A Fastrac location. Picture courtesy of EC Group
Realty Revenue Corp. has agreed to amass a portfolio of as much as 415 single-tenant comfort retailer properties within the U.S. below a sale-leaseback with EG Group, an impartial comfort retailer based mostly in the UK. The deal is valued at roughly $1.5 billion and is anticipated to shut within the second quarter, topic to customary closing situations. The estimated cap charge is roughly 6.9 %, with the portfolio having a 20-year weighted common preliminary lease time period.
About 80 % of the portfolio’s annualized contractual lease is anticipated to be generated from properties within the Northeast, together with some 116 properties in Massachusetts, 87 in New York and 74 in Florida, the three most-represented states within the portfolio.
Greater than 80 % of the portfolio’s annualized contractual lease is anticipated to be generated by properties operated below the Cumberland Farms model, however Tom Thumb, Fastrac and Dash places are additionally included within the portfolio. The typical property measurement is 3,700 sq. ft.
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The belongings included within the deal symbolize roughly 15 % of EC Group’s whole freehold property in 10 markets. Eastdil Secured, Barclays, Latham & Watkins, Skadden, Arps, Slate and Meagher & Flom, Rothschild & Co., and EY suggested EC on this transaction. The retailer intends to make use of web proceeds ensuing from the deal to repay debt, which is according to the administration’s dedication to cut back whole web leverage by way of debt discount and free money stream technology, as introduced by the group late final 12 months.
Upon the deal’s completion, the comfort retailer sector and the EG Group are anticipated to symbolize roughly 11.3 % and a pair of.9 %, respectively, of Realty Revenue’s whole portfolio annualized contractual lease.
Two hefty corporations
In a ready assertion, Sumit Roy, Realty Revenue’s president & CEO, famous that the comfort retailer business has lengthy been a well-performing staple within the REIT’s actual property portfolio. Realty Revenue has greater than 12,200 actual property properties, primarily owned below long-term net-lease agreements. Most lately, Realty Revenue bought 185 retail and industrial non-core, web lease properties from CIM Actual Property Finance Belief Inc. for $894 million.
Although headquartered in Blackburn, U.Okay., EG Group reportedly is among the largest operators of comfort shops within the U.S. Since its founding in 2001, the corporate has acquired c-stores from Kroger and TravelCenters of America (MinitMart), amongst others.
