Duke Realty Comments on July and August Rent Collection and Announces Participation in Third Quarter Investor Events
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE: DRE and the “company”), a leading logistics property real estate investment trust (REIT), announced today, the results
of rent collection and previously deferred rent repayment activity for the months of July and August. As of August 20th, the company noted the following results:
- collection of 97.3 percent of original contractual July rents with combined collections and deferrals totaling 99.9 percent;
- collection of 99.2 percent of original contractual August rents with combined collections and deferrals totaling 99.6 percent;
- deferral agreements entered into required tenants to begin repaying deferred rents in July;
- collection of 100 percent of previously deferred rents that were due in July; and
- collection of over 99 percent of previously deferred rents that were due in August.
Cash collections do not include any security deposit or letters of credit applications. The pace of rent collections has increased each month since the beginning of the pandemic.
Duke Realty also announced its management will be involved in various virtual investor meetings during the third quarter 2020 beginning August 25th. In these meetings management will reference a presentation covering previously released second quarter financial and operating results, 2020 expectations for certain metrics and various industry fundamentals, among other topics. The company plans to post presentation materials used with investors at these meetings on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website no later than Monday evening, August 24th, at www.dukerealty.com.
About Duke Realty Corporation
Duke Realty Corporation owns and operates approximately 156 million rentable square feet of industrial assets in 20 major U.S. logistics markets. Duke Realty Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol DRE and is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index.
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