BEACHWOOD, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SITE Centers Corp. (NYSE: SITC), an owner of open-air shopping centers primarily in suburban, high household income communities, announced today operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

"SITE Centers completed the planned spin-off of Curbline Properties on October 1, unlocking a unique and scalable opportunity focused on convenience real estate and providing investors with two distinct business plans,” commented David R. Lukes, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Following the disposition of 25 properties during the third quarter for an aggregate price of $1.4 billion, the Company has completed the sale of substantially all of the properties that had been in its active disposition pipeline prior to the spin-off. Going forward, SITE Centers intends to maximize value through continued leasing, asset management and potential additional asset sales.”

Results for the Third Quarter

• Third quarter net income attributable to common shareholders was $320.2 million, or $6.07 per diluted share, as compared to net income of $45.9 million, or $0.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago period. The increase year-over-year primarily was the result of higher gain on sale from dispositions and interest income partially offset by the impact of lower property Net Operating Income (“NOI") as a result of net property dispositions, debt extinguishment costs including the write-off of fees related to the original mortgage facility commitment and Curbline Properties Corp. ("Curbline" or "CURB") transaction costs.
• Third quarter operating funds from operations attributable to common shareholders (“Operating FFO” or “OFFO”) was $42.8 million, or $0.81 per diluted share, compared to $69.9 million, or $1.33 per diluted share, in the year-ago period. The decrease year-over-year primarily was due to the impact of lower property NOI as a result of net property dispositions, partially offset by higher interest income.

Significant Third Quarter and Recent Activity

• Sold 25 shopping centers during the third quarter for an aggregate price of $1.4 billion.
• Acquired seven convenience shopping centers during the third quarter for an aggregate price of $145.3 million. All of these properties were included in the Curbline spin-off.
• During the quarter, redeemed all remaining outstanding senior unsecured notes due in 2025, 2026 and 2027 for total cash consideration, including expenses, of $1.2 billion and recorded debt extinguishment costs of approximately $6.7 million. The 2027 notes were partially hedged and, in August 2024, the related swaption agreements, which did not qualify for hedge accounting, were terminated and the Company received a cash payment of $1.3 million.
• In August 2024, repaid the $200.0 million term loan and terminated the revolving credit facility which had no balance outstanding and recorded $4.8 million of aggregate debt extinguishment costs. The term loan was hedged with an interest rate swap which was also terminated in August 2024 and the Company received a cash payment of $6.8 million.
• In August 2024, the Company closed and funded a $530.0 million mortgage facility secured by 23 properties. At September 30, 2024, the outstanding principal balance on the mortgage facility was $206.9 million secured by 13 properties. The Company recorded debt extinguishment costs of $10.1 million in the three months ended September 30, 2024 due to disposition-related repayments. Additionally, the Company wrote off $10.9 million in fees in the third quarter relating to the termination of the original $1.1 billion mortgage facility commitment obtained in October 2023.
• On August 19, 2024, the Company’s common shares began trading on a split-adjusted basis (one-for-four) on the NYSE at the opening of trading. All prior year common share and earnings per share amounts have been adjusted for comparability.
• On October 24, 2024, the Company provided notice of its intent to redeem all of its outstanding 6.375% Class A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares and the associated depositary shares.

Curbline Properties

• On October 1, 2024, the previously announced spin-off of Curbline was completed. At the time of spin-off, Curbline's portfolio consisted of 79 properties and Curbline was capitalized with $800.0 million of unrestricted cash and had no outstanding indebtedness.

Key Quarterly Operating Results

• Reported a leased rate of 91.3% at September 30, 2024 compared to 93.2% at June 30, 2024 and 94.6% at September 30, 2023, all on a pro rata basis. The September 30, 2024 leased rate has been adjusted to reflect the removal of all properties included in the CURB spin-off.

Property NOI Projection

The Company projects, based on the assumptions below, 2024 property level NOI to be between $94.7 million and $96.9 million.

This projection:

• Calculates NOI pursuant to the definition of NOI as described below, excludes NOI from all Curbline properties and all properties sold prior to September 30, 2024 and assumes that all SITE Centers properties owned as of September 30, 2024 are held for the full year 2024,
• Includes the Company's share of joint venture NOI,
• Excludes from NOI G&A allocated to operating expenses which totaled $2.1 million in 3Q2024, or $8.4 million annualized, and
• Includes revenue from the Company's Beachwood, OH office headquarters.

About SITE Centers Corp.

SITE Centers is an owner and manager of open-air shopping centers located primarily in suburban, high household income communities. The Company is a self-administered and self-managed REIT operating as a fully integrated real estate company, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SITC. Additional information about the Company is available at www.sitecenters.com. To be included in the Company’s e-mail distributions for press releases and other investor news, please click here.

Supplemental Information

Copies of the Company's quarterly financial supplement are available on the Investor Relations portion of the Company's website, ir.sitecenter.com.

Non-GAAP Measures and Other Operational Metrics

Funds from Operations (“FFO”) is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure used as a standard in the real estate industry and is a widely accepted measure of real estate investment trust (“REIT”) performance. Management believes that both FFO and Operating FFO provide additional indicators of the financial performance of a REIT. The Company also believes that FFO and Operating FFO more appropriately measure the core operations of the Company and provide benchmarks to its peer group.

FFO is generally defined and calculated by the Company as net income (computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”)), adjusted to exclude (i) preferred share dividends, (ii) gains and losses from disposition of real estate property and related investments, which are presented net of taxes, (iii) impairment charges on real estate property and related investments, (iv) gains and losses from changes in control and (v) certain non-cash items. These non-cash items principally include real property depreciation and amortization of intangibles, equity income (loss) from joint ventures and equity income from non-controlling interests and adding the Company’s proportionate share of FFO from its unconsolidated joint ventures and non-controlling interests, determined on a consistent basis. The Company’s calculation of FFO is consistent with the definition of FFO provided by NAREIT. The Company calculates Operating FFO as FFO excluding certain non-operating charges, income and gains/losses. Operating FFO is useful to investors as the Company removes non-comparable charges, income and gains/losses to analyze the results of its operations and assess performance of the core operating real estate portfolio. Other real estate companies may calculate FFO and Operating FFO in a different manner.

The Company also uses NOI, a non-GAAP financial measure, as a supplemental performance measure. NOI is calculated as property revenues less property-related expenses. The Company believes NOI provides useful information to investors regarding the Company’s financial condition and results of operations because it reflects only those income and expense items that are incurred at the property level and, when compared across periods, reflects the impact on operations from trends in occupancy rates, rental rates, operating costs and acquisition and disposition activity on an unleveraged basis.

FFO, Operating FFO and NOI do not represent cash generated from operating activities in accordance with GAAP, are not necessarily indicative of cash available to fund cash needs and should not be considered as alternatives to net income computed in accordance with GAAP, as indicators of the Company’s operating performance or as alternatives to cash flow as a measure of liquidity. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures have been provided herein. In reliance on the exception provided by Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K, reconciliation of the projected NOI to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is not provided because the Company is unable to provide such reconciliation without unreasonable effort due to the multiple components of the calculation.

Safe Harbor

SITE Centers Corp. considers portions of the information in this press release to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended, with respect to the Company's expectation for future periods. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not historical fact, including statements regarding the Company's projected operational and financial performance, strategy, prospects and plans, may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including, among other factors, general economic conditions, including inflation and interest rate volatility; local conditions such as the supply of, and demand for, retail real estate space in our geographic markets; the consistency with future results of assumptions based on past performance; the impact of e-commerce; dependence on rental income from real property; the loss of, significant downsizing of or bankruptcy of a major tenant and the impact of any such event on rental income from other tenants and our properties; our ability to enter into agreements to sell properties on commercially reasonable terms and to satisfy closing conditions applicable to such sales; our ability to finance our businesses on commercially acceptable terms or at all; redevelopment and construction activities may not achieve a desired return on investment; impairment charges; valuation and risks relating to our joint venture investments; the termination of any joint venture arrangements or arrangements to manage real property; property damage, expenses related thereto and other business and economic consequences (including the potential loss of rental revenues) resulting from extreme weather conditions or natural disasters in locations where we own properties, and the ability to estimate accurately the amounts thereof; sufficiency and timing of any insurance recovery payments related to damages from extreme weather conditions or natural disasters; any change in strategy; the impact of pandemics and other public health crises; unauthorized access, use, theft or destruction of financial, operations or third party data maintained in our information systems or by third parties on our behalf; our ability to maintain REIT status; and the finalization of the financial statements for the period ended September 30, 2024. For additional factors that could cause the results of the Company to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the Company's most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.

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