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Earnings HistoryForecast Office Properties Income Trust EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.77Consensus EPS $0.98Beat/MissMissed by -$1.75One Year Ago EPSN/AOffice Properties Income Trust Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$133.77 millionExpected Revenue$133.03 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$740.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/AOffice Properties Income Trust Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2023Date2/15/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateFriday, February 16, 2024Conference Call Time10:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsOffice Properties Income Trust's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Wednesday, April 30, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Annual Report (10-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Office Properties Income Trust Q4 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrFebruary 16, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to the Office Properties Income Trust Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen only mode. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin Barry, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:37Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. With me on the call are OPI's President and Chief Operating Officer, Yael Duffy and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Brian Donnelly. In just a moment, they will provide details about our business and our performance for the Q4 of 2023, followed by a question and answer session with sell side analysts. First, I would like to note that the recording and retransmission of today's conference call is prohibited without the prior written consent of the company. Speaker 100:01:04Also note that today's conference call contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and under securities laws. These forward looking statements are based on OPI's beliefs and expectations as of today, Friday, February 16, 2024, and actual results may differ materially from those that we project. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to the forward looking statements made in today's conference call. Additional information concerning factors that could cause those differences is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC, which can be accessed from our website, opireit.com or the SEC's website. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward looking statements. Speaker 100:01:51In addition, we will be discussing non GAAP numbers during this call, including normalized funds from operations or normalized FFO, cash available for distribution or CAD and cash basis net operating income or cash basis NOI. A reconciliation of these non GAAP figures to net income are available in OPI's earnings release presentation that we issued last night, which can be found on our website. And finally, we will be providing guidance on this call, including normalized FFO and cash basis NOI. We are not providing reconciliation of these non GAAP measures as part of our guidance because certain information required for such reconciliation is not available without unreasonable efforts or at all, such as gains and losses or impairment charges to the disposition of real estate. I will now turn the call over to Yael. Speaker 200:02:38Thank you, Kevin, and good morning. Before we begin, I would like to start by discussing the announcement last month regarding OPI's quarterly cash dividend. As market conditions in the office sector remain challenging, we felt it was prudent to reduce dividend to increase our liquidity and financial flexibility. This will help us address future leasing costs, capital expenditures and our upcoming debt maturities. We recognize the value of the dividend to our investors and this decision was not made lightly. Speaker 200:03:09On today's call, I will review OPI's operating and leasing performance before providing an update on our goals heading into 2024. From there, I will turn the call over to Brian to review our financial results. OPI's portfolio consists of 152 properties totaling approximately 20,000,000 square feet with a weighted average remaining lease term of 6.5 years. Our portfolio is well diversified by industry and geography with 64% of our revenues coming from investment grade rated tenants. During the Q4, we executed 196,000 square feet of new and renewal leasing with an average lease term of 7 years and a roll up in rent of 60 basis points. Speaker 200:03:56We ended the quarter with same property occupancy of 89.5%. Renewals drove most of our leasing activity this quarter, including an 8 year renewal with an insurance company for 100,000 square feet in San Antonio, Texas and a 6 year renewal with an aerospace government contractor for 80,000 square feet in Chantilly, Virginia. Concessions and capital commitments declined 12% quarter over quarter and were 21% lower than our average for the year. We hope to see these trends continue as we head into 2024. In total, we signed 75 leases in 2023 for nearly 1,700,000 square feet at a weighted average lease term of 8.5 years. Speaker 200:04:44New leasing accounted for 402,000 square feet or 24% of the activity. Looking ahead to 2024 and OPI's upcoming lease expiration. While we see evidence of large companies across corporate America urging workers to return to the office, including in person mandates, the office sector faces subdued demand driven by headwinds associated with macroeconomic uncertainty and the impact of work from home. Most markets experienced declines in asking rents and occupancy levels in 2023, and we expect this trend to continue into 2024. Additionally, competition among landlords has put further pressure on net effective rents. Speaker 200:05:33In 2024, 3,000,000 square feet or 15.5 percent of OPI's annualized rental income is set to expire. Our leasing and asset management teams are proactively engaging in renewal discussions with our tenants to understand their safe needs. Through these conversations, we have learned that approximately 1,900,000 square feet, representing 53 $800,000 of annualized rental income will not renew. Accordingly, we have engaged leasing brokers and have launched marketing campaigns to address these vacancies. Our current leasing pipeline totals 2,800,000 square feet, of which 40% is attributable to new tenants. Speaker 200:06:19Turning to our recent development projects. Our 427,000 Square Foot Mixed Use Development at 20 Max Ave in Washington, D. C. Is 55% leased to Sonesta International Hotels, and we are actively marketing the remaining vacancy. To date, we have toured over 20 tenants ranging in size from 15,000 to 150,000 square feet. Speaker 200:06:44However, as many of these tenants have requirements in 2025 and beyond, feedback has been slow. In the Q1 of 2024, we expect to deliver the 3 property campus redevelopment located in Seattle, Washington, totaling approximately 300,000 square feet. The project includes the repositioning of 2 properties from office to life science and maintaining the 3rd property for office use. The project is 28% pre leased to Sonoma Biotherapeutics, and we are actively marketing the remaining vacancy with good activity. The project will be delivered with 4 move in ready spec lab suites, which we believe serves as a differentiator as tenants evaluate options in the market. Speaker 200:07:32Turning to financing activities. To begin the year, we have made significant progress addressing our upcoming debt maturities. At the end of last month, we recast our revolving credit facility that was scheduled to mature on January 31, with a new 3 year $425,000,000 credit agreement. Additionally, last week, we completed a 5 year $300,000,000 secured bond offering at a 9% coupon and announced the redemption of our $350,000,000 senior notes maturing in May 2024. OPI has $650,000,000 of unsecured senior notes due in February of 2025, and we are assessing a range of options to adjust this maturity, including additional secured financings and asset sales. Speaker 200:08:24To assist us in evaluating our potential financing strategies, we have engaged Moelis and Company as a financial advisor. Turning to property dispositions. In 20 23, we sold 8 non core properties, which generated $45,000,000 in gross proceeds. Additionally, we have a 248,000 square foot property in Chicago, which Tyson Foods is vacating in January 2020 under agreement for sale. We anticipate this property will transact in the Q1 of 2024. Speaker 200:09:02Furthermore, we have identified and are in various stages of bringing additional properties to market. As we evaluate future sales, we will need to consider the impact that potential dispositions will have on our operating metrics and debt covenants. Before I turn it over to Brian, I would like to acknowledge that OPI, despite challenges facing the office sector, accomplished many of its objectives in 2023 and to start the New Year. We executed nearly 1,700,000 square feet of leasing, substantially completed 2 major development projects in Washington, D. C. Speaker 200:09:40And Seattle, sold non core assets and successfully executed new financings in both the CMBS and bond markets. Our progress was greatly supported by the efforts and reach of our manager, the RMR Group, with its deep bench of experienced real estate professionals and its banking relationship. Looking ahead, we hope to continue to build on this momentum and further execute on our operational and financial priorities in 2024. I will now turn the call over to Brian to review our financial results. Speaker 300:10:17Thank you, Al, and good morning, everyone. We reported normalized FFO of $45,900,000 or $0.95 per share for the quarter, which came in a $0.01 below our guidance range due to higher operating expenses. This compares to normalized FFO of $49,400,000 or $1.02 per share for the Q3 of 2023. The decrease on a sequential quarter basis was driven by higher interest expense and lower NOI as a result of Q4 tenant vacates and operating cost increases. Same property cash basis NOI decreased 12.5% compared to the Q4 of 2022 and was in line with our guidance range, which was a decline of 11% to 13%. Speaker 300:11:01The decrease is mainly driven by elevated free rent concessions, vacancies and higher operating costs. We generated CAD of $0.18 per share during the Q4 and $1.51 per share on a rolling 4 quarter basis. As Yael mentioned, based on the deterioration in market conditions combined with OPI's near term cash priorities, last month we reduced our quarterly dividend to $0.01 per share. This equates to approximately $47,000,000 of annual liquidity to support leasing capital and our refinancing initiatives. Turning to our outlook for normalized FFO and same property cash basis NOI expectations in the Q1 of 2024. Speaker 300:11:44We expect normalized FFO to be between $0.79 $0.81 per share. The decrease sequentially from Q4 is made up of several items, most notably increased interest expense related to our financing activity and lower rental income. We expect same property cash basis NOI to be down 14% to 16% as compared to the Q1 of 2023, driven by elevated free rent and tenant vacancies. Turning to our investing activities. During the Q4, we sold 2 properties for $21,300,000 and have 1 property under agreement for sale for 39,000,000 that we expect will close in the Q1. Speaker 300:12:24We spent $29,400,000 on recurring capital and $19,400,000 on redevelopment capital during the Q4. In 2024, we expect our recurring capital spend to be approximately $100,000,000 comprised of $25,000,000 of building capital and $75,000,000 of leasing capital. We also expect $20,000,000 of redevelopment capital this year, which includes the remaining project costs to deliver our Seattle redevelopment and related tenant improvement dollars. Turning to financing activities. In January, we recast our revolving credit facility with a new $425,000,000 credit agreement consisting of a $325,000,000 secured revolving credit facility and a $100,000,000 secured term loan. Speaker 300:13:09The credit agreement has a 3 year term and interest rate of sulfur plus spread of 3 50 basis points. We have a 1 year extension option for the 3 $25,000,000 credit facility. The agreement is secured by 19 office properties with a gross book value of $942,000,000 All of the 19 banks that providing lending commitments under our previous revolver supported this new agreement. We currently have $193,000,000 of undrawn capacity on our credit facility. Last week, we issued $300,000,000 of new 9% senior secured notes, which are backed by 17 office properties with a gross book value of $574,000,000 Proceeds of this offering and borrowings under our credit facility will be used next month to pay off our $350,000,000 senior unsecured notes that is scheduled to mature in May. Speaker 300:14:01For Q1, 2024 projecting interest expense of $36,400,000 or $0.75 per share based on our recent financing activity. Pro form a for the full impact of the new credit agreement, the secured notes issuance and our redemption of the May 24 notes, our estimated quarterly interest expense run rate is projected to be $38,300,000 or $0.79 per share. We were very pleased with the outcome of our recent financings given the challenges facing the office sector and we believe they demonstrate the quality of our assets as well as the value of the support from the Aramark platform that help facilitate these transactions. However, our work on the balance sheet is not finished and challenges remain. Our next debt maturity is $650,000,000 of 4.5 percent senior notes maturing in February 2025. Speaker 300:14:52We have over $3,000,000,000 of unencumbered assets based on book value that we can potentially utilize to raise future debt capital or for asset dispositions to raise cash. We've also engaged Moelis and Company to assist in evaluating various strategies as we navigate our upcoming debt maturities and beyond. We look forward to updating you on our progress. That concludes our prepared remarks. Operator, we're ready to open up the call for questions. Operator00:15:51And our first question today comes from the line of Brian Maher with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:15:58Great. Thank you. Maybe just starting off with the commentary on the known vacates for 2024. I think you said 1,900,000 square feet. But when we think about it, I mean, it seems like a big number for sure. Speaker 400:16:13But when we think about the fact that in 2023, you did $1,700,000 of new and renewal leasing activity, wouldn't you say that that $1,900,000 is going to end up being significantly less actual vacates and you'll be able to reoccupy a lot of that space when we sit here a year from now? Speaker 200:16:36Good morning, Brian. It's a good question. I think some of the challenges we have with these vacancies is that these are generally single tenant properties. And so it is hard to find a single tenant or a large block in this environment. So I think that is our hope. Speaker 200:16:57As I mentioned, we are actively marketing these properties for lease, but we're also evaluating dispositions. Several of the known date dates are on our potential disposition list and also evaluating if there is other purpose, other best highest and best use for these properties. So I don't obviously, our goal is to lease, but I just want to set expectations that I think it will take us a long time in some cases to lease these properties. Speaker 400:17:30And is there any particular common denominator among the known vacates that you can share as the type of business, etcetera? Speaker 200:17:38Yes. So we have a few of them are more previously leased to the GSA. And I think the common theme that we've been seeing at least in the properties they're vacating is that they've been moving to federally owned properties. And then a couple others are corporate headquarters where what they were doing at those facilities has the times have changed. So we have an instance where they were processing checks at the property and we all know we're not really using checks as much anymore. Speaker 200:18:15So I think it's just become from when they signed the lease to today, technology has changed and they've found that they don't need this additional space. Speaker 400:18:28Okay. Kind of moving on, I've been getting a lot of questions from the buy side regarding the collateral assets backing the new credit facility and the $300,000,000 of notes. Maybe for Brian, do you know when and if that those assets will be made known to investors? Speaker 300:18:50It's a great question, Brian. We don't typically just list out every asset that's part of our financings. I will just describe it, the portfolio in each instance under the revolver as high quality properties with long term walls, tenants that are sticky, if you will, and have utilization of the properties. As you can finance an office asset in this environment, the credit metrics have to all be there, but we haven't really disclosed the list per se of every address. Speaker 400:19:26Okay. And maybe one more for me and then I'll hop back in the queue. When you think and maybe for both of you, when you think about how 2024 plays out between the asset sales that you're contemplating, potential CMBS financings, etcetera, Is that just kind of a quarterly slow drip until we get to the back half of this year where you start to think about something more holistic to deal with the $650,000,000 Just kind of how are you thinking about 2024 as it relates to next year's maturity? Speaker 100:20:00Yes, I Speaker 300:20:00mean, we've been laser focused on the balance sheet. Obviously, the revolver was our first step dealing with the main maturities, which are now behind us and we're looking at the $650,000,000 but also what the impact will be beyond as we continue to look at secured debt as an option for us today. We have to be mindful of various debt covenants, our liquidity position, our operating metrics, what we know about our properties and what could be happening as you all talked about with leases, potentially tenants vacating. We've hired Moelis as an advisor to help us sort through all this with the 650, we have a large portfolio of unencumbered assets. We're going to utilize it to get something done. Speaker 300:20:49But holistically, we have to also look beyond that and figure out how to deal with the maturities behind the 650 at the same time to keep our metrics in check. So I think over the summer, I think you'll find we'll be more further along in our plans and evaluating different options we might have. Speaker 400:21:11Okay. Thanks. I'll hop back in the queue. Operator00:21:25Our next question comes from Ronald Kamdem with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:21:31Hey, just a couple of quick ones, I guess. Number 1 is just if you could talk a little bit more about sort of the occupancy cadence that you're sort of expecting for next year. I expirations are the no move outs, I should say, on the expirations. But how do you guys sort of putting it all together, how do you expect occupancy to trend throughout sort of 2024? And where do you think where do you see that sort of bottoming? Speaker 200:22:06So I mean, I think the good news of the 1,900,000 square feet that we know is going to vacate, it is pretty equal across each quarter. So I don't it's around $400,000 give or take each quarter. So that's about assuming we don't do any other new leasing, which I don't anticipate. It would be about somewhere around 2% a quarter of decline in occupancy. But again, as I mentioned, we are several of the properties that are on the known vacate list are also properties we're considering for disposition. Speaker 200:22:42So if we're able to exercise on those dispositions, then our occupancy will obviously be better. Speaker 500:22:52Got it. And then just sort of on the Moelis hire, as you guys have obviously been contemplating sort of this maturity schedule, was there ever an opportunity to just refinance everything in 2024 and 2025? Just curious if that there was ever a scenario where you could take care of the 2024 and 2025 at the same time. And if not, what sort of the thinking in Moelis and what sort of value kind of strategies would they explore? Thanks. Speaker 300:23:29It's a great question. And to answer the first part of the question, yes, we did contemplate a much bigger deal to take out the 24s and 25s. We were evaluating whether that could have been similar execution in the security senior note market. So we had to look at our options on the table as far as getting a new revolver, which gives us liquidity and more flexibility. And that's where we ended up leaning on doing the revolver versus not doing revolver and potentially doing a bigger bond deal. Speaker 300:24:03Those were sort of the 2 biggest things in front of us. We're also looking at individual asset mortgage financing in the CMBS market pooling properties. So we've been looking at a lot of different options. And Moelis, we actually engaged them in the early part of Q4 and that helped us all along the way as far as sifting through our options, bringing new ideas, bringing different capital alternatives to the table. So they've been very helpful guiding us and helping us navigate some of this stuff and they'll continue to do that in the future. Speaker 500:24:40Great. That's it for me. Thanks so much. Operator00:24:47This concludes our question and answer session. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day, and welcome to the Office Properties Income Trust Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen only mode. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin Barry, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:37Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. With me on the call are OPI's President and Chief Operating Officer, Yael Duffy and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Brian Donnelly. In just a moment, they will provide details about our business and our performance for the Q4 of 2023, followed by a question and answer session with sell side analysts. First, I would like to note that the recording and retransmission of today's conference call is prohibited without the prior written consent of the company. Speaker 100:01:04Also note that today's conference call contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and under securities laws. These forward looking statements are based on OPI's beliefs and expectations as of today, Friday, February 16, 2024, and actual results may differ materially from those that we project. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to the forward looking statements made in today's conference call. Additional information concerning factors that could cause those differences is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC, which can be accessed from our website, opireit.com or the SEC's website. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward looking statements. Speaker 100:01:51In addition, we will be discussing non GAAP numbers during this call, including normalized funds from operations or normalized FFO, cash available for distribution or CAD and cash basis net operating income or cash basis NOI. A reconciliation of these non GAAP figures to net income are available in OPI's earnings release presentation that we issued last night, which can be found on our website. And finally, we will be providing guidance on this call, including normalized FFO and cash basis NOI. We are not providing reconciliation of these non GAAP measures as part of our guidance because certain information required for such reconciliation is not available without unreasonable efforts or at all, such as gains and losses or impairment charges to the disposition of real estate. I will now turn the call over to Yael. Speaker 200:02:38Thank you, Kevin, and good morning. Before we begin, I would like to start by discussing the announcement last month regarding OPI's quarterly cash dividend. As market conditions in the office sector remain challenging, we felt it was prudent to reduce dividend to increase our liquidity and financial flexibility. This will help us address future leasing costs, capital expenditures and our upcoming debt maturities. We recognize the value of the dividend to our investors and this decision was not made lightly. Speaker 200:03:09On today's call, I will review OPI's operating and leasing performance before providing an update on our goals heading into 2024. From there, I will turn the call over to Brian to review our financial results. OPI's portfolio consists of 152 properties totaling approximately 20,000,000 square feet with a weighted average remaining lease term of 6.5 years. Our portfolio is well diversified by industry and geography with 64% of our revenues coming from investment grade rated tenants. During the Q4, we executed 196,000 square feet of new and renewal leasing with an average lease term of 7 years and a roll up in rent of 60 basis points. Speaker 200:03:56We ended the quarter with same property occupancy of 89.5%. Renewals drove most of our leasing activity this quarter, including an 8 year renewal with an insurance company for 100,000 square feet in San Antonio, Texas and a 6 year renewal with an aerospace government contractor for 80,000 square feet in Chantilly, Virginia. Concessions and capital commitments declined 12% quarter over quarter and were 21% lower than our average for the year. We hope to see these trends continue as we head into 2024. In total, we signed 75 leases in 2023 for nearly 1,700,000 square feet at a weighted average lease term of 8.5 years. Speaker 200:04:44New leasing accounted for 402,000 square feet or 24% of the activity. Looking ahead to 2024 and OPI's upcoming lease expiration. While we see evidence of large companies across corporate America urging workers to return to the office, including in person mandates, the office sector faces subdued demand driven by headwinds associated with macroeconomic uncertainty and the impact of work from home. Most markets experienced declines in asking rents and occupancy levels in 2023, and we expect this trend to continue into 2024. Additionally, competition among landlords has put further pressure on net effective rents. Speaker 200:05:33In 2024, 3,000,000 square feet or 15.5 percent of OPI's annualized rental income is set to expire. Our leasing and asset management teams are proactively engaging in renewal discussions with our tenants to understand their safe needs. Through these conversations, we have learned that approximately 1,900,000 square feet, representing 53 $800,000 of annualized rental income will not renew. Accordingly, we have engaged leasing brokers and have launched marketing campaigns to address these vacancies. Our current leasing pipeline totals 2,800,000 square feet, of which 40% is attributable to new tenants. Speaker 200:06:19Turning to our recent development projects. Our 427,000 Square Foot Mixed Use Development at 20 Max Ave in Washington, D. C. Is 55% leased to Sonesta International Hotels, and we are actively marketing the remaining vacancy. To date, we have toured over 20 tenants ranging in size from 15,000 to 150,000 square feet. Speaker 200:06:44However, as many of these tenants have requirements in 2025 and beyond, feedback has been slow. In the Q1 of 2024, we expect to deliver the 3 property campus redevelopment located in Seattle, Washington, totaling approximately 300,000 square feet. The project includes the repositioning of 2 properties from office to life science and maintaining the 3rd property for office use. The project is 28% pre leased to Sonoma Biotherapeutics, and we are actively marketing the remaining vacancy with good activity. The project will be delivered with 4 move in ready spec lab suites, which we believe serves as a differentiator as tenants evaluate options in the market. Speaker 200:07:32Turning to financing activities. To begin the year, we have made significant progress addressing our upcoming debt maturities. At the end of last month, we recast our revolving credit facility that was scheduled to mature on January 31, with a new 3 year $425,000,000 credit agreement. Additionally, last week, we completed a 5 year $300,000,000 secured bond offering at a 9% coupon and announced the redemption of our $350,000,000 senior notes maturing in May 2024. OPI has $650,000,000 of unsecured senior notes due in February of 2025, and we are assessing a range of options to adjust this maturity, including additional secured financings and asset sales. Speaker 200:08:24To assist us in evaluating our potential financing strategies, we have engaged Moelis and Company as a financial advisor. Turning to property dispositions. In 20 23, we sold 8 non core properties, which generated $45,000,000 in gross proceeds. Additionally, we have a 248,000 square foot property in Chicago, which Tyson Foods is vacating in January 2020 under agreement for sale. We anticipate this property will transact in the Q1 of 2024. Speaker 200:09:02Furthermore, we have identified and are in various stages of bringing additional properties to market. As we evaluate future sales, we will need to consider the impact that potential dispositions will have on our operating metrics and debt covenants. Before I turn it over to Brian, I would like to acknowledge that OPI, despite challenges facing the office sector, accomplished many of its objectives in 2023 and to start the New Year. We executed nearly 1,700,000 square feet of leasing, substantially completed 2 major development projects in Washington, D. C. Speaker 200:09:40And Seattle, sold non core assets and successfully executed new financings in both the CMBS and bond markets. Our progress was greatly supported by the efforts and reach of our manager, the RMR Group, with its deep bench of experienced real estate professionals and its banking relationship. Looking ahead, we hope to continue to build on this momentum and further execute on our operational and financial priorities in 2024. I will now turn the call over to Brian to review our financial results. Speaker 300:10:17Thank you, Al, and good morning, everyone. We reported normalized FFO of $45,900,000 or $0.95 per share for the quarter, which came in a $0.01 below our guidance range due to higher operating expenses. This compares to normalized FFO of $49,400,000 or $1.02 per share for the Q3 of 2023. The decrease on a sequential quarter basis was driven by higher interest expense and lower NOI as a result of Q4 tenant vacates and operating cost increases. Same property cash basis NOI decreased 12.5% compared to the Q4 of 2022 and was in line with our guidance range, which was a decline of 11% to 13%. Speaker 300:11:01The decrease is mainly driven by elevated free rent concessions, vacancies and higher operating costs. We generated CAD of $0.18 per share during the Q4 and $1.51 per share on a rolling 4 quarter basis. As Yael mentioned, based on the deterioration in market conditions combined with OPI's near term cash priorities, last month we reduced our quarterly dividend to $0.01 per share. This equates to approximately $47,000,000 of annual liquidity to support leasing capital and our refinancing initiatives. Turning to our outlook for normalized FFO and same property cash basis NOI expectations in the Q1 of 2024. Speaker 300:11:44We expect normalized FFO to be between $0.79 $0.81 per share. The decrease sequentially from Q4 is made up of several items, most notably increased interest expense related to our financing activity and lower rental income. We expect same property cash basis NOI to be down 14% to 16% as compared to the Q1 of 2023, driven by elevated free rent and tenant vacancies. Turning to our investing activities. During the Q4, we sold 2 properties for $21,300,000 and have 1 property under agreement for sale for 39,000,000 that we expect will close in the Q1. Speaker 300:12:24We spent $29,400,000 on recurring capital and $19,400,000 on redevelopment capital during the Q4. In 2024, we expect our recurring capital spend to be approximately $100,000,000 comprised of $25,000,000 of building capital and $75,000,000 of leasing capital. We also expect $20,000,000 of redevelopment capital this year, which includes the remaining project costs to deliver our Seattle redevelopment and related tenant improvement dollars. Turning to financing activities. In January, we recast our revolving credit facility with a new $425,000,000 credit agreement consisting of a $325,000,000 secured revolving credit facility and a $100,000,000 secured term loan. Speaker 300:13:09The credit agreement has a 3 year term and interest rate of sulfur plus spread of 3 50 basis points. We have a 1 year extension option for the 3 $25,000,000 credit facility. The agreement is secured by 19 office properties with a gross book value of $942,000,000 All of the 19 banks that providing lending commitments under our previous revolver supported this new agreement. We currently have $193,000,000 of undrawn capacity on our credit facility. Last week, we issued $300,000,000 of new 9% senior secured notes, which are backed by 17 office properties with a gross book value of $574,000,000 Proceeds of this offering and borrowings under our credit facility will be used next month to pay off our $350,000,000 senior unsecured notes that is scheduled to mature in May. Speaker 300:14:01For Q1, 2024 projecting interest expense of $36,400,000 or $0.75 per share based on our recent financing activity. Pro form a for the full impact of the new credit agreement, the secured notes issuance and our redemption of the May 24 notes, our estimated quarterly interest expense run rate is projected to be $38,300,000 or $0.79 per share. We were very pleased with the outcome of our recent financings given the challenges facing the office sector and we believe they demonstrate the quality of our assets as well as the value of the support from the Aramark platform that help facilitate these transactions. However, our work on the balance sheet is not finished and challenges remain. Our next debt maturity is $650,000,000 of 4.5 percent senior notes maturing in February 2025. Speaker 300:14:52We have over $3,000,000,000 of unencumbered assets based on book value that we can potentially utilize to raise future debt capital or for asset dispositions to raise cash. We've also engaged Moelis and Company to assist in evaluating various strategies as we navigate our upcoming debt maturities and beyond. We look forward to updating you on our progress. That concludes our prepared remarks. Operator, we're ready to open up the call for questions. Operator00:15:51And our first question today comes from the line of Brian Maher with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:15:58Great. Thank you. Maybe just starting off with the commentary on the known vacates for 2024. I think you said 1,900,000 square feet. But when we think about it, I mean, it seems like a big number for sure. Speaker 400:16:13But when we think about the fact that in 2023, you did $1,700,000 of new and renewal leasing activity, wouldn't you say that that $1,900,000 is going to end up being significantly less actual vacates and you'll be able to reoccupy a lot of that space when we sit here a year from now? Speaker 200:16:36Good morning, Brian. It's a good question. I think some of the challenges we have with these vacancies is that these are generally single tenant properties. And so it is hard to find a single tenant or a large block in this environment. So I think that is our hope. Speaker 200:16:57As I mentioned, we are actively marketing these properties for lease, but we're also evaluating dispositions. Several of the known date dates are on our potential disposition list and also evaluating if there is other purpose, other best highest and best use for these properties. So I don't obviously, our goal is to lease, but I just want to set expectations that I think it will take us a long time in some cases to lease these properties. Speaker 400:17:30And is there any particular common denominator among the known vacates that you can share as the type of business, etcetera? Speaker 200:17:38Yes. So we have a few of them are more previously leased to the GSA. And I think the common theme that we've been seeing at least in the properties they're vacating is that they've been moving to federally owned properties. And then a couple others are corporate headquarters where what they were doing at those facilities has the times have changed. So we have an instance where they were processing checks at the property and we all know we're not really using checks as much anymore. Speaker 200:18:15So I think it's just become from when they signed the lease to today, technology has changed and they've found that they don't need this additional space. Speaker 400:18:28Okay. Kind of moving on, I've been getting a lot of questions from the buy side regarding the collateral assets backing the new credit facility and the $300,000,000 of notes. Maybe for Brian, do you know when and if that those assets will be made known to investors? Speaker 300:18:50It's a great question, Brian. We don't typically just list out every asset that's part of our financings. I will just describe it, the portfolio in each instance under the revolver as high quality properties with long term walls, tenants that are sticky, if you will, and have utilization of the properties. As you can finance an office asset in this environment, the credit metrics have to all be there, but we haven't really disclosed the list per se of every address. Speaker 400:19:26Okay. And maybe one more for me and then I'll hop back in the queue. When you think and maybe for both of you, when you think about how 2024 plays out between the asset sales that you're contemplating, potential CMBS financings, etcetera, Is that just kind of a quarterly slow drip until we get to the back half of this year where you start to think about something more holistic to deal with the $650,000,000 Just kind of how are you thinking about 2024 as it relates to next year's maturity? Speaker 100:20:00Yes, I Speaker 300:20:00mean, we've been laser focused on the balance sheet. Obviously, the revolver was our first step dealing with the main maturities, which are now behind us and we're looking at the $650,000,000 but also what the impact will be beyond as we continue to look at secured debt as an option for us today. We have to be mindful of various debt covenants, our liquidity position, our operating metrics, what we know about our properties and what could be happening as you all talked about with leases, potentially tenants vacating. We've hired Moelis as an advisor to help us sort through all this with the 650, we have a large portfolio of unencumbered assets. We're going to utilize it to get something done. Speaker 300:20:49But holistically, we have to also look beyond that and figure out how to deal with the maturities behind the 650 at the same time to keep our metrics in check. So I think over the summer, I think you'll find we'll be more further along in our plans and evaluating different options we might have. Speaker 400:21:11Okay. Thanks. I'll hop back in the queue. Operator00:21:25Our next question comes from Ronald Kamdem with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. Speaker 500:21:31Hey, just a couple of quick ones, I guess. Number 1 is just if you could talk a little bit more about sort of the occupancy cadence that you're sort of expecting for next year. I expirations are the no move outs, I should say, on the expirations. But how do you guys sort of putting it all together, how do you expect occupancy to trend throughout sort of 2024? And where do you think where do you see that sort of bottoming? Speaker 200:22:06So I mean, I think the good news of the 1,900,000 square feet that we know is going to vacate, it is pretty equal across each quarter. So I don't it's around $400,000 give or take each quarter. So that's about assuming we don't do any other new leasing, which I don't anticipate. It would be about somewhere around 2% a quarter of decline in occupancy. But again, as I mentioned, we are several of the properties that are on the known vacate list are also properties we're considering for disposition. Speaker 200:22:42So if we're able to exercise on those dispositions, then our occupancy will obviously be better. Speaker 500:22:52Got it. And then just sort of on the Moelis hire, as you guys have obviously been contemplating sort of this maturity schedule, was there ever an opportunity to just refinance everything in 2024 and 2025? Just curious if that there was ever a scenario where you could take care of the 2024 and 2025 at the same time. And if not, what sort of the thinking in Moelis and what sort of value kind of strategies would they explore? Thanks. Speaker 300:23:29It's a great question. And to answer the first part of the question, yes, we did contemplate a much bigger deal to take out the 24s and 25s. We were evaluating whether that could have been similar execution in the security senior note market. So we had to look at our options on the table as far as getting a new revolver, which gives us liquidity and more flexibility. And that's where we ended up leaning on doing the revolver versus not doing revolver and potentially doing a bigger bond deal. Speaker 300:24:03Those were sort of the 2 biggest things in front of us. We're also looking at individual asset mortgage financing in the CMBS market pooling properties. So we've been looking at a lot of different options. And Moelis, we actually engaged them in the early part of Q4 and that helped us all along the way as far as sifting through our options, bringing new ideas, bringing different capital alternatives to the table. So they've been very helpful guiding us and helping us navigate some of this stuff and they'll continue to do that in the future. Speaker 500:24:40Great. That's it for me. Thanks so much. Operator00:24:47This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Yael Duffy for any closing remarks. Speaker 200:24:55Thank you for joining us on the call today. Have a nice weekend.Read morePowered by