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Allied Announces First-Quarter Results

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Allied Properties REIT
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TORONTO, April 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust ("Allied") (TSX: "AP.UN") today announced results for the three months ended March 31, 2025. “Operations in the first quarter were strong in all respects. Our occupied and leased area remained stable, and our workspace portfolio continued to outperform in terms of occupancy in all urban submarkets other than Vancouver,” said Cecilia Williams, President & CEO. “While we continue to expect portfolio-wide occupancy gain and rent growth in 2025, the ongoing disruption of global trade is slowing decision-making with respect to long-term lease commitments in limited instances, even though overall demand is holding.”

Operations

Allied’s portfolio is comprised of three urban workspace formats, Allied Heritage, Allied Modern and Allied Flex. Utilization of, and demand for, Allied's workspace continued to strengthen in the first quarter. In the Montréal and Vancouver portfolios, demand for Allied Modern and Allied Heritage was strong. In the Calgary, Toronto and Kitchener rental portfolios, demand for Allied Heritage was strong.

Allied conducted 280 lease tours in its rental portfolio in the first quarter. Its occupied and leased area at the end of the quarter was 85.9% and 86.9%, respectively. Allied renewed 75% of the leases maturing in the quarter, returning to the high end of its normal range of 70% to 75%.

Allied leased a total of 507,410 square feet of GLA in the first quarter, 407,071 square feet in its rental portfolio and 100,339 square feet in its development portfolio. Of the 407,071 square feet Allied leased in its rental portfolio, 129,912 square feet were vacant, 140,656 square feet were maturing in the quarter and 136,503 square feet were maturing after the quarter. 50,261 square feet of the vacant space leased in the quarter involved expansion by existing users, a long-standing trend in Allied's rental portfolio that appears to be regaining momentum.

Average in-place net rent per occupied square foot ended the first quarter at $25.30, up 5.0% from the end of the comparable quarter. Allied maintained rent levels on renewal in the first quarter (down 0.3% ending-to-starting base rent and up 6.3% average-to-average base rent).

Allied and Westbank have finalized a particularly important lease transaction in the commercial component of KING Toronto, which is comprised of 80,000 square feet of office space on the second level and 120,000 square feet of retail space at and below grade. The transaction involves a long-term lease to an international retailer of 28,291 square feet of retail space below grade and 4,587 square feet at grade. This will enrich user experience at KING Toronto and across King West Village as a whole. As importantly, it will accelerate the leasing of the commercial component of KING Toronto at an optimal point in time.