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Capital Structure (UNITED DOMINION REALTY, L.P.) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
United Dominion Reality L.P. |
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE | CAPITAL STRUCTURE General Partnership Units The General Partner has complete discretion to manage and control the operations and business of the Operating Partnership, which includes but is not limited to the acquisition and disposition of real property, construction of buildings and making capital improvements, and the borrowing of funds from outside lenders or UDR and its subsidiaries to finance such activities. The General Partner can generally authorize, issue, sell, redeem or purchase any OP Unit or securities of the Operating Partnership without the approval of the limited partners. The General Partner can also approve, with regard to the issuances of OP Units, the class or one or more series of classes, with designations, preferences, participating, optional or other special rights, powers and duties including rights, powers and duties senior to limited partnership interests without approval of any limited partners except holders of Class A Limited Partnership Units. There were 110,883 General Partnership units outstanding at December 31, 2015 and 2014, all of which were held by UDR. Limited Partnership Units At December 31, 2015 and 2014, there were 183,167,815 limited partnership units outstanding, of which 1,873,332 were Class A Limited Partnership Units. UDR owned 174,114,516 limited partnership units or 95.1% and 174,002,342 limited partnership units or 95.0% at December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The remaining 9,053,299 or 4.9% and 9,165,473 or 5.0% limited partnership units outstanding were held by non-affiliated partners at December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, of which 1,751,671 were Class A Limited Partnership Units. Subject to the terms of the Operating Partnership Agreement, the limited partners have the right to require the Operating Partnership to redeem all or a portion of the OP Units held by the limited partner at a redemption price equal to and in the form of the Cash Amount (as defined in the Operating Partnership Agreement), provided that such OP Units have been outstanding for at least one year. UDR, as general partner of the Operating Partnership, may, in its sole discretion, purchase the OP Units by paying to the limited partner either the Cash Amount or the REIT Share Amount (generally one share of common stock of UDR for each OP Unit), as defined in the Operating Partnership Agreement. The non-affiliated limited partners’ capital is adjusted to redemption value at the end of each reporting period with the corresponding offset against UDR’s limited partner capital account based on the redemption rights noted above. The aggregate value upon redemption of the then-outstanding OP Units held by limited partners was $340.1 million and $282.5 million as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, based on the value of UDR’s common stock at each period end. A limited partner has no right to receive any distributions from the Operating Partnership on or after the date of redemption of its OP Units. Class A Limited Partnership Units Class A Limited Partnership Units have a cumulative, annual, non-compounded preferred return, which is equal to 8% based on a value of $16.61 per Class A Limited Partnership Unit. Holders of the Class A Limited Partnership Units exclusively possess certain voting rights. The Operating Partnership may not do the following without approval of the holders of the Class A Limited Partnership Units: (i) increase the authorized or issued amount of Class A Limited Partnership Units, (ii) reclassify any other partnership interest into Class A Limited Partnership Units, (iii) create, authorize or issue any obligations or security convertible into or the right to purchase any class of limited partnership units, without the approval of the holders of the Class A Limited Partnership Units, (iv) enter into a merger or acquisition, or (v) amend or modify the Operating Partnership Agreement in a manner that adversely affects the relative rights, preferences or privileges of the Class A Limited Partnership Units. The following table shows OP Units outstanding and OP Unit activity as of and for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013:
| Class A Limited Partner |  |  |  | UDR, Inc. |  |
|  | Limited Partners |  | Limited Partner |  | General Partner |  | Total
Ending balance at December 31, 2012 | 1,751,671 |  |  | 7,643,548 |  |  | 174,775,152 |  |  | 110,883 |  |  | 184,281,254 |
OP Units redeemed for the distribution of real estate to the General partner (a) | — |  |  | — |  |  | (1,002,556 | ) |  | — |  |  | (1,002,556 | )
OP redemptions for UDR stock | — |  |  | (76,295 | ) |  | 76,295 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Ending balance at December 31, 2013 | 1,751,671 |  |  | 7,567,253 |  |  | 173,848,891 |  |  | 110,883 |  |  | 183,278,698 |
OP redemptions for UDR stock | — |  |  | (153,451 | ) |  | 153,451 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Ending balance at December 31, 2014 | 1,751,671 |  |  | 7,413,802 |  |  | 174,002,342 |  |  | 110,883 |  |  | 183,278,698 |
OP redemptions for UDR stock | — |  |  | (112,174 | ) |  | 112,174 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Ending balance at December 31, 2015 | 1,751,671 |  |  | 7,301,628 |  |  | 174,114,516 |  |  | 110,883 |  |  | 183,278,698 |
(a) In November 2013, the Operating Partnership distributed the development property Los Alisos to the General Partner as a capital distribution. Upon the distribution of the property, the Operating Partnership redeemed 1,002,556 limited partnership units owned by UDR and affiliated entities, resulting in a capital reduction of $23.3 million. Allocation of Profits and Losses Profit of the Operating Partnership is allocated in the following order: (i) to the General Partner and the Limited Partners in proportion to and up to the amount of cash distributions made during the year, and (ii) to the General Partner and Limited Partners in accordance with their percentage interests. Losses and depreciation and amortization expenses, non-recourse liabilities are allocated to the General Partner and Limited Partners in accordance with their percentage interests. Losses allocated to the Limited Partners are capped to the extent that such an allocation would not cause a deficit in the Limited Partners capital account. Such losses are, therefore, allocated to the General Partner. If any Partner’s capital balance were to fall into a deficit any income and gains are allocated to each Partner sufficient to eliminate its negative capital balance.

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