
| Weighted average price per share | $— | $— | $17.64 |
| Net proceeds | $— | $— | $497 |

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**<u>NOTE 19: DEFERRED COSTS</u>**

As of December 31, 2024, deferred leasing costs and deferred leasing incentives were included in prepaid expenses and other assets as follows (in thousands):

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| | **2024** | **2024** | **2024** |
| | **Gross Carrying<br>Value** | **Accumulated<br>Amortization** | **Net** |
| Deferred leasing costs | $9256 | $5902 | $3354 |

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Amortization, including write-offs, of deferred leasing costs and deferred leasing incentives for the two years ended December 31, 2024 were as follows (in thousands):

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| | **2024** | **2023** |
| Deferred leasing costs amortization | $539 | $351 |

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**SCHEDULE II**

**VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS**

**FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024 AND 2023**

**(IN THOUSANDS)**

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| | **Balance at Beginning of Year** | **Additions Charged to Expenses** | **Net Recoveries** | **Balance at End of Year** |
| Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets | Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets |  |  |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2024 | $1399 | $— | $— | $1399 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2023 | $1399 | $— | $— | $1399 |

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**SCHEDULE III**

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| | | **Initial Cost (a)** | **Initial Cost (a)** | **Net Improvements (Retirement) since Acquisition** | **Gross Amounts at Which Carried at December 31, 2025** | **Gross Amounts at Which Carried at December 31, 2025** | **Gross Amounts at Which Carried at December 31, 2025** | **Accumulated Depreciation at December 31, 2025** | | | | |
|<br>**Properties (f)** |<br>**Location** | **Land** | **Buildings and Improvements** | **Net Improvements (Retirement) since Acquisition** | **Land** | **Buildings and Improvements** | **Total (c)** | **Accumulated Depreciation at December 31, 2025** |<br>**Net Liquidation Adjustment** |<br>**Year of Construction** |<br>**Date of Acquisition** |<br>**Depreciation Life (d)** |
| **Residential Properties** | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 3801 Connecticut Avenue | Washington, DC | $420000 | $2678000 | $24047000 | $420000 | $26725000 | $27145000 | $20127000 | $59082000 | 1951 | Jan 1963 | 30 years |
| Elme Bethesda | Maryland | 3900000 | 13412000 | 19058000 | 3900000 | 32470000 | 36370000 | 26975000 | 51105000 | 1986 | Nov 1997 | 30 years |
| Kenmore Apartments | Washington, DC | 28222000 | 33955000 | 24124000 | 28222000 | 58079000 | 86301000 | 31047000 | 9546000 | 1948 | Sep 2008 | 30 years |
| Riverside Apartments | Virginia | 38924000 | 184854000 | 62533000 | 38864000 | 247447000 | 286311000 | 90282000 | 88471000 | 1971 | May 2016 | 30 years |
| Riverside Apartments land parcel (e) | Virginia | 15968000 |  | 14419000 |  | 30387000 | 30387000 |  | (25387000) | n/a | May 2016 | n/a |
| Elme Germantown | Maryland | 7609000 | 34431000 | 5560000 | 7609000 | 39991000 | 47600000 | 10764000 | 17164000 | 1990 | Jun 2019 | 30 years |
| Elme Watkins Mill | Maryland | 7151000 | 30851000 | 3726000 | 7151000 | 34577000 | 41728000 | 9629000 | 10426000 | 1975 | Jun 2019 | 30 years |
| Elme Conyers (b) | Georgia | 4798000 | 42122000 | (10538000) | 4001000 | 32381000 | 36382000 | 222000 | (2410000) | 1999 | Aug 2021 | 30 years |
| Elme Sandy Springs (b) | Georgia | 17423000 | 85817000 | (44915000) | 10435000 | 47890000 | 58325000 | 135000 | (3690000) | 1972 | Feb 2022 | 30 years |
| Elme Marietta (b) | Georgia | 19019000 | 83319000 | (41271000) | 11967000 | 49100000 | 61067000 | 226000 | (2591000) | 1975 | May 2022 | 30 years |
|  |  | $**143434000** | $**511439000** | $**56743000** | $**112569000** | $**599047000** | $**711616000** | $**189407000** | $**201716000** |  |  |  |
| **Office Building** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Watergate 600 (b) | Washington, DC | $45981000 | $78325000 | $(66835000) | $20873000 | $36598000 | $57471000 | $904000 | $(4067000) | 1972 | Apr 2017 | 30 years |

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| **Total** | $**189415000** | $**589764000** | $**(10092000)** | $**133442000** | $**635645000** | $**769087000** | $**190311000** | $**197649000** |

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a) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The purchase cost of real estate investments has been divided between land and buildings and improvements on the basis of management's determination of the fair values.

b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;During 2025, we recognized an aggregate impairment charge of $81.4 million and $28.6 million, respectively, within our Residential segment in Atlanta metro region and Watergate 600 in order to reduce its carrying values to its estimated fair values, primarily due to a revision of their estimated holding periods.

c) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At December 31, 2025, total land, buildings and improvements are carried at $0.7 billion for federal income tax purposes.

d) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The useful life shown is for the main structure. Buildings and improvements are depreciated over various useful lives ranging from 3 to 40 years.

e) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As of December 31, 2025, Elme Communities had one residential property under development, the Riverside Apartments land parcel. The value not yet placed into service at December 31, 2025 was $30.4 million.

f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As of December 31, 2025, all of the properties are encumbered by the Secured Term Loan.

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**ELME COMMUNITIES AND SUBSIDIARIES**

**SUMMARY OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS AND ACCUMULATED DEPRECIATION**

**(LIQUIDATION BASIS)**

**(IN THOUSANDS)**

Analysis of the carrying amount of real estate properties and accumulated depreciation:

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| | |
|:---|:---|
| | **Real Estate Properties** |
| Balance at January 1, 2023 (Going Concern Basis) | $2299712 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Property acquisitions <sup>(1)</sup>  | 104530 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Improvements <sup>(1)</sup>  | 48075 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deductions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Impairment write-down | (77220) |
| Balance at December 31, 2023 (Going Concern Basis) | 2375097 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additions |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Improvements <sup>(1)</sup>  | 39216 |
| Balance at December 31, 2024 (Going Concern Basis) | 2414313 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Improvements <sup>(1)</sup>  | 30385 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deductions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disposals | (1521150) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Impairment write-down | (154461) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net liquidation adjustment | 7338 |
| Balance at December 31, 2025 (Liquidation Basis) | $776425 |

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| | |
|:---|:---|
| | **Accumulated Depreciation** |
| Balance at January 1, 2023 (Going Concern Basis) | $479846 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation | 83538 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deductions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Impairment write-down | (35360) |
| Balance at December 31, 2023 (Going Concern Basis) | 528024 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation | 90275 |
| Balance at December 31, 2024 (Going Concern Basis) | 618299 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation <sup>(2)</sup>  | 73693 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deductions: |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disposals | (457201) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Impairment write-down | (44480) |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Net liquidation adjustment | (190311) |
| Balance at December 31, 2025 (Liquidation Basis) | $— |

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<sup>(1)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Includes non-cash accruals for capital items.

<sup>(2)</sup> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Depreciation expense was not recorded subsequent to October 31, 2025 as a result of the adoption of the Plan of Sale and Liquidation.

## Exhibit 4.1

**Exhibit 4.1**

**DESCRIPTION OF THE REGISTRANT'S SECURITIES**

**REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE**

**SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

The following description sets forth certain material terms and provisions of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, which is our only security registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This description also summarizes relevant provisions of Title 8 of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland ("Maryland law") and certain provisions of our Articles of Amendment and Restatement, as amended (the "Declaration of Trust") and our Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended (the "Bylaws"). The following summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the applicable provisions of Maryland law and our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws, each of which is incorporated by reference as exhibits to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of which this Exhibit 4.1 is a part. We encourage you to read the Declaration of Trust, the Bylaws and the applicable provisions of Maryland law for additional information.

**General**

The Declaration of Trust of Elme Communities (the "Company") provides that it is authorized to issue up to 160,000,000 shares of beneficial interest (the "shares") consisting of 150,000,000 common shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.01 per share, (the "common shares") and 10,000,000 preferred shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.01 per share (the "preferred shares").

The Company's Declaration of Trust, as permitted by Maryland law, contains a provision that permits our board of trustees (the "Board"), without shareholder approval, to amend the Declaration of Trust to increase the aggregate number of authorized common shares. The authorized common shares and undesignated preferred shares are generally available for future issuance without further action by the Company's shareholders, unless such action is required by applicable law or the rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the Company's securities may be listed or traded.

Maryland's statutory law governing real estate investment trusts formed under Maryland law, together with the Company's Declaration of Trust and Bylaws, provide that none of its shareholders will be personally liable, by reason of such shareholder's status as a shareholder, for any of its obligations. The Company's Declaration of Trust and Bylaws further provide that it will indemnify any shareholder or former shareholder against any claim or liability to which such shareholder may become subject by reason of being or having been a shareholder, and that the Company shall reimburse each shareholder for reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding to which the shareholder has been made, or threatened to be made, a party by reason of such status.

The Company's Declaration of Trust provides that, subject to the provisions of any class or series of preferred shares then outstanding and to the mandatory provisions of applicable law, its shareholders are entitled to vote only on the following matters:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• election or removal of trustees;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• amendment of the Declaration of Trust (except as otherwise provided in the Declaration of Trust, including an amendment to increase the number of authorized common shares);

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the Company's termination;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• the Company's merger or consolidation with another entity, or the sale of all or substantially all of the Company's property;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Amendment of the Bylaws; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• such other matters with respect to which the Board has adopted a resolution declaring that a proposed action is advisable and directing that the matter be submitted to the shareholders for approval or ratification.

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Except with respect to these matters, no action taken by the Company's shareholders at any meeting binds the Board.

**Common Shares**

**Voting Rights of Holders of Common Shares**

Subject to the provisions of our Declaration of Trust regarding the restrictions on ownership and transfer of shares of beneficial interest, each outstanding common share entitles the holder to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders, including the election of trustees, and, except as provided with respect to any other class or series of beneficial interest, the holders of common shares will possess the exclusive voting power. There is no cumulative voting in the election of trustees, which means that the holders of a majority of the outstanding common shares, voting as a single class, can elect all of the trustees then standing for election. In the future, the Company may issue a series of preferred shares that vote together with the common shares as a single class.

**Dividends, Liquidation and Other Rights**

Holders of our common shares will be entitled to receive dividends when, as and if authorized by our Board, as declared by the Company, out of assets legally available for the payment of dividends. They also will be entitled to share ratably in our assets legally available for distribution to our shareholders in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company's affairs, after payment of or adequate provision for all of our known debts and liabilities. These rights will be subject to the preferential rights, if any, of holders of any other class or series of our shares and to the provisions of our Declaration of Trust relating to the restrictions on ownership and transfer of our shares.

Holders of our common shares have no preference, conversion, exchange, sinking fund, redemption or appraisal rights and will have no preemptive rights to subscribe for any Company securities. Subject to the restrictions on ownership and transfer of shares contained in our Declaration of Trust, all common shares will have equal dividend, liquidation and other rights.

**Power to Classify and Reclassify Preferred Shares and Issue Additional Common Shares or Preferred Shares**

Our Declaration of Trust authorizes our Board to classify any unissued preferred shares from time to time into one or more classes or series of preferred shares. Prior to issuance of preferred shares of each class or series, the Board is required by Maryland REIT Law, and our Declaration of Trust to set for each such class or series, subject to the provisions of our Declaration of Trust regarding the restrictions on ownership and transfer of shares and subject to the express terms of any class or series of shares then outstanding, the preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption for each such class or series. As a result, our Board could authorize the issuance of preferred shares that have priority over the common shares with respect to dividends and rights upon liquidation and with other terms and conditions that could have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a transaction or a change in control that might involve a premium price for holders of common shares or otherwise might be in their best interest. As of December 31, 2025, no preferred shares are outstanding.<br>

To permit us increased flexibility in structuring possible future financings and acquisitions and in meeting other needs that might arise, our Declaration of Trust allows us to issue additional common shares and to classify unissued preferred shares and thereafter to issue the classified shares without shareholder approval, unless shareholder approval is required by applicable law or the rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which our securities may be listed or traded. Although we have no present intention of doing so, we could issue a class or series of shares that could delay, deter or prevent a transaction or a change in control that might involve a premium price for holders of common shares or might otherwise be in their best interests.<br>

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**Transfer Agent and Registrar**

The transfer agent and registrar for the common shares is Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

**Exchange Listing**

The Company's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ELME."

**Certain Provisions of Maryland Law and Our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws**

The following description of certain provisions of Maryland law and of our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws is only a summary. For a complete description, we refer you to the applicable Maryland law, our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws.

***Number of Trustees; Vacancies***

***Removal of Trustees***

Our Declaration of Trust provides that, subject to the rights of holders of one or more classes or series of our shares to elect or remove one or more trustees, a trustee may be removed from office only with cause and then only by the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than a majority of the shares then outstanding and entitled to vote generally in the election of trustees.

***Business Combinations***

Under Maryland law as applicable to Maryland REITs, certain "business combinations" (including a merger, consolidation, share exchange or, in certain circumstances, an asset transfer or issuance or reclassification of equity securities) between a Maryland REIT and any person who beneficially owns ten percent or more of the voting power of the REIT's shares (defined in Maryland law as an interested stockholder) or an affiliate of an interested stockholder are prohibited for five years after the most recent date on which the interested stockholder became an interested stockholder. Thereafter, any such business combination must generally be recommended by the board of trustees of such REIT and approved by the affirmative vote of at least (a) 80% of the votes entitled to be cast by holders of outstanding voting shares of beneficial interest of the REIT and (b) two-thirds of the votes entitled to be cast by holders of voting shares of the REIT other than shares held by the interested stockholder and the affiliates and associates of the interested stockholder with whom (or with whose affiliate) the business combination is to be effected, unless, among other conditions, the REIT's common shareholders receive a minimum price (as defined in Maryland law) for their shares and the consideration is received in cash or in the same form as previously paid by the interested stockholder for its shares.

These provisions of Maryland law do not apply, however, to business combinations that are approved or exempted by the board of trustees of the REIT prior to the time that the interested stockholder became an interested stockholder. A person is not an interested stockholder under the statute if the board of trustees approved in advance the transaction by which he otherwise would have become an interested stockholder. The board of trustees may provide that its approval is subject to compliance with any terms and conditions determined by the board of trustees.

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We have not elected to opt-out of the business combination statute. The business combination statute may have the effect of inhibiting a third party from making an acquisition proposal for us or of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control of us under circumstances that otherwise could provide our shareholders with the opportunity to realize a premium over the then-current market price or that our shareholders may otherwise believe is in their best interests.

***Control Share Acquisitions***

Maryland law as applicable to Maryland REITs, provides that a holder of "control shares" of a Maryland REIT acquired in a "control share acquisition" has no voting rights with respect to such shares except to the extent approved by a vote of two-thirds of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, excluding shares of beneficial interest owned by the acquiror, by officers or by trustees who are employees of the REIT. "Control shares" are voting shares of beneficial interest which, if aggregated with all other such shares of beneficial interest previously acquired by the acquiror, or in respect of which the acquiror is able to exercise or direct the exercise of voting power (except solely by virtue of a revocable proxy), would entitle the acquiror to exercise voting power in electing trustees within one of the following ranges of voting power: (a) one-tenth or more but less than one-third, (b) one-third or more but less than a majority or (c) a majority or more of all voting power. Control shares do not include shares the acquiring person is then entitled to vote as a result of having previously obtained shareholder approval. A "control share acquisition" means the acquisition of issued and outstanding control shares, subject to certain exceptions.

A person who has made or proposes to make a control share acquisition, upon satisfaction of certain conditions (including an undertaking to pay expenses), may compel the board of trustees of the REIT to call a special meeting of shareholders to be held within 50 days of demand to consider the voting rights of the shares. If no request for a meeting is made, the REIT itself may present the question at any shareholders meeting.

If voting rights are not approved at the meeting or if the acquiring person does not deliver an "acquiring person statement" as required by the statute, then, subject to certain conditions and limitations, the REIT may redeem any or all of the control shares (except those for which voting rights have previously been approved) for fair value determined, without regard to the absence of voting rights for the control shares, as of the date of the last control share acquisition by the acquiror or, if a meeting of shareholders is held at which the voting rights of such shares are considered and not approved, as of the date of the meeting. If voting rights for control shares are approved at a shareholders meeting and the acquiror becomes entitled to vote and a majority of the shares entitled to vote, all other shareholders may exercise appraisal rights. The fair value of the shares as determined for purposes of such appraisal rights may not be less than the highest price per share paid by the acquiror in the control share acquisition.

The control share acquisition statute does not apply (a) to shares acquired in a merger, consolidation or share exchange if the REIT is a party to the transaction or (b) to acquisitions approved or exempted by the declaration of trust or bylaws of the REIT.

Our Bylaws contain a provision exempting from the control share acquisition statute any and all acquisitions by any person of the Company's shares of beneficial interest. There can be no assurance that this provision will not be amended or eliminated at any time in the future and may be amended or eliminated with retroactive effect.

***Unsolicited Takeovers***

Subtitle 8 of Title 3 of the Maryland General Corporation Law, as applicable to Maryland REITs, permits a Maryland REIT with a class of equity securities registered under the Exchange Act and at least three independent trustees to elect to be subject, by provision in its declaration of trust or bylaws or a resolution of its board of trustees and notwithstanding any contrary provision in its declaration of trust or bylaws, to any or all of five provisions:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a classified board of trustees;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a two-thirds vote requirement for removing a trustees;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a requirement that the number of trustees be fixed only by vote of the trustees;

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a requirement that a vacancy on the board be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining trustees then in office (even if the remaining trustees do not constitute a quorum) and for the remainder of the full term of the class of trustees in which the vacancy occurred; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• a majority requirement for the calling of a shareholder-requested special meeting of shareholders.

Through provisions in the Declaration of Trust and Bylaws unrelated to Subtitle 8 of Title 3 of the Maryland General Corporation Law, the Company already requires, unless called by the chairperson of the Board, the president, the chief executive officer, or the Board, the request of holders of a majority of outstanding shares to call a special meeting of shareholders. The Company is prohibited from electing to be subject to Section 3-803 of the Maryland General Corporation Law, which allows a company to re-classify its board of trustees, unless such election is first approved by the shareholders by a majority of the votes cast by shareholders entitled to vote on such matter.

***Merger, Amendment of Declaration of Trust and Bylaws***

Under the Maryland REIT Law, a Maryland REIT generally cannot dissolve, amend its declaration of trust or merge with, or convert into, another entity unless recommended by the board of trustees and approved by the affirmative vote of shareholders holding at least two-thirds of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, unless a lesser percentage, but not less than a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, is set forth in the REIT's declaration of trust. Under our Declaration of Trust, we cannot dissolve, merge with another entity, sell all or substantially all of our assets, or amend our Declaration of Trust without the affirmative vote of the holders of shares entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on the matter. On October 30, 2025, the Company's shareholders approved a Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which contemplates the sale or disposition of all the Company's assets, the wind-down of the Company's business and affairs and the termination of the Company's existence by voluntary dissolution.

Our Board may amend the Declaration of Trust, without any action by the shareholders, (a) to qualify as a real estate investment trust under the Internal Revenue Code or the Maryland REIT Law; (b) in any respect in which the charter of a corporation may be amended in accordance with Section 2-605 of Maryland law (*e.g.*, to change the name of the Company or the par value of any class or series of our shares); and (c) as otherwise provided by the Maryland REIT Law or in the Declaration of Trust.

Our Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed and new Bylaws may be adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of our Board or by our shareholders by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on the matter.

***Limitation of Liability and Indemnification***

The Maryland REIT Law permits a Maryland REIT to include in its declaration of trust a provision eliminating the liability of its trustees and officers to the REIT and its shareholders for money damages except for liability resulting from (a) actual receipt of an improper benefit or profit in money, property or services or (b) active and deliberate dishonesty established by judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the person as being material to the cause of action. Our Declaration of Trust contains such a provision which eliminates such liability to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law.

Our Declaration of Trust authorizes us, and our Bylaws obligate us, to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law, to indemnify and, without requiring a preliminary determination of the ultimate entitlement to indemnification, to pay or reimburse reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding to (a) any present or former shareholder, trustee or officer of the Company who is made or threatened to be made a party to the proceeding or (b) any individual who, while a trustee or officer of the Company and at the request of the Company, serves or has served as a trustee, director, officer, member, manager or partner of another REIT, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise from and against any claim or liability to which such person may become subject or which such person may incur by reason of his status as a

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present or former shareholder, trustee or officer of the Company. The rights to indemnification and advance of expenses provided by our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws vest immediately upon election of a trustee or officer. Our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws also permit us to indemnify and advance expenses to any individual who served a predecessor of the Company in any of the capacities described above and to any employee or agent of the Company or a predecessor of the Company.

The Maryland REIT Law permits a Maryland REIT to indemnify and advance expenses to its trustees and officers to the same extent as permitted by Maryland law for directors and officers of Maryland corporations. Maryland law permits a corporation to indemnify its present and former directors and officers, among others, against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses actually incurred by them in connection with any proceeding to which they may be made a party by reason of their service in those or other capacities unless it is established that (a) the act or omission of the director or officer was material to the matter giving rise to the proceeding and (i) was committed in bad faith or (ii) was the result of active and deliberate dishonesty; (b) the director or officer actually received an improper personal benefit in money, property or services; or (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, the director or officer had reasonable cause to believe that the act or omission was unlawful. However, a Maryland corporation may not indemnify for an adverse judgment in a suit by or in the right of the corporation or for a judgment of liability on the basis that a personal benefit was improperly received, unless, in either case, a court orders indemnification and then only for expenses. In addition, Maryland law permits a corporation to advance reasonable expenses to a director or officer upon the corporation's receipt of (a) a written affirmation by the director or officer of his or her good faith belief that he or she has met the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the corporation and (b) a written undertaking by him or on his behalf to repay the amount paid or reimbursed by the corporation if it shall ultimately be determined that the standard of conduct was not met.

In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our trustees and executive officers that provide for indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law.

***Term and Termination***

Our Declaration of Trust provides for us to have a perpetual existence. Pursuant to our Declaration of Trust, and subject to the provisions of any class or series of our shares of beneficial interest then outstanding, after approval by a majority of the entire Board, our shareholders, by the affirmative vote of a majority of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, may approve the dissolution of the Company. On October 30, 2025, the Company's shareholders approved a Plan of Sale and Liquidation, which contemplates the sale or disposition of all its assets, the wind-down of its business and affairs and the termination of its by voluntary dissolution.

***Meetings of Shareholders***

Under our Bylaws, annual meetings of shareholders are to be held each year on the date and at the time and place as determined by our Board. Special meetings of shareholders may be called only by our Board, the chairman of our Board, our president or our chief executive officer, or by the secretary of the Company to act on any matter that may properly be considered at a meeting of shareholders upon the written request of shareholders entitled to cast not less than a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast on such matter at such meeting. Only matters set forth in the notice of the special meeting may be considered and acted upon at such a meeting. Our Bylaws provide that any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of shareholders may be taken without a meeting (a) if a unanimous consent setting forth the action is given in writing or by electronic transmission by each shareholder entitled to vote on the matter and filed with the minutes of proceedings of the shareholders or (b) if the action is advised, and submitted to the shareholders for approval, by the Board and a consent in writing or by electronic transmission of shareholders entitled to cast not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take the action at a meeting of shareholders is delivered to the Company in accordance with the Maryland REIT Law.

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***Advance Notice of Trustee Nominations and New Business***

Our Bylaws provide that, with respect to an annual meeting of shareholders, nominations of individuals for election to our Board and the proposal of other business to be considered by shareholders at the annual meeting may be made (a) pursuant to our notice of the meeting;(b) by our Board; or (c) by a shareholder who was a shareholder of record both at the time of giving of notice by the shareholder and at the time of the meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who has complied with the advance notice procedures set forth in our Bylaws.

With respect to special meetings of shareholders, only the business specified in our notice of meeting may be brought before the meeting of shareholders. Nominations of individuals for election to our Board may be made only (a) by our Board; (b) by a shareholder that has requested that a special meeting be called for the purpose of electing trustees in compliance with our Bylaws and that has supplied the information required by our Bylaws about each individual whom the shareholder proposes to nominate for election as a trustee; or (c) provided that our Board has determined that trustees shall be elected at such meeting, by a shareholder who was a shareholder of record both at the time of giving of notice by the shareholder and at the time of the meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who has complied with the advance notice provisions set forth in our Bylaws.

The purpose of requiring shareholders to give advance notice of nominations and other proposals is to afford our Board the opportunity to consider the qualifications of the proposed nominees or the advisability of the other proposals and, to the extent considered necessary by our Board, to inform shareholders and make recommendations regarding the nominations or other proposals. The advance notice procedures also permit a more orderly procedure for conducting our shareholder meetings. Although our Bylaws do not give our Board the power to disapprove timely shareholder nominations and proposals, they may have the effect of precluding a contest for the election of trustees or proposals for other action if the proper procedures are not followed, and of discouraging or deterring a third party from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect its own slate of trustees to our Board or to approve its own proposal.

***Restrictions on Ownership and Transfer***

In order to qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code, our shares must be beneficially owned by 100 or more persons during at least 335 days of a taxable year of twelve months or during a proportionate part of a shorter taxable year. Also, not more than 50% of the value of our outstanding shares (after taking into account any options to acquire shares) may be owned, directly or indirectly, or through attribution, by five or fewer individuals (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code to include certain entities) during the last half of a taxable year.

Our Declaration of Trust contains restrictions on the ownership and transfer of our shares of beneficial interest that are intended to, among other purposes, assist us in complying with these requirements. Our Declaration of Trust provides that, subject to the exceptions described below, no person may own, or be deemed to own by virtue of the attribution provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, more than 9.8% in value of the aggregate of our outstanding shares, referred to as the "Aggregate Share Ownership Limit," or more than 9.8% (in value or in number of shares, whichever is more restrictive) of the aggregate of our outstanding common shares, referred to as the "Common Share Ownership Limit." The Aggregate Share Ownership Limit and the Common Share Ownership Limit are referred to collectively as the "Ownership Limits."

The Declaration of Trust further prohibits (a) any person from beneficially or constructively owning shares that would result in the Company being "closely held" under Section 856(h) of the Internal Revenue Code or otherwise cause us to fail to qualify as a REIT (including, but not limited to beneficial or constructive ownership that would result in us owning (actually or constructively) an interest in a tenant that is described in Section 856(d)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code if the income derived by us (either directly or indirectly through one or more partnerships or limited liability companies) from such tenant would cause us to fail to satisfy any of the gross income requirements of Section 856(c) of the Internal Revenue Code) and (b) any person from transferring shares if such transfer would result in shares being beneficially owned by fewer than 100 persons. Any person who acquires or attempts or intends to acquire beneficial or constructive ownership of shares that will or may violate any of the foregoing restrictions on

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transferability and ownership, or any person who would have owned shares that resulted in a transfer of shares to the charitable trust (as described below), is required to give notice immediately to us or, in the case of a proposed or attempted transaction, provide us at least 15 days prior notice, and provide us with such other information as we may request in order to determine the effect of such transfer, if any, on our status as a REIT.

The Board, in its sole discretion, may exempt a proposed transferee from the Ownership Limits, which transferee is referred to in this prospectus as an "Excepted Holder." However, the Board may not grant such an exemption to any person if such exemption would result in the Company being "closely held" within the meaning of Section 856(h) of the Internal Revenue Code or otherwise would result in us failing to qualify as a REIT. Also, in order to be considered by the Board as an Excepted Holder, a person must not own, directly or indirectly, an interest in one of our tenants (or a tenant of any entity owned or controlled by us) that would cause us to own, directly or indirectly, more than a 9.9% interest in such a tenant. This restriction is designed to ensure that rents from a tenant will qualify as "rents from real property" in satisfying the gross income tests applicable to REITs under the Internal Revenue Code. The person seeking an exemption must represent to the satisfaction of the Board that it will not violate the two foregoing restrictions. The person also must agree that any violation or attempted violation of any of the foregoing restrictions will result in the automatic transfer of the shares causing such violation to the charitable trust. The Board may require a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service or an opinion of counsel, in either case in form and substance satisfactory to the Board, in its sole discretion, in order to determine or ensure our status as a REIT. The Board may impose such conditions or restrictions as it deems appropriate in connection with granting such an exemption.

The Board may from time to time increase or decrease the Ownership Limits, unless, after giving effect to such decrease or increase, the Company would be "closely held" under Section 856(h) of the Internal Revenue Code or otherwise fail to qualify as a REIT. A reduced ownership limit will not apply to any person or entity whose percentage ownership of our common shares or our shares of all classes and series, as applicable, is at the effective time of such reduction, in excess of such decreased ownership limit until such time as such person's or entity's percentage ownership of our common shares or our shares of all classes and series, as applicable, equals or falls below the decreased ownership limit, but any further acquisition of our common shares or shares of all classes or series, as applicable, will violate the decreased ownership limit.

Pursuant to the Declaration of Trust, if any transfer of shares would result in shares being owned by fewer than 100 persons, such transfer will be null and void and the intended transferee will acquire no rights in such shares. In addition, if any transfer of shares occurs which, if effective, would result in any person beneficially or constructively owning shares in excess or in violation of the other transfer or ownership limitations described above (a "Prohibited Owner"), then that number of shares the beneficial or constructive ownership of which otherwise would cause such person to violate such limitations (rounded up to the nearest whole share) will be automatically transferred to a trust for the exclusive benefit of one or more charitable beneficiaries (the "Charitable Beneficiary"), and the Prohibited Owner will not acquire any rights in such shares. Such automatic transfer will be deemed to be effective as of the close of business on the business day prior to the date of such violative transfer. Shares held in the charitable trust will be issued and outstanding shares. The Prohibited Owner will not benefit economically from ownership of any shares held in the charitable trust, will have no rights to dividends and will not possess any rights to vote or other rights attributable to the shares held in the charitable trust. The trustee of the charitable trust (the "Charitable Trustee") will have all voting rights and rights to dividends or other distributions with respect to shares held in the charitable trust, which rights will be exercised for the exclusive benefit of the Charitable Beneficiary. Any dividend or other distribution paid prior to our discovery that shares have been transferred to the Charitable Trustee will be paid by the recipient of such dividend or other distribution to the Charitable Trustee upon demand, and any dividend or other distribution authorized but unpaid will be paid when due to the Charitable Trustee. Any dividend or other distribution so paid to the Charitable Trustee will be held in trust for the Charitable Beneficiary. Subject to Maryland law, effective as of the date that such shares have been transferred to the charitable trust, the Charitable Trustee will have the authority (at the Charitable Trustee's sole discretion) (a) to rescind as void any vote cast by a Prohibited Owner prior to our discovery that such shares have been transferred to the charitable trust and (b) to recast such vote in accordance with the desires of the Charitable Trustee acting for the benefit of the Charitable Beneficiary.

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However, if we have already taken irreversible trust action, then the Charitable Trustee will not have the authority to rescind and recast such vote.

Within 20 days of receiving notice from us that shares have been transferred to the charitable trust, the Charitable Trustee must sell the shares held in the charitable trust to a person, designated by the Charitable Trustee, whose ownership of the shares will not violate the ownership limitations set forth in the Declaration of Trust. Upon such sale, the interest of the Charitable Beneficiary in the shares sold will terminate and the Charitable Trustee must distribute the net proceeds of the sale to the Prohibited Owner and to the Charitable Beneficiary as follows. The Prohibited Owner shall receive the lesser of (a) the price paid by the Prohibited Owner for the shares or, if the Prohibited Owner did not give value for the shares in connection with the event causing the shares to be held in the charitable trust (e.g., a gift, devise or other such transaction), the Market Price (as defined in our Declaration of Trust) of such shares on the day of the event causing the shares to be held in the charitable trust and (b) the price per share received by the Charitable Trustee from the sale or other disposition of the shares held in the charitable trust. Any net sale proceeds in excess of the amount payable to the Prohibited Owner will be paid immediately to the Charitable Beneficiary. If, prior to our discovery that shares have been transferred to the charitable trust, such shares are sold by a Prohibited Owner, then (a) such shares will be deemed to have been sold on behalf of the charitable trust and (b) to the extent that the Prohibited Owner received an amount for such shares that exceeds the amount that such Prohibited Owner was entitled to receive pursuant to the aforementioned requirement, such excess will be paid to the Charitable Trustee upon demand.

In addition, shares held in the charitable trust will be deemed to have been offered for sale to us, or our designee, at a price per share equal to the lesser of (a) the price per share in the transaction that resulted in such transfer to the charitable trust (or, in the case of a devise or gift, the Market Price at the time of such devise or gift) and (b) the Market Price on the date that we, or our designee, accepts such offer. We will have the right to accept such offer until the Charitable Trustee has sold the shares held in the charitable trust. Upon such a sale to us, the interest of the Charitable Beneficiary in the shares sold will terminate and the Charitable Trustee will distribute the net proceeds of the sale to the Prohibited Owner.

All certificates evidencing our shares will bear a legend referring to the restrictions described above.

Every owner of more than 5% (or such lower percentage as required by the Internal Revenue Code or the regulations promulgated thereunder) of all classes or series of shares, including common shares, will be required to give written notice to us within 30 days after the end of each taxable year stating the name and address of such owner, the number of shares of each class and series of shares that the owner beneficially owns and a description of the manner in which such shares are held. Each such owner must provide to us such additional information as we may request in order to determine the effect, if any, of such beneficial ownership on our status as a REIT and to ensure compliance with the Ownership Limits. In addition, each shareholder will, upon demand, be required to provide to us with such information as we may request, in good faith, in order to determine our status as a REIT and to comply with the requirements of any taxing authority or governmental authority or to determine such compliance.

The foregoing restrictions on transferability and ownership will not apply if the Board determines that it is no longer in our best interests to attempt to qualify, or to continue to qualify, as a REIT.

The ownership limitations contained in the Declaration of Trust could delay, defer or prevent a transaction or a change in control of us that might involve a premium price for our common shares or otherwise be in the best interest of our shareholders.

***Possible Anti-Takeover Effect of Certain Provisions of Maryland Law and of Our Declaration of Trust and Bylaws***

The business combination provisions of Maryland law, the control share acquisition provisions of Maryland law (if the applicable provision in our Bylaws is modified or rescinded), the unsolicited takeover provisions of Maryland law, the limitations on removal of trustees, the restrictions on the ownership and transfer of our shares of beneficial interest and the advance notice provisions of our Bylaws could have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a

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transaction or a change in the control that might involve a premium price for holders of the common shares or might otherwise be in their best interest.

## Exhibit 10.8

**AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE TO**

**THE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN FOR DIRECTORS** 

**(AS AMENDED AND RESTATED, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 21, 2015)**

**(Effective as of November 19, 2025)**

The Washington Real Estate Investment Trust Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors (As Amended and Restated, Effective October 21, 2015) (the "Plan") is hereby amended, effective as of November 19, 2025 (the "Amendment Date"), as set forth below.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.Effective as of the Amendment Date, all references to "Washington Real Estate Investment Trust" in the Plan shall be replaced with references to "Elme Communities".

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.Effective as of the Amendment Date, (i) no new Deferral Commitments shall be permitted and (ii) all existing Deferral Commitments for Deferral Periods after the 2025 calendar year are hereby terminated.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.The terms of Section 2.7 are amended to add the following new sentence at the end thereof:

"Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of this Section 2.7 or the terms of any prior Deferral Commitment, effective as of the Amendment Date, all deferrals of the Annual Board Retainer will be credited to a Participant's account in cash."

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.The terms of Section 2.11 as in effect prior to the Amendment Date shall apply for determining all balances in a Participant's Account through the Amendment Date. As of the Amendment Date, Section 2.11 shall be replaced in its entirety with the new Section 2.11 below, which shall apply for determining increases in balances in a Participant's Account following the Amendment Date:

"**2.11**&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Earnings**

"Earnings" means, with respect to Fees deferred into a Director's Account pursuant to Article III, a rate of interest equal to 4.5% per annum. Such rate may be changed to any other rate approved by the Board as of any subsequent January 1. With respect to any amounts which have been deferred into Share Units pursuant to Article III, "Earnings" means the aggregate amount of cash dividends which would have been paid on a number of Shares equal to the number of Share Units credited to a Director's Account on such dividend record date, which shall be credited in cash to such Director's Account on the date such dividends are paid."

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Elme Communities

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: <u>/s/ Paul T. McDermott</u>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Paul T. McDermott

President and Chief Executive Officer

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;November 19, 2025

## Exhibit 10.18

<u>AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS</u>

________, __, 2026

NAME

STREET ADDRESS CITY, ST AND ZIP

*Re*: Agreement and Release of Claims

Dear ________:

This Release of Claims (this "Agreement") is in accordance with the Retention Agreement for __________, dated January 22, 2026, by and between you and Elme Communities (the "Retention Agreement"). In consideration of the promises contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.<u>Termination of Employment</u>. You acknowledge that as of _________, 2026 (the "Termination Date"), you and Elme Communities (the "Company") have agreed to a mutual separation and you hereby resign as an employee and all of the offices, directorships, appointments, and other positions you hold with the Company and any of its direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and related entities have terminated. After the Termination Date, you shall not represent that you are an employee, officer, agent, or representative of the Company for any purpose.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.<u>Final Pay</u>. Regardless of whether or not you sign this Agreement, the Company will pay you for all earned but unpaid wages as of the Termination Date in accordance with applicable law.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.<u>Retention Agreement Payments</u>. Provided you execute this Agreement, allow it to become effective, and comply with its terms, the Company shall provide you (or cause to be provided to you) the following separation benefits, to which are you entitled pursuant to the terms of your Retention Agreement (collectively, the "Retention Agreement Payments"):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)a lump sum cash payment of $[ ], representing the Incentive Bonus under your Retention Agreement, less all applicable payroll and tax withholding; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)a [lump sum][36-month installment] cash payment of $[ ], representing the Retention Payment under your Retention Agreement, less all applicable payroll and tax withholding.

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If, by virtue of receipt of the Retention Agreement Payments described above and any other payments in the nature of compensation, you are subject to excise tax pursuant to Section 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code"), the Retention Agreement Payments shall be reduced to the minimum extent necessary to avoid imposition of the excise tax, but only if such reduction would result in you retaining a greater amount after taking into account the excise tax that would be owed if no such reduction were made. If such reduction is required to be made, the Retention Agreement Payments shall be reduced in such manner as required so as not to give rise to there being deemed to be more than one time or form of payment of any amount that constitutes nonqualified deferred compensation under Code Section 409A.

You acknowledge and agree that the Retention Agreement Payments referred to in this Section 3 are consideration for your promises in this Agreement, and that such Retention Agreement Payments are above and beyond any wages, salary, or other sums or benefits to which you are entitled from the Company or any of the other Company Releasees (defined below) under the terms of your employment or any other source of entitlement. You agree that once you receive the Retention Agreement Payments, you are not owed and will not seek any additional amounts or benefits from the Company or any of the other Company Releasees.

For the avoidance of doubt, if the Effective Date (as defined below) does not occur, no Retention Agreement Payments shall be provided to you, and any Retention Agreement Payments that were previously provided to you must be returned or repaid.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.<u>Continuing Obligations; Return of Property</u>. You acknowledge that during employment, you learned and came into contact with certain confidential and/or proprietary information and trade secrets of the Company and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and related entities (collectively, "Confidential Information"). You agree that, as between you and the Company, Confidential Information is and shall remain the exclusive property of the Company, and you shall not disclose to any person or entity, use for your own benefit, copy, or make notes of any Confidential Information, except as and only to the extent expressly authorized by the Company in writing. You further reaffirm and agree to comply with your obligations under any previously executed agreements with the Company and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or related entities regarding confidentiality and non-disclosure. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to limit or waive any such continuing obligations. You agree to cooperate with and assist the Company, at the Company's request, in responding to any claims or inquiries involving the Company in matters which the Company reasonably deems your participation to be necessary as a result of your employment. You shall, upon request of the Company, before and after the Termination Date, provide information and otherwise reasonably cooperate and assist in effectuating a smooth transition from your employment and any other positions you held as a result of employment with the Company. You shall return all Company property and any confidential and proprietary information in your possession to the Company on or before the Termination Date (and shall not retain any copies of such information).

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5.<u>Release of Claims</u>. You, on your own behalf, and on behalf of your heirs, agents, family members, executors, administrators, representatives, attorneys, successors and assigns, hereby

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fully and forever release and discharge the Company and any and all of the Company's past, present, or future parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and related entities, and any and all of their past, present or future officers, directors, members, employees, agents, counsel, consultants, auditors, contractors, successors and assigns, including, but not limited to, Washington Real Estate Investment Trust, (the "Company Releasees") from any and all complaints, claims, demands, damages, lawsuits, and causes of action, whether known, unknown or unforeseen, arising out of or in connection with any event, transaction or matter occurring or existing on or before the date of your execution of this Agreement, which you have or may have against any of them for any reason whatsoever in law or in equity, under federal, state, local or other law, whether the same be upon statutory claim, contract, tort or other basis, including but not limited to any and all claims arising from or relating to your employment or the termination of employment; any and all claims relating to wages, salary, bonuses, commissions, other compensation, expenses, benefits, leave, discrimination, disabilities, accommodation, harassment, or retaliation or other wrongful conduct; and any and all claims relating to any employment contract, express or implied. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this release covers any and all claims under the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), the National Labor Relations Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act, the Maryland Parental Leave Act, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, all as amended and including all of their respective implementing regulations, and any other federal, state or local statutes related to employment.

This release covers claims you know about and those you do not know about but does not waive or release any claims or rights that arise after you execute this Agreement. You agree, without limiting the generality of the above release, not to file any claim or lawsuit seeking monetary recovery or other relief for you based on any claims that are lawfully released in this Agreement. You further hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waive any and all rights to recover, and will not accept, any monetary or other relief concerning the claims that are lawfully released in this Section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you are not releasing (a) any right to enforce this Agreement; or (b) any claims for unemployment compensation, workers' compensation benefits or other rights or claims that may not be released by this Agreement as a matter of law. Additionally, you are not releasing any rights you may have in the nature of indemnification or coverage under a directors and officers insurance policy, which shall apply in accordance with their terms. You represent and understand that the foregoing is a GENERAL RELEASE.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6.<u>Rights Not Subject to Limitation</u>. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, this Agreement does not limit any right you or the Company may have that may not be limited by private agreement, including any right to: (a) provide any information in response to a valid subpoena, court order, other legal process or as otherwise required to be provided by law; (b) challenge the validity or enforceability of this Agreement (including under the ADEA); (c) apply for unemployment compensation or workers' compensation benefits; (d) file a charge with, provide information to, or participate in an investigation or proceeding conducted by a government agency (such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or National Labor Relations Board) authorized to enforce laws against unlawful conduct, provided that this Agreement does waive, to

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the maximum extent permitted by law, any right to seek, recover or accept any monetary payments or other individual relief for you connected to any agency or other action related to claims that are lawfully released in this Agreement; or (e) report possible violations of federal or state law or regulation to any governmental agency or entity or self-regulatory organization or to cooperate with such agency, entity, or organization, without notice to the Company (and to receive a whistleblower award provided by law for providing such information). The parties acknowledge that pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1833(b), an individual may not be held liable under any criminal or civil federal or state trade secret law for disclosure of a trade secret: (i) made in confidence to a government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. Additionally, an individual suing an employer for retaliation based on the reporting of a suspected violation of law may disclose a trade secret to his or her attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, so long as any document containing the trade secret is filed under seal and the individual does not disclose the trade secret except pursuant to court order.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;7.<u>Code Section 409A</u>. Section 4 of the Retention Agreement is incorporated herein by reference.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8.<u>Miscellaneous</u>. The parties represent and acknowledge that in executing this Agreement they do not rely and have not relied upon any representation or statement, other than those contained in this Agreement, made by the other party or the other party's agents, representatives or attorneys with regard to the subject matter, basis or effect of this Agreement or otherwise. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for payment of taxes owed by you as a consequence of this Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement and may not be altered or amended except by an instrument in writing signed by both parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement does not supersede, replace, or extinguish any other agreements between you and the Company (and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or related entities) that impose continuing obligations on you or the Company (and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or related entities). Neither the waiver by either party of a breach of or default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, nor the failure of such party, on one or more occasions, to enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement or to exercise any right or privilege hereunder shall be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach or default of a similar nature, or as a waiver of any provisions, rights or privileges hereunder. If any part, term or provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, unenforceable or otherwise in conflict with law, the validity of the remaining parts, terms or provisions shall not be affected, provided that if a court finds that the release language is unenforceable, the parties shall, in good faith, rewrite (or, if they cannot agree, ask the court to rewrite) the offending language to cure the defect in a reasonable manner that maintains the intended status quo as closely as possible. This Agreement shall extend to, be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of the parties, and their respective successors, heirs, and assigns, provided that this Agreement may not be assigned by you without the Company's written consent. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Maryland (excluding the choice of law rules thereof). The language of all parts of this Agreement shall in all cases be construed as a whole, according to its fair

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meaning, and not strictly for or against either party. This Agreement may be executed electronically and may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same written agreement, which shall be binding and effective as to all parties.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;9.<u>Dispute Resolution</u>. Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Retention Agreement shall be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by JAMS. The arbitration shall be conducted by a single arbitrator, selected in accordance with the Rules, and shall take place in Bethesda, Maryland. The arbitration and all related proceedings shall be confidential, except to the extent disclosure is required by law or necessary to enforce an arbitral award. Judgment upon the arbitrator's award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The parties expressly agree that this arbitration provision shall be governed by and enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act (the "FAA"), and to the extent any state arbitration law is inconsistent with the FAA, the FAA shall govern.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10.<u>Agreement Effective Date</u>. You acknowledge and understand that you: (a) have read and understand this Agreement and execute it voluntarily and without coercion; (b) are being advised herein to consult an attorney prior to executing this Agreement and have had a full opportunity to do so; (c) have forty-five (45) calendar days from the date you received this Agreement to consider, execute and return this Agreement to Efrem Reid at ereid@elmecommunities.com, and if you sign this Agreement prior to the end of the forty-five (45) day period, you have done so voluntarily; and (d) have seven (7) calendar days after executing this Agreement to revoke it by providing written notice of revocation to Efrem Reid at the contact information stated above, no later than 11:59 p.m. on the seventh calendar date after you signed this Agreement. You further understand that if you revoke this Agreement, it shall be null and void and of no force or effect on either you or the Company. This Agreement is not effective or enforceable until after the seven (7) day period expires without revocation (the "Effective Date"), and the Company's promises under this Agreement, including but not limited to its obligation to provide you with the Retention Agreement Payments, will arise only after this time. You further acknowledge that you have been provided with and understand Exhibit A to this Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the dates set forth below.

***IMPORTANT: This Agreement may not be signed by you, and will not be accepted by the Company, before the Termination Date***.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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## Ex-21

**Exhibit 21**

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|:---|:---|
| **Entity Name** | **State of Organization** |
| Elme 3801 Connecticut Ave Trustee LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Bethesda Holdings LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Bethesda Owner LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Communities | Maryland |
| Elme Conyers LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Germantown LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Kenmore LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Limited Partnership | Delaware |
| Elme Marietta LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Riverside Apartments LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Sandy Springs LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Support Services LLC | Delaware |
| Elme Watkins Mill LLC | Delaware |
| Washington Metro, Inc. | Maryland |
| Washington Parking, Inc. | Maryland |
| WashREIT 3801 Connecticut Ave Trust Ownership LLC | Delaware |
| WashREIT Monument Ii LLC | Delaware |
| WashREIT Op LLC | Delaware |
| WashREIT Op Sub Dc LLC | Delaware |
| WashREIT Riverside LLC | Delaware |
| WashREIT Takoma Park Shopping Center LLC | Delaware |
| WashREIT Watergate 600 Op LP | Delaware |
| WashREIT Wellington LLC | Delaware |
| Writ 1140 Ct LLC | Delaware |

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## Ex-23

**Exhibit 23**

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the following Registration Statements:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)Form S-3 No. 333-277167 of Elme Communities,

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)Form S-3 No. 333-277168 of Elme Communities, and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)Form S-8 No. 333-211418 pertaining to the 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (now known as Elme Communities), and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(4)Form S-8 No. 333-279832 pertaining to the Elme Communities 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan (as amended and restated effective as of May 30, 2024);

of our reports dated February 27, 2026, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Elme Communities and Subsidiaries and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Elme Communities and Subsidiaries included in this Annual Report (Form 10-K) of Elme Communities Company for the year ended December 31, 2025.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Tysons, Virginia

February 27, 2026

## Ex-24

**Exhibit 24**

**POWER OF<br>ATTORNEY**

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT the undersigned trustees of Elme Communities, a Maryland real estate investment trust, do hereby constitute and appoint W. DREW HAMMOND, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney in fact to sign his name to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and to any and all amendments, of said Company, and to cause the same to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney in fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary and proper to be done in the premises, as fully and to all intents, and purposes as the undersigned could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney in fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;February 17, 2026

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|:---|:---|
| /s/ JENNIFER S. BANNER | /s/ PAUL T. MCDERMOTT |
| JENNIFER S. BANNER | PAUL T. McDERMOTT |
| /s/ BENJAMIN S. BUTCHER | /s/ THOMAS H. NOLAN |
| BENJAMIN S. BUTCHER | THOMAS H. NOLAN, JR. |
| /s/ SUSAN CARRAS | /s/ RON D. STURZENEGGER |
| SUSAN CARRAS | RON D. STURZENEGGER |
| /s/ ELLEN M. GOITIA | /s/ ANTHONY L. WINNS |
| ELLEN M. GOITIA | ANTHONY L. WINNS |

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## Exhibit 31.1

**Exhibit 31.1** 

CERTIFICATION

I, Paul T. McDermott, certify that:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Elme Communities;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a.Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b.Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;c.Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;d.Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5.The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a.All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b.Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

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| | | |
|:---|:---|:---|
| DATE: | February 27, 2026 | /s/ Paul T. McDermott |
| | | Paul T. McDermott |
| | | Chief Executive Officer |

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## Exhibit 31.2

**Exhibit 31.2**

CERTIFICATION

I, Steven M. Freishtat, certify that:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Elme Communities;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a.Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b.Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;c.Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;d.Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5.The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a.All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b.Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

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| | | |
|:---|:---|:---|
| DATE: | February 27, 2026 | /s/ Steven M. Freishtat |
| | | Steven M. Freishtat |
| | | Chief Financial Officer |
| | | (Principal Financial Officer) |

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## Exhibit 31.3

**Exhibit 31.3**

CERTIFICATION

I, W. Drew Hammond, certify that:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Elme Communities;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a.Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b.Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;c.Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;d.Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5.The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a.All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;b.Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

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| | | |
|:---|:---|:---|
| DATE: | February 27, 2026 | /s/ W. Drew Hammond |
| | | W. Drew Hammond |
| | | Chief Administrative Officer |
| | | (Principal Accounting Officer) |

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## Ex-32

**Exhibit 32** 

WRITTEN STATEMENT OF

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

The undersigned, the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of Elme Communities, each hereby certifies on the date hereof, that:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed on the date hereof with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Report") fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Elme Communities.

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| | | |
|:---|:---|:---|
| DATE: | February 27, 2026 | /s/ Paul T. McDermott |
|  |  | Paul T. McDermott |
|  |  | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| DATE: | February 27, 2026 | /s/ Steven M. Freishtat |
|  |  | Steven M. Freishtat |
|  |  | Chief Financial Officer |
|  |  | (Principal Financial Officer) |
| DATE: | February 27, 2026 | /s/ W. Drew Hammond |
|  |  | W. Drew Hammond |
|  |  | Chief Administrative Officer |
|  |  | (Principal Accounting Officer) |

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