Exhibit 99.1
Report of Independent Auditor
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying Statement of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses (the Statements) of Winslow Plaza Shopping Center (the Property) for the year ended December 31, 2012. The Statement is the responsibility of the management of the Property. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this financial statement based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
The accompanying Statement was prepared as described in Note 2, for the purpose of complying with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for inclusion in the Form 8-K of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. Inc. and are not intended to be a complete presentation of the Propertys revenue and expenses.
In our opinion, the Statement referred to above presents fairly, in all material respects, the Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses of the Property for the year ended December 31, 2012, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
/s/ Cherry Bekaert LLP
Virginia Beach, Virginia
May 2, 2013
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Winslow Plaza Shopping Center
Statement of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses
For the Year Ended December 31, 2012
Year Ended December 31, 2012 |
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REVENUES: |
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Rental Income |
$ | 546,006 | ||
Tenant reimbursements and other income |
355,189 | |||
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Total Revenues |
901,195 | |||
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CERTAIN OPERATING EXPENSES: |
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Property operating |
122,281 | |||
Real estate taxes |
132,384 | |||
Repairs and maintenance |
12,267 | |||
Other |
100,405 | |||
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Total Certain Operating Expenses |
367,337 | |||
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Excess of Revenues Over Certain Operating Expenses |
$ | 533,858 | ||
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See accompanying notes to statement of revenues and certain operating expenses.
Winslow Plaza Shopping Center
Notes to Statement of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses
For the Year Ended December 31, 2012
1. | Business |
On April 26, 2013, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., through a subsidiary of Wheeler Real Estate investment Trust, L.P., assumed a purchase contract from Wheeler Interests, LLC, a related party, to acquire Winslow Plaza Shopping Center (the Property), a 40,695 square foot shopping center located in Sicklerville, New Jersey for a purchase price of approximately $6.60 million. The property is 94% occupied and is anchored by a 9,600 square foot Kings Liquors store under a five year lease expiring in August 2017 with two five-year options remaining. The Property is shadow-anchored by a ShopRite Supermarket, a large grocer in New Jersey, with a Reciprocal Easement Agreement existing between the two properties covering common areas, access roads, utilities and other shared facilities.
2. | Basis of Presentation |
The Statement of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses (the Statement) has been prepared for the purpose of complying with Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X, promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is not intended to be a complete presentation of the Propertys revenues and expenses. Certain operating expenses include only those expenses expected to be comparable to the proposed future operations of the Property. Expenses such as depreciation and amortization are excluded from the accompanying Statement. The Statement has been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting which requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of the revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from those estimates.
3. | Revenues |
The Property leases retail space under various lease agreements with its tenants. All leases are accounted for as noncancelable operating leases. The leases include provisions under which the Property is reimbursed for common area maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance costs. Pursuant to the lease agreements, income related to these reimbursed costs is recognized in the period the applicable costs are incurred. Certain leases contain renewal options at various periods at various rental rates.
The following table lists the tenants whose annualized rental income on a straight-line basis represented greater than 10% of total annualized rental income for all tenants on a straight line basis as of December 31, 2012:
Tenant |
December 31, 2012 |
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Kings Liquors |
16.9 | % | ||
Soltz Paints |
11.4 | % |
The termination, delinquency or nonrenewal of one of the above tenants may have a material adverse effect on revenues. No other tenant represents more than 10% of annualized rental income as of December 31, 2012.
The weighted average remaining lease terms for tenants at the property was 3.24 years as of December 31, 2012. Future minimum rentals to be received under noncancelable tenant operating leases for each of the next five years and thereafter, excluding CAM and percentage rent based on tenant sales volume, as of December 31, 2012 were as follows:
Years Ending December 31, |
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2013 |
$ | 503,922 | ||
2014 |
337,026 | |||
2015 |
263,636 | |||
2016 |
227,806 | |||
2017 |
97,668 | |||
Thereafter |
135,000 | |||
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$ | 1,565,058 | |||
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The above schedule takes into consideration all renewals and new leases executed subsequent to December 31, 2012 until the date of this report.