Company: LXP
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001444838-25-000023
Chunk: 62

Company: LXP Industrial Trust
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 62
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 generally factored into the rental rate. Our motivation to release vacant space requires us to meet market demands with respect to rental rates, tenant concessions and landlord responsibilities. Developers may be similarly motivated when signing leases with tenants due to the significant competition in the industrial space. As a result, the obligations of our property owner subsidiaries on new leases and newly renewed or extended leases may increase to include, among other items, some form of responsibility for operating expenses and/or capital repairs and replacements. 

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During the year ended December 31, 2024, we completed 4.5 million square feet of new leases, and lease extensions, raising base and cash base rents by 22.9% and 17.7%, respectively, and 46.5% and 39.7%, respectively, excluding tenant reimbursements in one lease and one lease with a fixed-rate renewal. 

Inherent Growth. As of December 31, 2024, 98.5% of our leases had scheduled rent increases. The average escalation rate of these leases based on the next rent step was 2.8% as of December 31, 2024.

As of December 31, 2024, we had 3.7 million square feet of vacancy in the consolidated portfolio, which upon lease up is expected to add revenue to the portfolio and decrease operating expenses. In addition, as of December 31, 2024, approximately 65% of our ABR was from leases scheduled to expire during 2025 through 2030. We believe a portion of these leases have below-market rents and we expect to mark the expiring rents to market, which should further increase our revenues. 

Tenant Credit. We continue to monitor the credit of tenants of properties in which we have an interest by (1) subscribing to rating agency information, so that we can monitor changes in the ratings of our rated tenants, (2) reviewing financial statements that are publicly available or that are required to be delivered to us under the applicable lease, (3) monitoring news reports regarding our tenants and their respective businesses, (4) monitoring the timeliness of rent collections and (5) meeting with our tenants. 

Impairment Charges

We did not incur any impairment charges during the year ended December 31, 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we incurred impairment charges of $16.5 million on certain of our assets due to each asset's carrying value being below its estimated fair value. Most of