---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-023107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSR"
cik: "0001175535"
company_name: "Whitestone REIT"
filed_at: "2025-07-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T04:57:26.749676+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Whitestone REIT replaces auditor PKF with Withum after PKF asset acquisition by Withum

## Summary
- PKF resigned as auditor on July 21, 2025; Withum engaged same day with Audit Committee approval.
- PKF's audit reports for FY 2024 and 2023 contained no adverse opinion or qualifications.
- No disagreements or reportable events between Company and PKF in past two fiscal years or interim period.
- Change stems from PKF's asset acquisition by Withum; no prior consultations with Withum occurred.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-023107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSR
- cik: 0001175535
- company_name: Whitestone REIT
- filed_at: 2025-07-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1175535/000143774925023107/0001437749-25-023107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1175535/000143774925023107/wstr20250717_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-023107.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 619edc1fa1ea6463d8fd38399abeb95e2d675fb7
  claim: Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. resigned as auditor of Whitestone REIT.
  evidence_excerpt: On July 21, 2025, Whitestone REIT (the “Company”) was notified that Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. (“PKF”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, entered into a transaction with Withum Smith+Brown, PC (“Withum”) pursuant to which certain of the professional staff and partners of PKF joined Withum due to the acquisition of certain assets of PKF by Withum. On July 21, 2025, PKF resigned as the auditors of the Company, and with the approval of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, Withum was engaged as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1175535/000143774925023107/0001437749-25-023107-index.htm
- claim_id: ad47d50bfd718879016eceb6b87caf291ca04c27
  claim: Whitestone REIT engaged Withum Smith+Brown, PC as its auditor.
  evidence_excerpt: On July 21, 2025, PKF resigned as the auditors of the Company, and with the approval of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, Withum was engaged as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1175535/000143774925023107/0001437749-25-023107-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.