v3.25.1
Business and Organization
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business and Organization

Note 1. Business and Organization

 

ExchangeRight Income Fund, doing business as ExchangeRight Essential Income REIT, a Maryland statutory trust (the “Trust” or the “Company”), is a self-administered real estate company, formed on January 11, 2019, focusing on investing in single-tenant, primarily investment-grade net-leased real estate. The Company, through its operating partnership, ExchangeRight Income Fund Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership of which the Company is the sole general partner (the “Operating Partnership”) owned 364 properties in 34 states (collectively, the “Trust Properties”) as of March 31, 2025. The Trust Properties are occupied by 39 different primarily national investment-grade necessity-based retail tenants and are additionally diversified by industry, geographic region and lease term.

 

Unless the context requires otherwise, references to (i) the “Company” or the “General Partner” refer to ExchangeRight Income Fund, d/b/a ExchangeRight Essential Income REIT, together with its subsidiaries, including ExchangeRight Income Fund Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership of which the Company is the sole general partner, together with its subsidiaries, (ii) “Operating Partnership” or the “Partnership” refers to ExchangeRight Income Fund Operating Partnership, LP, together with its subsidiaries, (iii) “Trustee” refers to a related party, ExchangeRight Income Fund Trustee, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is the sole trustee of the Company, (iv) “ExchangeRight” or “Sponsor” refers to ExchangeRight Real Estate, LLC, a California limited liability company, which is the Company’s sponsor and the sole member and manager of the Trustee, together with its subsidiaries, (v) “ExchangeRight Income Fund GP, LLC” refers to a wholly-owned subsidiary of ExchangeRight which owns 600,000 of the Company’s Class I common shares and holds a special limited partnership interest in the Operating Partnership, which entitles ExchangeRight Income Fund GP, LLC to receive a promote interest in the profits of the Operating Partnership in accordance with the distribution waterfall set forth in the Operating Partnership’s limited partnership agreement, (vi) “Advisor” or “Advisors” refers to any person or persons, if any, appointed, employed or contracted with by the General Partner and responsible for directing or performing the day-to-day business affairs of the General Partner, including any person to whom the Advisor hereafter subcontracts substantially all of such functions, and (vii) “Advisory Agreement” refers to the agreement among the Partnership, the General Partner and any Advisor, pursuant to which any such Advisor will direct or perform the day-to-day business affairs of the General Partner and the Partnership.

 

The Company has elected and is qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for United States of America (“U.S.”) federal income tax purposes beginning with the taxable year ended December 31, 2019. The Company is the sole general partner and a limited partner of the Operating Partnership which was formed on January 9, 2019. Substantially all of the Company’s business is conducted through the Operating Partnership. The Trust Properties are owned and controlled by the Company and are managed by ExchangeRight Net-Leased Property Management, LLC (the “Property Manager”) and ExchangeRight Net-Leased Asset Management, LLC (the “Asset Manager”), which are both wholly-owned subsidiaries of ExchangeRight, pursuant to executed property management and asset management agreements with each respective entity.