Financial Policies and Strategies

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Financial Policies

United Urban has established the following financing policy.

Debt Financing (Loans, Corporate Bonds, etc.)

In order to conduct efficient asset management and realize stable management, United Urban is to make borrowing form financial institutions or issue corporate bonds as funds for acquisition of investment assets, construction costs on properties for lease, redemption of lease deposits and security deposits, payment of cash distributions, payment of expenses, repayment of debts including borrowings and corporate bond, as well as for working funds. In addition…

  • Neither borrowings nor corporate bonds shall exceed 1 trillion yen. The combined amounts of borrowings and corporate bonds shall also not exceed 1 trillion yen.
  • When conducting borrowings based on the above policy, the asset management company shall select efficient financing methods in terms of borrowing periods, fixed or variable interest rates on borrowings and other factors. In doing so, it shall give broad and deep consideration to the trends in the financial and capital market, interest rate trends, the capital configuration of United Urban or the impact on existing unitholders, as well as forecasting changes in economic and social conditions for the future, etc.
  • United Urban may enter into financial agreements in advance, including loans and commitment facilities, and loan reservation agreements at its discretion, in order to cope with new acquisition of investment assets, repayment of deposits from tenants or working fund requirements, etc., instantly and flexibly.
    [About LTV] ⇒ Please refer to "Track-Records of LTV" page.
    United Urban is to keep its loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, or the proportion of the balance of its borrowings and outstanding corporate bonds issued against its total assets (Note), at 60% or lower. However, the LTV may temporarily surpass this figure in accordance with asset acquisitions and fluctuations in appraisal values of the portfolio.
    (Note) "Total assets" means the amount of the Assets in the balance sheet as of the end of the fiscal period nearest to the date. For the value of property and equipment, the amount shall be obtained by adjusting the book value of the property and equipment as of the end of the fiscal period with the balance between the value calculated based on the appraisal value (including price surveys conducted by real estate appraisers using the same methods for appraisal) and the book value as of the end of the fiscal period.

Equity Financing (Issuance of Additional Investment Units, etc.)

Issuance of investment units additionally shall be conducted as necessary, with considerations on the dilution of the investment units (lowering of the proportion of the equity in investment units held by unitholders as a result of issuing new investment units).

Basic Policies of Financial Strategies

Basic Policies of Financial Strategies

United Urban has established the following basic principles of financing strategy based on the above-mentioned financing policy.

Making efforts for the optimum financial tools and conditions
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Strengthening of financial standing to cope with drastic market changes