NEW YORK CITY-Lexington Realty Trust said Tuesday it generated funds from operations of $45.5 million during the third quarter, up about 10% year over year. The REIT, which focuses on single-tenant investments, also brought its net income from a loss of $37 million in Q3 2011 to a gain of $169 million in the most recent quarter, due mainly to acquiring Inland American (Net Lease) Sub LLC’s share of the Net Lease Strategic Assets Fund joint venture.
That deal, announced just after Labor Day, consolidated LXP’s ownership of a 98.7% leased portfolio that it had owned and/or managed since before NLS was formed.
In a statement, LXP CEO T. Wilson Eglin cites “another quarter of strong operating results supported by successful leasing activity, favorable asset recycling, attractive external growth opportunities and refinancing maturing debts on advantageous terms.” As a result, he says, the company was able to boost its quarterly common share dividend by 20% ahead of schedule and tighten its guidance for 2012 FFO to an expected range of $0.96 to $0.98 per share, compared to an earlier projection of $0.95 to $0.98 per share. The earlier projection was itself an upward revision of the REIT’s full-year guidance.
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