Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Assets Held for Sale

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Assets Held for Sale
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Discontinued Operations And Disposal Groups [Abstract]  
Assets Held for Sale

Note 3. Assets Held for Sale

In accordance with its strategy to dispose of non-core and under-performing assets, the following assets have been classified as assets held for sale at December 31, 2022 and September 30, 2022:

 

(in thousands)

 

Carrying Value

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

September 30,

 

 

 

2022

 

 

2022

 

Ranch

 

$

174

 

 

$

205

 

Total assets held for sale

 

$

174

 

 

$

205

 

 

During the first quarter 2023, the company sold approximately 609 acres to various third parties for approximately $3,300,000 and recognized a gain of approximately $3,200,000. One of these sales transactions was a sale of approximately 85 acres to Mr. John E. Kiernan, the Company’s President and CEO, on October 20, 2022, for approximately $438,900 ($5,161 per acre). On January 1, 2022, Mr. Kiernan entered into a Hunting Lease Agreement and Real Estate Purchase and Sale Option Agreement, with the Company (the “Kiernan Lease Agreement”). Under the Kiernan Lease Agreement, the Company was leasing what was originally estimated to be approximately 93 acres of Company owned, largely unimproved land (the “Land”) to Mr. Kiernan for a three-year term commencing on January 1, 2022, and ending on January 1, 2025, and with a yearly rent of $1,860. Additionally,

under the terms of the Kiernan Lease Agreement, the Company had granted to Mr. Kiernan an option to purchase the Land from the Company, exercisable only during the one-year period January 1, 2022 through January 1, 2023, and at a price of $480,000 ($5,161 per acre), which price was based on an independent appraisal obtained by the Company and dated as of November 11, 2021. On August 26, 2022, Mr. Kiernan exercised his option to purchase the Land. Pursuant to exercise of the option, the Company sold what turned out to be a parcel of approximately 85 acres to Mr. Kiernan.

 

On May 31, 2022, the Company sold approximately 400 acres of Alico Ranch to a third party for approximately $1,900,000 and recognized a gain of $1,700,000.

 

During April 2022, the Company sold approximately 788 acres from the Alico Ranch to third parties for approximately $4,100,000 and recognized a gain of approximately $3,900,000. One of these sales transactions, consisting of approximately 142 acres, was sold to an employee of the Company for approximately $651,000.

 

On March 15, 2022, the Company sold approximately 6,286 acres from the Alico Ranch to third parties for approximately $28,288,000 and recognized a gain of approximately $26,554,000.

 

On December 3, 2021, the State of Florida purchased, under the Florida Forever program, approximately 1,638 acres of the Alico Ranch for approximately $5,675,000 pursuant to an option agreement entered into between the State of Florida and the Company. The Company recognized a gain of approximately $5,570,000.

 

During November 2021, the Company sold approximately 302 acres from the Alico Ranch to various third parties for approximately $1,458,000 and recognized a gain of approximately $1,400,000.