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Realty Income Office Assets, Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements

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Realty Income Office Assets, Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Realty Income Office Assets  
Entity Information [Line Items]  
Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements
Note 6 – Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received from the sale of an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. The disclosure for assets and liabilities measured at fair value requires allocation to a three-level valuation hierarchy. This valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability as of the measurement date. Categorization within this hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
Realty Income Office Assets believes that the carrying values reflected in the combined balance sheets reasonably approximate the fair values for accounts receivable, escrow deposits and all other liabilities, due to their short-term nature or interest rates and terms that are consistent with market, except for the mortgages payable assumed in connection with acquisitions, which are disclosed as follows (dollars in thousands):
At September 30, 2021
Carrying Value Estimated Fair Value
Mortgages payable assumed in connection with acquisitions (1)
$ 9,625 $ 9,695
At December 31, 2020
Carrying Value Estimated Fair Value
Mortgages payable assumed in connection with acquisitions (1)
$ 36,476 $ 37,095
(1) Excludes non-cash net premiums recorded on the mortgages payable. The unamortized balance of these net premiums is $31,000 at September 30, 2021, and $0.6 million at December 31, 2020.
The estimated fair values of the mortgages payable assumed in connection with acquisitions have been calculated by discounting the future cash flows using an interest rate based upon the relevant forward interest rate curve, plus an applicable credit-adjusted spread. Because this methodology includes unobservable inputs that reflect internal assumptions and calculations, the measurement of estimated fair values related to the mortgages payable is categorized as level three on the three-level valuation hierarchy.