Mortgage financings

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2016

Mortgage financings [Abstract]

Mortgage financings

Note 8– Mortgage financings:

The original Rotunda acquisition loan for $22.5 million, which was subsequently reduced to $19.5 million on February 1, 2010, was acquired by FREIT on May 28, 2013. FREIT subsequently sold this loan to Wells Fargo Bank, the lender providing the construction financing for the expansion of the Rotunda project. On December 9, 2013, Grande Rotunda, LLC closed with Wells Fargo Bank on a construction loan of up to $120 million to be used to redevelop the Rotunda property in Baltimore, Maryland. The construction loan is for a term of four (4) years, with one 12-month extension, at a rate of 225 basis points over the monthly LIBOR. As of January 31, 2016, $100.8 million of this loan was drawn down (including approximately $8.8 million during the first fiscal quarter of 2016), of which $19 million was used to pay off the loan from FREIT, and $81.8 million was used toward the construction at the Rotunda.

On December 29, 2014, FREIT Regency, LLC closed on a $16.2 million mortgage loan with Provident Bank. The loan bears a floating interest rate equal to 125 basis points over the one-month BBA LIBOR and the loan will mature on December 15, 2024. Interest-only payments are required each month through December 15, 2017. Thereafter, principal payments of $27,807 (plus accrued interest) are required each month through maturity. In order to minimize interest rate volatility during the term of the loan, FREIT Regency, LLC entered into an interest rate swap agreement that in effect, converted the floating interest rate to a fixed interest rate of 3.75% over the term of the loan. Proceeds from the loan were used to pay off the $5 million outstanding balance on FREIT's credit line, and the remainder of the proceeds will be available to fund future capital expenditures and for general corporate purposes.