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| All that being said, once you’ve been able to do that, we do believe that we can attract good quality tenants on a long duration lease where the return on our investment is significantly better than it would be on investing in new properties |
| Despite these significant secular pressures, it is important to remember that we do have a good portfolio of stable assets supported by a low leverage balance sheet that provides a solid foundation for future growth |
| That said, we continue to believe our aggressive sale of vacant properties is the best approach under current market conditions to maximize the long-term value of the overall remaining portfolio and position the company to grow profitably in the future |
| The company’s strong portfolio of assets is well diversified by tenant, tenant industry and geography |
| As we have previously stated, the company benefited in 2023 from a number of items that will not carry forward |
| However, beginning in 2025, the impact on results will begin to moderate as we will have less than half the lease roll we have this year, and then earnings should begin to grow in the out years as expirations improve, we fill vacancy, market demand improves and financing costs fall |
| During the fourth quarter, we gained some traction on renewals and new leases |
| We ended the year with strong total liquidity of $332.1 million, comprised of $23.1 million of cash and cash equivalents, including the company’s pro rata share of Arch Street’s joint ventures cash and $309 million of available capacity on the company’s $425 million credit facility revolver |
| But on new leases, we’ve been pretty good at maintaining a pretty low level of concessions |
| While the closing of these sales is not immediate, by working with the buyers who wish to redevelop them, we expect to provide the best economic outcome for our shareholders |
| Importantly, since the spin, we have reduced debt by more than $145 million |
| While market challenges persist, our strategic pillars, retaining existing tenants, filling empty spaces and strategically streamlining through non-core asset disposals remain firmly in place |
| Good |
| While we remain confident in our plan and committed to its execution, we expect that it will take a few more years to fully reposition our portfolio at a smaller base than when we spun |
| Further, we continue to have accelerating activity on our forward leasing pipeline with more than 1 million square feet in various stages of documentation and discussion |
| Even so, in the fourth quarter, we successfully closed the sale of four non-core vacant properties representing a total of 575,000 square feet for an aggregate sales price of approximately $11.4 million |
| As Paul discussed, we intend to maintain significant liquidity on the balance sheet for the foreseeable future to fund expected capital commitments in our future leasing efforts and provide the financial flexibility needed to execute on our business plan over the next several years |
| Turning to dispositions, we remain aggressive in rightsizing our portfolio and we have made a lot of progress here |
| Given persisting economic conditions, especially in the commercial office real estate sector, maintaining a strong capital structure that can support the necessary investments in our core portfolio is a critical part of our business plan |
| Executing on the sales of vacant and non-core assets is critical as controlling carrying costs is necessary to maintain a strong low leverage balance sheet in the current environment |
| Good morning, everyone |
| The developer who is doing that is working diligently to do that |
| Paul McDowell Thank you |
| This sale is scheduled to close in the first half of 2025 and is subject to the buyer’s satisfactory completion of its due diligence and governmental approval process |
| Paul McDowell Thank you, everyone |
| Paul Hughes Thank you |
| Thank you |
| Thank you |
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| As we have progressed over the past year, we found it increasingly challenging to get sales accomplished, which can be seen to some degree in the declining price per square foot |
| As a reminder, our portfolio comprises primarily single tenant leases and tenant retention remains a significant challenge as we have faced and will continue to face significant lease role in the next few years, including approximately 1.9 million square feet in 2024 alone, as disclosed in our supplemental |
| Highlighting these challenges are we expect that several of our largest tenants with leases rolling in 2024 will not renew, causing revenues and earnings to decline materially and carrying costs to rise until we can get these properties released |
| The lease role we face the next few years will create ongoing pressure on per share results, which we may seek to partially offset through targeted capital recycling efforts |
| As further detailed on Page 18 of the supplemental, as we have said before, while asset sales reduce operating expense drag in the short-term, it will pressure our ability to grow earnings in the future as we become smaller with fewer buildings to lease |
| While we do not provide quarterly guidance given the cadence of scheduled lease vacancies this year, we expect the first quarter to be relatively in line with the fourth quarter and beginning in the second quarter to have sequential reductions in quarterly amount of earnings and core FFO on a per share basis as we move through the year |
| For the full year, Orion’s total revenues were $195 million and net loss attributable to common stockholders was $57.3 million or a loss of $1.02 per share |
| Therefore, expiring leases and the associated declines in revenues over the past couple of years have had an outsized material effect on our results, and that impact will accelerate in 2024 |
| This will result in a reduction in revenue quarter-to-quarter due to the smaller portfolio size and be further impacted by the vacancy carry costs and extended release time as well as the required investment to secure longer term leases |
| While we are extremely proactive in our efforts to retain tenants, when they leave, it takes longer to release a full building vacancy and this timeline is further pushed out by market conditions |
| It’s just taking a bit longer than we had initially expected |
| We’ve reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $16.2 million or $0.29 per share, as compared to a net loss of $19 million or $0.33 per share reported in the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| The hybrid workplace model has become the mainstay and office tenants continue to need less square footage, creating leasing activity for the industry that has not returned to pre-pandemic levels |
| It’s just a due diligence and the timing is delayed because of that |
| When we get back vacancy, our expectation is that we will be required to attract new tenants |
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