Company: FRT-PC
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000034903-25-000037
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Company: FEDERAL REALTY INVESTMENT TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 square feet at a 8% average rental increase on a cash basis. Tenant improvements and incentives for comparable spaces were $19.36 per square foot, of which $39.22 per square foot was for new leases and $1.48 per square foot was for renewals for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The rental increases associated with comparable spaces generally include all leases signed for retail space in arms-length transactions reflecting market leverage between landlords and tenants during the period, excluding leases at properties sold or under contract to be sold. The comparison between the rent for expiring leases and new leases is determined by including contractual rent on the expiring lease, including percentage rent considered to part of base rent, and the comparable annual rent and in some instances, projections of percentage rent, to be paid on the new lease. In atypical circumstances, management may exercise judgment as to how to most effectively reflect the comparability of spaces reported in this calculation. The change in rental income on comparable space leases is impacted by numerous factors including current market rates, location, individual tenant creditworthiness, use of space, market conditions when the expiring lease was signed, capital investment made in the space and the specific lease structure. Tenant improvements and incentives include the total dollars committed for the improvement (fit out) of a space as it relates to a specific lease. Incentives include amounts paid to tenants as an inducement to sign a lease that do not represent building improvements. Costs related to tenant improvements require judgement by management in determining what are costs specific to the tenant and not deferred maintenance on the space.

In the past five years, we have executed comparable space leases for 1.7 to 2.4 million square feet of retail space each year and expect the volume in 2025 will be in line with these historical averages. Although we expect overall positive increases in annual rent for comparable spaces, changes in annual rent for any individual lease or combinations of individual leases reported in any particular period may be positive or negative and we can provide no assurance that the annual rents on comparable space leases will continue to increase at historical levels, if at all. A decline in current economic conditions could adversely impact our volume of leasing activity and the amount of rent we are able to charge to new or renewing tenants.

The leases signed in 2025 generally become effective over the following two years though some may not become effective until 2028 and beyond. Further, there is risk that some new tenants will not ultimately take possession of their space and that tenants