Firm Capital Property Trust Announces Eighth Consecutive Annual Distribution Increase With 2% Commencing in 2021
November 16 2020 - 8:49AM
Firm Capital Property Trust (“
FCPT” or the
“
Trust”), (TSXV: FCD.UN) is pleased to announce
its eighth consecutive annual distribution increase with a 2%
increase commencing in 2021.
Effective January 2021, annualized distributions
will increase to $0.51 per trust unit from $0.50 per trust unit.
This equates to a 2% increase over the current distribution. On a
monthly basis, this equates to $0.0425 per trust unit.
As a result, the Trust has declared and approved
monthly distributions in the amount of $0.0425 per trust unit for
Unitholders of record on January 29, 2021, February 26, 2021 and
March 31, 2021 payable on or about February 15, 2021, March 15,
2021 and April 15, 2021, respectively.
Since the Trust’s inception in Q4/2012,
distributions have been raised eight times in eight years and
represents a cumulative increase of 45.7% or 4.8% on an annualized
basis since the Trust’s inception in 2012. Further, for 2019,
distributions were 100% Return of Capital.
DISTRIBUTION REINVESTMENT PLAN &
UNIT PURCHASE PLAN The Trust has in place a Distribution
Reinvestment Plan (“DRIP”) and Unit Purchase Plan
(the “UPP”). Under the terms of the DRIP, FCPT’s
Unitholders may elect to automatically reinvest all or a portion of
their regular monthly distributions in additional Units, without
incurring brokerage fees or commissions. Under the terms of the
UPP, FCPT’s Unitholders may purchase a minimum of $1,000 of Units
per month and maximum purchases of up to $12,000 per annum.
Management and trustees have not participated in the DRIP or UPP to
date and own approximately 8% of the issued and outstanding trust
units of the Trust.
ABOUT FIRM CAPITAL PROPERTY TRUST
Firm Capital Property Trust is focused on creating long-term value
for Unitholders, through capital preservation and disciplined
investing to achieve stable distributable income. In partnership
with management and industry leaders, The Trust’s plan is to own as
well as to co-own a diversified property portfolio of
multi-residential, flex industrial, net lease convenience retail,
and core service provider professional space. In addition to stand
alone accretive acquisitions, the Trust will make joint
acquisitions with strong financial partners and acquisitions of
partial interests from existing ownership groups, in a manner that
provides liquidity to those selling owners and professional
management for those remaining as partners. Firm Capital Realty
Partners Inc., through a structure focused on an alignment of
interests with the Trust sources, syndicates and property and asset
manages investments on behalf of the Trust.
FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION
This press release may contain forward-looking
statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be
identified by the use of words such as "may", "will", "should",
"expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict",
"potential", "continue", and by discussions of strategies that
involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements are
based on certain key expectations and assumptions made by the
Trust. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous
assumptions, inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and
specific, that contribute to the possibility that the predictions,
forecasts, projections and various future events will not occur.
Although management of the Trust believes that the expectations
reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, there
can be no assurance that future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements will occur as anticipated. Neither the
Trust nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy
and completeness of any forward-looking statements, and no one has
any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement,
whether as a result of new information, future events or such other
factors which affect this information, except as required by
law.
This press release shall not constitute an offer
to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, which may be made
only by means of a prospectus, nor shall there be any sale of the
Units in any state, province or other jurisdiction in which such
offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration
or qualification under securities laws of any such state, province
or other jurisdiction. The Units of the Firm Capital Property Trust
have not been, and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered, sold or delivered
in the United States absent registration or an application for
exemption from the registration requirements of U.S. securities
laws.
Certain financial information presented in this
press release reflect certain non- International Financial
Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) financial measures, which include NOI,
FFO and AFFO. These measures are commonly used by real estate
investment entities as useful metrics for measuring performance and
cash flows, however, they do not have standardized meaning
prescribed by IFRS and are not necessarily comparable to similar
measures presented by other real estate investment entities. These
terms are defined in the Trust’s Management Discussion and Analysis
(“MD&A”) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020
as filed on www.sedar.com.
For further
information, please contact: |
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Robert McKee |
Sandy Poklar |
President & Chief
Executive Officer |
Chief Financial Officer |
(416) 635-0221 |
(416) 635-0221 |
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For Investor
Relations information, please contact: |
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Victoria Moayedi |
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Director, Investor
Relations |
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(416) 635-0221 |
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Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release.
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