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Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Related Party Transactions  
Related Party Transactions

 

Note 11 — Related Party Transactions

 

In 2007, the Company entered into a compensation and services agreement with Majestic Property Management Corp. (“Majestic”), a company wholly-owned by the Company’s Vice Chairman and in which certain of the Company’s executive officers are officers and receive compensation.  Pursuant to the agreement, the Company pays an annual fee to Majestic and Majestic provides the Company with the services of all affiliated executive, administrative, legal, accounting, clerical and property management personnel, as well as property acquisition, sale and lease consulting and brokerage services, consulting services in respect to mortgage financings and construction supervisory services.

 

In consideration for providing the Company the services described above, the Company paid Majestic $678,000 and $2,002,000 (including property management fees of $267,000 and $770,000) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, respectively.  For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, such fees were $634,000 and $1,901,000 (including property management fees of $223,000 and $669,000, respectively).  The three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015 includes overhead fees of $49,000 and $147,000, respectively.

 

Effective January 1, 2016, the property management fee portion of the compensation and services agreement is paid based on 1.5% and 2.0% of the rental payments (including tenant reimbursements) actually received by the Company from net lease tenants and operating lease tenants, respectively.  The Company does not pay Majestic property management fees with respect to properties managed by third parties.

 

For 2016 and 2015, the Company agreed to pay quarterly fees of $65,625 to the Company’s chairman and $26,250 to the Company’s vice-chairman.

 

Executive officers and others providing services under the compensation and services agreement were awarded shares of restricted stock and restricted stock units under the Company’s stock incentive plans (described in Note 14).  The costs of the plans charged to the Company’s operations applicable to the executive officers and others providing services under the compensation and services agreement amounted to $399,000 and $1,125,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, respectively, and $307,000 and $930,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively.

 

The fees paid under the compensation and services agreement (except for the property management fees which are included in Real estate expenses), the chairman and vice-chairman fees and the costs of the stock incentive plans are included in General and administrative expense on the consolidated statements of income.

 

The Company obtains its property insurance in conjunction with Gould Investors L.P (“Gould”), a related party and reimburses Gould annually for the Company’s insurance cost relating to its properties. Amounts reimbursed to Gould were $699,000 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 and $513,000 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015. Included in Real estate expenses on the consolidated statements of income is insurance expense of $169,000 and $371,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, respectively, and $121,000 and $235,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively. The balance of the amounts reimbursed to Gould represents prepaid insurance and is included in Other assets on the consolidated balance sheets.

 

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, the Company paid an aggregate of $35,000, $123,000, $29,000 and $167,000, respectively, to its joint venture partners or their affiliates (none of whom are officers, directors or employees of the Company) for property management and acquisition fees, which are included in Real estate expenses and Real estate acquisition costs on the consolidated statements of income.  Additionally, in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, unconsolidated joint ventures of the Company paid fees of $55,000, $127,000, $35,000 and $361,000 to the other partner of the venture, which reduced Equity in earnings of unconsolidated joint ventures on the consolidated statements of income by $27,000, $63,000, $18,000 and $181,000, respectively.