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Dec. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Organization | Organization The accompanying consolidated financial statements present the accounts of Essex Property Trust, Inc. ("Essex" or the "Company"), which include the accounts of the Company and Essex Portfolio, L.P. and its subsidiaries (the "Operating Partnership," which holds the operating assets of the Company). Unless otherwise indicated, the notes to consolidated financial statements apply to both the Company and the Operating Partnership. Essex is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership with a 96.6% general partner interest and the limited partners owned a 3.4% interest as of December 31, 2021. The limited partners may convert their Operating Partnership units into an equivalent number of shares of Essex common stock. Total Operating Partnership limited partnership units ("OP Units," and the holders of such OP Units, "Unitholders") outstanding were 2,282,464 and 2,294,760 as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and the redemption value of the units, based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock, totaled approximately $804.0 million and $544.8 million, as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The Company has reserved shares of common stock for such conversions. As of December 31, 2021, the Company owned or had ownership interests in 252 operating apartment communities, comprising 61,911 apartment homes, excluding the Company's ownership interests in preferred interest co-investments, loan investments, three operating commercial building, and a development pipeline comprised of one consolidated project and one unconsolidated joint venture project. The operating apartment communities are located in Southern California (primarily Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, and Ventura counties), Northern California (the San Francisco Bay Area) and the Seattle metropolitan areas.

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