Our Manager, Tremont Realty Advisors LLC, or TRA, is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, as an investment adviser. In addition to TRMT, TRA also provides management services to RMR Mortgage Trust (Nasdaq: RMRM), a publicly traded mortgage REIT that focuses on originating and investing in floating rate first mortgage whole loans, secured by middle market and transitional commercial real estate. TRA is owned by The RMR Group LLC, or RMR LLC, the majority owned operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc., or RMR Inc., a holding company listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, or Nasdaq, under the symbol “RMR”. We collectively refer to RMR Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, including RMR LLC, as RMR. RMR is an alternative asset management company that was founded in 1986 to manage real estate companies and related businesses. RMR primarily provides management services to four publicly traded equity REITs and three real estate related operating businesses. As of December 31, 2020, RMR had $32.0 billion of real estate assets under management and the combined RMR managed companies had approximately $10 billion of annual revenues, nearly 2,100 properties and approximately 43,000 employees. We believe our Manager’s relationship with RMR provides us with a depth of market knowledge that may allow us to identify high quality investment opportunities and to evaluate them more thoroughly than many of our competitors, including other commercial mortgage REITs. We also believe RMR’s broad platform provides us with access to RMR’s extensive network of real estate owners, operators, intermediaries, sponsors, financial institutions and other real estate related professionals and businesses with which RMR has historical relationships. We also believe that our Manager provides us with significant experience and expertise in investing in middle market and transitional CRE.
TRMT, through its manager Tremont Realty Advisors LLC, is supported by the depth of The RMR Group LLC, which has: