WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2025-- Franklin Street Properties Corp. (the “Company”, “FSP”, “we” or “our”) (NYSE American: FSP), a real estate investment trust (REIT), announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.

George J. Carter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented as follows:

“We continue to prioritize two primary objectives: The first is to advance our leasing efforts to improve occupancy across the portfolio. Despite the modest level of actual leasing during the first quarter of 2025, we are encouraged by the current level of prospective leasing activity in our active pipeline, which is more robust than we have seen during the past several years and includes some larger potential space requirements from tenants that are considering several of our properties. The second objective is to continue to pursue select property dispositions, should they make sense to sell relative to their respective short to intermediate term value creation potential. Accordingly, we are actively marketing several properties totaling approximately one million square feet for potential disposition. Assuming that demand, pricing and liquidity allow us to transact on one or more of these potential dispositions, we intend to use the net proceeds primarily for the continued repayment of debt. As of March 31, 2025, our total indebtedness was approximately $250 million, equivalent to approximately $52 per square foot on our remaining approximately 4.8 million square foot directly-owned property portfolio.”

Financial Highlights

• GAAP net loss was $21.4 million, or $0.21 per basic and diluted share for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
• Funds From Operations (FFO) was $2.7 million, or $0.03 per basic and diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Leasing Highlights

• During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we leased approximately 60,000 square feet of space from renewals and expansions of existing tenants.
• Our directly-owned real estate portfolio of 14 properties, totaling approximately 4.8 million square feet, was approximately 69.2% leased as of March 31, 2025, compared to approximately 70.3% leased as of December 31, 2024. The decrease in the leased percentage is primarily a result of lease expirations during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
• The weighted average GAAP base rent per square foot achieved on leasing activity during the three months ended March 31, 2025, was $29.64, or 3.4% higher than average rents in the respective properties for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The average lease term on leases signed during the three months ended March 31, 2025, was 5.2 years compared to 6.3 years during the year ended December 31, 2024. Overall, the portfolio weighted average rent per occupied square foot was $31.21 as of March 31, 2025, compared to $31.77 as of December 31, 2024.
• We believe that our continuing portfolio of real estate is well located, primarily in the Sunbelt and Mountain West geographic regions, and consists of high-quality assets with upside leasing potential.

Investment Highlights

• We continue to believe that the current price of our common stock does not accurately reflect the intrinsic value of our underlying real estate assets. We will continue to seek to increase shareholder value by pursuing the sale of select properties when we believe that short-to-intermediate term valuation potential has been reached.
• Since December 2020, our property dispositions have resulted in aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion and reflect an average sales price per square foot of approximately $211.
• Since December 2020, we have used net proceeds from property dispositions to reduce our total indebtedness by approximately 75%, from approximately $1.0 billion to approximately $250 million.

Dividends

• On April 7, 2025, we announced that our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend for the three months ended March 31, 2025, of $0.01 per share of common stock that will be paid on May 8, 2025, to stockholders of record on April 17, 2025.

Consolidation of Sponsored REIT

As of January 1, 2023, we consolidated the operations of our Monument Circle sponsored REIT into our financial statements. Additional information about the consolidation of Monument Circle can be found in Note 1, “Organization, Properties, Basis of Presentation, Financial Instruments and Recent Accounting Standards”, Note 8, “Disposition of Properties and Assets Held for Sale” and Note 10, “Subsequent Events”, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

A reconciliation of Net loss to FFO, Adjusted Funds From Operations (AFFO) and Sequential Same Store NOI and our definitions of FFO, AFFO and Sequential Same Store NOI can be found on Supplementary Schedules H and I.

2025 Net Income (Loss), FFO and Disposition Guidance

At this time, due primarily to economic conditions and uncertainty surrounding the timing and amount of proceeds received from property dispositions, we are continuing suspension of Net Income (Loss), FFO and property disposition guidance.

Real Estate Update

Supplementary schedules provide property information for the Company’s owned and consolidated properties as of March 31, 2025. The Company will also be filing an updated supplemental information package that will provide stockholders and the financial community with additional operating and financial data. The Company will file this supplemental information package with the SEC and make it available on its website at www.fspreit.com.

Today’s news release, along with other news about Franklin Street Properties Corp., is available on the Internet at www.fspreit.com. We routinely post information that may be important to investors in the Investor Relations section of our website. We encourage investors to consult that section of our website regularly for important information about us and, if they are interested in automatically receiving news and information as soon as it is posted, to sign up for E-mail Alerts.

Earnings Call

A conference call is scheduled for April 30, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (ET) to discuss the first quarter 2025 results. To access the call, please dial 888-440-4368 and use conference ID 5398803. Internationally, the call may be accessed by dialing 646-960-0856 and using conference ID 5398803. To listen via live audio webcast, please visit the Webcasts & Presentations section in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website (www.fspreit.com) at least ten minutes prior to the start of the call and follow the posted directions. The webcast will also be available via replay from the above location starting one hour after the call is finished.

About Franklin Street Properties Corp.

Franklin Street Properties Corp., based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, is focused on infill and central business district (CBD) office properties in the U.S. Sunbelt and Mountain West, as well as select opportunistic markets. FSP is focused on long-term growth and appreciation, as well as current income. FSP is a Maryland corporation that operates in a manner intended to qualify as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes. To learn more about FSP please visit our website at www.fspreit.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in this press release that state FSP’s or management’s intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This press release may also contain forward-looking statements, such as those relating to expectations for future potential leasing activity, expectations for future potential property dispositions, the payment of dividends and the repayment of debt in future periods, value creation/enhancement in future periods and expectations for growth and leasing activities in future periods that are based on current judgments and current knowledge of management and are subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that our forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainty, including without limitation, adverse changes in general economic or local market conditions, including as a result of the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, wars, terrorist attacks or other acts of violence, which may negatively affect the markets in which we and our tenants operate, impacts of changes in tariffs that the United States and other countries have announced or implemented, as well as any additional new tariffs, trade restrictions or export regulations that may be implemented or reversed in the future, inflation rates, interest rates, disruptions in the debt markets, economic conditions in the markets in which we own properties, risks of a lessening of demand for the types of real estate owned by us, adverse changes in energy prices, which if sustained, could negatively impact occupancy and rental rates in the markets in which we own properties, including energy-influenced markets such as Dallas, Denver and Houston, changes in government regulations and regulatory uncertainty, uncertainty about governmental fiscal policy, geopolitical events and expenditures that cannot be anticipated, such as utility rate and usage increases, delays in construction schedules, unanticipated increases in construction costs, increases in the level of general and administrative costs as a percentage of revenues as revenues decrease as a result of property dispositions, unanticipated repairs, additional staffing, insurance increases and real estate tax valuation reassessments. See the “Risk Factors” set forth in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as updated in Part II Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2025, which may be further updated from time to time in subsequent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, acquisitions, dispositions, performance or achievements. We will not update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform them to actual results or to changes in our expectations that occur after such date, other than as required by law.

Funds From Operations (“FFO”)

The Company evaluates performance based on Funds From Operations, which we refer to as FFO, as management believes that FFO represents the most accurate measure of activity and is the basis for distributions paid to equity holders. The Company defines FFO as net income or loss (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains (or losses) from sales of property, hedge ineffectiveness, acquisition costs of newly acquired properties that are not capitalized and lease acquisition costs that are not capitalized plus depreciation and amortization, including amortization of acquired above and below market lease intangibles and impairment charges on mortgage loans, properties or investments in non-consolidated REITs, and after adjustments to exclude equity in income or losses from, and, to include the proportionate share of FFO from, non-consolidated REITs.

FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income or loss (determined in accordance with GAAP), nor as an indicator of the Company’s financial performance, nor as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP), nor as a measure of the Company’s liquidity, nor is it necessarily indicative of sufficient cash flow to fund all of the Company’s needs.

Other real estate companies and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT, may define this term in a different manner. We have included the NAREIT FFO as of May 17, 2016 in the table and note that other REITs may not define FFO in accordance with the current NAREIT definition or may interpret the current NAREIT definition differently than we do.

We believe that in order to facilitate a clear understanding of the results of the Company, FFO should be examined in connection with net income or loss and cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities in the consolidated financial statements.

Adjusted Funds From Operations (“AFFO”)

The Company also evaluates performance based on Adjusted Funds From Operations, which we refer to as AFFO. The Company defines AFFO as (1) FFO, (2) excluding loss on extinguishment of debt that is non-cash, (3) excluding our proportionate share of FFO and including distributions received, from non-consolidated REITs, (4) excluding the effect of straight-line rent, (5) plus the amortization of deferred financing costs, (6) plus the value of shares issued as compensation and (7) less recurring capital expenditures that are generally for maintenance of properties, which we call non-investment capex or are second generation capital expenditures. Second generation costs include re-tenanting space after a tenant vacates, which include tenant improvements and leasing commissions.

We exclude development/redevelopment activities, capital expenditures planned at acquisition and costs to reposition a property. We also exclude first generation leasing costs, which are generally to fill vacant space in properties we acquire or were planned for at acquisition.

AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income or loss (determined in accordance with GAAP), nor as an indicator of the Company’s financial performance, nor as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP), nor as a measure of the Company’s liquidity, nor is it necessarily indicative of sufficient cash flow to fund all of the Company’s needs. Other real estate companies may define this term in a different manner. We believe that in order to facilitate a clear understanding of the results of the Company, AFFO should be examined in connection with net income or loss and cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities in the consolidated financial statements.

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Georgia Touma (877) 686-9496

Source: Franklin Street Properties Corp.