Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our management carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our Managing Trustees, our President and Chief Operating Officer and our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Based upon that evaluation, our Managing Trustees, our President and Chief Operating Officer and our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective.
There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements may include words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “estimate”, “will”, “may” and negatives or derivatives of these or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements about: economic and market conditions; our expectations regarding the demand for industrial properties; our future leasing activity; our leverage levels and possible future financings; our liquidity needs and sources; our capital expenditure plans and commitments; our existing and possible future joint venture arrangements; our redevelopment and construction activities and plans; our consolidated joint venture’s potential exercise of the extension option for the maturity date of its floating rate loan; and the amount and timing of future distributions.
Forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations, are based on judgments and assumptions, are inherently uncertain and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from expected future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements. Some of the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Whether our tenants will renew or extend their leases or whether we will obtain replacement tenants on terms as favorable to us as the terms of our existing leases,
• Our ability to successfully compete for tenancies, the likelihood that the rents we realize will increase when we renew or extend our leases, enter new leases, or our rents reset at our properties located in Hawaii,
• Our ability to maintain high occupancy at our properties,
• Our ability to reduce our leverage, generate cash flow and take advantage of mark-to-market leasing opportunities,
• Our ability to cost-effectively raise and balance our use of debt or equity capital,
• Our ability to pay interest on and principal of our debt,
• Our ability to purchase cost effective interest rate caps,
• Our expected capital expenditures and leasing costs,
• Our ability to maintain sufficient liquidity,
• Demand for industrial and logistics properties,
• Competition within the commercial real estate industry, particularly for industrial and logistics properties in those markets in which our properties are located,
• Our tenant and geographic concentrations,
• Whether the industrial and logistics sector and the extent to which our tenants’ businesses are critical to sustaining a resilient supply chain and that our business will benefit as a result,
• Our ability and the ability of our tenants to operate under unfavorable market and commercial real estate industry conditions, due to uncertainties surrounding interest rates and inflation, impacts of or changes to tariffs or trading policies, supply chain disruptions, emerging technologies, volatility in the public equity and debt markets, pandemics, geopolitical instability and tensions, any U.S.government shutdown, economic downturns or a possible recession, labor market conditions or changes in real estate utilization,
• Our tenants’ ability and willingness to pay their rent obligations to us,
• The credit qualities of our tenants,
• Changes in the security of cash flows from our properties,
• Potential defaults of our leases by our tenants,
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• Our ability to pay distributions to our shareholders and to increase or sustain the amount of such distributions,
• Our ability to sell properties at prices or returns we target, and the timing of such sales,
• Our ability to complete sales without delay, or at all, pursuant to existing agreement terms,
• Our ability to sell additional equity interests in, or contribute additional properties to, our existing joint ventures, to enter into additional real estate joint ventures or to attract co-venturers and benefit from our existing joint ventures or any real estate joint ventures we may enter into,
• Our ability to prudently pursue, and successfully and profitably complete, expansion and renovation projects at our properties and to realize our expected returns on those projects,
• Risks and uncertainties regarding the development, redevelopment or repositioning of our properties, including as a result of inflation, cost overruns, tariffs, supply chain challenges, labor market conditions, construction delays or our inability to obtain necessary permits, our ability to lease space at these properties at targeted returns and volatility in the commercial real estate markets,
• Non-performance by the counterparty to our interest rate cap,
• The ability of our manager, RMR, to successfully manage us,
• Changes in environmental laws or in their interpretations or enforcement as a result of climate change or otherwise, or our incurring environmental remediation costs or other liabilities,
• Compliance with, and changes to, federal, state and local laws and regulations, accounting rules, tax laws and similar matters,
• Limitations imposed by and our ability to satisfy complex rules to maintain our qualification for taxation as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes,
• Actual and potential conflicts of interest with our related parties, including our managing trustees, RMR and others affiliated with them,
• Acts of terrorism, outbreaks of pandemics or other public health safety events or conditions, war or other hostilities, global climate change or other manmade or natural disasters beyond our control, and
• Other matters.
These risks, uncertainties and other factors are not exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with other cautionary statements that are included in our periodic filings. The information contained elsewhere in our filings with the SEC, including under the caption “Risk Factors” in our periodic reports, or incorporated therein, identifies important factors that could cause differences from our forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Our filings with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
You should not place undue reliance upon our forward-looking statements.
Except as required by law, we do not intend to update or change any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Statement Concerning Limited Liability
The Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust establishing Industrial Logistics Properties Trust, dated January 11, 2018, as amended, as filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland, provides that no trustee, officer, shareholder, employee or agent of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust shall be held to any personal liability, jointly or severally, for any obligation of, or claim against, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust. All persons dealing with Industrial Logistics Properties Trust in any way shall look only to the assets of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust for the payment of any sum or the performance of any obligation.
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PART II. Other Information
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