---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001232582-25-000144"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AHT"
cik: "0001232582"
company_name: "ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:36:17.367799+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ashford Hospitality refinances Renaissance Nashville hotel loan with lower rate and extended term

## Summary
- New loan: $218.1M, floating at SOFR + 2.26%, interest-only, matures Sept 2030 with extension options.
- Prior loan was $267.2M at SOFR + 3.98%; refinancing reduces annual interest expense by millions.
- Preferred equity upsized by $53.0M; rate of return cut from 14% to 11.14%.
- 673-room Nashville property secures two-year term plus three one-year extension options.
- CEO cites improved financing markets as enabling favorable terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001232582-25-000144
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AHT
- cik: 0001232582
- company_name: ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000144/0001232582-25-000144-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000144/aht-20250915.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001232582-25-000144.txt

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