EXHIBIT 99.1

Report of Independent Auditor

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of

Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.

Report on the Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of revenues and certain operating expenses (the “Statements”) of Port Crossing Shopping Center (the “Property”) for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012.

Management’s Responsibility for the Statements

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these Statements, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor’s Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these Statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with 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 Statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the Statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the Statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the Statements.

We believe the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion

In our opinion, the Statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the revenue and certain operating expenses of the Property for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Emphasis of Matter

As further discussed in Note 1, on July 3, 2014, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., through its subsidiary of Wheeler REIT, L.P., completed the acquisition of the Property.

The accompanying Statements were prepared as described in Note 2, for the purpose of complying with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not intended to be a complete presentation of the Property’s revenue and expenses.

/s/ Cherry Bekaert LLP

Virginia Beach, Virginia

August 13, 2014


Port Crossing Shopping Center

Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses

For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2014 (unaudited) and the Years Ended December 31, 2013 and 2012

 

     Three Months Ended
March 31, 2014
     Years Ended December 31,  
              2013                  2012        
     (unaudited)                

REVENUES:

        

Rental income

   $ 169,132       $ 727,406       $ 724,574   

Tenant reimbursements and other income

     12,233         111,246         86,371   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Revenues

     181,365         838,652         810,945   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

CERTAIN OPERATING EXPENSES:

        

Property operating

     35,262         91,245         84,341   

Real estate taxes

     13,424         53,697         50,542   

Repairs and maintenance

     2,656         7,520         3,892   

Other

     6,615         96,149         36,063   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Certain Operating Expenses

     57,957         248,611         174,838   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Excess of Revenues Over Certain Operating Expenses

   $ 123,408       $ 590,041       $ 636,107   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to statements of revenues and certain operating expenses.


Port Crossing Shopping Center

Notes to Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses

For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2014 (unaudited) and the Years Ended December 31, 2013 and 2012

 

1. Business and Purchase and Sale Agreement

On July 3, 2014, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., through its subsidiary of Wheeler REIT, L.P., acquired Port Crossing Shopping Center (the “Property”), a 65,365 square foot grocery-anchored shopping center located in Harrisonburg, Virginia for a purchase price of approximately $9.31 million. The Property is 82% occupied and is anchored by a Food Lion grocery store which occupies approximately 69% of the total rentable square feet of the center through a 20-year lease expiring in August 2018 with four five-year options.

 

2. Basis of Presentation

The Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses (the “Statements”) have been prepared for the purpose of complying with Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X, promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and are not intended to be a complete presentation of the Property’s 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 Statements. The Statements have 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 periods. 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 March 31, 2014 (unaudited), December 31, 2013 and 2012:

 

Tenant

   March 31,
2014
    December 31,
2013
    December 31,
2012
 

Food Lion, Inc.

     76.5     69.6     67.3

Harrisonburg Sports Bar, Inc. dba AJ Gators

     0.00     9.0     14.2

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 March 31, 2014 (unaudited), December 31, 2013 and 2012.


Port Crossing Shopping Center

Notes to Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses

For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2014 (unaudited) and the Years Ended December 31, 2013 and 2012

(continued)

The weighted average remaining lease terms for tenants at the property was 4.72 years as of March 31, 2014 (unaudited). 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 March 31, 2014 (unaudited) and December 31, 2013 were as follows:

 

     Twelve Months
Ending March 31,
     Years Ending
December 31,
 
     (unaudited)         

2014

   $ —         $ 683,531   

2015

     687,847         695,680   

2016

     696,735         690,592   

2017

     686,062         670,688   

2018

     660,650         467,672   

2019

     338,539         123,640   

Thereafter

     360,901         268,089   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 3,430,734       $ 3,599,892   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The above schedule takes into consideration all renewals and new leases executed subsequent to March 31, 2014 until August 13, 2014.