Rexford Industrial Realty (NYSE:REXR) reported third-quarter financial results on Friday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.
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Summary
Rexford Industrial Realty executed 3.7 million square feet of leasing in the quarter, marking its second-highest quarter of leasing ever, with a 200 basis point increase in same property occupancy.
The company advanced its $2 billion portfolio realignment initiative with a $1.2 billion portfolio sale, which is the largest transaction in its history, aiming for $500 million in remaining dispositions by year-end.
Management highlighted a focus on operational rigor, reducing G&A expenses by 30% year-over-year, and maintaining strong leasing activity, reflecting a strategic emphasis on financial flexibility and growth.
Core FFO was $0.60 per share, consistent year over year, with guidance raised for full-year Core FFO per share to a range of $2.41 to $2.44, driven by better leasing activity and lower bad debt.
The company used proceeds from its portfolio realignment to reduce debt and buy back stock, lowering leverage to 3.8 times and planning to reach 3.5 times net debt to EBITDA by year-end.
Full Transcript
Laura Clark, CFA (Chief Executive Officer)
During the quarter, we executed more than 3.7 million square feet of leasing, our second-highest quarter of leasing ever. Leasing momentum was broad-based, including 600,000 square feet of repositioning and development leasing in the third quarter alone, which will generate meaningful cash flow growth as these leases commence. Same property occupancy increased by 200 basis points sequentially as Rexford continues to outpace the broader market. That outperformance reflects the quality, functionality, and competitive positioning of our infill product, amplified by the expertise of our vertically integrated team.
The strength of the leasing activity we are seeing today reflects the compelling fundamentals that underpin the Southern California industrial market. With more than 20 million consumers and an economy ranked as the 11th largest in the world, the region combines a diverse demand base with irreplaceable infrastructure. In addition, new supply remains near multi-decade lows while increasing restrictive regulatory requirements further limit future development.
We believe the depth and durability of demand combined with substantial structural supply constraints create a powerful foundation for long-term growth. Against this backdrop, we are concentrating our portfolio on the assets best positioned to capitalize on these dynamics and deliver durable growth over time. This quarter we advanced our $2 billion portfolio realignment initiative with a $1.2 billion portfolio sale, the largest transaction in Rexford’s history. We executed with conviction and speed, completing a competitive process that generated strong buyer interest and attractive pricing. Including this transaction, we have completed $1.5 billion of dispositions year to date, representing substantial progress towards our portfolio realignment objective.
We have acted decisively to capitalize on a unique window to realign our portfolio, prioritizing assets we believe offer the strongest long-term growth and shareholder value creation while expanding our financial flexibility and capacity to act. Looking ahead, we have $500 million of dispositions remaining under our portfolio realignment initiative, with the majority expected to be under contract or complete by year-end. We continue to see buyer demand across our markets supported by the depth of private capital seeking exposure to Southern California. While recent increases in Treasury rates are impacting the cost of capital for certain buyers and bringing more selectivity to the transaction, market engagement around the remaining disposition assets remains constructive.
We will continue to evaluate each sale based on the underlying risk profile and forward return potential, as well as the relative value of the planned use of proceeds. I also want to highlight the significant progress we have made in driving greater operational rigor across the business. We have been deliberate in prioritizing occupancy and leasing as well as improving efficiency across our cost structure. The results are tangible: strong leasing activity alongside a 30% year-over-year reduction in G&A. We will continue to apply that focus across the business as we pursue additional efficiencies.
In summary, this year has been defined by execution and decisive action. We set clear priorities, and we are delivering on our commitments. Today, Rexford is stronger and more focused, with significantly greater financial flexibility than we had at the beginning of the year. The same rigor we have brought to our operations, portfolio, and capital allocation will continue to guide our decisions as we move forward, with one objective: driving long-term per-share value creation for our shareholders.
Finally, I want to thank the entire Rexford team. Completing the largest transaction in our company’s history while continuing to deliver strong operating performance reflects the extraordinary commitment and talent of this team. I am energized by the focus and dedication they bring every day.
John Nahas (Chief Operating Officer)
John, thank you. Laura, and good morning, everyone. During the third quarter, we executed 3.7 million square feet of lease transactions across our portfolio, reflecting our continued focus on driving occupancy and capturing demand across our infill markets. Supported by strong underlying tenant health and better-than-expected leasing execution, approximately 87% of expiring space was either renewed or backfilled, driving a 200 basis point increase in same property occupancy quarter over quarter.
Turning to the broader market, we also saw encouraging signs that fundamentals are continuing to improve, while the recovery remains disproportionate across submarkets, size ranges, and product types. The third quarter represented another step in the right direction, with overall positive net absorption and improving leasing activity extending into areas that had previously been slower to build momentum. Orange County is a good example. The submarket returned to positive net absorption during the quarter, supported by growing demand for Class A space, driven in part by increased activity from corporate users.
We’re seeing that trend play out in Mid Counties and San Gabriel Valley as well, with functional Class B product continuing to lease well and demand for Class A product gaining traction. In the South Bay, activity was driven by logistics alongside continued demand from advanced manufacturing and aerospace users seeking higher-quality space with critical infrastructure. Logistics also led activity in the IE West, most notably in spaces between 100,000 and 250,000 square feet.
In the San Fernando Valley, activity remained healthy for functional Class B product, particularly in spaces under 100,000 square feet, with more limited demand for Class A space. While demand drivers vary across industries and user types, and many tenants remain focused on rationalizing their space needs, demand is increasingly gravitating toward highly functional infill space, which aligns well with the type of product that defines the Rexford portfolio. We saw that reflected in our repositioning and development projects, where we executed approximately 600,000 square feet of leases during the quarter that will contribute more than $14 million of annualized NOI once commenced.
Our value-creation platform remains a key differentiator for Rexford. Through repositioning we deliver upgraded power and fire suppression systems, efficient loading, and upscaled offices that strike an effective balance between must-have functionality and price, while our newly developed product offers best-in-class design features that maximize operating efficiencies and deliver the high-quality environment that resonates with Class A tenants. Turning to capital allocation, during the quarter we completed $1.3 billion of dispositions, including the $1.2 billion sale of a 5.2 million square foot portfolio. These 22 properties embodied many of the non-strategic characteristics we identified through the asset-level review conducted as part of our portfolio realignment, including greater exposure to competitive supply and more limited growth potential. At closing, the portfolio had a weighted average remaining lease term of 2.7 years and in-place rents nearly 30% above market, resulting in an estimated 2027 cash NOI yield of approximately 5.5%.
Beyond the portfolio transaction, we completed three additional dispositions during the quarter, all to owner-users, generating premium pricing to close. Our team remains intently focused on market cues, and we are making disciplined and strategic decisions to drive performance across the business. We have more work to do, and I am proud of the Rexford team for what we are accomplishing and how we’re doing it. Our results and the strengthening fundamentals we see in the infill Southern California market reinforce our confidence in the competitive position of the portfolio and the long-term opportunity ahead.
I’ll now turn the call over to Fitz.
Michael Fitzmaurice (Chief Financial Officer)
Thanks, Lauren, John, and good morning, everyone. This was a defining quarter for capital allocation. We used proceeds from our portfolio realignment to both reduce debt and buy back stock. On the debt side, leverage came down three-quarters of a turn to 3.8 times, and we’ve already repaid $425 million of our $1 billion of 2027 maturities with plans to pay off the rest without refinancing at today’s rates. At the same time, we bought back $709 million of stock this year at prices well below what we believe Rexford Industrial Realty is worth.
Together, these actions leave us a stronger company than we were just 90 days ago with less leverage, more flexibility, and a higher outlook for the year. Let me walk you through how we got there. It starts with the portfolio realignment. It has improved both the quality of our cash flows and our long-term setup. By completing $1.5 billion of dispositions year to date, we removed headwinds to our growth and reduced our future capital needs. The timing of the transaction also mattered. These sales closed ahead of the recent rise in Treasury rates and are funding the payoff of our 2027 maturities.
We’ve already repaid $425 million and expect to repay the remaining $575 million at maturity in March, eliminating the need to refinance $1 billion of debt at today’s rates, roughly six and a quarter, and after March, our next meaningful debt maturity isn’t until June 2028. We also remained opportunistic on share buybacks during and after the third quarter. We bought back $409 million of stock. That’s an implied yield in the mid-6% range on a portfolio we believe is worth well more than where our stock trades. That compares favorably with a roughly 5.5% yield on the assets we sold. Step back and the scale becomes clear. Since the second quarter of last year, we bought back nearly $1 billion of stock, about 10% of our shares outstanding, and we’ve done so while reducing leverage.
These buybacks are accretive to both Core FFO and NAV per share, a lasting benefit to our shareholders. We ended the quarter with $1.7 billion of liquidity and remain on track to reach approximately 3.5 times net debt to EBITDA by year-end. That’s a balance sheet built for opportunity. With that context, let me turn to the quarter results. Core FFO was $0.60 per share, consistent with the third quarter of last year. The favorable impact of capital recycling activities and lower G&A expense was offset by lower same-property NOI and lower interest income. Compared with last quarter, Core FFO per share declined $0.03. The decline primarily reflects timing of redeploying proceeds from our portfolio realignment, partially offset by lower interest expense and the accretion of share buybacks.
Now to guidance, where the momentum continues. We are raising the midpoint of our full-year Core FFO per share guidance by $0.02 to a range of $2.41 to $2.44, driven by better-than-expected leasing activity and lower full-year bad debt than we previously assumed. Those same drivers are behind the 75 basis point increase in our same-property NOI growth outlook at the midpoint on both a net effective and cash basis. We are also raising our average same-property occupancy outlook by 40 basis points at the midpoint to 95.9%.
Before we turn to questions, here’s the one thing we want you to walk away with. Every capital allocation decision we made this year was measured against one test: Does it create shareholder value on a per-share basis? Selling assets with limited long-term growth potential, retiring debt rather than refinancing it at higher rates, and buying back stock below what we believe Rexford Industrial Realty is worth all pass that test. Together, those actions have lowered our leverage, increased our financial flexibility, and give us the capacity to act as opportunities emerge.
That discipline guides every decision we make, and it’s why we are so confident in where Rexford is headed. Finally, I want to thank everyone here at Rexford Industrial Realty. This quarter is what one team with one goal looks like. I see it, and I’m grateful to work alongside every one of you. And with that, I’ll turn the call back to the operator and open the line for questions.
OPERATOR
At this time I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. I will now hand the call back to Doug Bettisworth to begin the question and answer session.
Douglas Bettisworth (Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Capital Markets)
Thanks. Our first question comes from Blaine Heck from Wells Fargo. Blaine, please go ahead.
Blaine Heck (Analyst at Wells Fargo)
Great. Thanks, Doug. And thanks, everyone. Can you just talk about how we should think about the trend in rent spreads over the next couple of years? Will it be a linear gradual decline and recovery, or is it likely to be somewhat lumpy based on mix? How should we think about the timing of the trough, given where you are in the cycle right now and the recovery you’re seeing? And then maybe, you know, talk about what sort of market rent growth assumptions might be baked into your answer as you give it.
Michael Fitzmaurice (Chief Financial Officer)
Sure. Good morning, Blaine, this is Fitz. Look, we continue to be very clear-eyed and direct on our expectations for re-leasing spreads over the next couple years as we work through leases that were signed at the peak in ’22 and ’23. So over the next couple years we do expect cash re-leasing spreads to average in the negative low- to mid-teens area. That is about a 200 basis point improvement, though, better than if we hadn’t sold our non-core assets.
That’s roughly about a million and a half of NOI per year, or about 30 basis points added to our same-property NOI growth profile over those few years. You know, our expectations are tied to an assumption that the market rent is flat throughout the next couple years, so there could be some upside if rents accelerate.
Douglas Bettisworth (Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Capital Markets)
Our next question comes from Craig Millman from Citi. Craig, please go ahead.
Craig Millman (Analyst at Citi)
Hey, good morning, everyone. Laura, appreciate the comments, and clearly LA here is seeing some early signs of improvement. I’m just kind of curious, as you know, I think you characterized it could be a little bit of an uneven recovery here. But you guys are, you know, positioning yourself with asset sales and getting leverage down. How should we think about the posture in ’27 into ’28 from a strategic standpoint now that you know you’re getting a little bit of a market improvement, you’ve repositioned the portfolio — at least got a big chunk of what you want to get sold, sold — and the balance sheet’s in good shape?
Like, how should we think about the next step in the evolution of your tenure?
Laura Clark, CFA (Chief Executive Officer)
Hey, Craig, thanks so much for joining us today. You know, our focus at this point in time is going to be continued execution of the strategic priorities that we have in front of us. Since we laid out those priorities in November, we have executed swiftly and decisively. And what you’ve seen and will continue to see is that we won’t sit idle. We’re going to control what we can control, and we believe that that’s going to improve our growth prospects as the market continues to inflect.
So we are focusing on the completion of our portfolio realignment. It is truly transforming this company. We are going to allocate that capital to the highest risk-adjusted returns as we move forward. We are going to execute on the high-yielding internal repositionings and developments that we have within our portfolio. We’re going to continue to prioritize occupancy, as that’s going to drive leasing execution and revenue. And lastly, we’re going to continue to optimize the efficiencies across the operations as we’ve been doing.
We look forward to providing an outlook on, and our focus areas around, 2027 and beyond when we report earnings next quarter.
Douglas Bettisworth (Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Capital Markets)
Next question comes from Samir Connell from B of A. Samir, please go ahead.
Samir Connell (Analyst at BofA Securities)
Thank you, and good morning, everybody. I guess, Mike, just maybe expanding kind of on the first question there, you know, I wanted to ask about sort of the building blocks of same store into next year, right? Especially after this — let’s call it a $2 billion portfolio realignment. You know, the puts and takes on that. You know you talked about the rent roll-downs, but you’re also embedded rent bumps, right, kind of that three and a half percent.
So walk us through kind of the building blocks as, again, the focus I think for investors has turned into kind of next year and how to think about same store. Thanks.
Michael Fitzmaurice (Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, good morning. Appreciate the question. Look, the setup is better than this year’s headline number suggests, number one, and the main lever that we’re pulling here for next year — and we continue to pull — is occupancy. Same-property occupancy ended the third quarter at about 97%, you know, above our 2026 average outlook of about 96%. So we enter 2027 at a higher run rate. Rent steps — we continue to sign leases with about three and a half percent annual increases.
And look, the pool’s cleaner. We sold many of the assets facing the steepest rent resets. So we do believe same-property NOI could accelerate from where we’re at today.
Douglas Bettisworth (Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Capital Markets)
Next question comes from Michael Griffin from Evercore ISI. Michael, please go ahead.
Michael Griffin (Analyst at Evercore ISI)
Great, thanks. Wondering if you could expand a little bit more on the tenant demand that you’re seeing in the market. I mean, is this typically being driven by your aerospace and defense type tenants? I know those have been busier in the South Bay, which seems to be one of the better submarkets. Or are you starting to see more of the traditional industrial users — the 3PL, e-commerce — start to take space? And then in your conversations with tenants, is it more folks who had been a little bit hesitant to sign leases that are finally getting over the finish line, or has the demand been broader-based toward new prospects in the portfolio?
Thank you.
John Nahas (Chief Operating Officer)
Yeah. Hi, Griff. Overall, our leasing activity was driven most heavily by light manufacturing and advanced manufacturing, which made up about a third of overall leasing activity this quarter, with another third coming from logistics, distribution, and warehouse. And then the remaining third was really diversified amongst construction and building materials-related uses, apparel, food and beverage, healthcare, and a little bit of entertainment, particularly in the San Fernando Valley.
The biggest change, quarter over quarter, that we’ve observed is really focused around this theme of Class A demand. And as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, that has been captured not only in our repositioning and development pipeline projects, but also just in the portfolio where we have plenty of Class A buildings. The largest occupiers of Class A have been around advanced manufacturing and logistics specifically. That’s a trend that we saw within the Rexford portfolio as well as the broader market.
Advanced manufacturing in the South Bay has continued to be strong and we have seen a few examples of those types of requirements spilling over to other markets. One great example is 9615 Norwalk, which is a building that we leased from our development platform that was leased to an advanced manufacturer who wanted more of a centralized location, because they’re a parts distributor but manufacturing on site. And so we’re encouraged that there’s some of that demand that is going to show up in other markets. But again, most of it is largely concentrated in the South Bay, particularly the coastal portions of the South Bay market.
For the last part of your question, I think what we’ve seen throughout this year is the demand and the decision-making kind of comes in waves. Going back to the beginning of the year, it started off a bit slow, and then it picked up towards the end of the first quarter. And then there were some lulls and surges in demand as we’ve gotten to this point. So, certainly coming off of a high point in activity, tenants are more decisive in terms of making decisions.
But this increase in activity that we’re capturing is also reflective of how we’re prioritizing occupancy, which is not just around lease rate and term negotiation. Our strategy is to resource these deals with all of the vertically integrated components that we have across our operating teams. That allows us to move through negotiations more quickly and capture the fact that tenants are increasingly focused on making decisions.
OPERATOR
Our next question comes from Mike Mueller from J.P. Morgan. Mike, please go ahead.
Mike Mueller (Analyst at J.P. Morgan)
Yeah, hi. Yeah, 200 basis points of occupancy improvement in 90 days is quite a bit. Curious, how are you thinking about what is full these days? What do you think full occupancy looks like?
Michael Fitzmaurice (Chief Financial Officer)
Yeah, I can answer both from a same property perspective and a total portfolio perspective. For same property, we believe we can get to 97–98% fully stabilized over the next couple years as long as we have the market squarely at our back. And then from a total portfolio occupancy, today we’re at about 91%. We believe this portfolio can get to 94–95%, again with the market squarely at our back. So significant upside there. Obviously, a lot of that’s going to be driven by the redevelopment—or, I’m sorry, development and repositioning—pipeline. We have made a lot of strides this quarter with 600,000 square feet signed. So great momentum there. We’ve got another $40 million or so of NOI tied to what’s in lease-up and under construction. So excited about the prospects there.
OPERATOR
Next question comes from Eric Gordon from BMO. Eric, please go ahead.
Eric Gordon (Analyst at BMO Capital Markets)
Great. Thanks for taking my question. My question is on disposition pricing. You know, just with the Treasury rates a little bit higher today versus where you transacted the bulk of the portfolio, how are the increases in Treasuries showing up in the bids on the remaining assets? Is it lower pricing, more financing contingencies, or longer closing timelines? And then how much flexibility do you have to hold those properties if the terms aren’t where you want them?
Laura Clark, CFA (Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah, thanks so much for your question. So we’re seeing good demand across the assets that we’re selling, and pricing continues to meet our expectations and the objectives that we outlined as part of the portfolio realignment and our increased disposition guidance. This quarter reflects our confidence in overall execution there. In aggregate, we expect that pricing for the remaining assets will be roughly in line with the $1.2 billion transaction where we achieved 2027 cash NOI yields in the five and a half percent area.
Although the market has experienced some movement in cap rates from the latest increase in interest rates, pricing and demand across the market is highly dependent on a number of factors including investor profile, product type, and quality. So we’ve been incredibly disciplined in our execution to date, achieving pricing that allows us to drive NAV and FFO per share accretion. And we’re going to continue to execute with that overall objective as we move forward.
OPERATOR
Next question comes from Rich Anderson from Cantor. Rich, please go ahead.
Rich Anderson (Analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald)
Thanks. Good morning. So on the portfolio sale in particular, I’m wondering, was there a portion of that portfolio where you had to part with assets that you probably wouldn’t have wanted to, but you had to sort of sweeten the portfolio to include, you know, core assets? And as a corollary to that question, how much did the asset sales have an influence on the sequential improvement in occupancy in same store, if at all? Thanks.
Laura Clark, CFA (Chief Executive Officer)
Yeah, our portfolio realignment objective was about owning the right real estate in the right markets that are going to drive long-term growth at Rexford. So we made these decisions at the asset level. These were real estate decisions, and it was about focusing on enhancing the quality of the portfolio and the durability of our cash flows, at the same time improving our balance sheet and deploying that capital where we see the highest risk-adjusted returns.
And we had incredible success in executing on that realignment to date, and we see good visibility to continue and complete that realignment largely by the end of this year. And that discipline around capital allocation is going to continue as we move forward as we’ve taken advantage of this unique moment in time.
Michael Fitzmaurice (Chief Financial Officer)
And Rich, good morning, this is Fitz. In terms of the same property occupancy sequential increase that we experienced—about 200 basis points quarter over quarter—had nothing to do with the asset sales; it had everything to do with the leasing progress that we’ve made. Broadly speaking, it was due to the 3.7 million square feet signed, the 87% of tenants that we retained, plus we had leasing pull-forward from the fourth quarter to the third quarter.
We had two large Inland Empire tenants, about 415,000 square feet combined, take occupancy in early September.
OPERATOR
Our next question comes from Greg McGinnis from Scotiabank. Greg, please go ahead.
Greg McGinnis (Analyst at Scotiabank)
Hey, good morning. We’ve seen the demand in South Bay improve dramatically this year. Has that changed the project scope or underwriting on the Hertz development? Can you give us your latest thoughts there in terms of buildout and potential returns?
John Nahas (Chief Operating Officer)
Yeah. Hi, Greg. Our strategy there remains the same. We’ve long been focused on the unique nature of that asset and what we’re going to deliver in the market in terms of differentiated product. Our strategy is to continue on basically as we’ve set out to. And that building is well set up to cater to not only the advanced manufacturing demand that we’re seeing in the South Bay market, but also to the rest of the core set of industrial users that can benefit from having a significant facility in close proximity to LAX and the West LA neighborhoods that are north of there.
So we’re pretty excited about that one. That project is going to start here next month and we look forward to delivering it into a market that continues to perform pretty well.
OPERATOR
Our next question comes from John Peterson from Jefferies. John, please go ahead.
John Peterson (Analyst at Jefferies)
Oh, great. Thank you. Congratulations on the occupancy increase. I did want to look a little bit more at leasing costs, though. It looks like tenant improvements and leasing commissions were a bit higher this quarter. Is the net absorption in the market being driven by landlords being a little bit more aggressive on concessions?
John Nahas (Chief Operating Officer)
Yeah. Hi, John. So our concessions were up slightly this quarter as compared to last quarter. That was largely driven by an increased overall WALT in the leasing that we executed during the quarter, and that was particularly driven by some new deals that had longer term. We’re still seeing about one month of free rent on average, and on average we are still seeing five-year deals, and in some cases we’re executing leases of the shorter term where we think there’s a strategic reason to do so.
So the uptick that you’re seeing is driven by some deals that were executed in the quarter a bit longer term, particularly on the new side. On renewals, we actually had a slight reduction in terms of concessions on average based on the mix of deals that was flowing through.
OPERATOR
Our next question comes from Vince Debone from Green Street. Vince, please go ahead.
Vince Debone (Analyst at Green Street)
Hi, good morning. How should we think about redevelopment starts beyond the four projects you have outlined that’ll start over the next two quarters? Should we expect additional projects to break ground in ’27 beyond these four, or is it likely Rexford will take a bit of a pause from new projects after this current stuff gets underway?
John Nahas (Chief Operating Officer)
Yeah. Hi, Vince. The pipeline is generally reflective of what we see commencing in the future. We’re going to be pretty selective about where we undertake development, starting with our capital allocation thresholds, solving for the appropriate spreads over stabilized cap rate, and considering cost of capital. And we expect, in general, development in the market to be more limited in terms of opportunity going forward because of the increasing regulation that has really materially changed the ability to add new supply.
So we’ll navigate through that. To the extent we find opportunities to add to our development pipeline, we’ll do so. But it’s also going to be product that we’re pretty excited about to deliver into our operating portfolio, and so it’s going to have to be stuff that materially increases the competitive landscape. I would say the stuff that you see in the portfolio today fits into that exactly. We’re pretty excited to start 9000 Airport, as I just mentioned, as well as the other projects that are going to start over the next few months.
OPERATOR
Next question comes from Dave Rogers from Raymond James. Dave, please go ahead.
Dave Rogers (Analyst at Raymond James)
Yeah, thanks and good morning. Wanted to ask about the redevelopment repositioning portfolio that you’ve talked about a lot, that you leased over 20% of it this quarter. Curious on how those returns are coming out relative to your revised expectations, the way they lay out in the supplement. You’ve made a lot of comments about kind of Class A versus Class B, and that obviously tilts higher quality. So what’s the demand look like in that subset? I mean, it’s kind of 20%, you know, that space leasing up a quarter—is that a realistic number?
Was there something that outlined this quarter? Any color on that would be helpful. And also one last thing: the 600,000 square feet that you did do, what was the contribution from that? Thanks.
Michael Fitzmaurice (Chief Financial Officer)
The NOI contribution was $14 million on an annualized basis. The demand we’re seeing in the market, you know, we’re noting on Class A because that is one of the more notable trends as compared to prior quarters this year. But throughout the year we’ve seen continued demand for highly functional product, which is the type of properties that we’re delivering through our repositioning program. As we work through the pipeline, the yields on the development projects and repositionings that you’ll see on the supplemental will fluctuate based on mix.
For example, our development yields are up because of projects that were stabilized versus continuing on construction. And the pre-leasing of our 190 asset in South Bay had an outsized impact on the under-construction portion, as we were able to execute a pre-lease there at a higher-than-underwritten rent. Conversely, on the repositioning side, the biggest driver that you’ll see changing the mix of projects there was Salt Lake, which we stabilized at a 13.8% yield and is no longer in that bucket.
John Nahas (Chief Operating Officer)
Hey Dave, I’ll just jump in here to speak about what we’re seeing today in the fourth quarter. I would say that we’re experiencing a sustained level of tenant activity similar to what we’ve seen in the third quarter. That activity continues on the remaining repositioning and development projects that we have in lease-up, including some projects that are under construction or in the future pipeline.
OPERATOR
Last question comes from Omoteo Akasanya from Deutsche Bank. Tayo, please go ahead.
Omoteo Akasanya (Analyst at Deutsche Bank)
Yes, good morning everyone. Congrats on the solid quarter. Question around acquisitions: Could you talk a little bit about how you think about acquisitions as part of the overall capital allocation decisions going forward?
Laura Clark, CFA (Chief Executive Officer)
Hi Tayo, thanks for joining us today. So our strategy around deployment aligns with our capital allocation framework that we’ve been executing around all year. The execution of our portfolio alignment has put us in an incredibly favorable position. Not only have we increased the quality of our portfolio and cash flow, but we’ve also been able to delever the balance sheet and increase liquidity. That certainly positions Rexford Industrial Realty to execute on compelling opportunities as they arise.
Today, the most compelling uses of capital outside of delevering the balance sheet are share repurchases, when we see that disconnect between public market value and intrinsic value, and also our high-yielding internal repositioning and development opportunities. So the key for us is we’re going to stay disciplined, be patient, and allocate capital where it creates the most long-term shareholder value. In regards to acquisitions, they remain an important part of Rexford Industrial Realty’s long-term value creation strategy, but they have to compete with every other use of capital, and today other uses of capital are more compelling. We will consider acquisitions when the real estate, number one, aligns with our strategy, and number two, the expected return is superior to the alternatives. We can afford to be patient, and you’re going to see us continue to do that.
Douglas Bettisworth (Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Capital Markets)
That concludes the Q&A portion of our earnings remarks. Thank you all so much for joining us today, and we look forward to speaking with you soon.
OPERATOR
This concludes today’s conference call. You may now disconnect.
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