Greystone Housing Impact Investors Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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May 12, 2026

Key Takeaways

  • Neutral Sentiment: Greystone is continuing its portfolio repositioning strategy, aiming to exit remaining market-rate multifamily JV equity investments and redeploy the proceeds into tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds for more stable, longer-term earnings.
  • Negative Sentiment: Q1 2026 net income was only $1.3 million, or $0.01 per unit, as GAAP results were pressured by about $4.9 million of proportionate share losses from non-Vantage JV equity investments.
  • Positive Sentiment: CAD came in at $3.1 million, or $0.13 per unit, and management said the sale of JV equity assets and reinvestment into bond investments should support more recurring earnings over time.
  • Neutral Sentiment: The company reported strong liquidity, including $20.6 million of unrestricted cash, about $40 million of revolver availability, and roughly $18 million received in April from the sale of the Poppy Grove projects.
  • Neutral Sentiment: Greystone took back four South Carolina properties via deed in lieu of foreclosure, recording a $2.2 million gain and a $2.1 million recovery of prior credit loss provisions, but the new financing on those assets is a full-recourse $84 million loan with future covenant exposure to monitor.
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Earnings Conference Call
Greystone Housing Impact Investors Q1 2026
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There are 5 speakers on the call.

Speaker 4

Greetings. Welcome to the Q1 2026 earnings call for Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. The question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to Jesse A. Coury, Chief Financial Officer. Thank you. You may begin.

Speaker 2

We'd like to welcome everyone to the Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP, NYSE ticker symbol GHI, 1st quarter of 2026 earnings conference call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After management presents its overview of Q1 2026, you'll be invited to participate in a question and answer session. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. During this conference call, comments made regarding GHI, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual future events or results to differ materially from these statements. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words like may, should, expect, plan, intend, focus, and other similar terms.

Speaker 2

You are cautioned that these forward-looking statements speak only as of today's date. Changes in economic, business, competitive, regulatory, and other factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the projections or forward-looking statements made today. For more detailed information about these factors and other risks that may impact our business, please review the periodic reports and other documents filed from time to time by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Internal projections and beliefs upon which we base our expectations may change, but if they do, you will not necessarily be informed. Today's discussion will include non-GAAP measures and will be explained during this call. We want to make you aware that GHI is operating under the SEC Regulation FD and encourage you to take full advantage of the question and answer session.

Speaker 2

Thank you for your participation and interest in Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP. I'll now turn the call over to our Chief Executive Officer, Ken Rogozinski.

Speaker 3

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP's first quarter 2026 investor call. Thank you for joining. I will start with an overview of our portfolio and investment strategy. Jesse A. Coury, our Chief Financial Officer, will then present the partnership's financial results. I will wrap up with an overview of the market and our investment pipeline. Following that, we look forward to taking your questions. As we've mentioned on our previous calls, we are pursuing a strategy to reposition our investment portfolio. Specifically, we are focused on exiting our remaining investments in market-rate multifamily JV equity investments while maximizing value to our unitholders from those exits.

Speaker 3

We will then reinvest the capital returned to us from those exits into additional high-quality tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond investments that are expected to provide longer-term, stable tax advantage earnings, which we believe will provide long-term value for our unitholders. We believe this change in investment strategy provides 3 key benefits to our unitholders. First, by their nature, our tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond investments earn stable returns based on the net interest spread between the bond interest rate and our related debt financing rate. As a result, we expect increasingly stable earnings as compared to the uneven returns on joint venture equity investments due to that income being recognized primarily upon property sales. Second, in recent years, majority of income allocated to our unitholders has been taxable because of the taxable income from our joint venture equity investment sales.

Speaker 3

As we allocate more capital to tax-exempt Mortgage Revenue Bond investments, we expect that the proportion of income allocated to our unitholders that is tax-exempt for federal income tax purposes will increase in the long term. In the near term, potential gains from sales of our remaining market-rate multifamily JV equity investments will continue to generate taxable income for unitholders. Third, we are investing capital in a proven investment class that is core to our operations that also leverages the strong relationships and knowledge base of Greystone's other lending platforms. We currently have eight market-rate multifamily JV equity investments that have completed construction and are either in lease-up or stabilized. Overall occupancy is increasing for these investments in lease-up. On assets that have reached stabilization, we have seen some variability in occupancy as local market factors impact demand and rent levels.

Speaker 3

Decisions regarding when to sell an individual property are made by our joint venture partners based on their views of the local market conditions and current leasing trends. We currently have two market-rate multifamily JV equity investments that are sites for potential development. Our joint venture partners are evaluating the highest and best use for the development sites, which may include a sale of the land or the commencement of construction. Our remaining funding commitments for these investments will be terminated if the land is sold. Meanwhile, we continue to see strong investment opportunities for our traditional investments in taxes and mortgage revenue bonds associated with affordable multi-family properties, as well as for seniors housing and skilled nursing properties. Based on strong lending relationships across affordable housing, seniors housing, and skilled nursing business lines are also providing investment opportunities for the partnership.

Speaker 3

We believe that these opportunities will allow us to redeploy the capital returned from market rate multifamily joint venture equity investment sales events soon after the capital is received. We and the board of managers acknowledge that it will take some time to cycle our capital out of our market rate joint venture equity investments and into tax-exempt Mortgage Revenue Bond investments. We currently report minimal earnings related to our joint venture equity investments during the holding period. We expect that the reinvestment of capital from sales of joint venture equity investments into tax-exempt Mortgage Revenue Bond investments will increase the partnership's recurring earnings in the long run. We look forward to providing additional details on our progress in this effort in future communications and on future earnings calls.

Speaker 3

With that, I will turn things over to Jesse A. Coury, our CFO, to discuss the financial data for the first quarter of 2026.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Ken. For our first quarter ended March thirty-first, we reported net income of $1.3 million or $0.01 per unit, basic and diluted, and we reported cash available for distribution or CAD, a non-GAAP measure of $3.1 million or $0.13 per unit. Significant driver of our reported GAAP income for the first quarter is our proportionate share of losses from non-Vantage JV equity investments of approximately $4.9 million or $0.21 per unit. As we've mentioned on previous calls, we are required to report our proportionate share of losses of such JV equity investments under GAAP. These are not impairments or realized losses to the partnership. Approximately $1.9 million or 39% of total reported losses relate to depreciation and amortization expenses at the respective JV equity investment entities.

Speaker 2

The remaining reported losses related to interest expense and property operating expenses that exceeded revenues during the lease-up of these respective properties. We add back our share of property operating losses to net income when calculating CAD, as such losses are not direct expenses to the partnership, and we expect such losses, which are largely funded by the individual property development budgets, to be recovered upon future transactional events. Our book value per unit as of March 31st was, on a diluted basis, $11.30. We'll note that this metric is based on our joint venture equity investments marked at net carrying value.

Speaker 2

As a result, it does not include any potential gains or additional income that may be realized upon sale of a property or recovery of our share of GAAP operating losses that I previously discussed that are also expected to be recovered upon sale. As of market close yesterday, May 11th, our closing unit price on the New York Stock Exchange was $5.09, which is a 55% discount to our net book value per unit as of March 31st. We regularly monitor our liquidity to fund our investment commitments and to protect against potential debt deleveraging events if there are significant declines in asset values. As of March 31st, we reported unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $20.6 million.

Speaker 2

In addition, in April, we received approximately $18 million as return of our net capital invested in the GIL and taxable GILs for the Poppy Grove I and Poppy Grove II projects after their sale to Freddie Mac and repayment of the related debt financings. We had approximately $40 million of availability on our secured lines of credit. We also have a significant amount of investment scheduled to mature during the remainder of 2026, which, after repayment of the related debt financings, will provide additional liquidity. We believe that we are well-positioned to meet our current funding commitments. In addition, potential sales of JV equity investments would provide additional liquidity for investment purposes.

Speaker 2

We regularly monitor our overall exposure to potential increases in interest rates through an interest rate sensitivity analysis, which we report quarterly and is included on page 90 of our Form 10-Q. The interest rate sensitivity table shows the impact on our net interest income given various changes in market interest rates and other various management assumptions. Our base case uses the forward SOFR yield curve as of March 31st, which includes market-anticipated SOFR projections over the next 12 months. Scenarios we present assume that there is an immediate shift in the yield curve and that we do nothing in response for 12 months. The analysis shows that an immediate 100 basis point increase in rates will result in a decrease in our net interest income and CAD of $736,000, or approximately $0.032 per unit.

Speaker 2

Conversely, a 100 basis point decrease in rates across the curve will result in an increase in our net interest income and CAD of $736,000, or approximately $0.032 per unit. We consider ourselves largely hedged against significant fluctuations in our net interest income for market interest rate movements in all scenarios, assuming no significant credit issues. Our debt investments portfolio consists of Mortgage Revenue Bonds, governmental issuer loans, and property loans totaling $1.17 billion as of March thirty-first, for 79% of our total assets. We own 80 Mortgage Revenue Bonds as of March thirty-first, that preferred provide financing for affordable multifamily seniors and skilled nursing properties across 12 states, with concentrations in California and Texas. We own 4 governmental issuer loans as of March thirty-first that finance the construction of affordable multifamily properties in California.

Speaker 2

Two of the GIL governmental issuer loan investments and related taxable investments totaling $90 million were redeemed at par in April, with a third governmental issuer loan and taxable governmental issuer loan investment expected to redeem at par later in May. Our outstanding future funding commitments for our Mortgage Revenue Bonds, governmental issuer loans, and related investments total $12.2 million as of March 31st, before related debt proceeds and excluding investments we expect to transfer to our construction lending joint venture with BlackRock. These commitments will be funded over approximately 12 months and will add to our income-producing asset base. Our overall mortgage investment portfolio performed steadily during the first quarter, with the exception of 4 Mortgage Revenue Bonds and related taxable Mortgage Revenue Bond investments in South Carolina, which I will discuss later.

Speaker 2

All Mortgage Revenue Bond and governmental issuer loans investments are current on principal and interest payments as of March 31st. Physical occupancy for the stabilized Mortgage Revenue Bond portfolio was 85.9% as of March 31st, which is down slightly from 86.7% as of December 31st. The decline is primarily associated with properties in Texas, where local markets are experiencing higher vacancies due to recent increases in multifamily unit supply. We expect occupancies will recover once available units are absorbed and new supply deliveries decline in the near term. As I mentioned on our last call, we completed the deed in lieu of foreclosure process on 4 South Carolina Mortgage Revenue Bond properties during the 1st quarter. We believe that by owning and managing the properties directly, we can maximize the value of our investments.

Speaker 2

The original mortgage revenue bonds were redeemed, the related debt financings were paid, and the partnership now owns the underlying multifamily properties directly, with first mortgage financing provided by a group of 2 banks. We recorded the assets and liabilities of the acquired properties based on estimated fair values. Based on these estimates, we recorded a recovery of prior provisions for credit losses of approximately $2.1 million related to The Park at Sondrio, The Park at Viale, and the Windsor Shores investments. In addition, we reported a gain on deed in lieu of foreclosure totaling approximately $2.2 million due to the estimated fair values in excess of our amortized cost basis of our prior Mortgage Revenue Bond investments in Windsor Shores and Century Plaza Apartments, also known as The Ivy Apartments.

Speaker 2

We have retained a third-party property manager to operate the properties on a day-to-day basis under our oversight. We are being assisted in that effort by Greystone's corporate asset management team. On the liability side of our balance sheet, we use various debt financing facilities to leverage our debt investments. Our outstanding debt financings had an outstanding principal balance totaling approximately $927 million as of March 31st, which is down approximately $92 million from December 31st. We manage and report our debt financing in 4 main categories on page 82 of our Form 10-Q. 3 of the 4 categories are designed such that our net return is generally insulated from changes in short-term interest rates. These categories account for $700 million, or 76% of our total debt financing.

Speaker 2

The fourth category is fixed-rate assets with variable rate debt with no designated hedging, which is where we are most exposed to interest rate risk in the near term. This category represents approximately $227 million, or 24% of our total debt financing. Of this amount, approximately $188 million is associated with debt investments that are scheduled to mature during 2026, which will repay the associated outstanding debt financings. As such, we expect the unhedged period to be relatively short. Ken previously provided updates on our 10 market rate multifamily joint venture equity investments. In addition, we have two market rate seniors housing JV equity investments in Nevada. Our remaining funding commitments for market rate multifamily joint venture equity investments totaled $19.5 million as of March thirty-first, all related to sites being considered for future development.

Speaker 2

We will not fund these commitments until a construction contract is signed and construction commences. The managing member may also choose to sell the sites and terminate our related funding commitments. We have an outstanding funding commitment of approximately $7 million for our Valage Senior Living Mt. Rose JV investment. I'll now turn the call back to Ken for his update on market conditions and our investment pipeline.

Speaker 3

Thanks, Jesse. The first four months of 2026 have seen a positive performance from the U.S. municipal bond market. The muni high-grade and high yield indices both recovered well in April from March's underperformance. As of April 30th, the muni high-grade index showed a 1.0% return for 2026, along with a 2.1% return for the high yield index. At the end of March, 10-year MMD was at 3.16%, and 30-year MMD was at 4.50%, which were 40 and 30 basis points higher respectively versus December's levels. As of yesterday's close, 10-year MMD was at 2.96%, and 30-year MMD was at 4.31%, reflecting slightly higher levels from year-end due to inflation uncertainty stemming from the current conflict in the Middle East.

Speaker 3

The 10-year muni-to-Treasury ratio is currently at 67%, and the 30-year muni-to-Treasury ratio is currently at 87%. A significant improvement in the 10-year ratio since the time of our last call. The MMD housing bond interest rate scale, which is used to mark our core Mortgage Revenue Bond portfolio to market, is correlated to these broader muni bond indices. Through four months of 2026, there has been $175 billion of gross new issuance, slightly behind last year's record pace, and almost $28 billion in fund inflows, well ahead of last year's pace. The market's ability to handle this higher than historical average level of new issue activity is a good sign for the overall secondary market liquidity in muni bonds, like the Mortgage Revenue Bonds owned by the partnership.

Speaker 3

The HUD appropriations bill fully funding the department's programs, in many cases at expenditure levels higher than the previous year, for the remainder of the federal fiscal year was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump. The Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program is beginning to adjust to the new rules set forth in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. With that, Jesse and I are happy to take your questions.

Speaker 4

Our first questions come from the line of Jason Stewart with JonesTrading. Please proceed with your questions.

Speaker 1

Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question. First I wanted to ask about the 9 or 10 properties that have completed construction as of now. How many of those are at or nearing stabilized occupancy, and what do you think an ideal sort of monetization timeline would be? Would that stretch into mid 2027 or is that mostly in 2026?

Speaker 3

Thanks, Jason. In terms of properties that have reached stabilization, at this point in time, there are 4 assets that we believe are either at or close to stabilized operations, at this point in time. The other 4 are still in their initial, their initial lease-up phase. In terms of a potential timeline from our perspective, spring and early summer has traditionally been peak leasing season for market rate multifamily properties. We're seeing good velocity at a number of the assets that are in lease-up, and we're, you know, watching the property managers deal with normal lease turnover at the stabilized properties. Something that we're going to continue to keep our eye on. Again, it's not something that we directly control.

Speaker 3

The timing of exit is up to the discretion of our JV partners as the managing members of the property-owning entities. My expectation would be as we move further through leasing season, that we're going to be taking a hard look at each of the stabilized assets with our JV partners to try to see what the appropriate timeline is for potential monetization of those business.

Speaker 1

All right. Thank you for that. On the South Carolina of properties you took back, what can you tell me regarding the financing there, non-recourse structure and/or covenant exposure?

Speaker 2

Yes, I can take that one. It is a $84 million mortgage loan secured by all 4 properties under one loan with 2 financial institutions. It is a recourse obligation of GHI or the partnership, full recourse with a partial 10% guarantee provided by a Greystone affiliate to help us get better terms on that financing. In terms of covenant levels, there is a Debt service coverage test that is in early 2027, a second that's in mid-2027. Those are kind of your traditional debt service coverage, where if they're not met, then potential principal pay down would be needed to bring those in line with the debt service covenant test. Those are at very low covenant levels.

Speaker 2

I think the first test is at a 1 times debt service coverage based on a T3. We have roughly a year to work through these properties, get them back to a more stable financial footing before any covenant exposure comes into play.

Speaker 3

Jason, I would note that the former Tender Option Bond Trust financing that funded the MRBs associated with these four properties was full recourse to us as well. From, you know, from that exposure perspective, the replacement bank financing has not sort of increased our potential exposure associated with these assets.

Speaker 1

Got it. Thank you for the color, guys.

Speaker 4

Thank you. Our next question has come from the line of Chris Muller with Citizens JMP. Please proceed with your questions.

Operator

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Nice to see the $2.2 million gain on the deed in lieu of foreclosure. Do you guys expect much in terms of CapEx on these properties? Are they currently profitable, or will they be a drag on earnings in the near term?

Speaker 3

We're still in the process right now, Chris, of working through the transition on the property management level. You know, as Jesse said, we took title to 2 of the assets in January and 2 of the assets at the end of February. The property management transition occurred at the same time. We're continuing to work through what the potential CapEx budget might be for these assets. We'll be working with the property managers and with the Greystone asset management team to take a look at those budgets, identify what the needs are there at the individual asset levels, and try to best position them for growth moving forward in order for us to, you know, to get that return on our investment.

Speaker 3

I think that, you know, the one thing that I will note is that our initial mortgage revenue bond investment on these four properties were all acquisition rehab transactions, where there was a level of rehab that was built into the initial budgets in 2022, 2023 for each of these assets. It's not like we're sort of taking over assets that haven't been touched for a while. You know, there was, I think, in each circumstance, at least $2 million-$3 million worth of rehab that was done at the time that our initial mortgage revenue bond investments were funded.

Operator

Got it. That's great to hear. I guess last quarter, you guys said that about half of the JV losses were depreciation expense, and I think I heard Jesse say $1.9 million was depreciation this quarter. Is that a good run rate for us to model until properties start getting sold?

Speaker 2

From a depreciation perspective, I think that's a good number as the 6 non-Vantage investments have kind of reached that operating phase. I think that will be a fairly consistent depreciation and amortization number going forward. I think the overall, you know, proportionate share of our losses of those investments is going to come down over time because, as Ken mentioned, these are properties that are in lease up. Some of them are still, you know, in that 20%-40% leased. They're generating quite a bit of losses because there's not revenue to offset the expenses. As these continue to lease up, particularly through the spring leasing season, we'll see revenues increase, and our proportionate share of losses should decrease accordingly.

Operator

Got it. That makes a lot of sense. I think I just missed what you guys said book value was, if I could squeeze that last one in.

Speaker 2

$11.30 per unit.

Operator

All right. Thank you very much, and thanks for taking the questions.

Speaker 4

Thank you. We have reached the end of our question and answer session. Now I'd like to hand the call back over to Kenneth C. Rogozinski for closing comments.

Speaker 3

Thank you very much for your participation today. We look forward to speaking with everyone again next quarter.

Speaker 4

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, this does now conclude today's teleconference. We appreciate your participation. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Enjoy the rest of your day.

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