Howard Schwimmer
Analyst · Citigroup. Please proceed with your question
Thanks Michael and thank you everyone for joining us today. I’ll start with a brief update on our market, utilizing data from CBRE and discuss our recent acquisition, disposition and pipeline activity which look to be robust. In the third quarter market fundamentals remain strong with Southern California infill market. Excluding the Inland Empire East, asking rents increased 6% on a weighted average basis versus one year ago, and occupancy ended at 98.3%, down 10 basis point from the third quarter. All of our infill markets continue to experience strong rental growth which CBRE projects to continue over the next couple of years. Moving on to our recent investment activity. We completed $293 million of [success positions] of core and value-add industrial properties in the third quarter. The largest transaction this quarter is the acquisition of Rancho Pacifica industrial park an additional quality industrial complex at this stage fix build totaling 1.17 million square feet on 56 acres or $270.5 million. As previously stated, this acquisition meaningfully increased Rexford's scale and operating margin in a low vacancy high demand self-grade submarket. We just completed our first lease renewal in the process and are already outperforming project, where we estimated in place strength with over 25% below market. the 75% of square feet rolling over the next three years, we are well on our ways to achieving 5% or better stabilize yield on top. Additionally, we purchase Inland Empire of $26.9 million this full leased 218,000 square foot modern industrial complex is located in the Inland Empire West submarket which has over 500 feet of permit and interstate in the freeway. The project is leased in furnace within place brand expanded over 20% below market enabling us to grow the initial yield of just under 4.5% for approximately 5.5%. In the off market transaction we’ve completed the acquisition King's view, a two tenant, 100% leased, 100,000 square foot warehouse building located in [indiscernible] submarket $14 million. The initial yield in this acquisition was just over 5% and is projected to stabilize approximately 5.5%. Now, let me market the transaction, Rexford required a 201,000-square foot single tenant investment property and [indiscernible] drive in the Inland Empire West for $19.8 million. We place rents for this is visible 26 square building are estimated to be 16% below market today enabling us to move the 5% initial yield were projected 5.5% yield upon renewal or lease kind. We acquired [indiscernible] an 87,000-square foot newly constructed industrial property in the San Gabriel Valley submarket for $14.6 million. The building is fully leased with two tenants but was constructed as four units which we expect for our increasing rental rates enroll initial deal is just under 5%. In September we acquired a 25,000-square foot single tenant industrial property on [indiscernible] in Los Angeles submarket for $3.5 billion. The initial yield was 5% and is projected to stabilize approximately 6.3% below market in place. And finally, temporary purchase were down the road of fully leased of 400,000 square foot in land side for the 15,000-square foot industrial program is South Bay submarket of $3.9 million. The initial yield on this acquisition is 5.9%. year-to-date, we’ve completed $534 million back existing. We continue to discover opportunities in our core feel market and have approximately $98 million of deal on LOI of fast track and our platform and new opportunity to see we are strong. So, what we are close to growing our portfolio within our Southern California submarket. Lease has been able to – on value for the sale of deferred assets. Year-to-date we’ve completed approximately $66 million in disposition and we have incremental $64 million at disposition on the market today. Of this, $33 million is expected to close in the fourth quarter. In addition to our acquisition and disposition activity we continue to unlock internal growth successfully feeling repositioning project in our pipeline. During the third quarter we completed [indiscernible] REIT positioning for 317,000 square feet. In August, we’ve signed a five-year triple rent lease for a luxury park company at [indiscernible] a single tenant 109,000 square foot industrial building located in the [indiscernible] submarket. We completed an extensive exchange program including a new building – renovation of office area. 19 new hand loading positions in the asset for our – choosing a 6.9% year-over-year. We also completed repositioning on western avenue, a 208,000-square foot desktop investor building and we always found these markets not just in April 2015, but the portfolio transaction. As of the original business, we completed a full part of renovation including office areas, - and other functional and cosmetic improvement. We signed a 10-year lease in October to streamline the industry and that’s where our engineering firm. This lease which includes 3% annual rent increases is expected to commence at year end from a result in a 5.9% yield on total cost. Scarcity in infield industrial products in Southern California, increasing demand and virtually no ability to deliver for this supply continues to drive the value of our portfolio. With $10.9 million of projected NOI growth yet to be realized in our existing repositioning framework and a $2 million already locked in with the two deals that I mentioned, we have a strong opportunity to drive further growth in our portfolio as we deliver and lease out these assets. I’ll now turn the call over to Adeel.