PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION & EXCHANGE FOR WENDY’S OPERATOR

Client Profile:

Family office and a longtime operator of 113-property portfolio of Wendy's restaurants located across the Midwest.

Strategy:

Client engaged Century Partners to assist them in transitioning from the operations business to the real estate business, and transition their portfolio from exclusively NNN Wendy's properties to a diversified portfolio of single-tenant net leased assets. Additionally, Century Partners provided competitive portfolio refinancing for a total of 10 properties (including additional non-Wendy's properties).

Outcome:

  • Disposed of a total of 17 Wendy’s properties.
  • Seven (7) properties transacted above $2.5M ($3.42M was highest on record for client).
  • The average cap rate across all transactions was 5.15%.
  • Seller used proceeds to exchange into primarily single-tenant net lease properties.

More Case Studies

1031 Exchange from Multi-Family to Multi-Tenant Retail

Outcome:

  • Century Partners sourced three (3) trophy-quality properties including (a) ATI + Blaze Pizza in Fishers, IN, (b) Cafe Rio & T-Mobile in Castle Rock, CO, and (c) Potbelly, ATI, & Noodles Co in St. Charle’s, IL. The properties were all sourced on an off-market basis through Century Partners’ national relationships.

1031 Exchange from Los Angeles Apartments | Industrial to Investment-Grade Credit Net Lease

Outcome:

  • Sourced a single-tenant Autozone in affluent Newbury Park, CA on an off-market basis and successfully restructured a long-term lease extension with the tenant prior to closing.
  • Sourced a single-tenant Del Taco in Allen Park, Michigan, and closed on the transaction prior to the tenant opening for business.
  • Procured long-term fixed-rate, non-recourse debt from life insurance companies for both transactions.