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Streitwise Buyout at $7.00 a Share by Its CEO's Company: Vote December 16, 2026

By Jorge··22 min read

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Quick Answer

On November 9, 2026, 1st stREIT Office Inc. (SEC CIK 1700461), the Regulation A REIT sold as Streitwise, signed an Agreement and Plan of Merger with TH Abide LLC, an entity owned by the company’s chief executive officer and a family trust. Each common share would be converted into $7.00 in cash, without interest. The Form 1-U was filed on November 10, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-125197); the proxy statement and the merger agreement are its Exhibit 6.1. Against the record: $7.00 is 0.6% above the $6.96 NAV (calculated as of March 31, 2026 and in force since July 1, 2026) and 30% below the $10.00 offering price (our arithmetic). The vote is December 16, 2026, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, virtual, and needs a majority of the 1,798,167 outstanding shares, so at least 899,084 shares in favor (our arithmetic); not voting counts as a vote against. There are no dissenters’ or appraisal rights. The deal can end on May 10, 2027 (the outside date) and carries $125,000 termination fees each way. The redemption plan stayed suspended: 454,594 shares were still queued at June 30, 2026, 25.3% of the shares outstanding (our arithmetic); at $7.00 they would be worth $3,182,158 (our arithmetic). The board recommends a yes vote, with the chief executive recused. It did not form a special committee, did not obtain a fairness opinion and did not run a market check. This is analysis of public documents, not investment, legal or tax advice.

Key Takeaways

  • The price: $7.00 in cash per share against a $6.96 NAV (March 31, 2026), a $6.84 low (December 31, 2024), a $7.01 level at March 31, 2023 and a $10.21 high (September 30, 2020). It is 0.1% under the March 2023 NAV and 2.0% under the $7.14 NAV of 2024 (our arithmetic).
  • The buyer is TH Abide LLC, owned 99.95% by a trust for the chief executive’s family and 0.05% by the chief executive. The chief executive also owns the sponsor, Tryperion Holdings LLC, whose subsidiary is the company’s external manager.
  • The appraisal the board relied on, by Newmark Valuation & Advisory, LLC, totals $73,075,000 for the four buildings as of July 1, 2026, after a July 31 draft of $69,775,000. The manager’s own NAV table carried the same real estate at $76,900,000 on March 31, 2026 (our arithmetic: 5.0% lower).
  • The proposals: $74,200,000 from the buyer on April 22, 2026, a $80,000,000 counter from the two directors who negotiated on May 19, and a revised $77,300,000 enterprise value on May 22. The filings do not state the final enterprise value.
  • Vote: a majority of all outstanding shares, 899,084 or more of 1,798,167 (our arithmetic). Abstaining or not voting has the same effect as voting no. Record date November 9, 2026; the meeting is December 16, 2026.
  • No dissenters’ or appraisal rights: the merger agreement (Section 2.3) and the proxy statement say no remedy under Sections 3-201 et seq. of the Maryland General Corporation Law is available, even to holders who vote no.
  • Dates and money: outside date May 10, 2027 (one 30-day extension possible); $125,000 termination fee payable by the company in specified cases and $125,000 by TH Abide if it fails to close; closing is expected in the first quarter of 2027.
  • The operating-partnership units held by limited partners are not converted and stay outstanding; the buyer side keeps its units. The company holds 32.41% of the partnership (1,798,167 of 5,548,696 units at June 30, 2026), so the $7.00 buys out the public REIT’s stake only.
  • After closing the company will end its Regulation A reporting by filing a Form 1-Z, so the filings this page reads stop.

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Streitwise / 1st stREIT Office merger of November 9, 2026: terms, process, appraisal, NAV history, redemption queue and dividends

98 rows from the Form 1-U of November 10, 2026 and its Exhibit 6.1, the Forms 1-SA of 2025 and 2026 and five Forms 1-U with NAV tables: merger terms, fees and dates, the proposals, the appraisal by property, 22 quarters of NAV, the redemption queue and ten quarters of dividends.

The $7.00 against every NAV in the record

The company calculates its own NAV each quarter. The last published value is $6.96 per share as of March 31, 2026. The September 4, 2026 semiannual report and the proxy statement do not give a June 30, 2026 NAV; the proxy statement calls $6.96 the company’s “most recently determined NAV.”

Reference pointDatePer share$7.00 compared (our arithmetic)Source
Offering pricesince 2017$10.00-30.0%Form 1-SA, 0001104659-26-105172
NAV, peak of the 2019-2020 tableSeptember 30, 2020$10.21-31.4%Form 1-U, 0001104659-20-137930
NAV before the 2022 write-downMarch 31, 2022$10.11-30.8%Form 1-U, 0001104659-23-072303
NAV after the first write-downDecember 31, 2022$8.80-20.5%Form 1-U, 0001104659-23-072303
NAV after the second write-downMarch 31, 2023$7.01-0.1%Form 1-U, 0001104659-23-072303
NAV, 2024 plateauMarch 31 to September 30, 2024$7.14-2.0%Form 1-U, 0001104659-25-026089
NAV, lowDecember 31, 2024$6.84+2.3%Form 1-U, 0001104659-25-026089
NAV, September 30, 2025September 30, 2025$6.92+1.2%Form 1-U, 0001104659-26-075614
NAV, last publishedMarch 31, 2026$6.96+0.6%Form 1-U, 0001104659-26-075614
Merger considerationNovember 9, 2026$7.00-Form 1-U, 0001104659-26-125197

Two things follow from the table. First, the offer sits inside the $6.84 to $7.14 range of the NAV since March 2023, 4 cents above the last number, which is why it looks close on that measure. Second, every one of those NAVs is calculated by the manager, which is owned by the chief executive who is now the buyer. The company’s NAV notice says the process reflects “individual appraisal reports of the underlying real estate provided by an independent valuation expert” only “in certain instances.” The one independent appraisal of all four buildings in the merger record is the Newmark work below.

What the $7.00 is worth in dollars (our arithmetic)

The filings give a per-share price, not a total. These figures use the 1,798,167 shares outstanding on the November 9, 2026 record date.

ItemCalculationResult
Cash for every outstanding share$7.00 x 1,798,167$12,587,169
Same shares at the $6.96 NAV$6.96 x 1,798,167$12,515,242
Difference from the NAV$0.04 x 1,798,167$71,927
Cash for the 454,594 queued shares$7.00 x 454,594$3,182,158
Same queued shares at the $6.96 NAV$6.96 x 454,594$3,163,974
Votes needed for a majority1,798,167 / 2, rounded up past one half899,084 shares
Shares held by the original sponsor7,500 of 1,798,1670.4%
A holder of 1,000 shares bought at $10.00$7,000 against $10,000 paid$3,000 less than paid, before any dividends or tax
The same holder, if invested since January 1, 2024 and every declared dividend was received$7,000 plus $0.77 x 1,000 declared since Q1 2024$7,770

The $0.77 is the sum of the declared dividends from the first quarter of 2024 to the third quarter of 2026: $0.11, then $0.13 three times, $0.03, and $0.04 six times (our sum, from the dividend table below). It is not a return on any particular holder’s money: reinvested dividends, tax and the date of purchase change every holder’s own number.

The appraisal: $73,075,000 against the manager’s $76,900,000

The board said it did not obtain a fairness opinion from an investment banking firm, and relied instead on four appraisal reports from Newmark Valuation & Advisory, LLC, with a valuation date of July 1, 2026. The proxy statement states that the appraisals “do not determine the Company’s equity value, a value per share, or the fairness of the Merger Consideration to stockholders,” and that “Newmark did not physically inspect the properties.”

BuildingNewmark as-is value, July 1, 2026Report dated
Laumeier II$8,375,000August 25, 2026
Laumeier IV$4,750,000August 25, 2026
The Allied Building$38,925,000October 2, 2026
The MJ Building$21,025,000October 2, 2026
Total$73,075,000-

Three comparisons from the record, all ours:

  • Against the manager’s NAV table. At March 31, 2026 the NAV table carried “total real estate, net, at fair value” at $76,900,000. Newmark’s total is $3,825,000 lower, or 5.0% (our arithmetic). The dates differ by three months and Newmark values the leased fee interests “as is”, so this is a comparison of two estimates, not of a change in the buildings.
  • Against the draft. Newmark’s July 31, 2026 draft totalled $69,775,000. The proxy statement says the board reviewed the drafts with Newmark, “identifying assumptions that the Board believed warranted reconsideration,” and that Newmark revised certain assumptions. The final is $3,300,000 above the draft (our arithmetic). The filings do not say which assumptions changed.
  • What it implies per share. The proxy statement says the board considered that “the implied per share value of the Company, based on independently appraised ‘as is’ market values of the 1SO Properties as of July 1, 2026 is less than the Merger Consideration.” It does not give that per-share figure.

How the price moved: $74.2 million to $77.3 million

DateEventAmount
After March 16, 2026The chief executive tells the board he wants to explore buying the properties; the board recuses himno price
April 22, 2026Written proposal from TH Abide for 100% of the shares$74,200,000
May 19, 2026Counter-proposal from the two non-recused directors$80,000,000
May 22, 2026Revised proposal from TH Abide, as total enterprise valueabout $77,300,000
July 2, 2026Board engages Newmark after reviewing bids from several vendors-
July 31, 2026Newmark draft appraisals, aggregate$69,775,000
November 6, 2026Non-recused directors approve the final terms$7.00 a share
November 9, 2026Merger agreement signed; the 1-U is filed November 10$7.00 a share

The proxy statement describes the $74.2 million as a price for 100% of the shares, the $77.3 million as a total enterprise value and the $7.00 as a price per share. The filings we read do not reconcile them: they do not show the debt, the operating-partnership units or the deferred distributions in a bridge from $77.3 million to $7.00 per share. The merger consideration is described as “an equity payment and is distinct from the value of the Company’s real estate assets and the mortgage debt encumbering those assets.” The three loans total $43,060,536 at June 30, 2026 (see our review).

The conflict, and what the recusal does and does not do

The 1-U and the proxy statement are direct about it. The buyer is owned by the chief executive, who also owns the sponsor and, through it, the external manager that charges 2.00% a year on the operating partnership’s NAV. The proxy statement says that he “occupies a position on both sides of the Merger transaction.” What the process had in place:

  • Recusal. The chief executive was recused from all board deliberations and votes on the merger and retained his own counsel.
  • Two directors decided. The other two directors negotiated, rejected the first proposal and made the counter-proposal. One of them is employed by Tryperion, the sponsor; the other is a personal friend of the chief executive who has worked with Tryperion as a consultant. Neither holds equity in TH Abide.
  • What was not done. The board considered a special committee and decided it was “not necessary”. It did not obtain a fairness opinion, did not solicit third-party bids and did not run a broader sale process, reasoning that the transaction value is under $100 million and that a fairness opinion would be costly. The proxy statement’s own risk factor says a third party given diligence “might have offered a higher price.”
  • What the buyer side keeps. The chief executive holds 515,681 operating-partnership units (9.2% on a fully diluted basis, per the proxy statement) and the proxy statement says he has invested more than $20 million in the company. Buyer-side holders keep their units after the merger and benefit from any later rise in the buildings’ value, while the $7.00 is fixed. The management agreement and its 2.00% fee end at closing.

The vote: what a majority of the outstanding shares means

Approval needs the affirmative vote of holders of at least a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote, as required by the company’s charter. The count is of all outstanding shares, not of shares that turn out, so a share that is not voted works as a no. The record date is November 9, 2026 and the proxy statement says it was emailed on or about November 10, 2026. Voting is by a link in that email or by phone and stays open until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on December 15, 2026; a proxy returned without instructions is voted for the merger and the adjournment, and it can be revoked by email before the meeting.

The filings do not give how many shares the buyer side or its friends and family hold. They give 7,500 shares for the original sponsor, and say that “certain friends and family members” of the chief executive hold shares. Operating-partnership units do not vote. Because the queue and the illiquidity are real, the proxy statement itself warns that a yes vote may reflect the lack of any other exit: in its words, the backlog “may have created pressure on stockholders to approve the Merger.”

No dissenters’ or appraisal rights

Section 2.3 of the merger agreement says no dissenters’ or appraisal rights are available, including any remedy under Sections 3-201 et seq. of the Maryland General Corporation Law, and that the board has not determined and will not determine that any such rights shall be available. The proxy statement repeats it twice and lists it as a risk: “No dissenters’ or appraisal rights will be available to holders of 1SO common stock in connection with the Merger.” The practical result, in the company’s own words, is that holders who vote no receive the same $7.00 and have no judicial determination of fair value to seek. We do not give a view on any other remedy; a holder who wants one should ask a lawyer.

The terms that decide whether and when it closes

TermWhat the documents say
Special meetingDecember 16, 2026, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, virtual
Expected closingfirst quarter of 2027, on the third business day after conditions are met
Outside date11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 10, 2027; one 30-day extension if specified conditions are met, plus extension for a specific-performance action
Company termination fee$125,000, if the board changes its recommendation or the company ends the agreement for a superior proposal or an intervening event
Buyer termination fee$125,000, if TH Abide fails to close when conditions are met, subject to escrow and limits that protect the REIT income tests
Expense reimbursementup to $75,000 of the other side’s actual expenses in specified breach cases, credited against a later fee
Competing offerscompany may not solicit them; the board may respond to qualifying unsolicited proposals before the vote
Lender consentrequired for the continuation or assumption of the existing loans and the change of control; the buyer need not accept a higher rate, new reserves or a paydown
Financing conditionnone; the buyer’s owners agreed to make or cause equity contributions sufficient to close, but do not guarantee payment of the merger consideration
Damage conditionweather or natural-disaster damage above $10 million after insurance, excluding deductibles
Dividends until closingonly at the last regularly declared rate, distributions needed to keep REIT status, and subsidiary distributions; anything declared before the Effective Time must be paid before it
Redemptionsthe company may not redeem shares at a price above the merger consideration without the buyer’s consent; the plan has been suspended since July 1, 2026

On dividends, the last regular rate is $0.04 a share. The September 21, 2026 Form 1-U declared $0.04 for July 1 to September 30, 2026, payable October 9, 2026. The merger agreement lets the company keep paying at that rate until closing; it does not promise a fourth-quarter dividend.

QuarterTotal declaredPer share
Q1 2024$209,752$0.11
Q2 2024$247,639$0.13
Q3 2024$248,291$0.13
Q4 2024$248,491$0.13
Q1 2025$57,123$0.03
Q2 2025$75,668$0.04
Q3 2025$75,001$0.04
Q4 2025$74,273$0.04
Q1 2026$73,560$0.04
Q2 2026$72,856$0.04
Q3 2026declared September 21, 2026$0.04

The redemption queue the merger sits on

At June 30, 2026, holders had asked to redeem 913,237 shares (40.3% of all shares ever issued), the company had honored 458,643, and 454,594 were still subject to redemption pro rata. The offering was suspended on June 25, 2026 and the redemption plan on July 1, 2026. A year earlier the figures were 661,070 requested and 365,231 honored, a queue of 295,839 (our arithmetic: the queue grew 53.7%). The full history is in our September report on the suspension and the suspension is one of many on our redemption suspension tracker.

The documents we read do not say what happens to queued requests. Shares in the queue have not been redeemed, so our reading is that they are among the 1,798,167 shares outstanding and every share outstanding at the effective time is converted into $7.00 whether or not a request was made. A holder who sat in the queue at the $6.96 NAV would receive 4 cents more per share than the redemption price would have been, before any early-redemption discount (our arithmetic), but the cash arrives only after the vote, the conditions and the closing, not on a quarterly date.

What happens at closing

TH Abide is a newly formed Delaware LLC that the proxy statement says was formed solely for the merger. At the effective time the company merges into it, the shares are cancelled and the company “intends to take the steps necessary to terminate its Regulation A reporting obligations, subject to applicable requirements.” The proxy statement says that will be done by a Form 1-Z. After that the public record this page reads, the 1-U, 1-K and 1-SA, stops.

  • Nothing to do now. The shares are uncertificated. The paying agent mails a letter of transmittal within two business days after closing.
  • Payment. Within five business days after the later of the effective time or receipt of the shares and documents; paid only to the registered holder; no interest.
  • Unclaimed money. After twelve months the buyer can take back unclaimed funds from the paying agent and holders then look only to TH Abide as general creditors.
  • Tax, as the documents describe it. The parties intend a taxable sale of the company’s assets to TH Abide followed by a liquidating distribution to stockholders under Sections 331 and 562 of the Internal Revenue Code, treated as a plan of liquidation. For a U.S. holder the proxy statement says the cash is generally taxable and that gain or loss is the difference between the cash and the adjusted tax basis in each block of shares, generally capital gain or loss and long-term if held more than one year. Non-U.S. holders face the FIRPTA treatment in IRS Notice 2007-55 to the extent the cash is attributable to U.S. real property gain. The company has not asked the IRS for a ruling. This is the company’s description, not tax advice.

What a reader can do with this

  • Read the proxy statement, not only the 1-U. It is Exhibit 6.1 of the filing and contains the background, the appraisal table, the risks and the merger agreement. The text you need to cite to a lawyer or tax professional is in it. The link is in the first paragraph of this page.
  • Compare three numbers, not one. The $7.00 against the $6.96 NAV is a gap of 4 cents; against the $73,075,000 appraisal the filing says the implied value is below $7.00; against the $10.00 you may have paid it is a 30% loss. Which one matters depends on your cost, your dates and your alternatives.
  • Check your own count and basis. Your share count, purchase dates, reinvested dividends and return-of-capital history come from your investor portal and your Forms 1099-DIV, not from the filings.
  • Note the dates. Record date November 9, 2026; proxy voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on December 15, 2026; meeting December 16, 2026; outside date May 10, 2027.
  • Know what voting changes. There are no appraisal rights, so a vote is the only lever the documents give holders; abstaining counts as no.
  • Ask who can answer. The proxy statement gives equity@streitwise.com for the webcast link and for revoking a proxy; a securities lawyer is the person to ask about any remedy outside the agreement.

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This page reads the Form 1-U of November 10, 2026 and its Exhibit 6.1, the proxy statement and merger agreement (accession 0001104659-26-125197); the Form 1-U of September 21, 2026 (0001104659-26-109212); the Forms 1-U of June 18, 2026 (0001104659-26-075614), March 18, 2026 (0001104659-26-030780), March 20, 2025 (0001104659-25-026089), June 16, 2023 (0001104659-23-072303), March 20, 2023 (0001104659-23-034386) and December 21, 2020 (0001104659-20-137930); and the Forms 1-SA of September 4, 2026 (0001104659-26-105172) and September 17, 2025 (0001104659-25-090661), all from SEC EDGAR for CIK 1700461. A list of the issuer’s filings on EDGAR on November 11, 2026 shows no separate proxy filing; the proxy statement is the exhibit. CrowdfundedWealth has no affiliate relationship with Streitwise and earns nothing on this page. This is analysis of public documents, not investment, legal or tax advice.

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