Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust ("Allied") (TSX:
"AP.UN") today announced results for its third quarter ended
September 30, 2021. “Our positive momentum continues,” said Michael
Emory, President & CEO. “FFO per unit rose to a record level of
62.4 cents, AFFO per unit came in at 51.9 cents, leasing activity
exceeded our expectations, and we made significant and measurable
progress with our ESG program. Average in-place net rent per
occupied square foot rose again in the third quarter, coming in at
$24.62 compared to $24.30 in the second quarter and $23.61 in the
comparable quarter last year. Our urban workspace and UDC space has
become more productive over the past seven quarters, and demand for
this space has continued to accelerate since the third quarter of
last year.”
Operations
Gross quarterly rent due in the third quarter
was $173 million. 1.3% of the total amount due derives from parking
use, 8.0% from retail use, 16.2% from urban-data-centre (UDC) use
and 74.5% from office use. Allied collected 97.4% of the total
amount due in the quarter and afforded deferrals aggregating $4.5
million, primarily to storefront retail users, at least $2.4
million of which Management expects to collect pursuant to the
Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS). Management continues the
process of scaling down its pandemic-related deferral program
through extensive case-by-case discussions with Allied’s storefront
retail users, most of which are exceptionally well located in
downtown Toronto. Accordingly, Allied did not adjust the provision
in the quarter, and Allied's total provision related to deferrals
remains $3 million. Allied has not yet utilized any portion of the
provision.
Leasing
In its second-quarter conference call,
Management expressed a high level of confidence with respect to
leasing activity for the remainder of 2021 and beyond. Results in
the third quarter and to date have exceeded Management’s
expectations.
The occupied area of Allied’s rental portfolio
at the end of the third quarter was 90.3%, with leased area at
90.6%. Given the scale of Allied’s rental portfolio, upgrade
activity is now constant in all markets, particularly Montréal,
Toronto and Vancouver. The goal of the upgrade activity is to serve
users better and to boost net rent per occupied square foot over
time. At the end of the third quarter, Allied’s rental portfolio
was comprised of (i) 13,333,405 square feet of GLA in buildings
that are largely stabilized and (ii) 772,726 square feet of GLA in
buildings that are undergoing active upgrade. The occupied area of
the former was 91.7%, with leased area at 92.0%. The occupied and
leased area of the latter was 66.1%. Management fully expects the
occupied and leased areas of its entire rental portfolio to
increase next year, with corresponding increases in same-asset NOI
and net rent per occupied square foot.
Allied's average in-place net rent per occupied
square foot rose again in the third quarter, coming in at $24.62
compared to $24.30 in the second quarter and $23.61 in the
comparable quarter last year. Space available for sub-lease in
Allied's portfolio continued to decline in the third quarter, as
expected.
Allied renewed or replaced leases for 60.3% of
the space that matured in the quarter. This resulted in the
following overall increases in net rent per square foot from the
affected space: (i) 12.5% in the first year of the new term
compared to the last year of the prior term; and (ii) 26.2% on the
annual average in the new term compared to the annual average in
the prior term. It also resulted in a weighted-average lease term
of 5.6 years for the entire rental portfolio.
While not exhaustive, the following lease
transactions or pending lease transactions are highlights following
the end of the second quarter:
- the lease of the entire building
under construction as QRC West, Phase II, in Toronto (93,134 square
feet of GLA) to a leading American educational institution;
- the lease and pending lease of
158,000 square feet of GLA (79,000 square feet at Allied's
ownership) at the office component of The Well in Toronto to six
knowledge-based organizations, which if successfully completed will
bring the leased area to 99.5%;
- the lease of 30,000 square feet of
GLA at Cité Multimédia in Montréal to Molson Coors as a replacement
user in relation to a known non-renewal on expiry at 111 Boulevard
Robert-Bourassa;
- the confirmation of intention, now
being documented, of a large existing user at Cité Multimédia in
Montréal to expand by 50,000 square feet of GLA as a replacement
user in relation to a known non-renewal on expiry at 111 Boulevard
Robert-Bourassa;
- the lease of 28,000 square feet of
GLA at 179 John Street in Toronto to a new user;
- the lease of 32,000 square feet of
GLA at 420 Wellington Street West in Toronto to a new user;
- the expansion of a large existing
user at QRC East (111 Queen Street East) in Toronto by 52,000
square feet of GLA; and
- the lease of 20,000 square feet of
GLA at Boardwalk Revillon, a Class I complex under redevelopment in
Edmonton, to a new user.
Third-Quarter Results
Allied’s financial and operating results are
summarized below:
|
As at September 30 |
(In
thousands except for per unit and % amounts) |
2021 |
2020 |
Change |
% Change |
Investment properties |
$ |
9,335,726 |
|
$ |
8,689,805 |
|
$ |
645,921 |
|
7.4 |
% |
Unencumbered
investment properties |
$ |
8,738,850 |
|
$ |
6,414,100 |
|
$ |
2,324,750 |
|
36.2 |
% |
Cost of PUD as a % of
GBV |
10.8 |
% |
9.9 |
% |
0.9 |
% |
— |
|
NAV per
unit |
$ |
49.50 |
|
$ |
48.29 |
|
$ |
1.21 |
|
2.5 |
% |
Total indebtedness
ratio |
32.9 |
% |
28.8 |
% |
4.1 |
% |
— |
|
Annualized Adjusted
EBITDA |
$ |
365,609 |
|
$ |
344,700 |
|
$ |
20,909 |
|
6.1 |
% |
Net debt as a multiple
of Annualized Adjusted EBITDA |
8.9x |
|
7.3x |
|
1.6x |
|
— |
|
Interest-coverage ratio including capitalized interest and
excluding financing prepayment costs |
3.4x |
|
3.3x |
|
0.1x |
|
— |
|
|
For the three months ended September 30 |
(In
thousands except for per unit and % amounts) |
2021 |
2020 |
Change |
% Change |
Adjusted EBITDA |
$ |
93,941 |
|
$ |
87,452 |
|
$ |
6,489 |
|
7.4 |
% |
Net income excluding
fair value adjustments and financing prepayment costs |
$ |
68,959 |
|
$ |
59,973 |
|
$ |
8,986 |
|
15.0 |
% |
Net
income |
$ |
107,185 |
|
$ |
69,013 |
|
$ |
38,172 |
|
55.3 |
% |
Same asset NOI -
rental portfolio |
$ |
85,719 |
|
$ |
80,641 |
|
$ |
5,078 |
|
6.3 |
% |
Same asset NOI - total
portfolio |
$ |
87,076 |
|
$ |
81,681 |
|
$ |
5,395 |
|
6.6 |
% |
FFO |
$ |
41,690 |
|
$ |
70,276 |
|
$ |
(28,586 |
) |
(40.7 |
%) |
All amounts below are
excluding condominium related items and financing prepayment
costs |
|
|
|
|
FFO |
$ |
79,537 |
|
$ |
70,486 |
|
$ |
9,051 |
|
12.8 |
% |
FFO per unit (diluted) |
$ |
0.624 |
|
$ |
0.567 |
|
$ |
0.057 |
|
10.1 |
% |
FFO pay-out ratio |
68.0 |
% |
72.9 |
% |
(4.9 |
%) |
— |
|
AFFO |
$ |
66,132 |
|
$ |
59,796 |
|
$ |
6,336 |
|
10.6 |
% |
AFFO per unit (diluted) |
$ |
0.519 |
|
$ |
0.481 |
|
$ |
0.038 |
|
7.9 |
% |
AFFO pay-out ratio |
81.8 |
% |
85.9 |
% |
(4.1 |
%) |
— |
|
|
For the nine months ended September 30 |
(In
thousands except for per unit and % amounts) |
2021 |
2020 |
Change |
% Change |
Adjusted EBITDA |
$ |
274,207 |
|
$ |
258,525 |
|
$ |
15,682 |
|
6.1 |
% |
Net income excluding
fair value adjustments and financing prepayment costs |
$ |
198,140 |
|
$ |
178,120 |
|
$ |
20,020 |
|
11.2 |
% |
Net
income |
$ |
283,230 |
|
$ |
416,887 |
|
$ |
(133,657 |
) |
(32.1 |
%) |
Same asset NOI -
rental portfolio |
$ |
235,881 |
|
$ |
229,520 |
|
$ |
6,361 |
|
2.8 |
% |
Same asset NOI - total
portfolio |
$ |
244,270 |
|
$ |
233,353 |
|
$ |
10,917 |
|
4.7 |
% |
FFO |
$ |
177,685 |
|
$ |
209,990 |
|
$ |
(32,305 |
) |
(15.4 |
%) |
All amounts below are
excluding condominium related items and financing prepayment
costs |
|
|
|
|
FFO |
$ |
230,039 |
|
$ |
210,815 |
|
$ |
19,224 |
|
9.1 |
% |
FFO per unit (diluted) |
$ |
1.806 |
|
$ |
1.705 |
|
$ |
0.101 |
|
5.9 |
% |
FFO pay-out ratio |
70.6 |
% |
72.5 |
% |
(1.9 |
%) |
— |
|
AFFO |
$ |
200,441 |
|
$ |
183,380 |
|
$ |
17,061 |
|
9.3 |
% |
AFFO per unit (diluted) |
$ |
1.573 |
|
$ |
1.484 |
|
$ |
0.089 |
|
6.0 |
% |
AFFO pay-out ratio |
81.0 |
% |
83.4 |
% |
(2.4 |
%) |
— |
|
The operating results are summarized below:
|
For the nine months ended September 30 |
|
2021 |
2020 |
Change |
% Change |
Leased area |
90.6 |
% |
93.3 |
% |
(2.7 |
%) |
— |
|
Occupied
area |
90.3 |
% |
92.9 |
% |
(2.6 |
%) |
— |
|
Average in-place net rent per occupied square
foot |
$ |
24.62 |
|
$ |
23.61 |
|
$ |
1.01 |
|
4.3 |
% |
Renewal and
replacement rate for leases maturing in the period |
62.3 |
% |
70.8 |
% |
(8.5 |
%) |
— |
|
Increase in net rent on maturing leases |
10.6 |
% |
19.3 |
% |
(8.7 |
%) |
— |
|
In the third quarter, same-asset NOI for the
rental portfolio was up 6.3%, FFO per unit was up 10.1% and AFFO
per unit was up 7.9%. In addition, NAV per unit increased by 2.5%
from the comparable quarter last year.
Environmental, Social and Governance
(ESG) Practices and Disclosure
In 2018, Allied made a commitment to submit
formally to independent ESG scrutiny by 2020. The most important
single step in that regard was to obtain a GRESB Real Estate
Assessment and to provide an ESG Report, which Allied did in
November and December of last year. Allied’s GRESB score was 64,
recognized as a “strong first-year showing”. In addition to
strengths, the assessment identified clear opportunities for
improvement in Allied’s ESG practices and disclosure.
Allied’s second annual GRESB score was 80,
representing material progress in multiple areas over the initial
assessment. Over the course of 2021, Allied also completed its
first formal ESG Strategy, which set goals and targets for Allied’s
ESG priorities. Allied also aligned its Second Annual ESG Report
with (i) the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and (ii) the
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Real Estate
Standard. Allied’s Third Annual ESG Report, scheduled for release
in mid-2022, will also outline Allied’s progress in adopting the
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
recommendations.
Allied’s Board and Management are committed to
making Allied’s approach to ESG more manifest, deliberate and
measurable. Allied has always believed that submitting to informed
scrutiny will make it a better and more successful business, and
formally submitting to ESG scrutiny is no exception in this
regard.
Allocation of Capital and
Funding
Allied continues to make strategic in-fill
acquisitions, principally in downtown Toronto. These afford
respectable yields and augment existing concentrations with future
intensification potential. Allied allocated $100 million to 11 such
acquisitions in 2020 and $94 million to six such acquisitions thus
far in 2021. Allied does not expect to have the opportunity to
allocate significantly more capital in this way over the remainder
of 2021, though it will do so if appropriate opportunities
arise.
Allied recently announced the acquisition in two
phases of the urban office component of Place Gare Viger in
Montréal. The equity component for the first phase, which closed on
August 30 of this year, was funded initially with Allied’s
operating line of credit and will be funded on a permanent basis
with the proceeds from the sale of three non-core properties, one
in Montréal and two in Toronto. Allied is now finalizing an
agreement for the sale of each of the three non-core properties.
Accordingly, Allied is holding these properties for sale as at
September 30, 2021, with the expectation of closing the sale
transactions in the first half of 2022. Allied expects the
aggregate net proceeds of the sale transactions to exceed the
equity component for the first phase of the acquisition of the
office component of Place Gare Viger.
Allied recently announced the acquisition of the
Dominion Building in Vancouver. It will enhance Allied’s ability to
provide distinctive urban workspace to the growing ecosystem of
knowledge-based organizations in the area of Downtown Vancouver
east of Granville Street.
Allied continues to allocate large amounts of
capital to development activity with completion and return
estimates remaining intact. Management estimates that current
developments will increase Allied’s annual EBITDA by approximately
$80 million and have a weighted average lease term of 13.3
years.
Outlook
Allied’s internal forecast for 2021 calls for
low-to-mid-single-digit percentage growth in each of same-asset
NOI, FFO per unit and AFFO per unit. While Allied does not forecast
NAV per unit growth, it does expect to propel further growth in
2021. Allied also expects to allocate a large amount of capital in
2021 with the same strategic coherence and discipline it
demonstrated in prior years.
Allied continues to have deep confidence in, and
commitment to, its strategy of consolidating and intensifying
distinctive urban workspace and network-dense UDCs in Canada’s
major cities. Allied firmly believes that its strategy is
underpinned by the most important secular trends in Canadian and
global real estate. Allied also firmly believes that it has the
properties, the financial strength, the people and the platform
necessary to execute its strategy for the ongoing benefit of its
unitholders and other constituents.
Cautionary Statements
FFO, AFFO, NAV, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, total
debt and net debt are not financial measures defined by
International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). Please see
Allied’s MD&A for a description of these measures and their
reconciliation to financial measures defined by IFRS, as presented
in Allied’s most recent financial statements. These statements,
together with accompanying notes and MD&A, have been filed on
SEDAR, www.sedar.com, and are also available on Allied’s website,
www.alliedreit.com.
NOI is not a measure recognized under IFRS and
does not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS. NOI is
presented in this press release because Management of Allied
believes that this non-IFRS measure is an important financial
performance indicator. NOI, as computed by Allied, may differ from
similar computations as reported by other similar organizations
and, accordingly, may not be comparable to NOI reported by such
organizations.
This press release may contain forward-looking
statements with respect to Allied, its operations, strategy,
financial performance and condition and the expected impact of the
global pandemic and consequent economic disruption. These
statements generally can be identified by use of forward-looking
words such as "forecast", “may”, “will”, “expect”, “estimate”,
“anticipate”, “intends”, “believe” or “continue” or the negative
thereof or similar variations. Allied’s actual results and
performance discussed herein could differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements are
qualified in their entirety by the inherent risks and uncertainties
surrounding future expectations, including the effect of the global
pandemic and consequent economic disruption. Important factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations
include, among other things, general economic and market factors,
competition, changes in government regulations and the factors
described under “Risk Factors” in Allied’s Annual Information Form
which is available at www.sedar.com. The cautionary statements
qualify all forward-looking statements attributable to Allied and
persons acting on its behalf. Unless otherwise stated, all
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press
release, and Allied has no obligation to update such
statements.
About Allied
Allied is a leading owner, manager and developer
of (i) distinctive urban workspace in Canada’s major cities and
(ii) network-dense urban data centres in Toronto that form Canada’s
hub for global connectivity. Allied’s business is providing
knowledge-based organizations with distinctive urban environments
for creativity and connectivity.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE
CONTACT:
Michael EmoryPresident & Chief Executive Officer(416)
977-0643memory@alliedreit.com |
Tom BurnsExecutive Vice President & Chief Operating
Officer(416) 977-9002tburns@alliedreit.com |
Cecilia WilliamsExecutive Vice President & Chief Financial
Officer(416) 977-9002cwilliams@alliedreit.com |
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