Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation Reports 2025 Fourth Quarter Results & Takes Action to Significantly Improve Balance Sheet and FFO1

Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCT) ("we", "our", "CMCT", or the "Company") today reported operating results for the three months ended December 31, 2025.

Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights

Real Estate Portfolio

• CMCT's office portfolio was 74.8% leased as of December 31, 2025 (88.5% leased when excluding our one Oakland office building (the "Oakland Office Building"), compared to 81.7% leased as of December 31, 2024).
• Executed 22,966 square feet of leases with terms longer than 12 months.
• During the fourth quarter, one of our unconsolidated joint ventures completed the development of a 36-unit multifamily building in Los Angeles, California.

Financial Results

• Net loss attributable to common stockholders of $(17.7) million, or $(11.20) per diluted share.
• Funds from operations attributable to common stockholders ("FFO")⁽³⁾¹ was $(7.1) million, or $(4.49) per diluted share.
• Core FFO attributable to common stockholders ("Core FFO")⁽⁴⁾¹ was $(5.9) million, or $(3.74) per diluted share.

Asset Sales

• On January 21, 2026, we completed the sale of our lending business ("First Western") for a purchase price of approximately $44.9 million².

Management Commentary

The Company continues to make significant progress on its previously announced plan to accelerate its focus towards premier multifamily assets, strengthen the balance sheet and improve liquidity. Operating trends have been improving across the multifamily portfolio, the Los Angeles and Austin office assets and the company's one hotel.

Since announcing this plan in September 2024, the company has significantly improved its balance sheet having completed financings on nine assets, fully retired its recourse credit facility, sold its lending business and redeemed approximately $153.3 million of Preferred Stock into shares of the Company's Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"). In addition, the Company announced today that it expects to redeem approximately 1,957,023 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, approximately 7,767,609 shares of Series A1 Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share and approximately 21,760 shares of Series D Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (collectively, the "Preferred Stock"), in shares of Common Stock (the "March 2026 Redemption").

The Redemption is expected to improve CMCT's FFO¹ by approximately $16.0 million per year³ and returns the company's capital structure back to its long-term target (approximately 38% common equity, 7% preferred equity and 55% debt when adjusting for the Redemption), on a fair value basis. Given the company's significantly improved financial position, other than the March 2026 Redemption, the company does not currently intend to redeem, at the Company's election, additional Preferred Stock in shares of Common Stock. However, the Company will evaluate redemption requests submitted by holders of Preferred Stock at the time it receives such requests and may elect to redeem those Preferred Shares in Common Stock or cash, at the Company's discretion.

Operating Trends

The company believes there is an opportunity to significantly improve net operating income of its multifamily portfolio by increasing occupancy and by renewing leases at market rents which exceed in-place rents. CMCT's multifamily occupancy, excluding its building in Echo Park Los Angeles which just began lease-up during Q4, was 88.5% as of December 31, 2025, representing a 320 basis point and 680 basis point improvement from the third quarter of 2025 and the fourth quarter 2024, respectively. In addition, the Company completed a 36 unit premier, class A multifamily apartment building in Echo Park Los Angeles in the fourth quarter of 2025. At year-end, the building was 16.7% occupied; as of the end of February 2026, the building was approximately 52% leased. The Company is also seeing improving demand at its Bay Area multifamily buildings with occupancy improving to 88.4% at 2025 year-end, compared to 84.7% at the end of the third quarter of 2025.

In the office segment, the Company executed approximately 182,120 square feet of leases during 2025. Excluding the Oakland Office Building, the leased percentage was 88.5% at the end of 2025, a 190 basis point improvement from the third quarter of 2025 and a 680 basis point improvement the fourth quarter of 2024. During the fourth quarter of 2025, occupancy at the Company's 1130 Howard office building increased to 100% from 38.9% in the third quarter of 2025. At 11600 Wilshire Boulevard, the Company recently commenced a renovation program on several small suites, which is anticipated to fuel leasing activity. The Company owns one office asset in Oakland, where demand continues to be challenging. The mortgage on the asset matures in the third quarter of 2026; the Company is currently seeking an extension of the maturity but cannot guarantee it will reach an agreement with the lender. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Oakland Office Building generated approximately $0.5 million of cash flow after debt service⁴.

In the hotel segment, the Company has substantially completed the renovation of the public space during the first quarter of 2026, following the renovation of all 505 rooms, setting the property up well for 2026 and beyond. The renovation was the first large scale renovation of the property since it was acquired in 2008.

Asset Sales

In January 2026, the Company completed the sale of its lending division for a purchase price of approximately $44.9 million (which is net of the outstanding balance of debt related to the 2023 securitization of certain loan receivables), subject to post-closing adjustments. Giving effect to the payment of other debt, transaction expenses and other matters, the transactions yielded net cash proceeds to the Company of approximately $31.2 million.

The Company continues to evaluate additional asset sales.

Fourth Quarter 2025 Results

Real Estate Portfolio

As of December 31, 2025, our real estate portfolio consisted of 27 assets, all of which were fee-simple properties and five of which we own through investments in unconsolidated joint ventures. Our unconsolidated joint ventures contain one office property, three multifamily properties (one of which has been partially converted from office into multifamily units and is now classified as a multifamily property) and one commercial development site. As of December 31, 2025, our 12 office properties, totaling approximately 1.3 million rentable square feet, were 74.8% occupied; our one hotel with an ancillary parking garage, which has a total of 505 rooms, had RevPAR of $152.70 for the year ended December 31, 2025, and our five multifamily properties were 85.3% occupied. Additionally, as of December 31, 2025, we had eight development sites (two of which were being used as parking lots).

Financial Results

Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $(17.7) million, or $(11.20) per diluted share of Common Stock, for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $(16.6) million, or $(44.52) per diluted share of Common Stock, for the same period in 2024. The increase in net loss attributable to common stockholders was primarily due to an increase in impairment of real estate of $3.5 million and an increase in interest expense not allocated to our operating segments of $941,000, partially offset by an increase in segment net operating income of $1.7 million and a decrease in loss on early extinguishment of debt of $1.4 million.

FFO⁽³⁾⁵was $(7.1) million, or $(4.49) per diluted share of Common Stock, for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to $(8.7) million, or $(23.21) per diluted share of Common Stock, for the same period in 2024. The increase in FFO¹ was primarily due to an increase of $1.7 million in segment net operating income, a decrease in loss on early extinguishment of debt of $1.4 million and a decrease of $923,000 in redeemable preferred stock dividends. These were partially offset by an increase in interest expense not allocated to our operating segments of $941,000, an increase in redeemable preferred stock redemptions of $883,000, and an increase in general and administrative expenses of $617,000.

Core FFO⁽⁴⁾¹ was $(5.9) million, or $(3.74) per diluted share of Common Stock for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to $(7.0) million, or $(18.64) per diluted share of Common Stock for the same period in 2024. The increase in Core FFO¹ is attributable to the aforementioned changes in FFO¹, while not impacted by the decrease in loss on early extinguishment of debt or the increase in redeemable preferred stock redemptions, as these are excluded from our Core FFO¹ calculation.

Segment Information

Our reportable segments during the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 consisted of three types of commercial real estate properties, namely, office, hotel and multifamily, as well as a segment for our lending business. Total segment net operating income ("NOI")⁽⁵⁾ was $10.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to $9.2 million for the same period in 2024.

Office

Same-Store

Same-store⁽²⁾ office segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ was $6.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, an increase from $5.2 million compared to same period in 2024, while same-store⁽¹⁾ office Cash NOI⁽⁶⁾⁶ was $7.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, a increase from $6.2 million in the same period in 2024. The increase in same-store⁽²⁾ office Segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ was primarily driven by an increase in rental revenues at an office property in Austin, Texas, due to an increase in occupancy, and at an office property in Beverly Hills, California, which had an increase in occupancy and rental rates as well as a decrease in property taxes. These were partially offset by a decrease in rental revenues at an office property in Los Angeles, California due to a decrease in occupancy, and at an office property in San Francisco, California, due to a decrease in rental rates.

At December 31, 2025, the Company's same-store⁽²⁾ office portfolio was 74.8% occupied, a decrease of 420 basis points year-over-year on a same-store⁽²⁾ basis, and 74.8% leased, a decrease of 380 basis points year-over-year on a same-store⁽²⁾ basis. The annualized rent per occupied square foot⁽⁷⁾ on a same-store⁽²⁾ basis was $58.78 at December 31, 2025, compared to $60.48 at December 31, 2024. During the three months ended December 31, 2025, the Company executed 22,966 square feet of leases with terms longer than 12 months at our same-store⁽²⁾ office portfolio.

Total

Office Segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ increased to $6.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, as compared to $5.2 million for the same period in 2024, driven by the aforementioned decrease in same-store⁽²⁾ office Segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ as there was no non-same-store office activity during either period.

Hotel

Hotel Segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ was $2.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, consistent with $2.1 million for the same period in 2024:

Multifamily

Our Multifamily Segment consists of two multifamily buildings located in Oakland, California as well as three investments in multifamily buildings in Los Angeles, California owned through unconsolidated joint ventures, one of which, 701 S Hudson / 4750 Wilshire Boulevard, was reclassified from an office segment property to a multifamily segment property as of October 1, 2024, following the conversion of a portion of the building from office space into multifamily units and one property, 1915 Park Avenue, where we just completed the development of a 36-unit multifamily building during the fourth quarter of 2025. Our multifamily segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ was $(870,000) for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to $855,000 for the same period in 2024. The decrease in our multifamily segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ was primarily due to an increase in the unrealized loss on investments in real estate at our unconsolidated joint ventures during the three months ended December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, our Multifamily Segment was 85.3% occupied, monthly rent per occupied unit⁽⁸⁾ was $2,497 and net monthly rent per occupied unit⁽⁹⁾ was $2,127, compared to 81.7%, $2,468, and $2,319, respectively, as of December 31, 2024.

Lending

Our lending segment primarily consisted of our SBA 7(a) lending platform, which was a national lender that primarily originated loans to small businesses in the hospitality industry. Lending segment NOI⁽⁵⁾ was $3.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to $980,000 for the same period in 2024. The increase was primarily due to the reversal of CECL during the three months ended December 31, 2025 in connection with the reclassification of the assets and liabilities of First Western to held for sale. This was partially offset by a decrease in interest income as a result of loan payoffs and lower interest rates. Our lending segment was sold in January 2026.

Debt and Equity

During the three months ended December 31, 2025, the Company redeemed 342,521 shares of Series A1 Preferred Stock (all shares were redeemed in shares of Common Stock), 351,874 shares of Series A Preferred Stock (all shares were redeemed in shares of Common Stock), and 4,122 shares of Series D Preferred Stock (all shares were redeemed in shares of Common Stock). These redemptions resulted in the collective issuance of 1,910,435 shares of Common Stock during the three months ended December 31, 2025.

Dividends

We declared preferred stock dividends on our Series A, Series A1 and Series D Preferred Stock for the fourth quarter of 2025. The dividends were payable on January 15, 2026 to holders of record at the close of business on January 5, 2026.

The dividend amounts are as follows:

About the Data

Descriptions of certain performance measures, including Segment NOI, Cash NOI, FFO attributable to common stockholders, and Core FFO attributable to common stockholders are provided below. Certain of these performance measures—Cash NOI, FFO attributable to common stockholders and Core FFO attributable to common stockholders —are non-GAAP financial measures. Refer to the subsequent tables for reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), which are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. These statements include the plans and objectives of management for future operations, including plans and objectives relating to future growth of CMCT's business and availability of funds. Such forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "project," "target," "expect," "intend," "might," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "could," "would," "continue," "pursue," "potential," "forecast," "seek," "plan," or "should," or "goal" or the negative thereof or other variations or similar words or phrases. Such forward-looking statements also include, among others, statements about CMCT's plans and objectives relating to future growth and outlook. Such forward-looking statements are based on particular assumptions that management of CMCT has made in light of its experience, as well as its perception of expected future developments and other factors that it believes are appropriate under the circumstances. Forward-looking statements are necessarily estimates reflecting the judgment of CMCT's management and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include those associated with (i) the timing, form, and operational effects of CMCT's development activities, (ii) the ability of CMCT to raise in place rents to existing market rents and to maintain or increase occupancy levels, (iii) fluctuations in market rents, (iv) the effects of inflation and continuing higher interest rates on the operations and profitability of CMCT and (v) general economic, market and other conditions, including the effects of high unemployment rates, continued or renewed inflation and any recession or slowdown in economic growth. Additional important factors that could cause CMCT's actual results to differ materially from CMCT's expectations are discussed in "Item 1A—Risk Factors" in CMCT's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and in Part II, Item 1A of CMCT's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. The forward-looking statements included herein are based on current expectations and there can be no assurance that these expectations will be attained. Assumptions relating to the foregoing involve judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive and market conditions and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond CMCT's control. Although we believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate and, therefore, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements expressed or implied will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements expressed or implied herein, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by CMCT or any other person that CMCT's objectives and plans will be achieved. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. CMCT does not undertake to update them to reflect changes that occur after the date they are made, except as may be required by applicable securities laws.

CREATIVE MEDIA & COMMUNITY TRUST CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Funds from Operations Attributable to Common Stockholders

(Unaudited and in thousands, except per share amounts)

We believe that FFO is a widely recognized and appropriate measure of the performance of a REIT and that it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present FFO when reporting their results. FFO represents net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders, computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), which reflects the deduction of redeemable preferred stock dividends accumulated, excluding gains (or losses) from sales of real estate, impairment of real estate, and real estate depreciation and amortization. We calculate FFO in accordance with the standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (the "NAREIT").

Like any metric, FFO should not be used as the only measure of our performance because it excludes depreciation and amortization and captures neither the changes in the value of our real estate properties that result from use or market conditions nor the level of capital expenditures and leasing commissions necessary to maintain the operating performance of our properties, all of which have real economic effect and could materially impact our operating results. Other REITs may not calculate FFO in accordance with the standards established by the NAREIT; accordingly, our FFO may not be comparable to the FFO of other REITs. Therefore, FFO should be considered only as a supplement to net income (loss) as a measure of our performance and should not be used as a supplement to or substitute measure for cash flows from operating activities computed in accordance with GAAP. FFO should not be used as a measure of our liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to pay dividends. The following table sets forth a reconciliation of net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders to FFO attributable to common stockholders for the three months and years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.

CREATIVE MEDIA & COMMUNITY TRUST CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Core Funds from Operations Attributable to Common Stockholders

(Unaudited and in thousands, except per share amounts)

In addition to calculating FFO in accordance with the standards established by NAREIT, we also calculate a supplemental FFO metric we call Core FFO attributable to common stockholders. Core FFO attributable to common stockholders represents FFO attributable to common stockholders, computed in accordance with NAREIT's standards, excluding losses (or gains) on early extinguishment of debt, redeemable preferred stock redemptions, gains (or losses) on termination of interest rate swaps, and transaction costs. We believe that Core FFO is a useful metric for securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of our Company as it excludes from FFO the effect of certain amounts that we believe are non-recurring, are non-operating in nature as they relate to the manner in which we finance our operations, or transactions outside of the ordinary course of business.

Like any metric, Core FFO should not be used as the only measure of our performance because, in addition to excluding those items prescribed by NAREIT when calculating FFO, it excludes amounts incurred in connection with non-recurring special projects, prepaying or defeasing our debt and repurchasing our preferred stock, all of which have real economic effect and could materially impact our operating results. Other REITs may not calculate Core FFO in the same manner as we do, or at all; accordingly, our Core FFO may not be comparable to the Core FFO of other REITs who calculate such a metric. Therefore, Core FFO should be considered only as a supplement to net income (loss) as a measure of our performance and should not be used as a supplement to or substitute measure for cash flows from operating activities computed in accordance with GAAP. Core FFO should not be used as a measure of our liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to pay dividends. The following table sets forth a reconciliation of net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders to Core FFO attributable to common stockholders for the three months and the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.

CREATIVE MEDIA & COMMUNITY TRUST CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Reconciliation of Net Operating Income

(Unaudited and in thousands)

We internally evaluate the operating performance and financial results of our real estate segments based on segment NOI, which is defined as rental and other property income and expense reimbursements less property related expenses and excludes non-property income and expenses, interest expense, depreciation and amortization, corporate related general and administrative expenses, gain (loss) on sale of real estate, gain (loss) on early extinguishment of debt, impairment of real estate, transaction costs, and provision for income taxes. For our lending segment, we define segment NOI as interest income net of interest expense and general overhead expenses. We also evaluate the operating performance and financial results of our operating segments using cash basis NOI, or "cash NOI". For our real estate segments, we define cash NOI as segment NOI adjusted to exclude the effect of the straight lining of rents, acquired above/below market lease amortization and other adjustments required by GAAP.

Cash NOI is not a measure of operating results or cash flows from operating activities as measured by GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to income from continuing operations, or to cash flows as a measure of liquidity, or as an indication of our performance or of our ability to pay dividends. Companies may not calculate cash NOI in the same manner. We consider cash NOI to be a useful performance measure to investors and management because, when compared across periods, it reflects the revenues and expenses directly associated with owning and operating our properties and the impact to operations from trends in occupancy rates, rental rates and operating costs, providing a perspective not immediately apparent from income from continuing operations. Additionally, we believe that cash NOI is helpful to investors because it eliminates straight line rent and other non-cash adjustments to revenue and expenses.

Below is a reconciliation of cash NOI to segment NOI and net income (loss) attributable to the Company for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.

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