Exhibit 99.1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
To the Board of Directors of City Office REIT, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying statement of revenues and certain expenses of Florida Research Park (the Property) for the year ended December 31, 2013, and the related notes to the financial statement.
Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the statement of revenues and certain expenses in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the statements of revenues and certain expenses that are free of material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Auditor’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the statement of revenues and certain expenses based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the statement of revenues and certain expenses are free of material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the statement of revenues and certain expenses. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the statements of revenues and certain expenses, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Property’s preparation and fair presentation of the statement of revenues and certain expenses in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Property’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the statement of revenues and certain expenses.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.
Opinion
In our opinion, the statement of revenues and certain expenses referred to above presents fairly, in all material respects, the revenues and certain expenses, as described in note 2, for the year ended December 31, 2013 in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis of Accounting
As described in note 2 to the financial statements, the statement of revenues and certain expenses has been prepared for the purpose of complying with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for inclusion in the Form 8-K of City Office REIT, Inc., and is not intended to be a complete presentation of the Property’s revenues and expenses. Our opinion is not modified in this respect.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Vancouver, Canada
December 2, 2014
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FLORIDA RESEARCH PARK, ORLANDO
STATEMENT OF REVENUES AND CERTAIN EXPENSES
Year Ended December 31, 2013 |
Nine Months Ended Sept 30, 2014 (Unaudited) |
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Revenues: |
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Rental revenue |
$ | 2,863,680 | $ | 2,191,339 | ||||
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Total Revenues |
2,863,680 | 2,191,339 | ||||||
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Certain Expenses: |
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Property operating expenses |
73,805 | 75,509 | ||||||
Insurance |
49,704 | 36,507 | ||||||
Property taxes |
272,430 | 231,863 | ||||||
Management fees |
15,225 | 10,650 | ||||||
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Total Certain Expenses |
411,164 | 354,529 | ||||||
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Revenues in Excess of Certain Expenses |
$ | 2,452,516 | $ | 1,836,810 | ||||
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See accompanying notes to statement of revenues and certain expenses.
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FLORIDA RESEARCH PARK, ORLANDO
NOTES TO STATEMENT OF REVENUES AND CERTAIN EXPENSES
1. Organization
The accompanying statements of revenues and certain expenses include the operations of Florida Research Park (the “Property”) which consists of a two-story office building and parking spaces. The Property is located in the University/Research Park submarket of Orlando, Florida.
2. Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
The accompanying statements of revenues and certain expenses (the “statements”) have been prepared for the purpose of complying with Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The statements are not intended to be a complete presentation of the revenues and expenses of the Property. Accordingly, the statements exclude expenses not directly related to the future operations of the Property such as depreciation and amortization, amortization of intangible assets and liabilities, asset management fees, finance costs, and other costs not directly related to the proposed future operations of the property.
Revenue Recognition
Minimum rental revenue is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the leases. The leases provide for the reimbursement by the tenants of real estate taxes, insurance and certain property operating expenses to the owner of the Property. These reimbursements are recognized as revenue in the period the expenses are incurred.
The Property increased rental income by $137,634 and $68,210 to record revenue on a straightline basis during the year ended December 31, 2013 and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Unaudited interim statement
The statement of revenues and certain expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2014 is unaudited. In the opinion of management, the statement reflects all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the results of the interim period. All such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature.
3. Rental Revenue
The Property is leased to a single tenant under an operating lease, which expires in 2021. One tenant accounted for 100% of rental income as of December 31, 2013. The minimum rental amounts due under the lease are subject to scheduled fixed increases. The lease is on a triple net basis such that the tenant is responsible for certain operating costs, insurance expenses and real estate taxes. The Property remains liable for certain expenditures should the tenant default on its obligation to pay them. Future minimum rents to be received over each of the next five years and thereafter under the non-cancelable operating lease in effect as of December 31, 2013 are as follows:
Year ending December 31, |
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2014 |
$ | 2,381,063 | ||
2015 |
2,443,313 | |||
2016 |
2,505,563 | |||
2017 |
2,567,813 | |||
2018 |
2,630,063 | |||
Thereafter |
8,263,688 | |||
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Total |
$ | 20,791,503 | ||
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FLORIDA RESEARCH PARK, ORLANDO
NOTES TO STATEMENT OF REVENUES AND CERTAIN EXPENSES
Leases generally require reimbursement of the tenant’s proportional share of common area, real estate taxes and other operating expenses which are in excess of a base year operating expense amount. These reimbursements are excluded from the amounts above.
4. Subsequent Events
The Property has evaluated subsequent events through December 2, 2014, the date the statements were available to be issued. The Property was acquired by City Office REIT Inc., on November 18, 2014 from a nonaffiliated third party for approximately $26.5 million.
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