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Earnings HistoryForecast Rexford Industrial Realty EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.62Consensus EPS $0.57Beat/MissBeat by +$0.05One Year Ago EPSN/ARexford Industrial Realty Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$248.82 millionExpected Revenue$246.74 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$2.08 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ARexford Industrial Realty Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2025Date4/16/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, April 17, 2025Conference Call Time1:00PM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Rexford Industrial Realty Q1 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrApril 17, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 11 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, and welcome to the Rexford Industrial's First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. All participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mikayla Lynch, Director, Investor Relations and Capital Markets. Operator00:00:27Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:30Thank you, and welcome to Rexford Industrial's first quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. In addition to yesterday's earnings release, we posted a supplemental package and earnings presentation in the Investor Relations section on our website to support today's remarks. As a reminder, management's remarks and responses to your questions may contain forward looking statements as defined by federal securities laws, which are based on certain assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties outlined in our 10 ks and other SEC filings. As such, actual results may differ, and we assume no obligation to update any forward looking statements in the future. We'll also discuss non GAAP financial measures on today's call. Speaker 100:01:10Our earnings presentation and supplemental package provide GAAP reconciliations as well as an explanation of why these measures are useful to investors. Joining me today are our Chief Operating Officer, Laura Clark and Chief Financial Officer, Mike Fitzmaurice our Co CEOs, Michael Frankel and Howard Schwimmer, will join us for the Q and A session following prepared remarks. It's my pleasure to now introduce Laura Clark. Laura? Speaker 200:01:37Thank you, Mikayla, and thank you all for joining us today. I'd like to begin by recognizing the Rexford team. Your dedication and strong execution drove first quarter performance and position us well to navigate today's heightened macroeconomic uncertainty. Rexford delivered solid first quarter performance, in line with expectations. We executed 2,400,000 square feet of leases, achieving net effective and cash rent spreads of 2415%, respectively. Speaker 200:02:10Embedded rent steps in our executed leases averaged 3.6%. Notably, 400,000 square feet of new leasing activity in the quarter was from five repositioning and redevelopment projects. Overall absorption in the quarter was a positive 125,000 square feet and renewal activity remains strong. We achieved 82% tenant retention, the highest level over the past year. Market rents across our portfolio declined 2.8% sequentially and 9.4 year over year. Speaker 200:02:48Despite continued softness in market rents, Rexford's portfolio outperformed the overall market, which experienced a decline of 4.7% sequentially and 12.1% year over year according to CBRE. The decline in Rexford's portfolio market rents was largely concentrated in spaces above 100,000 square feet, which are experiencing some excess supply in the submarkets of Mid Counties, North Orange County and the Inland Empire West. In contrast, market rents for Rexford smaller format spaces under 50,000 square feet continue to show relative resilience supported by limited supply comparable to our superior highly functional product. Regarding the current leasing environment, at the start of the year, leasing activity had picked up as tenant requirements in the market were increasing. At the time of our last earnings call, we had activity on approximately 90% of our vacant spaces, representing a material pickup when compared to 2024. Speaker 200:03:54Since the recent tariff announcements, we have seen some tenants defer decision making amid increased economic uncertainty. We currently have leasing activity on approximately 80% of our vacant spaces and while overall engagement remains healthy, it is difficult to predict the near term impacts surrounding the tariffs and overall levels of uncertainty. As Fitz will discuss in more detail, our guidance anticipates the potential for increased lease up timing. Turning to capital allocation, by stabilizing assets at above market yields and selling properties at low cap rates, we are driving accretive cash flow growth and long term value creation. By way of example, in the quarter, we stabilized five repositioning projects totaling 560,000 square feet at a 7.6% unlevered yield and completed two dispositions totaling $103,000,000 at exit cap rates in the low 4% area. Speaker 200:04:59Our capital allocation and recycling strategy will continue to be focused on maximizing returns and accretion. Our value add repositioning and redevelopments are a key driver of accretive growth with $70,000,000 of incremental NOI expected in the near term from the 3,200,000 square feet of projects under construction or in lease up. Regarding dispositions, we currently have approximately $30,000,000 of dispositions under contract or accepted offer subject to customary closing conditions. We have no acquisitions under contract or accepted offer. In closing, we are facing a heightened level of uncertainty related to the introduction of new tariffs. Speaker 200:05:44However, our portfolio continues to be well positioned over the medium to longer term. We own a high quality portfolio located in infill Southern California, where the long term supply demand imbalance will continue to persist, making our portfolio even more valuable into the future. Our tenants serve the nation's largest regional population base and one of the largest economies in the world, where leasing demand is driven by consumption. This is in contrast to larger format industrial product where demand is more closely linked to global trade flows. The health and diversity of our tenant base is strong, and we are seeing demand from a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, construction, defense and aerospace, and the warehousing and distribution of consumer staples, household goods, and food and beverage to name a few. Speaker 200:06:41Our value add focus drives accretive cash flow growth. We currently have over $230,000,000 of projected incremental NOI embedded within our portfolio positioning us to grow shareholder value over the long term. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to sharing more progress in the quarters ahead. Now, I'll turn the call over to Fitz. Speaker 300:07:04Thanks, Laura, and thank you everyone for joining. First, I'd like to thank our team for their commitment to excellence and teamwork as we continue to focus on driving long term value. First quarter results were in line with our expectations. Core FFO was $0.62 per share, representing 7% growth both sequentially and year over year. We recognized $04 of expected termination revenue that was tied to a couple of known tenant move outs. Speaker 300:07:31We are maintaining our full year 2025 core FFO outlook of 2.37 to $2.41 per share, but we are closely monitoring market dynamics and will assess our outlook to the extent conditions may evolve. Overall, our underlying 2025 guidance assumptions remain intact, including the projected $15,000,000 net NOI contribution from repositioning and redevelopment. Although our projected lease up timing has increased to nine months from our prior expectations of eight months due to tariff disruption, this was positively offset by some short term lease extensions for properties otherwise planned for future repositioning or redevelopment. Reflecting recent changes in market rents, we've revised our leasing spread assumptions. We now expect net effective and cash leasing spreads of approximately 2515% respectively. Speaker 300:08:25This change will not have a material impact on our guidance as only 11% of our ABR is set to expire through year end with most expirations weighted towards the second half of twenty twenty five. Our low leverage investment grade balance sheet positions us to be opportunistic while navigating market uncertainties. Today, we have more than $1,600,000,000 of liquidity, including $6.00 $8,000,000 of cash and nearly full availability on our $1,000,000,000 unsecured line of credit. Since last quarter, we have further bolstered our balance sheet reducing net debt to EBITDA by over a half turn to 3.9 times due to the settlement of $400,000,000 of forward equity that was raised at $49 per share in March 2024. During the quarter, we proactively initiated the recast of our credit facility, extend duration, lower interest expense, increase liquidity, enhance flexibility. Speaker 300:09:25This includes the refinancing of our $400,000,000 term loan positioning us with no significant maturities until 2027. We expect to close on our recast in May subject to customary closing conditions. We will continue to remain opportunistic with our debt maturities focusing on duration and further lowering our cost of debt. And with that, I'll turn the call back to the operator and open the line for questions. Operator00:09:54Thank you. Our first question comes from Blaine Heck from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:10:11Great. Thanks. So as you mentioned, market rents accelerated downward during the quarter, down 2.8% from 1.5% in Q4. I guess maybe putting aside the potential impact of tariffs on leasing demand for a moment, do you have any better sense of how much further you'd expect rents to decline just based on how much excess vacancy is on the market and how aggressive some of your competitors have been on pricing? And then I guess if you were to factor in the tariffs, how much of an accelerant to rent moderation do you think a drawn out trade disagreement could potentially present in your markets? Speaker 200:10:49Hey, Blaine. It's Laura. Thanks for joining us today. As you mentioned, we are seeing some nominal pressure on market rents, but we're certainly not giving away space in the market, and demand continues as represented by, as I mentioned in our prepared remarks, the current level. We've got activity on about 80% of our vacant spaces. Speaker 200:11:08And we actually have leasing of that leasing activity, we're actually trading paper on about 2,700,000 square feet today alone. So while it's challenging to predict future rent growth, in the near term, as Vince indicated, we only have about 11% of our portfolio rolling through year end, and feel really good about, you know, the positioning of, you know, current activity, given, given the uncertainty in the market. I also think it's important to note that, you know, we are that demand is represented by a diverse array of tenants. You know, that activity is made up of, you know, some of the larger drivers are the construction, industries and trades, three p l's also including technology, manufacturing, entertainment, and apparel. So that that diversity, the levels of demand as well as the diversity, we're pleased with at this point in time. Speaker 200:12:05One more note, think that's important is is our business model. Our business model model has many levers of growth, embedded growth, that in a current environment, when there could be pressure and continued pressure on rents, allows us to continue to grow cash flow. We've got about $230,000,000 of incremental NOI embedded in the portfolio today. About 60,000,000 of that's the mark to market, about 70,000,000 from our repositioning and redevelopments that are in process and in the pipeline, and then another $100,000,000 from the annual embedded rent steps in our leases that's at 3.7%. Speaker 500:12:41And Blaine, it's Michael. I'll just add a little bit to your question related to the impacts or potential impacts from the tariffs. And I'll start with reminding everyone about before the tariffs, the backdrop was actually looking relatively favorable. We had an increase in tenant activity, and the pent up demand that we felt might be coming back to the market felt tangible. And when the tariffs were announced, we did see a shift, as Laura mentioned earlier. Speaker 500:13:08And so our tenants are clearly sensitive about the prospect of what tariffs could bring. And the impacts of the tariffs, there's a range of potential impacts. To the extent they drive a change in trade flows, our tenant base is relatively insulated. Nobody's perfectly insulated. But as you know, our tenants are disproportionately serving regional consumption, and this is the largest zone of consumption in the country. Speaker 500:13:32And so we believe that does mitigate the impacts associated with changing or shifting trade flows. To the extent that tariffs drive a reduction in overall consumer demand, clearly, that's something that our tenants are a little more worried about. And I think that our tenant base, in terms of their behaviors, it is very sentiment driven right now in terms of their expectations about the future because what they told us earlier this year is they're feeling pretty good about their underlying business actually. And to the extent there is a drop off in consumer demand, I think if we look back to prior cycles, again, we found that our infill Southern California tenant base has proven to be relatively resilient, certainly more resilient, for example, than your big box non infill markets, where those that space is more fungible, it's more of a commodity. And our tenants tend to be far more sticky through downturns because our because of the extreme long term scarcity of our space, the irreplaceable nature of our space and the fact that it's very difficult for tenants to move and find the same they need to be near their endpoints of distribution, they need to be near the scope of labor, they need to be within the business ecosystem and services that support their products and components. Speaker 500:14:50So a lot of factors that drive the relative stability of our infill tenant base, even through cycles associated with reduced consumer demand. Operator00:15:02Our next question comes from Sameer Kunal from Bank of America. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 600:15:09Yes. Good morning, everybody. I guess, Mike, I know you talked about the lease up. I think you talked about nine months instead of eight months. But maybe help us understand a little bit more about the low end of guidance here. Speaker 600:15:25I think given the uncertainty, everybody's Speaker 700:15:27trying Speaker 600:15:28to figure out maybe how much room or cushion there is for sort of rents to fall, occupancy to fall as we think about kind of what PLD did. They sort of stress test their guidance. So walk us through that, please. Sure, Speaker 300:15:43Sameer. I appreciate the question. And again, congrats on the new role. Like any quarter, we're always sensitizing our earnings to the top end and to the bottom end of the range. Obviously, this quarter took on a bit of a heightened focus for obvious reasons. Speaker 300:16:01But the way we looked at is we, you know, we really sensitized our expectation to historical downturns, whether it be, the pandemic, recent market rent changes in Southern California, the GFC, and the variables that we focused on were more projected lease up time for our repositioning redevelopment, also market rent decline, bad debt expense, and same property occupancy. And we track those down to the historic downturns, the lows of the market, and we feel really, really good about where that gets us to in the bottom end of our range to $2.37. And to your point, embedded in our guidance is longer projected downtime of nine months, which is a full quarter beyond what historical norms are of six months. Then also bad debt. Bad debt is at 75 basis points, which is about double of what this portfolio has generated over the last six, seven years since twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Speaker 300:16:56So we feel really, really good about the range of possibilities on the downside. Operator00:17:04Our next question comes from John Kim from BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:17:11Thank you and good morning. I was wondering if you could provide some more insight on the cash mark to market sorry, the cash leasing spreads this quarter, which went negative. And just looking at leases that you signed this quarter, the average one was $16.50 dollars And comparing that versus your in place ABR, it looks like it would suggest a negative mark to market. But I'm wondering if you could just provide some more color on that. Speaker 200:17:38Yeah, John. I'll take that question. In terms of our new leasing spreads, I think it's important to note that this quarter only included about 280,000 square feet of comparable leases. So a very small sample set. Most of the new leasing activity we did this quarter was in our repositioning and redevelopments, where you don't have comparable leasing spreads. Speaker 200:17:58So drilling into that negative 5% cash, leasing spread for the quarter, It was primarily attributed to one lease. That lease had an above market rent that was related to some specialized improvements that were in that space. And then we leased that building as is. So really a unique circumstance with that lease, but again, a small sample size. Operator00:18:28Our next question comes from Mike Mueller from JPMorgan. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:18:35Yes. Hi. I guess, can you talk about the pace of redevelopment repositioning starts for the next twelve months or so based on what you're seeing and expecting today and maybe how it compares to the past year or two? Speaker 300:18:48Sure, Mike. I'll take that question. And good morning. So in terms of what's coming online this year, we have about $30,000,000 of incremental NOI relative 24,000,000 In the first quarter, we experienced about $9,000,000 of that $30,000,000 And as we look through the remaining part of the year and second through the fourth quarter, it's going be more back half weighted, the additional $21,000,000 or so. In terms of what's coming off line, that cadence has changed a bit from last quarter, where we expected it to come off line predominantly in the first quarter first part of the second quarter. Speaker 300:19:27But today, we expect that to be more ratable throughout the year. So we had about 3,000,000 come offline in the first quarter, and it'll be ratable to get to the 15,000,000 coming offline for the full year in 2025. And so when you net those two together, you get to the $15,000,000 net NOI contribution that we expect. Operator00:19:51Our next question comes from Omotayo Okusanya from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 800:20:00Yes. Good afternoon, guys. Could you talk a little bit about the lease terminations in 1Q, like the nature of those tenants? And how you're just kind of thinking about your watch list today if there is one of potential tenants? Speaker 300:20:14Sure. Yeah. We did experience, as you just alluded to and I mentioned in the call, about $9,000,000 or so of termination revenue. That was tied to two tenants, and that was expected and in line with our expectations. Laura, do you wanna talk a bit about the color? Speaker 200:20:27Yeah. I think it's important to note that the majority of that termination income was tied actually to an office property that we acquired as part of a redevelopment plan. That that property is zoned industrial. So the tenant that was, occupying that space was an office user, not your traditional industrial user. We were able to negotiate a favorable term fee there and now have the ability to move forward with the redevelopment plan in the future. Speaker 200:20:53And then in terms of bad debt or bad debt assumptions for the year. Speaker 300:20:58Yeah. Our bad debt assumptions for the year, we had outsized growth in the first or outsized performance in the first quarter of about $3,400,000 which is about 120 basis points. As we look through the remaining part of the year, it'll be between fifty and fifty five basis points, which lines up with our 75 basis points expectation. Operator00:21:20Our next question comes from Craig Mailman from Citi. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:21:26Hey, everyone. This question may be a bit ironic or hypocritical, however you want to look at it, given I've kind of asked you guys about selling assets over the last couple of years, now you are doing it and being successful. But I'm just kind of curious about the timing of it, given you're sitting on $600,000,000 Is there some were these more reverse inquiries that users wanted to buy these buildings? Or what's driving the uptick in disposition activity when acquisitions look a little bit less likely in the near term? Speaker 900:21:59Hi, Craig. It's Howard. Thanks for the question. You know, we've always looked into the portfolio and considered dispositions, but we've, in the past, had such tremendous upside in rent growth that it was hard to justify a great majority of of sales. And today, yes, those those two dispositions we completed were unsolicited offers. Speaker 900:22:22And what was unique about those is that there were some owner users that came to us, and they paid an extraordinary premium for the two assets we sold. Those traded for, in aggregate, in the range of about a 4% cap rate, which is really interesting when you consider in today's market that deals are trading in the mid-4s to 5% range or higher even depending on what the circumstance is with above market rent in a portfolio. So great opportunity for us in terms of being able to recycle very accretively this capital. Operator00:23:11Our next question comes from Greg MacInnis from Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:23:18Hey, good morning. Just looking at the average rent escalator signed during Q1, it was down to 3.6% as compared to 4% last year. Are you starting to see tenants push back on the four percent escalators that you've been able to achieve over the last couple of years? Speaker 200:23:34Hey, Greg. It's Laura. Yeah. Given some of the market dynamics and pressures on rents, we're certainly seeing some other components of the lease the leases where there is pressure, but it's concentrated, by submarket, and in certain size ranges. So looking into that 3.6% embedded rent steps, that was really, really focused around those spaces over a hundred thousand square feet where we saw rent steps averaging about 3.4%. Speaker 200:24:01Looking at our smaller format spaces, those rent steps are holding closer to 4%. Operator00:24:11Our next question comes from Anthony Howe from Truist Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:24:16Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Howard, I think you have highlighted that infill locations tend to be more resilient in downturns. Can you help us better quantify that, whether through occupancy, rent growth or leasing velocity compared to non infill assets? Speaker 900:24:33Sure. Yeah, thanks for the question. It's really more of a for space. You know, Southern California is a fully built out market. There's while we do have some construction that occurs in our tight infill markets, it's generally just to replace older, dysfunctional product. Speaker 900:24:52So we're really not introducing any more supply, whereas you look at many other markets around the country that have land and you don't have any limits on growth in terms of construction, land values tend to drop quickly in tougher times and competing product can enter the market and lower at lower prices than even existing products. So we don't have that dynamic in Southern California. And as we've sort of mentioned earlier in the call, we're really a consumption driven market with upwards of 24,000,000 people here. It's really a different dynamic than you find. And through cycles, we really generally haven't had a huge drop off in occupancy. Speaker 900:25:42It's really more just timing of leasing and so forth. Operator00:25:52Our next question comes from Brendan Lynch from Barclays. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:25:58Great. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to just dig in a little bit on your philosophy on the pace of redevelopment and repositioning. If we're entering a period of market weakness, is that would you be leaning into now because there's a lower opportunity cost of taking assets offline? Speaker 200:26:19Hey, Brendan. Thanks for joining us today. When we think about capital allocation, I mean, taking it back to our capital allocation strategy, we're focused on driving accretion and then long term value. So when we're considering repositionings and redevelopments, we're doing just that. On our repositionings, we're achieving high above market incremental returns, you know, somewhere in the 15% area on the incremental returns on the incremental capital that we're investing into those assets. Speaker 200:26:46So not only is that driving accretive cash flow growth, but we're also enhancing the value of these assets over time. So to the extent that those repositioning and redevelopment opportunities that we have in the pipeline allow us to do that, you know, we think that it's prudent for us to continue to move forward, and that's significant, you know, part of how we will continue to to drive outsized, cash flow per share growth. Speaker 300:27:10And and one item I would note there, just, you know, by way of example of what we experienced during the quarter, we did, as Laura noted earlier in her prepared remarks, to stabilize about five projects, 560,000 square feet. Now that stabilized yield is about 7.6%. But on an incremental return perspective, to line up with Laura's thoughts just a moment ago, that was 20%, which is the highest risk adjusted return today and a great way to deploy our capital. Operator00:27:37Our next question comes from Michael Griffin from Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:27:43Great. Thanks. I'm wondering if you could give just a little more commentary on occupancy expectations. If I look at your kind of same store quarter end occupancy versus the total portfolio, it's a delta of about 600 basis points versus 400 basis points on average the four quarters before. So it seems like you're going to get toward that midpoint of the same store average occupancy guidance. Speaker 400:28:07But should we see that spread narrow? Should we see it widen as we get throughout the year? Like if there's any numbers you can kind of put around that, that would be helpful. Yes. Speaker 300:28:17Thanks for the question, Griff. Appreciate it. But yes, we ended the quarter for same property occupancy at 95.7%. We should end at the same level. So it'll dip here in the second and third quarter and an increase in the fourth quarter. Speaker 300:28:33We think about our portfolio occupancy, you know, it did take a dip of about 170 basis points since last quarter, and that was primarily related to repositioning and redevelopments that we put into, the active arena. And that should end the year, right around 91% or so. Operator00:28:54Our next question comes from Vikram Malhotra from Mizuho. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 1000:29:01Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. I guess you've alluded to sort of long term value creation through development, but also to the private market kind of being five or sub-five. I'm just wondering like as you sell assets like how much could you sell? And then what about using proceeds for buybacks, given kind of where the stock is relative to what you just said the private market is trading at? Speaker 300:29:26Hi, Vikram. Good morning. This is Mike. First, as you know, we're capital intensive business. We have many, many competing uses of capital. Speaker 300:29:35The highest risk adjusted returns that we're achieving today, as we just noted on the previous question, is repositioning and redevelopments. Like I said, we have five projects earn a return on an incremental basis, about 20%. We have $15,000,000 of net NOI contribution in 2025. This really positions Rexford for our outsized growth over the medium and long term. As we think about it, the 600,000,000 of cash that we have sitting on the balance sheet, we're we're offensive. Speaker 300:30:04We're in an offensive position. We have an opportunity to be very patient, and it it goes back to our core tenets of how we think about our capital allocation velocity, and that's accreted to earnings, balance sheet, NAV, and portfolio quality. And reinvesting inside our our assets and improving the functionality is the best return that we're getting today. Now in terms of dispositions, today, have about 30,000,000 or so that is under contract. And beyond that, I think it's too early to give you guidance on what we could sell later in the year. Speaker 300:30:38But it is attractive use of capital, Howard pointed out earlier, where we're able to sell in the low 4% area. Operator00:30:51Our last question today will come from Blaine Heck from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:30:57Great. Thanks for taking the follow-up. Mike, it's helpful to hear you all went through a stress test on operating results and still feel good about the low end of FFO guidance. But I'm wondering if you can talk about some of the specific assumptions in that stress test as it relates to occupancy, rents and bad debts? And I guess how you think that scenario would likely impact same store numbers as well? Speaker 300:31:23Yes. I can provide you with a little more insight there, and I appreciate the follow-up question, Blaine. Like I mentioned earlier, the four variables that we look at are projected lease up timing related to reposition or redevelopment, market rent change, bad debt and same property occupancy. Now as it relates to core FFO, we if you another month of downtime or lease up time related to reposition or redevelopment, that's about a penny or so, Then market rent decline in a ten percent and twenty five basis point increase to 100 basis points for bad debt, that's another penny. And on same property occupancy, if we went down to where we were more towards the GFC of about 50 basis points, it's another half penny to a penny. Speaker 300:32:12So it gets you to the bottom end of the range for core FFO. Operator00:32:21And we'll take one last question from Otayu Okusanya from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 800:32:29Hi, yes. Thanks for squeezing me in. Could you guys talk a little bit about 3PL exposure within the portfolio, just kind of given your markets generally are big Asian 3PL market? Speaker 900:32:43Sure. Hi, Tayo. It's Howard. Well, first of all, we have very limited 3PL exposure in our portfolio. And, you know, today, we look at 3PLs in the market, and they're, you know, turning out to be a great solution for a lot of the uncertainty that tenants have, meaning that they're able to take tenants short term. Speaker 900:33:04They can expand, contract their needs very quickly. And then to the other part of your question on on some of the Asian 3PLs that are in the marketplace, we've done a great job of really being selective on any tenant coming into our portfolio, whether it's a 3PL, manufacturer, distributor. We're very thorough in our credit analysis. And to be honest with you, we turned down many, many tenants that we don't actually want to bring into the portfolio. That said, we do have some Asian 3PL companies, but they're very well established in the market. Speaker 900:33:41They've been around for a long time. They have solid businesses. And we may expand them or we may we're actually negotiating a deal right now on a 190,000 foot building with a Chinese 3PL that's been in the market long time and has a good credit profile. What you hear in the marketplace are some of these three p l's coming to the market that have no credit, and people, because they have vacancy and are in dire need for, occupancy or or taking some of those. And those are highly risky and are not the type of uses that we're going to ever put into the retro portfolio. Operator00:34:23This will conclude today's Q and A session. I would like to turn the call back over to Laura Clark for closing remarks. Speaker 200:34:31Rexford delivered strong first quarter performance and that underscores the power of our platform and the rigor of our execution. In the face of ongoing uncertainty today, our high performing in full portfolio and significant embedded growth positions us to navigate through these near term headwinds and to deliver long term value. We thank you all for your time with Rexford today. Operator00:34:54This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect. And we're now in private. Have a great day, everyone.Read morePowered by Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallRexford Industrial Realty Q1 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2x Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K) Rexford Industrial Realty Earnings HeadlinesEvercore ISI Keeps Their Buy Rating on Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR)April 18 at 8:26 PM | markets.businessinsider.comRexford Industrial Realty, Inc. 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There are 11 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, and welcome to the Rexford Industrial's First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. All participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mikayla Lynch, Director, Investor Relations and Capital Markets. Operator00:00:27Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:30Thank you, and welcome to Rexford Industrial's first quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. In addition to yesterday's earnings release, we posted a supplemental package and earnings presentation in the Investor Relations section on our website to support today's remarks. As a reminder, management's remarks and responses to your questions may contain forward looking statements as defined by federal securities laws, which are based on certain assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties outlined in our 10 ks and other SEC filings. As such, actual results may differ, and we assume no obligation to update any forward looking statements in the future. We'll also discuss non GAAP financial measures on today's call. Speaker 100:01:10Our earnings presentation and supplemental package provide GAAP reconciliations as well as an explanation of why these measures are useful to investors. Joining me today are our Chief Operating Officer, Laura Clark and Chief Financial Officer, Mike Fitzmaurice our Co CEOs, Michael Frankel and Howard Schwimmer, will join us for the Q and A session following prepared remarks. It's my pleasure to now introduce Laura Clark. Laura? Speaker 200:01:37Thank you, Mikayla, and thank you all for joining us today. I'd like to begin by recognizing the Rexford team. Your dedication and strong execution drove first quarter performance and position us well to navigate today's heightened macroeconomic uncertainty. Rexford delivered solid first quarter performance, in line with expectations. We executed 2,400,000 square feet of leases, achieving net effective and cash rent spreads of 2415%, respectively. Speaker 200:02:10Embedded rent steps in our executed leases averaged 3.6%. Notably, 400,000 square feet of new leasing activity in the quarter was from five repositioning and redevelopment projects. Overall absorption in the quarter was a positive 125,000 square feet and renewal activity remains strong. We achieved 82% tenant retention, the highest level over the past year. Market rents across our portfolio declined 2.8% sequentially and 9.4 year over year. Speaker 200:02:48Despite continued softness in market rents, Rexford's portfolio outperformed the overall market, which experienced a decline of 4.7% sequentially and 12.1% year over year according to CBRE. The decline in Rexford's portfolio market rents was largely concentrated in spaces above 100,000 square feet, which are experiencing some excess supply in the submarkets of Mid Counties, North Orange County and the Inland Empire West. In contrast, market rents for Rexford smaller format spaces under 50,000 square feet continue to show relative resilience supported by limited supply comparable to our superior highly functional product. Regarding the current leasing environment, at the start of the year, leasing activity had picked up as tenant requirements in the market were increasing. At the time of our last earnings call, we had activity on approximately 90% of our vacant spaces, representing a material pickup when compared to 2024. Speaker 200:03:54Since the recent tariff announcements, we have seen some tenants defer decision making amid increased economic uncertainty. We currently have leasing activity on approximately 80% of our vacant spaces and while overall engagement remains healthy, it is difficult to predict the near term impacts surrounding the tariffs and overall levels of uncertainty. As Fitz will discuss in more detail, our guidance anticipates the potential for increased lease up timing. Turning to capital allocation, by stabilizing assets at above market yields and selling properties at low cap rates, we are driving accretive cash flow growth and long term value creation. By way of example, in the quarter, we stabilized five repositioning projects totaling 560,000 square feet at a 7.6% unlevered yield and completed two dispositions totaling $103,000,000 at exit cap rates in the low 4% area. Speaker 200:04:59Our capital allocation and recycling strategy will continue to be focused on maximizing returns and accretion. Our value add repositioning and redevelopments are a key driver of accretive growth with $70,000,000 of incremental NOI expected in the near term from the 3,200,000 square feet of projects under construction or in lease up. Regarding dispositions, we currently have approximately $30,000,000 of dispositions under contract or accepted offer subject to customary closing conditions. We have no acquisitions under contract or accepted offer. In closing, we are facing a heightened level of uncertainty related to the introduction of new tariffs. Speaker 200:05:44However, our portfolio continues to be well positioned over the medium to longer term. We own a high quality portfolio located in infill Southern California, where the long term supply demand imbalance will continue to persist, making our portfolio even more valuable into the future. Our tenants serve the nation's largest regional population base and one of the largest economies in the world, where leasing demand is driven by consumption. This is in contrast to larger format industrial product where demand is more closely linked to global trade flows. The health and diversity of our tenant base is strong, and we are seeing demand from a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, construction, defense and aerospace, and the warehousing and distribution of consumer staples, household goods, and food and beverage to name a few. Speaker 200:06:41Our value add focus drives accretive cash flow growth. We currently have over $230,000,000 of projected incremental NOI embedded within our portfolio positioning us to grow shareholder value over the long term. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to sharing more progress in the quarters ahead. Now, I'll turn the call over to Fitz. Speaker 300:07:04Thanks, Laura, and thank you everyone for joining. First, I'd like to thank our team for their commitment to excellence and teamwork as we continue to focus on driving long term value. First quarter results were in line with our expectations. Core FFO was $0.62 per share, representing 7% growth both sequentially and year over year. We recognized $04 of expected termination revenue that was tied to a couple of known tenant move outs. Speaker 300:07:31We are maintaining our full year 2025 core FFO outlook of 2.37 to $2.41 per share, but we are closely monitoring market dynamics and will assess our outlook to the extent conditions may evolve. Overall, our underlying 2025 guidance assumptions remain intact, including the projected $15,000,000 net NOI contribution from repositioning and redevelopment. Although our projected lease up timing has increased to nine months from our prior expectations of eight months due to tariff disruption, this was positively offset by some short term lease extensions for properties otherwise planned for future repositioning or redevelopment. Reflecting recent changes in market rents, we've revised our leasing spread assumptions. We now expect net effective and cash leasing spreads of approximately 2515% respectively. Speaker 300:08:25This change will not have a material impact on our guidance as only 11% of our ABR is set to expire through year end with most expirations weighted towards the second half of twenty twenty five. Our low leverage investment grade balance sheet positions us to be opportunistic while navigating market uncertainties. Today, we have more than $1,600,000,000 of liquidity, including $6.00 $8,000,000 of cash and nearly full availability on our $1,000,000,000 unsecured line of credit. Since last quarter, we have further bolstered our balance sheet reducing net debt to EBITDA by over a half turn to 3.9 times due to the settlement of $400,000,000 of forward equity that was raised at $49 per share in March 2024. During the quarter, we proactively initiated the recast of our credit facility, extend duration, lower interest expense, increase liquidity, enhance flexibility. Speaker 300:09:25This includes the refinancing of our $400,000,000 term loan positioning us with no significant maturities until 2027. We expect to close on our recast in May subject to customary closing conditions. We will continue to remain opportunistic with our debt maturities focusing on duration and further lowering our cost of debt. And with that, I'll turn the call back to the operator and open the line for questions. Operator00:09:54Thank you. Our first question comes from Blaine Heck from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:10:11Great. Thanks. So as you mentioned, market rents accelerated downward during the quarter, down 2.8% from 1.5% in Q4. I guess maybe putting aside the potential impact of tariffs on leasing demand for a moment, do you have any better sense of how much further you'd expect rents to decline just based on how much excess vacancy is on the market and how aggressive some of your competitors have been on pricing? And then I guess if you were to factor in the tariffs, how much of an accelerant to rent moderation do you think a drawn out trade disagreement could potentially present in your markets? Speaker 200:10:49Hey, Blaine. It's Laura. Thanks for joining us today. As you mentioned, we are seeing some nominal pressure on market rents, but we're certainly not giving away space in the market, and demand continues as represented by, as I mentioned in our prepared remarks, the current level. We've got activity on about 80% of our vacant spaces. Speaker 200:11:08And we actually have leasing of that leasing activity, we're actually trading paper on about 2,700,000 square feet today alone. So while it's challenging to predict future rent growth, in the near term, as Vince indicated, we only have about 11% of our portfolio rolling through year end, and feel really good about, you know, the positioning of, you know, current activity, given, given the uncertainty in the market. I also think it's important to note that, you know, we are that demand is represented by a diverse array of tenants. You know, that activity is made up of, you know, some of the larger drivers are the construction, industries and trades, three p l's also including technology, manufacturing, entertainment, and apparel. So that that diversity, the levels of demand as well as the diversity, we're pleased with at this point in time. Speaker 200:12:05One more note, think that's important is is our business model. Our business model model has many levers of growth, embedded growth, that in a current environment, when there could be pressure and continued pressure on rents, allows us to continue to grow cash flow. We've got about $230,000,000 of incremental NOI embedded in the portfolio today. About 60,000,000 of that's the mark to market, about 70,000,000 from our repositioning and redevelopments that are in process and in the pipeline, and then another $100,000,000 from the annual embedded rent steps in our leases that's at 3.7%. Speaker 500:12:41And Blaine, it's Michael. I'll just add a little bit to your question related to the impacts or potential impacts from the tariffs. And I'll start with reminding everyone about before the tariffs, the backdrop was actually looking relatively favorable. We had an increase in tenant activity, and the pent up demand that we felt might be coming back to the market felt tangible. And when the tariffs were announced, we did see a shift, as Laura mentioned earlier. Speaker 500:13:08And so our tenants are clearly sensitive about the prospect of what tariffs could bring. And the impacts of the tariffs, there's a range of potential impacts. To the extent they drive a change in trade flows, our tenant base is relatively insulated. Nobody's perfectly insulated. But as you know, our tenants are disproportionately serving regional consumption, and this is the largest zone of consumption in the country. Speaker 500:13:32And so we believe that does mitigate the impacts associated with changing or shifting trade flows. To the extent that tariffs drive a reduction in overall consumer demand, clearly, that's something that our tenants are a little more worried about. And I think that our tenant base, in terms of their behaviors, it is very sentiment driven right now in terms of their expectations about the future because what they told us earlier this year is they're feeling pretty good about their underlying business actually. And to the extent there is a drop off in consumer demand, I think if we look back to prior cycles, again, we found that our infill Southern California tenant base has proven to be relatively resilient, certainly more resilient, for example, than your big box non infill markets, where those that space is more fungible, it's more of a commodity. And our tenants tend to be far more sticky through downturns because our because of the extreme long term scarcity of our space, the irreplaceable nature of our space and the fact that it's very difficult for tenants to move and find the same they need to be near their endpoints of distribution, they need to be near the scope of labor, they need to be within the business ecosystem and services that support their products and components. Speaker 500:14:50So a lot of factors that drive the relative stability of our infill tenant base, even through cycles associated with reduced consumer demand. Operator00:15:02Our next question comes from Sameer Kunal from Bank of America. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 600:15:09Yes. Good morning, everybody. I guess, Mike, I know you talked about the lease up. I think you talked about nine months instead of eight months. But maybe help us understand a little bit more about the low end of guidance here. Speaker 600:15:25I think given the uncertainty, everybody's Speaker 700:15:27trying Speaker 600:15:28to figure out maybe how much room or cushion there is for sort of rents to fall, occupancy to fall as we think about kind of what PLD did. They sort of stress test their guidance. So walk us through that, please. Sure, Speaker 300:15:43Sameer. I appreciate the question. And again, congrats on the new role. Like any quarter, we're always sensitizing our earnings to the top end and to the bottom end of the range. Obviously, this quarter took on a bit of a heightened focus for obvious reasons. Speaker 300:16:01But the way we looked at is we, you know, we really sensitized our expectation to historical downturns, whether it be, the pandemic, recent market rent changes in Southern California, the GFC, and the variables that we focused on were more projected lease up time for our repositioning redevelopment, also market rent decline, bad debt expense, and same property occupancy. And we track those down to the historic downturns, the lows of the market, and we feel really, really good about where that gets us to in the bottom end of our range to $2.37. And to your point, embedded in our guidance is longer projected downtime of nine months, which is a full quarter beyond what historical norms are of six months. Then also bad debt. Bad debt is at 75 basis points, which is about double of what this portfolio has generated over the last six, seven years since twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Speaker 300:16:56So we feel really, really good about the range of possibilities on the downside. Operator00:17:04Our next question comes from John Kim from BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:17:11Thank you and good morning. I was wondering if you could provide some more insight on the cash mark to market sorry, the cash leasing spreads this quarter, which went negative. And just looking at leases that you signed this quarter, the average one was $16.50 dollars And comparing that versus your in place ABR, it looks like it would suggest a negative mark to market. But I'm wondering if you could just provide some more color on that. Speaker 200:17:38Yeah, John. I'll take that question. In terms of our new leasing spreads, I think it's important to note that this quarter only included about 280,000 square feet of comparable leases. So a very small sample set. Most of the new leasing activity we did this quarter was in our repositioning and redevelopments, where you don't have comparable leasing spreads. Speaker 200:17:58So drilling into that negative 5% cash, leasing spread for the quarter, It was primarily attributed to one lease. That lease had an above market rent that was related to some specialized improvements that were in that space. And then we leased that building as is. So really a unique circumstance with that lease, but again, a small sample size. Operator00:18:28Our next question comes from Mike Mueller from JPMorgan. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:18:35Yes. Hi. I guess, can you talk about the pace of redevelopment repositioning starts for the next twelve months or so based on what you're seeing and expecting today and maybe how it compares to the past year or two? Speaker 300:18:48Sure, Mike. I'll take that question. And good morning. So in terms of what's coming online this year, we have about $30,000,000 of incremental NOI relative 24,000,000 In the first quarter, we experienced about $9,000,000 of that $30,000,000 And as we look through the remaining part of the year and second through the fourth quarter, it's going be more back half weighted, the additional $21,000,000 or so. In terms of what's coming off line, that cadence has changed a bit from last quarter, where we expected it to come off line predominantly in the first quarter first part of the second quarter. Speaker 300:19:27But today, we expect that to be more ratable throughout the year. So we had about 3,000,000 come offline in the first quarter, and it'll be ratable to get to the 15,000,000 coming offline for the full year in 2025. And so when you net those two together, you get to the $15,000,000 net NOI contribution that we expect. Operator00:19:51Our next question comes from Omotayo Okusanya from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 800:20:00Yes. Good afternoon, guys. Could you talk a little bit about the lease terminations in 1Q, like the nature of those tenants? And how you're just kind of thinking about your watch list today if there is one of potential tenants? Speaker 300:20:14Sure. Yeah. We did experience, as you just alluded to and I mentioned in the call, about $9,000,000 or so of termination revenue. That was tied to two tenants, and that was expected and in line with our expectations. Laura, do you wanna talk a bit about the color? Speaker 200:20:27Yeah. I think it's important to note that the majority of that termination income was tied actually to an office property that we acquired as part of a redevelopment plan. That that property is zoned industrial. So the tenant that was, occupying that space was an office user, not your traditional industrial user. We were able to negotiate a favorable term fee there and now have the ability to move forward with the redevelopment plan in the future. Speaker 200:20:53And then in terms of bad debt or bad debt assumptions for the year. Speaker 300:20:58Yeah. Our bad debt assumptions for the year, we had outsized growth in the first or outsized performance in the first quarter of about $3,400,000 which is about 120 basis points. As we look through the remaining part of the year, it'll be between fifty and fifty five basis points, which lines up with our 75 basis points expectation. Operator00:21:20Our next question comes from Craig Mailman from Citi. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:21:26Hey, everyone. This question may be a bit ironic or hypocritical, however you want to look at it, given I've kind of asked you guys about selling assets over the last couple of years, now you are doing it and being successful. But I'm just kind of curious about the timing of it, given you're sitting on $600,000,000 Is there some were these more reverse inquiries that users wanted to buy these buildings? Or what's driving the uptick in disposition activity when acquisitions look a little bit less likely in the near term? Speaker 900:21:59Hi, Craig. It's Howard. Thanks for the question. You know, we've always looked into the portfolio and considered dispositions, but we've, in the past, had such tremendous upside in rent growth that it was hard to justify a great majority of of sales. And today, yes, those those two dispositions we completed were unsolicited offers. Speaker 900:22:22And what was unique about those is that there were some owner users that came to us, and they paid an extraordinary premium for the two assets we sold. Those traded for, in aggregate, in the range of about a 4% cap rate, which is really interesting when you consider in today's market that deals are trading in the mid-4s to 5% range or higher even depending on what the circumstance is with above market rent in a portfolio. So great opportunity for us in terms of being able to recycle very accretively this capital. Operator00:23:11Our next question comes from Greg MacInnis from Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:23:18Hey, good morning. Just looking at the average rent escalator signed during Q1, it was down to 3.6% as compared to 4% last year. Are you starting to see tenants push back on the four percent escalators that you've been able to achieve over the last couple of years? Speaker 200:23:34Hey, Greg. It's Laura. Yeah. Given some of the market dynamics and pressures on rents, we're certainly seeing some other components of the lease the leases where there is pressure, but it's concentrated, by submarket, and in certain size ranges. So looking into that 3.6% embedded rent steps, that was really, really focused around those spaces over a hundred thousand square feet where we saw rent steps averaging about 3.4%. Speaker 200:24:01Looking at our smaller format spaces, those rent steps are holding closer to 4%. Operator00:24:11Our next question comes from Anthony Howe from Truist Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 700:24:16Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Howard, I think you have highlighted that infill locations tend to be more resilient in downturns. Can you help us better quantify that, whether through occupancy, rent growth or leasing velocity compared to non infill assets? Speaker 900:24:33Sure. Yeah, thanks for the question. It's really more of a for space. You know, Southern California is a fully built out market. There's while we do have some construction that occurs in our tight infill markets, it's generally just to replace older, dysfunctional product. Speaker 900:24:52So we're really not introducing any more supply, whereas you look at many other markets around the country that have land and you don't have any limits on growth in terms of construction, land values tend to drop quickly in tougher times and competing product can enter the market and lower at lower prices than even existing products. So we don't have that dynamic in Southern California. And as we've sort of mentioned earlier in the call, we're really a consumption driven market with upwards of 24,000,000 people here. It's really a different dynamic than you find. And through cycles, we really generally haven't had a huge drop off in occupancy. Speaker 900:25:42It's really more just timing of leasing and so forth. Operator00:25:52Our next question comes from Brendan Lynch from Barclays. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:25:58Great. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to just dig in a little bit on your philosophy on the pace of redevelopment and repositioning. If we're entering a period of market weakness, is that would you be leaning into now because there's a lower opportunity cost of taking assets offline? Speaker 200:26:19Hey, Brendan. Thanks for joining us today. When we think about capital allocation, I mean, taking it back to our capital allocation strategy, we're focused on driving accretion and then long term value. So when we're considering repositionings and redevelopments, we're doing just that. On our repositionings, we're achieving high above market incremental returns, you know, somewhere in the 15% area on the incremental returns on the incremental capital that we're investing into those assets. Speaker 200:26:46So not only is that driving accretive cash flow growth, but we're also enhancing the value of these assets over time. So to the extent that those repositioning and redevelopment opportunities that we have in the pipeline allow us to do that, you know, we think that it's prudent for us to continue to move forward, and that's significant, you know, part of how we will continue to to drive outsized, cash flow per share growth. Speaker 300:27:10And and one item I would note there, just, you know, by way of example of what we experienced during the quarter, we did, as Laura noted earlier in her prepared remarks, to stabilize about five projects, 560,000 square feet. Now that stabilized yield is about 7.6%. But on an incremental return perspective, to line up with Laura's thoughts just a moment ago, that was 20%, which is the highest risk adjusted return today and a great way to deploy our capital. Operator00:27:37Our next question comes from Michael Griffin from Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:27:43Great. Thanks. I'm wondering if you could give just a little more commentary on occupancy expectations. If I look at your kind of same store quarter end occupancy versus the total portfolio, it's a delta of about 600 basis points versus 400 basis points on average the four quarters before. So it seems like you're going to get toward that midpoint of the same store average occupancy guidance. Speaker 400:28:07But should we see that spread narrow? Should we see it widen as we get throughout the year? Like if there's any numbers you can kind of put around that, that would be helpful. Yes. Speaker 300:28:17Thanks for the question, Griff. Appreciate it. But yes, we ended the quarter for same property occupancy at 95.7%. We should end at the same level. So it'll dip here in the second and third quarter and an increase in the fourth quarter. Speaker 300:28:33We think about our portfolio occupancy, you know, it did take a dip of about 170 basis points since last quarter, and that was primarily related to repositioning and redevelopments that we put into, the active arena. And that should end the year, right around 91% or so. Operator00:28:54Our next question comes from Vikram Malhotra from Mizuho. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 1000:29:01Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. I guess you've alluded to sort of long term value creation through development, but also to the private market kind of being five or sub-five. I'm just wondering like as you sell assets like how much could you sell? And then what about using proceeds for buybacks, given kind of where the stock is relative to what you just said the private market is trading at? Speaker 300:29:26Hi, Vikram. Good morning. This is Mike. First, as you know, we're capital intensive business. We have many, many competing uses of capital. Speaker 300:29:35The highest risk adjusted returns that we're achieving today, as we just noted on the previous question, is repositioning and redevelopments. Like I said, we have five projects earn a return on an incremental basis, about 20%. We have $15,000,000 of net NOI contribution in 2025. This really positions Rexford for our outsized growth over the medium and long term. As we think about it, the 600,000,000 of cash that we have sitting on the balance sheet, we're we're offensive. Speaker 300:30:04We're in an offensive position. We have an opportunity to be very patient, and it it goes back to our core tenets of how we think about our capital allocation velocity, and that's accreted to earnings, balance sheet, NAV, and portfolio quality. And reinvesting inside our our assets and improving the functionality is the best return that we're getting today. Now in terms of dispositions, today, have about 30,000,000 or so that is under contract. And beyond that, I think it's too early to give you guidance on what we could sell later in the year. Speaker 300:30:38But it is attractive use of capital, Howard pointed out earlier, where we're able to sell in the low 4% area. Operator00:30:51Our last question today will come from Blaine Heck from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 400:30:57Great. Thanks for taking the follow-up. Mike, it's helpful to hear you all went through a stress test on operating results and still feel good about the low end of FFO guidance. But I'm wondering if you can talk about some of the specific assumptions in that stress test as it relates to occupancy, rents and bad debts? And I guess how you think that scenario would likely impact same store numbers as well? Speaker 300:31:23Yes. I can provide you with a little more insight there, and I appreciate the follow-up question, Blaine. Like I mentioned earlier, the four variables that we look at are projected lease up timing related to reposition or redevelopment, market rent change, bad debt and same property occupancy. Now as it relates to core FFO, we if you another month of downtime or lease up time related to reposition or redevelopment, that's about a penny or so, Then market rent decline in a ten percent and twenty five basis point increase to 100 basis points for bad debt, that's another penny. And on same property occupancy, if we went down to where we were more towards the GFC of about 50 basis points, it's another half penny to a penny. Speaker 300:32:12So it gets you to the bottom end of the range for core FFO. Operator00:32:21And we'll take one last question from Otayu Okusanya from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Speaker 800:32:29Hi, yes. Thanks for squeezing me in. Could you guys talk a little bit about 3PL exposure within the portfolio, just kind of given your markets generally are big Asian 3PL market? Speaker 900:32:43Sure. Hi, Tayo. It's Howard. Well, first of all, we have very limited 3PL exposure in our portfolio. And, you know, today, we look at 3PLs in the market, and they're, you know, turning out to be a great solution for a lot of the uncertainty that tenants have, meaning that they're able to take tenants short term. Speaker 900:33:04They can expand, contract their needs very quickly. And then to the other part of your question on on some of the Asian 3PLs that are in the marketplace, we've done a great job of really being selective on any tenant coming into our portfolio, whether it's a 3PL, manufacturer, distributor. We're very thorough in our credit analysis. And to be honest with you, we turned down many, many tenants that we don't actually want to bring into the portfolio. That said, we do have some Asian 3PL companies, but they're very well established in the market. Speaker 900:33:41They've been around for a long time. They have solid businesses. And we may expand them or we may we're actually negotiating a deal right now on a 190,000 foot building with a Chinese 3PL that's been in the market long time and has a good credit profile. What you hear in the marketplace are some of these three p l's coming to the market that have no credit, and people, because they have vacancy and are in dire need for, occupancy or or taking some of those. And those are highly risky and are not the type of uses that we're going to ever put into the retro portfolio. Operator00:34:23This will conclude today's Q and A session. I would like to turn the call back over to Laura Clark for closing remarks. Speaker 200:34:31Rexford delivered strong first quarter performance and that underscores the power of our platform and the rigor of our execution. In the face of ongoing uncertainty today, our high performing in full portfolio and significant embedded growth positions us to navigate through these near term headwinds and to deliver long term value. We thank you all for your time with Rexford today. Operator00:34:54This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect. And we're now in private. Have a great day, everyone.Read morePowered by