- CEO
- David John Gladstone
- Full Time Employees
- 69
- Sector
- Real Estate
- Industry
- REIT - Specialty
- Address
- 1521 Westbranch Drive McLean VA United States of America 22102
- IPO Date
- Oct 19, 2020
- Business
- Gladstone Land Corporation Gladstone Land Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that acquires, owns, and leases high-quality farmland and farm-related properties located in major agricultural markets across the United States; its portfolio consists of approximately 148 farms comprising 100,000 acres in 15 states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington, as well as over 55,000 acre-feet of water assets in California. The company leases its properties on a triple-net basis to 85 unrelated third-party tenants growing over 60 different crops, including fresh produce such as strawberries, lettuce, cabbage, radicchio, cantaloupes, watermelons, okra, and peas, permanent crops like almonds, apples, cherries, figs, lemons, olives, pistachios, blueberries, and vineyards, with approximately 30% of fresh produce acreage organic or in transition to organic and over 20% of permanent crop acreage similarly categorized; it also owns farm-related facilities such as cooling warehouses, packinghouses, processing centers, and storage units, and offers sale-leaseback transactions, flexible leasing for farmers seeking to operate without ownership, and cash purchases while retaining or sourcing tenants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Gladstone Land operates through an Umbrella Partnership Real Estate Investment Trust structure with Gladstone Land Limited Partnership, advised externally by Gladstone Management Corporation, targeting independent and corporate farmers as well as agribusinesses supporting farming communities, with a current occupancy rate of 95.7% based on farmable acreage, a weighted-average remaining lease term of 5.7 years, and an effective interest rate of 3.4% on borrowings. Recent developments include modifications to lease agreements on six farms for the 2025 crop year by reducing or eliminating fixed base rents and providing cash incentives in exchange for higher participation rents, direct operation of two properties under management agreements with third-party operators, execution of four new lease agreements boosting annual net operating income by 9.3%, and refinancing of a $10.3 million loan at 3.85% with a new $10.6 million loan at 6.31% fixed for three years, alongside ongoing efforts to acquire additional water assets and resolve lease issues on permanent crop farms.