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NexPoint Residential Trust Inc (NXRT -1.35%)
Q4Â 2019 Earnings Call
Feb 18, 2020, 11:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day, and welcome to the NexPoint Residential Trust Incorporated Fourth Quarter 2019 Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Jackie Graham. Please go ahead, ma'am.
Jackie Graham -- NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc.
Thank you. Good day, everyone, and welcome to NexPoint Residential Trust's conference call to review the company's results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31. On the call today are Brian Mitts, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Matt McGraner, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. As a reminder, this call is being webcast through the company's website at www.nexpointliving.com.
Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that this conference call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are based on management's current expectations, assumptions and beliefs. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as expect, anticipate, intend and similar expressions and variations or negatives of these words.
These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding NXRT's strategy and guidance for financial results for the first quarter and full year 2020, expected acquisitions and dispositions, expected redevelopment of units, the projected average rent, change in rent and return on investment after redevelopment and new business metrics relating to Las Vegas portfolio. They are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Listeners should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements and are encouraged to review the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and the company's other filings with the SEC, for a more complete discussion of risks and other factors that could affect the forward-looking statements. Except as required by law NXRT, does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
This conference call also includes analysis of funds from operations, or FFO; core funds from operations, or core FFO; adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO; and net operating income, or NOI, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures of performance. These non-GAAP measures should be used as a supplement to and not a substitute for net income loss computed in accordance with GAAP. For a more complete discussion of FFO, core FFO, AFFO and NOI, see the company's earnings release that was filed earlier today.
I would now like to turn the call over to Brian Mitts. Please go ahead, Brian.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Thank you, Jackie. I'd like to welcome everyone to the NXRT 2019 fourth quarter conference call. Today, we'll discuss highlights for the year, present our results for 2019, provide guidance for 2020, and discuss recent acquisition, dispositions, our portfolio in general, markets and just what we see in the year ahead.
I'm joined here with Matt McGraner, our Chief Investment Officer. So, I'll start high level. 2019 was our most active year so far on acquisition and disposition front. We acquired a net of $587 million of properties. Same-store NOI increase for the year was 6.7%, which was 20 basis points above our midpoint guidance. Consistent with the high growth strategy for 2019, we reported a 19% increase in core FFO per share, which is $1.93 per share and 10 basis points above the midpoint of our guidance.
During the year, we acquired 11 properties for $877 million, consisting of 4,583 units, an increase in our redevelopment pipeline by nearly 3,000 units. We sold six properties during the year, consisting of 2,218 units for sell price of $290 million and rolled those net proceeds into a couple of new acquisitions.
Total revenue for 2019 was $181 million, and total NOI was $103 million, which was an increase of 28.3% and 30.8% year-over-year respectively, reflecting the large net acquisition activity during the year.
NOI margin increased 200 basis points to 56.7% for the year from 54.7% in 2018. We continue to execute our value-add business plan by completing 2,516 full and partial renovations during the year, with 1,671 of those units being leased, achieving a 25.3% return on investment during the year.
Inception to date within properties still in the portfolio is 12/31. We've completed 6,927 full and partial upgrades, achieving an average return on investment of 24.5%.
Additionally, for 2019, we completed Smart Home Technology installs in 8,546 units and completed 1,327 washer-dryer installs for the year. We utilized the ATM in 2019, raising gross proceeds to $72 million at an average price of $45.98, and increased our shares outstanding by approximately 1.6 million shares. Generally, we used the net proceeds from the ATM to fund acquisitions and pay down our revolver.
Based on updates in cap rates, which are based on tightening in the market, as evidenced by transactions that we're seeing, as well as the NOI growth mentioned, we're revising our NAV per share range upward as follow: On the low end, $42.08, on the high end $50.53, for midpoint $46.31. That's compared to midpoint of $40.36 in the prior quarter or 14.7% quarter-over-quarter increase, and a midpoint of $35.09 at the end of 2018 or 32% year-over-year increase, while our stock also returned 32%.
In the fourth quarter, we paid a dividend of $0.3125 per share on December 31, and yesterday the Board declared a dividend per share of $0.3125, payable on March 31, to shareholders of record on March 16.
Year-to-date, our dividend is 1.7 times covered by core FFO, making our payout ratio of approximately 59% of core FFO. Going to our just high-level results for 2019 as compared to '18, as mentioned, total revenues were $181 million in 2019, as compared to $147 million in 2018. So, 23% increase.
Net operating income was $103 million in 2019 versus $80 million in 2018, a 28% increase. Core FFO was $47.6 million or $1.93 per share versus $35.1 million, which was a 31% increase or 19.1% increase for the year.
Our same-store pool, we have 25 properties comprised of 9,057 units. Our same-store rent increase was 3.6%. Same store occupancy declined 30 basis points to 94.5%. Same-store revenues increased 4.3% to $119 million. Same-store expenses increased 1.4% to $52.7 million, and same-store NOI was $66 million versus $62 million in 2018 or a 6.7% increase.
Just real quick one to go through some of our historical performance since we're in a year and enrolling into a new year, core FFO for the past three years has increased 31%. Our NAV, at the midpoint as we calculate it, has increased 86%. We've increased our dividend substantially and our stock prices returned 30.5% on an annualized basis over the past three years.
We've issued 4.3 million shares at an average price of $37.76 and bought back 737,000 shares at an average price of $22.64. So, overall, we had a good capital allocation and we're carrying our same-store NOI growth down to the bottom line as evidenced by the increase in core FFO.
For 2020 guidance, we made the following assumptions. A range of $50 million to $100 million for acquisitions, to a range of $50 million to $100 million for dispositions, and $40 million raised on our ATM to pay down the revolver or fund those acquisitions.
So, with those assumptions. 2020 guidance as follows. Our core FFO per share on a diluted basis is $2.15 in the low-end, $2.27 from a high-end, and $2.21 in the midpoint, representing a 14.5% increase over 2019.
Same-store revenue is estimated to be 5% increase in the low-end, 6% increase on the high-end, with the increase of 5.5% at the midpoint. Same-store expenses, we expect to increase 5.3% on the low end, 6.3% on the high end, for midpoint increase of 5.8%. And then same store NOI, we expect to increase 5% low end, 7% on the high end, for a midpoint increase of 6%.
So, with that, let me turn it over to Matt, to go through the portfolio and acquisitions, dispositions.
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes. Thanks, Brian. Let me start by going over our Q4 2019 NOI performance. Let me start with our same-store NOI margin improving year-over-year by 250 basis points to 56.1%.
Our rents were also up at least 3% in every market, except Houston, which remained flat. We saw strength across the entirety of the portfolio, as usual, with 7/10 markets growing NOI by at least 5.2%. That includes Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Orlando, D.C., and Tampa.
The notable same-store NOI growth markets for the fourth quarter were Dallas of 17.1% and continued acceleration in Atlanta, delivering a robust 20% NOI growth largely driven by favorable real estate tax comps.
Operationally, leasing activity and revenue growth showed continued strength in the fourth quarter, 7/10 markets achieved revenue growth of at least 4.3% or better. Our top five markets were D.C. at 9.1%, Atlanta at 7%, Phoenix at 6.1%, Charlotte at 5.8%, and DFW at 4.5%.
Renewal conversions for the quarter were a healthy 54% with 6/10 markets delivering renewal rate growth of at least 3.4%. On the occupancy front, I'm pleased to report that Q4 same store occupancy improved 110 basis points from the third quarter to 94.4%, positioning us well for 2020. For example, as of this morning, our portfolio sits at 96% leased with a healthy 60-day trend of 91%.
Turning to full-year 2019 same-store NOI performance. The NOI margin also improved for the year by 126 basis points to 55.6%. Same-store average rents in revenues each increased 3.6% and 4.3% respectively.
NOI was strong, again, across the entirety of the portfolio with 9/10 markets growing NOI by at least 4.5%. The notable same-store NOI growth markets for the year were Atlanta and Tampa at 11.8% and 9.1% respectively.
Operationally, the portfolio experienced robust revenue growth in 2019 with 8/10 markets achieving growth of at least 4.4% or better. The top 5 markets here we're D.C. at 7.5%, Nashville at 6.8%, Phoenix at 6.1%, Atlanta at 6%, Orlando at 5.5%.
Now, turning to 2019 acquisitions and dispositions. As Brian mentioned, we were quite active during the year, $876 million of new properties, while selling $290 million. This activity, of course, allowed us to reload our rehab pipeline by adding another 3,000 units to renovate. Two largest components, as you might remember, of our 2019 acquisition activity were the Avant at Pembroke Pines and the Las Vegas 3 portfolio.
Both deals are performing extremely well as we sit today. As a reminder, we purchased the Avant at Pembroke Pines for $322 million for now at year 1 economic cap rate of 5%. We planned there to upgrade 938 units at an average cost of $15,900 a unit, generate premiums of $234 a unit and ROIs of approximately 18%. We also planned here to install Smart Tech packages in every unit, which will generate a monthly premium of $45 a unit.
As a result, as you may recall, underwritten 3 year average same-store NOI growth for this asset was 8.4%. Today, we're on that budget, in fact beating it by $260,000 or 4.2% ahead of NOI underwriting. For Las Vegas 3 portfolio, we purchased these three assets for a total of $241 million, also a year 1 economic cap rate of 5%. You may recall, we plan to upgrade 392 units at an average cost of $9,960 a unit, generating premiums of $130 unit and ROI of approximately 15.4%.
We also plan to install washer-dryer sets in 588 units and expect to generate monthly premiums of $40 unit there. Smart Tech packages are to be installed in every unit and expect to generate monthly premiums of $45 a unit. As a result, our underwritten 3 year average same-store NOI growth for this portfolio is 6%.
Now, turning to 2020 guidance. As Brian said, we're excited to guide 5% to 7% same-store NOI growth for 2020. From a geographical perspective, we're expecting particular strength across the following markets. We expect Phoenix to grow same-store NOI by 11% due to the strength of the rental market, economic growth, favorable supply demand for affordable housing. Our large interior renovation plans, which total altogether 8.1% budgeted revenue growth and 3.35% budgeted expense growth.
We expect Nashville to grow same-store NOI by roughly 10.5% in 2020, again due to strength of rental market, economic growth, favorable supply demand for affordable housing and large interior renovation plans at Brandywine Arbors of Brentwood and Glenview Reserve. Also, here, we expect to generate revenue growth of 8% and 3.22% budgeted total expense growth.
Finally, we expect Atlanta, Charlotte and Tampa to each grow approximately 7% due to continued strength in the middle-income rental market here and 7% plus revenue growth and 5 plus -- approximately 5% total expense growth for the market.
Our 2020 guidance includes the following assumptions regarding our value-add programs. We expect to complete 1,373 full interior upgrades at an average cost of $8,500 per unit, expect to generate $150 average monthly premium or approximately 21% ROIs.
We expect to complete 550 partial interior upgrades at an average cost of $2,240 per unit, generating $62 average monthly premiums or a 33% ROI margin. We expect to upgrade another 1,329 units in a bespoke upgrade for example, new backslashes, appliances, frame mirrors, new lighting, etc. at an average cost of $445 per unit, generating an $18 average monthly premium or 48% return on investment.
We plan to install 859 washer and dryers during the year at an average cost of 819 per unit, which will generate $45 on average in monthly premium or 65% ROI.
Finally, we plan to install 3,000 additional Smart Home Technology packages with the expense coming online right away -- with the expense coming online right away while income rolls out over time. Recall, $35 to $45 average monthly premium here -- $24 average operating expense, with a 52.5% profit margin.
On a real estate property tax side, we are budgeting growth of 9.25%, which we feel is appropriately conservative and provides the potential to beat budget by aggressive tax management litigation.
Finally, operationally, so far in 2020, we are off to a great start in January and February. January preliminary revenue was right in line with budget, with an NOI budget beat of 2.5%.
I'd like to finish my prepared remarks with a brief overview of our 2020 acquisition and disposition guidance. We think we'll at least acquire $50 million to $100 million of properties this year after a robust activity in 2019. We've already identified an asset in the submarket at Same Springs in Atlanta, which was sourced off market and has a purchase price of approximately $55 million.
We're best and final on another two or three deals in the Phoenix market and Charlotte market, which totaled about $120 million. Our team is continually underwriting approximately 20 so assets today with $1.4 billion in gross real estate value and we'll continue to look for accretive acquisitions during the year.
On disposition side, we have two assets under contract at sub 5% cap rates in Nashville, Willow Grove and Woodbridge for $63 million. Buyer is non-refundable, closing is expected to occur on March 31. We're negotiating the contract on Southpoint Reserve for $23.5 million with a target close date sometime in second quarter, approximately June.
In closing, I wanted to reiterate that we're excited about 2020, as Brian said, and we'll work hard to generate another year of 5% to 7% NOI growth and double-digit earnings growth.
That's all I have for prepared remarks. Thanks to our team here at NexPoint and VH for continuing to execute.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Thanks, Matt. So, before we turn it over to questions, there's one question we've seen in some of the notes, early notes this morning, that I'll go ahead address here. You've seen some changes within our rental income and other income from prior periods. That's a result of implementation of ASC 842, which is the new lease standard. So, we did implement that in 2019 and restated those numbers on a retrospective basis. There will be more detail in the 10-K on that when it's filed.
So, with that, let me turn it over to the operator to take questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] We'll take our first question from Buck Horne with Raymond James.
Buck Horne -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Thanks for taking the call. Want to dive into the updated NAV estimate, maybe first of all, and the updated, I guess, tightened up cap rate ranges you published this year. So, just maybe a little bit, if you could provide any more color on where you're seeing the numbers coming in, because like pricing has tightened up considerably and if these are your projections on value add Class B assets or is this -- do you have a source for this or is this kind of where you're getting the data from internally? Just any additional color on the pricing of assets in the market that's behind the new NAV estimates?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes. Hi, Buck, it's Matt. So, primarily, the change was driven by a transaction that was announced in January, which was the acquisition of Aragon Holdings portfolios. Its national portfolio of roughly 14,000 units and the Blue Harbour Group, two sophisticated parties. From our numbers, and we look at the transaction and then we confirm brokers that went off at a 4.6% tax adjusted cap rate on T3 NOI over T12 expenses.
So, that largely drove, I think, a lot of the changes. Their portfolio with the exception of a few assets in Denver, basically overlaid with ours pretty well. So, that's kind of point number one. Point number two is, as you know, CBRE and Green Street marking NAV for us every quarter. And from our experience in the market today, in terms of just acquiring deals or chasing deals, it's really tough to find anything north of 5% cap rate.
And that's just a nominal basis. And then end markets such as Phoenix, you can expect to pay for in quarter for value-add assets today. So, it did come down quite a bit, but I think it's still somewhat a conservative number, especially given the appetite and financing available for the assets.
Buck Horne -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Yes. Make sense. I appreciate the extra color there. Secondly, on the property that's had the tornado damage, I guess, Cutter's Point. Can you provide any update on the damages there? Do you anticipate any business interruption recoveries as 2020 goes on? How do you -- or should we anticipate any other drag or losses from the loss of the operations of that property?
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Yes, so that was the result of a tornado came through in late October through the Dallas area. We've taken all the units offline there and are beginning the reconstruction process. We have full insurance coverage from total replacement cost of all the buildings, as well as business interruption insurance. For example, in the fourth quarter, we basically had no difference from what we had budgeted on that property. And we expect that to be the same thing in 2020. What you'll see in the fourth quarter is a casualty loss, just the way Gap county works and given that we had to book that at the end of the year, you'll see a flip in 2020 as we rebuild and get the insurance proceeds, and ultimately you'll see a county gain on that transaction. But economically, there'll be no loss to NXRT as result of that. So, we're fully covered.
Buck Horne -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay, great. Thank you. I'll jump back in the queue. Thank you.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Thanks, Buck.
Operator
Our next question comes from Drew Babin with Baird.
Drew Babin -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
The Harbour group transaction that you mentioned. I think you mentioned that you looked at it. Can you talk about what sort of held you back on that transaction, the opportunity, talking about the initial yield, but obviously longer term on levered IRR kind of where that stood relative to what NXRT looks for? And I guess kind of relaying that to the current environment, do you see any deals out there right now larger in size that you see potentially closing, not just for NXRT, but in general, over the next year?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes. Thanks, Drew. It's Matt. The deal, we changed it for quite some time. It's an attractive portfolio. One of the things about it that was compelling was the units were fairly untouched. So, there's a true value add story to the interior program.
Couple things held us back. Number one, there was a large in place piece of amortizing, one that you had to assume. So, given the low LTV and just the nature of the fixed rate debt, it was agency that you had assume the cash on cash returns, weren't all that compelling.
Number two, while we looked at it, we're not one to go out and double the size of the company in a way that's just so transformational without there being a thoughtful approach to doing so. We were very active during the year anyway, kind of to the tune of net $600 million, and we think we can still move the needle as you'll see this year in our execution that still provides the same-store returns story for us. So, we didn't think such a transformational asset and chasing it made a ton of sense.
In terms of deals out there in size, there's a few portfolios from ranging in kind of $175 million to $250 million that are out there. The two that I know of are in the Southeast and Southwestern United States, our core markets. Both of those are expected to be kind of 4.5% type numbers on cap rate. So, still with -- we're not chasing either one of those. But still, as I said, very, very compelling, or very aggressive markets out there.
Drew Babin -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Appreciate that color. And with the cap rate convergence between suburban markets and urban markets value-added core, is there anything that the NXRT team is looking at this year that might look a little more kind of urban-ish and/or core relative to the past? Or can we still expect additions to the value-add renovation pipeline with each deal?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, we're going to stay our workforce housing value-added company. There is a convergence in cap rates. The good news is, we set ourselves up pretty well in 2019 to have an execution year in 2020 first and foremost and internal growth story, which will execute on and think that'll drive double-digit returns for us this year.
Yes, that being said, there are instances where we can be one off and I think maybe not in the first half of the year when everyone has allocations and are eager to put money to work, but I do think in the second half of the year, which is the time period in which we're been historically more active that we can -- that we'll be on the lookout whether you have any kind of election drama or what have you in rate. So, that's what we're going to try to hone in on in the second half of the year. By then we'll have some more ammo in terms of our revolver, which will pay down. So, we'll be opportunistic probably more in the second half. But it's still in workforce housing.
Drew Babin -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. Just one more from me too. Just judging by the guidance assumptions themselves, should we expect any real change to the net debt-to-EB ratio by the end of the year? Or will still sort of be in that mid 50s range, like it's been last year?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, I mean, I think no material change unless we like our stock, later in the year, but I wouldn't expect any material changes in first half.
Drew Babin -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
All right. That's all from me. Thanks.
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Thanks.
Operator
Our next question comes from Tayo Okusanya with Mizuho.
Omotayo Okusanya -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Good morning, everyone. Just a quick question on guidance. Again, some very strong assumptions being built in, but I'm just kind of curious when I -- I know it's strong year-over-year growth, but when I take a look at fourth quarter at $0.54, and you annualize that, that's really 216. So, I guess I'm a little bit surprised that you start off with such a strong point at the end of the year, but through your guidance at the midpoint is at 221 doing this, how much growth you're still expecting?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, I'll take a first stab at it. I think that we're kind of reloaded hot in the fourth quarter with all the deals online that we were expecting to sell to any way to kind of pay down some of the leverage we took on in the fourth quarter to buy the Las Vegas three portfolios. We knew that kind of two or three deals were coming out of the system. Anyway, so that -- pull those out of your numbers. And then, I do think that we're fairly conservative on the real estate tax, property tax side, budgeting almost 9.5% growth there.
I think, from my perspective, those are the two factors. Mitts, do you want add anything?
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Yes, in the fourth quarter 2019, you had some tax refunds come back in that impacted that core FFO. So, you're starting from a point that's probably a little higher than the run rate. As Matt said, with the conservative assumptions we built in, we still plan to do everything we do always in regard to taxes, which is fight them, litigate them, whatever we can do and it's proven successful in the past, although created some chunkiness in the quarter-over-quarter results. I think that's really what you're seeing in that $0.54
Omotayo Okusanya -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Great. Thank you. That's helpful. Then just one other follow-up. The information you provided in regards to 2020 guidance around amount of redevs you expect to do, washer-dryer programs, you a expect a Smart Tech, you expect all are very helpful. The question I have is, how much of that, of all those actions, is actually -- do you actually expect to translate over into 2020 earnings? Should we be thinking you do all this stuff, but only half of it is actually going to hit 2020 numbers based on timing? I'm just kind of curious.
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, there is bandwidth in those numbers to provide for seasonality or rent roll fluctuations, but I would expect that, call, 75% of those planned upgrades that are in guidance.
Omotayo Okusanya -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you.
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Thanks, Tayo.
Operator
Our next question comes from John Massocca with Ladenburg Thalmann.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Good morning.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Good morning, John.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Just sticking on kind of the rehabs. You guys kind of mentioned the bespoke upgrade program, which seemed like it was kind of a new addition to your redevelopment program. How is that going to essentially get rolled out, is that kind of -- are there kind of in-place plans for each asset you own or is that kind of a time-to-time thing as issues come up or as the desires of tenants kind of change? Just kind of, how we should think about that program going forward would be helpful?
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
No, there are specific -- the bespoke programs are specific to assets that we have gone in and audited each unit in each of the properties. So, for example, Eagle Crest, Silverbrook, Timberlake, RedHorn Sabal [Phonetic], like all these have specific targeted interior upgrades. Like, for example, on Eagle Crest, we're putting in new lighting for $194 that we think we'll get $11 rent premium at 67% estimate ROI. So, we think that there is, like I said, probably 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 -- 12 assets that are targeted for these new programs.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
And I guess maybe why not do kind of full unit upgrade? Is that because you're putting extra accessories into already upgraded units or is it just the market won't bear kind of the additional rent from a full unit upgrade?
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
No, it's honestly deals that we still like, really well that have gone through first generation and some cases maybe even a second. And this is just an incremental value-add story that we can throw on. And like, if deals are still growing 4% to 5% organically in market rent, adding these can push it up above 5%. So, deals that we still want to hold on and not sell, but there is still a little bit of kind of differentiated meaning of them.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Understood. And then thinking about kind of acquisitions and dispositions, given they kind of counterbalance each other. But are you expecting any kind of maybe -- if you think about 2020 numbers, just dilution given maybe the differential in pricing between value-add units and units that are a little bit more kind of fully updated and also just timing?
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Yes, I mean, all the -- everything I've just discussed is neutral. So, you won't see any disruption in terms of earnings and there is no like material cap rate differential there that would be -- that would be unfavorable to us. So, I wouldn't expect either those to occur.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Okay, that's it from me. Thank you very much.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Sure.
Operator
Our next question comes from Rob Stevenson with Janney.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Good morning, guys. Matt, did I hear you correctly that the Nashville assets that you're selling are $63 million and $23.5 million for Fredericksburg?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
That's right.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
So, if I do my math correctly the Nashville assets are basically almost being sold for double what you bought and rehab them for and Fredericksburg one is about a 25% increase?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, that's around Fredericksburg. Nashville is a little bit more unique as we refi those deals a few times, is actually from what the basis of the equity is when we bought them in '14, almost like 4 times, little over 4 times.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay. And so once you sell the Fredericksburg asset, am I correct in assuming that exits you from your D.C. market?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, sir.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Is that a market you plan to have a presence going forward or just not as compelling as the Sunbelt markets.
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, I mean, we just haven't had good of an experience there as other markets. So, we're not actively looking there. I wouldn't expect us to do once we're sold, hopefully.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay. And then last one from me, you talked about the units that you guys plan to rehab. How many properties would you actually be sort of done with in 2020 to the point where if the pricing was right that you'd be in a position to sell them versus ones where you still got redevelopment work on it throughout 2021 and beyond?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Yes, so every single deal in the portfolio, including the ones we're selling, still have some rehab potential as part of the story, leaving the bone for the next guy. In terms of like what we could sell, I think or another maybe one or two in Dallas, and that's probably it. Largely, we -- I mean, we're otherwise pretty comfortable and love the rest the portfolio.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay. So to the extent that you guys see more acquisition opportunities, its likely could not be funded by dramatic amounts of additional dispositions, it's going to wind up being funded more on the equity side?
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Correct. Yes, never say never, but you're not going to probably see us drop a $300 million sale on in this year as we did last year.
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Okay. Thanks guys. Appreciate it.
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
You bet.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Thanks Rob.
Operator
Our next question comes from Barry Oxford with D.A. Davidson.
Barry Oxford -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Thanks guys. Real quick, on the 30 basis point decline in occupancy, was that a function of maybe one particular property or was it more a function of you guys were pressing rents and therefore achieved a higher NOI out of the property, but you lost some tenants? Maybe kind of give me a little color.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Are you talking sequentially on the same-store basis?
Barry Oxford -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Yes, exactly.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Yes, I mean, I think it's just timing, just seasonality. I think from the third quarter, which was our stated goal on the third quarter call, we made a lot of progress, 110 basis points from quarter-over-quarter in the same-store pool, which quite frankly we weren't that pleased with our execution in the third quarter.
Fourth quarter, we did, I'd say, a fairly admirable job and then what's really probably important about this in general is that our first quarter 2020 is set up to be pretty compelling in terms of the trends. So, that's what we're excited about.
Barry Oxford -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Okay. So as we move through 2020, we should see occupancy, for lack of a better word, nudging upwards?
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Yes, it's one of the largest goals for the company in 2020.
Barry Oxford -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Okay, thanks guys. Appreciate it.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
You bet.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's question-and-answer session. I will now turn it back to Brian Mitts, for closing remarks.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Yes, thank you. Appreciate all the great questions and participation and look forward to a great year. And thanks for everyone's time.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 40 minutes
Call participants:
Jackie Graham -- NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc.
Brian Mitts -- Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Executive Vice President
Matt McGraner -- Chief Investment Officer & Executive Vice President
Buck Horne -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Drew Babin -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Omotayo Okusanya -- Mizuho -- Analyst
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Rob Stevenson -- Janney Montgomery Scott -- Analyst
Barry Oxford -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
