Firm Capital Property Trust Announces the Acquisition of a 50% Interest in a 181 Unit Manufactured Home Community for $16.9 M...
March 15 2021 - 6:14PM
Firm Capital Property Trust ("
FCPT" or the
"
Trust") (TSXV: FCD.UN) is pleased to announce the
acquisition of a 50% interest in a 181 site Manufactured Housing
Community (“
MHC”) named Mountview Mobile Home Park
(“
Mountview” or the “
Property”)
located in Calgary, Alberta. The acquisition price for 100% of the
Property is approximately $16.9 million, excluding transaction
costs. The Trust's portion of the acquisition price is
approximately $8.5 million.
Mountview is located on 24 acres of land,
comprised of two adjacent parcels that is currently 100% occupied.
The Property is conveniently located to schools, public
transportation, shopping, downtown restaurants, and entertainment.
The Property is an original owner-managed community owned by the
current group since 1973, the same year the Property was developed.
The Property features city water and sewer, paved roads, street
lighting, and below ground electrical infrastructure.
The Trust will enter into joint venture
arrangement with SunPark Communities, LP
(“SunPark”), such that the Trust will own 50% of
the Property and SunPark the remaining 50%. SunPark is partially
affiliated with members of the board and senior management of the
Trust. This co-investment is consistent with the Trust’s objective
of being aligned with strong real estate industry partners.
The Trust is funding is portion of the
acquisition through existing cash resources (including the Trust’s
credit facilities). Closing of the Property has occurred and is
expected to be immediately accretive to AFFO.
Eli Dadouch, Founder, President and CEO of the
Firm Capital organization stated: "This is a strategic acquisition
and further builds our MHC portfolio. For over 25 years, we have
invested in the MHC sector under the SunPark Communities brand
name. We are proud of our properties that we currently own and with
the addition of this new Calgary MHC to our SunPark Community
portfolio, it will enhance our national exposure to the sector. We
are committed to growing this sector of our business. A dedicated
MHC team at Firm Capital focuses on both equity ownership
investments, MHC chattel mortgages, and financing for these types
of properties.”
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, acquisitions as outlined 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.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
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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