Clipper Realty Inc. (the ?Company? or ?we?) is a self-administered and self-managed real estate company that acquires, owns, manages, operates and repositions multifamily residential and commercial properties in the New York metropolitan area, with a current portfolio in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Our primary focus is to own, manage and operate our portfolio and to acquire and reposition additional multifamily residential and commercial properties in the New York metropolitan area. The Company has been organized and operates in conformity with the requirements for qualification and taxation as a real estate investment trust (?REIT?) under the U.S. federal income tax law and elected to be treated as a REIT commencing with the taxable year ended December 31, 2015.