Elme Communities

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.