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Basis Of Presentation And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2013
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Basis Of Presentation And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies | Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Boston Properties, Inc. does not have any other significant assets, liabilities or operations, other than its investment in the Operating Partnership, nor does it have employees of its own. The Operating Partnership, not Boston Properties, Inc., executes all significant business relationships. All majority-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures over which the Company has financial and operating control and variable interest entities ("VIE"s) in which the Company has determined it is the primary beneficiary are included in the consolidated financial statements. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company accounts for all other unconsolidated joint ventures using the equity method of accounting. Accordingly, the Company’s share of the earnings of these joint ventures and companies is included in consolidated net income. The accompanying interim financial statements are unaudited; however, the financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and in conjunction with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, they do not include all of the disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting solely of normal recurring matters) necessary for a fair statement of the financial statements for these interim periods have been included. The results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be obtained for other interim periods or for the full fiscal year. The year-end consolidated balance sheet data was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosure required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company’s Annual Report in the Company’s Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2012. Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. The Company follows the authoritative guidance for fair value measurements when valuing its financial instruments for disclosure purposes. The Company determines the fair value of its unsecured senior notes and unsecured exchangeable senior notes using market prices. The inputs used in determining the fair value of the Company’s unsecured senior notes and unsecured exchangeable senior notes is categorized at a level 1 basis (as defined in the accounting standards for Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures) due to the fact that the Company uses quoted market rates to value these instruments. However, the inputs used in determining the fair value could be categorized at a level 2 basis (as defined in the accounting standards for Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures) if trading volumes are low. The Company determines the fair value of its mortgage notes payable using discounted cash flow analyses by discounting the spread between the future contractual interest payments and hypothetical future interest payments on mortgage debt based on current market rates for similar securities. In determining the current market rates, the Company adds its estimates of market spreads to the quoted yields on federal government treasury securities with similar maturity dates to its debt. The inputs used in determining the fair value of the Company’s mortgage notes payable are categorized at a level 3 basis (as defined in the accounting standards for Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures) due to the fact that the Company considers the rates used in the valuation techniques to be unobservable inputs. Because the Company’s valuations of its financial instruments are based on these types of estimates, the actual fair values of its financial instruments may differ materially if the Company’s estimates do not prove to be accurate. The following table presents the aggregate carrying value of the Company’s indebtedness and the Company’s corresponding estimate of fair value as of June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012 (in thousands):
| June 30, 2013 |  | December 31, 2012
| Carrying Amount |  |  |  | Estimated Fair Value |  | Carrying Amount |  |  |  | Estimated Fair Value
Mortgage notes payable | $ | 4,484,657 |  |  |  |  | $ | 4,598,927 |  |  | $ | 3,102,485 |  |  |  |  | $ | 3,256,940 |
Mezzanine notes payable | 311,637 |  |  |  |  | 311,665 |  |  | — |  |  |  |  | — |
Unsecured senior notes | 5,834,973 |  |  |  |  | 6,093,237 |  |  | 4,639,528 |  |  |  |  | 5,162,486 |
Unsecured exchangeable senior notes | 734,278 |  |  | (1) |  | 772,691 |  |  | 1,170,356 |  |  | (1) |  | 1,278,554 |
Total | $ | 11,365,545 |  |  |  |  | $ | 11,776,520 |  |  | $ | 8,912,369 |  |  |  |  | $ | 9,697,980 |
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(1) | Includes the net adjustment for the equity component allocation totaling approximately $12.3 million and $25.5 million at June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.
Out-of-Period Adjustment During the six months ended June 30, 2012, the Company recorded additional real estate operating expenses totaling approximately $3.2 million related to the cumulative non-cash straight-line adjustment to the ground rent expense of certain ground leases that were not previously recognized on a straight-line basis. This resulted in the overstatement of real estate operating expenses by approximately $3.2 million during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and in the understatement of real estate operating expenses in the aggregate amount of approximately $3.2 million in previous periods. Because this adjustment was not material to the prior years’ consolidated financial statements and the impact of recording the adjustment in the then-current period was not material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements, the Company recorded the related adjustment during the six months ended June 30, 2012. Revision of Prior Period Amounts The table below reflects selected information for the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012. The servicer of the non-recourse mortgage loan in the amount of $25.0 million collateralized by the Company's Montvale Center property located in Gaithersburg, Maryland foreclosed on the property on January 31, 2012. As a result of the foreclosure, the Company recognized a gain on forgiveness of debt during the six months ended June 30, 2012 totaling approximately $17.8 million. Due to a procedural error of the trustee, the foreclosure sale was subsequently dismissed by the applicable court prior to ratification. As a result, the Company, as part of its 2012 Form 10-K filing, revised its financial statements to (1) properly reflect the property and related mortgage debt on its consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2012, (2) reverse the gain on forgiveness of debt during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and (3) recognize the operating activity from the property for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012. On February 20, 2013, the subsequent foreclosure sale of Montvale Center was ratified by the court. As a result of the ratification, the mortgage loan totaling $25.0 million was extinguished and the related obligations were satisfied with the transfer of the real estate resulting in the recognition of a gain on forgiveness of debt totaling approximately $20.2 million during the six months ended June 30, 2013 (See Note 3). As a result, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, the activity for Montvale Center has been reclassified to discontinued operations in the consolidated statements of operations. In addition, operating results have been reclassified for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 as a result of the discontinued operations presentation of (1) the Company's Bedford Business Park properties which were sold on May 17, 2012 and (2) the Company's 303 Almaden Boulevard property which was sold on June 28, 2013 (See Note 3).
|  | For the three months ended June 30, 2012 |  | For the six months ended June 30, 2012
|  | As Reported |  | As Revised |  | As Reported |  | As Revised
|  | (in thousands, except for per share amounts)
Total revenue |  | $ | 472,897 |  |  | $ | 471,349 |  |  | $ | 918,124 |  |  | $ | 915,042 |
Income from continuing operations |  | $ | 97,471 |  |  | $ | 97,079 |  |  | $ | 153,188 |  |  | $ | 152,344 |
Discontinued operations |  | $ | 37,275 |  |  | $ | 37,095 |  |  | $ | 55,568 |  |  | $ | 37,665 |
Net income attributable to Boston Properties, Inc. common shareholders |  | $ | 119,070 |  |  | $ | 118,559 |  |  | $ | 183,672 |  |  | $ | 166,971 |
Income attributable to Boston Properties, Inc. common shareholders per share—basic |  | $ | 0.79 |  |  | $ | 0.79 |  |  | $ | 1.23 |  |  | $ | 1.12 |
Income attributable to Boston Properties, Inc. common shareholders per share—diluted |  | $ | 0.79 |  |  | $ | 0.78 |  |  | $ | 1.23 |  |  | $ | 1.12 |
Recent Accounting Pronouncements In February 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2013-02, "Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income" (“ASU No. 2013-02”). ASU No. 2013-02 requires an entity to provide information about the amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income by component. In addition, an entity is required to present, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes, significant amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income by the respective line items of net income, but only if the amount reclassified is required to be reclassified to net income in its entirety in the same reporting period. For other amounts that are not required to be reclassified in their entirety to net income, an entity is required to cross-reference to other disclosures that provide additional detail about those amounts. ASU No. 2013-02 is effective prospectively for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2012. The Company’s adoption of ASU No. 2013-02 did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

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