ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST ANNOUNCES PROGRESS IN PLAN TO PAY OFF STRATEGIC FINANCING WITH CLOSING OF SALE OF THE HILTON BOSTON BACK BAY

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Apr 10, 2024, 18:05 ET

DALLAS, April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced that it has closed on the sale of the 390-room Hilton Boston Back Bay in Boston, Massachusetts for $171 million ($438,000 per key). All of the proceeds from the sale were used for debt reduction including approximately $68 million to pay down the Company's strategic financing.

"We are pleased to announce the closing of the sale of the Hilton Boston Back Bay for a very attractive value and the significant progress we've made in paying down our strategic financing," commented Rob Hays, Ashford Trust's President and Chief Executive Officer. "With this recent paydown, the remaining balance on our strategic financing is now approximately $112 million, and going forward, we plan to make regular paydowns with proceeds from the sale of our non-traded preferred stock and other asset sales. We continue to have several assets in the market at various stages of the sales process and look forward to providing more updates in the coming weeks."

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Ashford Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing predominantly in upper upscale, full-service hotels.

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These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including, without limitation: our ability to raise sufficient capital to pay off our strategic debt; our ability to repay, refinance, or restructure our debt and the debt of certain of our subsidiaries; anticipated or expected purchases or sales of assets; our projected operating results; completion of any pending transactions; our understanding of our competition; market trends; projected capital expenditures; the impact of technology on our operations and business; general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of our common stock and preferred stock; availability, terms and deployment of capital; availability of qualified personnel; changes in our industry and the markets in which we operate, interest rates or the general economy; and the degree and nature of our competition. These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in Ashford Trust's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SOURCE Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.