ACRES Commercial Realty Corp.

General

We are a Maryland corporation, incorporated in 2005, and a real estate finance company that is organized and conducts our operations to qualify as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for federal income tax purposes under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code. On February 16, 2021, we amended our certificate of incorporation to change our name to ACRES Commercial Realty Corp. from Exantas Capital Corp. Our investment strategy is primarily focused on originating, holding and managing commercial real estate (“CRE”) mortgage loans and equity investments in commercial real estate property through direct ownership and joint ventures. We are externally managed by ACRES Capital, LLC (our “Manager”) a subsidiary of ACRES Capital Corp. (collectively “ACRES”), a private commercial real estate lender exclusively dedicated to nationwide middle market CRE lending with a focus on multifamily, student housing, hospitality, industrial and office property in top United States, or U.S., markets. Our Manager draws upon the management team of ACRES and its collective investment experience to provide its services.

Our objective is to provide our stockholders with total returns over time, including the payment of quarterly distributions when approved by our board of directors, (our “Board”) and capital appreciation, while seeking to manage the risks associated with our investment strategies. We finance a substantial portion of our portfolio investments through borrowing strategies seeking to match the maturities and repricing dates of our financings with the maturities and repricing dates of our investments.

Our investment strategy targets the following CRE credit investments, including:

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Floating-rate first mortgage loans, which we refer to as whole loans;

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First priority interests in first mortgage loans, which we refer to as A-notes;

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Subordinated interests in first mortgage loans, which we refer to as B-notes;

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Preferred equity investments related to CRE that are subordinate to first mortgage loans and are not collateralized by the property underlying the investment; and

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CRE equity investments.

We generate our income primarily from the spread between the revenues we receive from our interest-bearing assets and the cost to finance our ownership of those assets, including corporate debt. We also derive rental income from our direct equity investments in commercial real estate property.

We typically target transitional floating-rate CRE loans between $10.0 million and $100.0 million. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we originated 15 CRE loans with total commitments of $757.3 million. At December 31, 2025, our CRE loan portfolio at par comprised $1.8 billion of CRE whole loans with a weighted average spread of 3.35% over the one-month benchmark interest rates utilized, which have a weighted average floor of 1.78%.