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VAA JV Properties Bought, What’s Subsequent?


Over the weekend, information got here out that Transcontinental Realty Buyers (TCI) and their companion, Macquarie, bought the belongings inside their Victory Abode Residences three way partnership for a complete of $2.04B (which was the unique thesis from my December 2021 put up for some background).  On an annualized Q1 2022 NOI foundation the sale was performed at a 3.85% cap price, on a ahead foundation it’s in all probability a bit above 4% as rents are resetting significantly increased on this sunbelt portfolio.  Given the present financial backdrop, that value looks like an incredible exit for TCI as I used to be nervous shareholders could be upset with no sale or one across the current $1.4B appraised worth (as disclosed on p13 of their current 10-Q).  The sale is a bit sophisticated in that 53 properties have been bought in whole with 7 of these properties being bought again to TCI on the identical valuation as the remainder of the portfolio.  After paying off mortgage debt and transaction charges, TCI expects to internet $320MM in money from the sale after $100MM they’ve earmarked for taxes.

The sale is anticipated to shut inside 75 days (~early September), put up deal closing TCI will display extraordinarily low cost on a value to e-book foundation as their fairness VAA three way partnership is being carried on the books for $50.6MM whereas they’re netting $320MM in money plus the worth of the 7 holdback properties, that delta in my estimation virtually doubles the e-book from $45/share to $86/share.  Shares commerce for round $43, even after the sale announcement, about 50% of proforma e-book worth.

The sale press launch provides restricted particulars, however utilizing the Q1 10-Q and a few swag math, we are able to again into the worth of the 7 holdback properties.

A $2.04B topline price ticket, minus the $851MM of mortgage debt, nets $582+MM in worth to TCI.  Then backing out the remaining earnout owed to Macquarie, some transactional prices and the corporate’s estimate of taxes, the plug to get to $320MM is about $125MM in worth for the holdback properties.  I am in all probability off there, in order at all times, appropriate me if I made any main errors.

Then Pillar, the exterior supervisor owned by the controlling shareholders, is due an incentive charge for the capital positive aspects associated to the VAA sale, the mathematics is difficult and tough to mannequin out, however they’re due 10% of any capital positive aspects above a 8% annualized hurdle price.  TCI estimates their tax price at 21%, if the corporate’s estimate of $100MM in taxes is correct, let’s simply guess the motivation charge is roughly $35MM for our functions.

With some simple arithmetic, including the online money to TCI, estimated worth of the holdback properties, subtracting out the motivation charge and the earlier carrying worth of the JV partnership.  I get the beneath proforma e-book worth.

As soon as Q3 earnings come out and e-book worth is reported (November time-frame if it closes in Q3), perhaps some quantitative methods take discover?

In fact, e-book worth tends to understate the worth of actual property corporations as a consequence of depreciation and historic price elements.  Beneath I’ve taken most of TCI’s stability sheet and pulled it aside, I am lacking a pair issues of their restricted money and their different belongings, there’s restrict disclosure round these two line objects.  I’ve put market multiples on the multifamily and business segments, grossed up their land at their Windmill Farms growth to roughly equal what the going price for his or her acreage has been not too long ago.  I get slightly below $100/share in NAV, which might be on the conservative aspect.

One potential supply of hidden worth is of their convertible loans, right here they lend cash to builders with the choice to transform the mortgage to 100% fairness possession within the properties.  The phrases aren’t disclosed however 6 of the 9 growth loans in that bucket are on stabilized belongings.

However the massive query stays, what is going to TCI do with the proceeds from the asset sale?  Within the press launch, the corporate says:

the Firm intends to make use of of a lot of the money move it can obtain from the aforesaid in subsection 3 above to make new investments and to develop its multifamily residential property portfolio.

That does not sound too promising for the prospect of minority shareholders being purchased out and sure why it did not pop on the JV sale information.  However the controlling shareholders personal 85% of TCI (principally by way of ARL), leaving ~1.3 million shares within the float, if insiders supplied shareholders $65 that might be an $85MM test, properly inside reserving “a lot of the money for brand spanking new investments” and would additionally switch $45+MM of worth to insiders if my NAV is plausible.  They’ve by no means had this a lot liquidity earlier than, the patriarch died three years in the past, Pillar Asset Administration has a brand new CEO that has inherited this loopy construction, perhaps we see one thing occur as soon as the deal closes.

Different ideas/objects:

  • Sure, that is externally managed, there is a 0.75% administration charge on gross belongings plus a ten% charge on internet earnings and capital positive aspects.  Not tremendous shareholder pleasant, however they’re actually solely grifting on the 15% of minority shareholders.  I do not see a whole lot of profit to them staying public even with the administration charge construction, they have not tried to develop (they do not even challenge shares to themselves, share rely has remained regular over time), there’s public firm prices that they are bearing (on three completely different ranges, ARL, TCI, IOR), it might appear to take advantage of sense to reap the benefits of the massive low cost available in the market by tendering for the remaining float.
  • The company construction right here is de facto complicated, virtually all of TCI’s belongings are within the Southern Properties Capital entity that was created to challenge bonds in Tel Aviv.  The business properties, the remaining and holdback multi-family properties, all ought to present loads of collateral to again the excellent Israeli bonds giving them liquidity to do a young supply.
  • ARL and TCI are each getting into the Russell 2000 on Friday.  ARL traded surprisingly for some time, buying and selling properly above parity with TCI, I switched from ARL to TCI, however it’s value monitoring each of them sooner or later.  I am guessing a lot of the index shopping for has taken place forward of the reconstitution however given the extraordinarily low float (what a dumb index that would come with both of those at their full market cap!) we might see some unusual value motion.
  • One lazy error in my again of the envelope mannequin — one of many properties within the wholly owned multi-family phase was included within the asset sale, so there’s doubtless a tiny little bit of double counting, however should not be too materials.  There’s restricted disclosure to parse aside, so I simply ignored it. 

Disclosure: I personal shares of TCI

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