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Operating Leases
3 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2025
Operating Leases  
Operating Leases

5. Operating Leases:

 

Lessor

 

The Company leases office and retail space to tenants under operating leases in commercial buildings. Most rental terms range from approximately 5 to 49 years. The leases provide for the payment of fixed base rent payable monthly in advance as well as reimbursements of real estate taxes and common area costs. The Company has elected to account for lease revenues and the reimbursements of common area costs as a single component included as rental income in our consolidated statements of operations.

 

The following table disaggregates the Company’s revenues by lease and non-lease components:

 

        
   Three Months Ended
October 31,
 
   2025   2024 
Base rent - fixed  $4,763,680   $5,087,276 
Reimbursements of common area costs   152,889    150,732 
Non-lease components (real estate taxes)   334,845    301,121 
Rental income  $5,251,414   $5,539,129 

 

Future minimum non-cancelable rental income for leases with initial or remaining terms of one year or more is as follows:

 

            
   As of October 31, 2025 
Fiscal Year  Company
Owned
Property
   Leased
Property
   Total 
For the remainder of 2026  $7,697,580   $4,014,887   $11,712,467 
2027   8,486,631    4,972,934    13,459,565 
2028   7,605,023    4,926,445    12,531,468 
2029   6,842,429    3,986,809    10,829,238 
2030   5,192,158    2,337,182    7,529,340 
2031   3,846,493    1,632,802    5,479,295 
After 2031   13,517,142    6,420,552    19,937,694 
Total  $53,187,456   $28,291,611   $81,479,067 

 

Lessee

 

The Company’s real estate operations include leased properties under long-term, non-cancelable operating lease agreements. The leases expire at various dates through 2073, including options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain the Company will exercise that option. Certain leases provide for increases in future minimum annual rental payments as defined in the lease agreements. As of October 31, 2025, our operating leases had a weighted average remaining lease term of 15.90 years and a weighted average discount rate of 3.76%.

 

In August 2025, the Company exercised the second of four five-year option periods with its landlord to extend the Jamaica Avenue at 169th Street, Jamaica, New York property lease beyond May 31, 2035 for a total of five years through May 31, 2040. The effect of the five-year lease extension on the measurement of operating right-of-use assets, liabilities, and monthly rent expense follows:

 

Schedule of operating lease right-of-use assets, liabilities and monthly rent expense           
   Jamaica Avenue at 169th Street
   Increase in  Increase in   Decrease in 
   Operating  Operating   Monthly 
   Lease Right-  Lease   Rent 
   of-Use Asset  Liability   Expense 
Remeasurement change resulting from August 2025 lease extension  $ 1,575,690  $1,575,690   $(14,766)

 

As of October 31, 2025, it is not reasonably certain the remaining two options to extend the lease from May 31, 2040 to May 31, 2050 will be exercised by the Company. The landlord is Weinstein Enterprises, Inc., an affiliated company principally owned by the Chairman of the Board of Directors who also principally owns the Company.

 

Sublease rental income from the Company’s real estate operations for leased real property exceeded operating lease costs as follows:

 

Schedule of sublease rental income        
   Three Months Ended
October 31,
 
   2025   2024 
Sublease rental income  $1,873,637   $1,821,654 
Operating lease costs   (705,166)   (749,125)
Excess of sublease income over lease cost  $1,168,471   $1,072,529 

 

        
   Three Months Ended
October 31,
 
   2025   2024 
Other information:          
Operating cash flows from operating leases  $544,894   $540,300 

 

The following is a maturity analysis of the annual undiscounted cash flows of the operating lease liabilities as of October 31, 2025:

 

    
Period Ended October 31,  Operating
Leases
 
2026  $2,272,955 
2027   2,333,737 
2028   2,354,249 
2029   2,375,443 
2030   2,152,730 
Thereafter   22,039,738 
Total undiscounted cash flows   33,528,852 
Less: present value discount   (8,229,013)
Total Lease Liabilities  $25,299,839