Real Estate Sale and Leaseback LBO

Hi all,

I am currently looking at a target for a potential LBO. The target owns almost all of its retail stores and there have been suggestions of selling these stores to a REIT. Obviously, the stores would need to be leased back. I am no expert with real estate assets, so I was wondering, how to roughly (and quickly) estimate the leases that would be required each year to lease the sold stores. If it helps, I know the total square feet of the stores and the estimated value of the stores. Is there some sort of approximation to estimate the annual lease payments using the value of the stores?

Would be highly appreciated!
Cheers!

 
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How many stores are there? What is the approximate sf of each store? As a ballpark I would start with NNN rent around 10% of gross sales for each location. From there you will have to look at comps in each market.

What is the goal of selling the RE? You need to consider the long term implications. If you go to cheap and don't protect the company with lots of options they could risk losing their locations. If you sign leases that are substantially above market then investors will be worried about replacing that income if the tenant ever leaves.

It probably doesn't make sense to package them as a REIT unless there are a ton of them and you can stagger lease renewals. If they have decent credit ratings and will give you a term of over 10 years you will probably get more value selling them as individual NNN leases.

EDIT: I thought you said form a REIT... selling them as a portfolio to a REIT will likely save you a lot of money.

 

Thanks for your answer. The goal is essentially to unlock the capital. Many competitors fully lease their stores and we want to follow that trend, mainly to pay down debt (probably). I am looking at REITs, because it was suggested to the target before to do that. We have about 1.14m sq ft in retail stores, which we want to sell and hope to make around $300m. For now just looking for a ballpark figure how much rent to add to the income statement. But 10% sounds good. Maybe the additional info helps a bit

EDIT: How much money could selling to a REIT save? Is it possible to ballpark a percentage of sale value for renting it from a REIT?

 

If you are looking to get $300MM for a NNN portolio the rent on a 6% cap deal the total rent would be around $18 million a year... Is that in the neighborhood of 10% of gross sales? That would require decent credit and lease terms... For What it's worth brand new 15 year NNN lease dollar generals were selling at 6.5% cap rates a couple months ago. I'm not sure whats happened since the election.

 

maineiac42 When you say "If you are looking to get $300MM for a NNN portolio the rent on a 6% cap deal the total rent would be around $18 million a year", what do you mean please? why does 6% cap deal mean that total rent would be value x cap rate? Is it because rental expense should be approximately equal to cap rate x value of real estate? Sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm not from real estate but in a similar situation as the OP in looking an opportunity.

Thanks!

maineiac42:
If you are looking to get $300MM for a NNN portolio the rent on a 6% cap deal the total rent would be around $18 million a year... Is that in the neighborhood of 10% of gross sales? That would require decent credit and lease terms... For What it's worth brand new 15 year NNN lease dollar generals were selling at 6.5% cap rates a couple months ago. I'm not sure whats happened since the election.
 

There wasn't that much given to us, our prof told us about a public retailer who's pretty well known but had been underperforming their peers. We were given their 10k and most recent Q and a couple articles about their corporate culture (it's pretty unique). And then we were given a deadline and told to have a 20+ page memo outlining whatever we wanted to (change in MGMT, different ways to run daily ops, proposed capital structure, earnouts, potential M&A, etc). It was super broad.

 

I can't help but wonder who is peddling this deal out there.... I'm so damn curious

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I am as well. My team acquires NNN real estate and this is exactly the type of transaction we focus on. Have to wonder what target company is about to send $300MM of single-tenant NNN retail assets to market

 

Interested on what market rates are if people have color -- I've always seen 2.0x property-level EBITDAR coverage. Based on other deals, I'd say you can assume have REITs have 5.0x leverage @ 4.50% and adjusted FFO capped at @ 7.75%. Example: $50mm property level EBITDAR = $25mm rent stream. Adjusted FFO of ~$19.5MM after deducting ~$5.5mm interest on $125mm debt results in ability to pay of $375mm ($125mm debt + $250mm equity).

Tax leakage due to low basis in the properties could be a huge drawback though if you can't structure around it at close.

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