Company: FRT-PC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000034903-25-000016
Chunk: 5

Company: FEDERAL REALTY INVESTMENT TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 5
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, expansion, acquisition and development opportunities, we consider such factors as:

•the expected returns in relation to our short and long-term cost of capital as well as the anticipated risk we will face in achieving the expected returns;

•the anticipated growth rate of operating income generated by the property;

•the ability to increase the long-term value of the property through redevelopment and retenanting;

•the tenant mix at the property, tenant sales performance and the creditworthiness of those tenants;

•the geographic area in which the property is located, including the population density, household incomes, education levels, as well as the population and income trends in that geographic area. This may from time to time include the evaluation of new markets;

•competitive conditions in the vicinity of the property, including gross leasable area (GLA) per capita, competition for tenants and the ability of others to create competing properties through redevelopment, new construction or renovation;

•access to and visibility of the property from existing roadways and the potential for new, widened or realigned, roadways within the property’s trade area, which may affect access and commuting and shopping patterns;

•the level and success of our existing investments in the market area;

•the current market value of the land, buildings and other improvements and the potential for increasing those market values; and

•the physical condition of the land, buildings and other improvements, including the structural and environmental condition.

Financing Strategies

Our financing strategies are designed to enable us to maintain an investment grade balance sheet while retaining sufficient flexibility to fund our operating and investing activities in the most cost-efficient way possible. Our financing strategies include:

•maintaining a prudent level of overall leverage and an appropriate pool of unencumbered properties that is sufficient to support our unsecured borrowings;

•managing our exposure to variable-rate debt;

•maintaining sufficient levels of cash and available line of credit to fund operating and investing needs on a short-term basis;

•taking advantage of market opportunities to refinance existing debt, reduce interest costs and manage our debt maturity schedule so that a significant portion of our debt relative to our size does not mature in any one year;

•selling properties that have limited growth potential or are not a strategic fit within our overall portfolio and redeploying the proceeds to redevelop, renovate, retenant and/or expand our existing properties, acquire new properties or reduce debt; and

•utilizing the most advantageous long-term source of capital available to us to finance redevelopment and acquisition opportunities, which may include:

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