Summit Industrial Income REIT Provides Financing Update

TORONTO, Feb. 5, 2019 /CNW/ - Summit Industrial Income REIT ("Summit" or the "REIT") (TSX: SMU.UN) announced today that it has replaced previously-arranged bridge loans used to complete recent acquisitions with permanent long-term fixed rate mortgage financing.

A $91 million twelve-month bridge loan arranged to complete the acquisition of a Montreal property portfolio in December 2018 has now been refinanced with new ten-year mortgages bearing an interest rate of 3.93%. A second $62 million bridge loan used to purchase an Alberta property portfolio in December 2018 has now been refinanced with new ten-year mortgages bearing an interest rate of 3.86%. With the new financings, the weighted average term to maturity for the total mortgage portfolio has increased from 4.8 years to 5.9 years.

"We are pleased to proactively refinance these bridge loans that were not due to expire until December 2019," commented Paul Dykeman, Chief Executive Officer. "We continue to take advantage of the current, very attractive ten-year bond rates to lock in low-cost long-term financing and extend the term to maturity of our mortgage portfolio, further underpinning the predictability and sustainability of our cash distributions to Unitholders."

About Summit
Summit Industrial Income REIT is an unincorporated open-end trust focused on growing and managing a portfolio of light industrial properties across Canada. Summit's units are listed on the TSX and trade under the symbol SMU.UN. For more information, please visit our web site at www.summitIIreit.com.

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SOURCE Summit Industrial Income REIT