Thank you, Joe. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining our call. I have with me today Leo Kij, our Interim Chief Financial Officer; Mike Alvarado, our Chief Legal Officer; and Kim Tobler, our Vice President Treasurer and Tax. Stuart Miller, our Executive Chairman is joining us remotely.
I'm pleased to update you today on the progress of the Company through the fourth quarter and for the full year of 2022. I will also update you on our team's focus as we move through the current real estate market down cycle and our strategies for 2023.
Next, Leo will give an overview of the company's financial performance and condition. We'll then open the line for questions to our management team.
It is notable for the first time we're reporting our earnings within three weeks of the close of our quarter.
We are in control of our business.
As I wrap up my first year as CEO of Five Point, I'd like to recognize the extraordinary efforts of our team and to say I'm very proud of them. 2022 was a year of organizational transition, operating through the impacts resulting from the Federal Reserve's aggressive increase in interest rates. Through it all, the team has remained focused on our operational priorities.
Turning to our financial results, consolidated net income in our fourth quarter was $22.5 million, and our SG&A was $13.1 million, a $4.5 million reduction in SG&A compared to Q4 2021. Consolidated SG&A for the year was $54.6 million a 29% reduction from 2021. We ended the year with cash and cash equivalents of $131.8 million.
Two key successes contributed our fourth quarter positive results.
The first was our execution on our commercial land sales strategy where the Great Park Venture closed on a very strong sale of approximately 42 acres of commercial land for $240 million or $5.7 million per acre.
As a result of this sale and the strong cash position of the Great Park Venture, we received distributions and incentive compensation payments from the Great Park Venture of approximately $67 million.
Our second key success during the quarter was renewal of our development management agreement with Great Park Venture which is now extended through the end of 2024. This extension reflects a strong value add that our management team brings to the partnership.
As we start the New Year and being well aware that increased interest rates have changed the market dynamics, we will be focused on three main priorities: generating revenue, managing our capital spend and managing SG&A. Execution on these priorities should generate net positive cash flow for 2023 and provide the liquidity to allow us to capitalize on the opportunities that we expect to be available when the market stabilizes.
With the establishment of our commercial land business, we now have two potential source of meaningful revenue, residential and commercial.
During 2023, we anticipate that the Fed interest rate tightening cycle will end and the housing market will adjust the new interest rate environment, expanding buyer demand as the year progresses.
Although we see 2023 as a transition year in residential, the one reality that cannot be denied is that in our California markets, housing is still in short supply and there is still demand for well-located homes in master planned communities.
We will remain patient and manage our business to realities of the current market.
To that end, we'll be looking to work with the builders to sell land at prices that reflect the balance between current market conditions and a scarcity of entitlement inventory in our markets.
Following the successful commercial land sale at the Great Park last quarter, we remain optimistic in moving forward our unique commercial land offerings at the Great Park and Valencia, both of which are positioned with land constrained positioned with and land constrained markets.
Additionally, we continue to have historic low vacancy rates in the industrial market, coupled with continued rent growth which we expect will continue to drive demand in this preferred asset class.
With over half of land in our initial commercial offering that Great Park already sold, and continued interest in negotiations on remaining sites remain confident in the continued demand in the commercial markets for not only industrial uses, but for other uses as well. In many instances, we have the only entitled and ready developed commercial and industrial land of its kind in the market.
Our desirable communities, our unique assets are complemented by a balance sheet that enables us to maximize value with patient offerings. At quarter end, our balance sheet reflected a $131.8 million of cash on hand and $0 drawn on $125 million revolver giving us available liquidity of $256.8 million and a debt to capitalization ratio of 25.1%.
We also have no principal debt repayment obligations on our senior notes in 2023 or 2024.
I'll now provide some updates on each of our communities. The open builder neighborhoods at the Great Park continue to sell homes, but at reduced absorption rates compared to last year.
As has been the pattern in prior new home sales slowdowns, coastal California holds up better than in the markets and that is what we're seeing at our communities.
During the fourth quarter, builders in our Great Park community sold 113 homes, up from 82 homes in Q3 and for the year sold 326 homes.
Solis Park, which had its first model complex home in July of 2022, currently has 636 homes remaining sold at the original 849 even though these numbers are small by historic standards, based on the current pace of home sales, and typical time period for builders move from land acquisition to omni model homes, we believe that there will be a need for the builders again buying land again in 2023 to position themselves for new home sales in 2024.
Our next residential community in Great Park District 5-South which is community of 719 homes and 11 neighborhoods, will be our focus in 2023. We previously brought this community market right before the Federal Reserve began its aggressive rate increases and after initial strong interest, new builders paused their land purchases.
We've done new conversations with the builders and would anticipate moving forward on some of the sites this year. On top of the ongoing residential opportunities at Great Park, we're actively engaged in selling the balance of our initial commercial land offering.
Our commercial parcels offer to the South County market something that's not been available for years, large parcels of entitled land of flexible zoning that allows a multitude of uses, including life sciences, R&D, office and industrial among others.
In Valencia, new home sales by builders totaled 49 homes during the fourth quarter, down from 166 homes in the third quarter reflecting the limited available inventory.
For the year, builders sold a total of 594 homes with 11 of 18 programs now sold out and currently only 323 remaining homes available from our initial 1,268 home offerings. Builders continue to work on their models for next year at Valencia, which encompasses 18 neighborhoods and 598 homes.
These neighborhoods are expected to open in the second and third quarters this year, creating additional inventory to drive builder sales.
While we did not close any home sites in 2022, we're still engaging with the builders like and currently looking at opportunities to add single family floor rent and multifamily floor rent products to our mix of offerings.
In particular, multifamily is a strong real estate segment that could provide housing options for residents and land revenues for us even during this time when this [per sale] residential market is under pressure.
Finally, we also have commercial opportunities in Valencia and we plan to bring -- sign 35-acre sites at market in the first quarter of 2023. San Francisco remains a priority for Five Point and for the city and county of San Francisco. It is irreplaceable land along San Francisco Bay with a broad mix of approved development opportunities.
As we start the New Year, we have initiated the process to obtain approvable plan that rebalances the current development entitlements to facilitate Candlestick moving forward ahead of Hunters' Point Shipyard while still maintaining the overall community development mix.
Concurrently, we're working with the city to update the existing tax increment financing timelines to account for the navy delays at Hunters Point. 2023 will be a pivotal year for San Francisco as we work through these issues and set the groundwork for the standalone development of Candlestick as the first phase of the larger mixed use community.
In an effort to provide some context to the coming year, I feel it would be helpful to provide some sense of how we see this next year progressing. Clearly, there remains much uncertainty amid these challenging market conditions. Therefore, my comments will be more general in nature.
First, I'd like to reiterate that the positive finish to 2022 gives us confidence in our commercial land strategy.
We expect to have commercial land sales at Great Park and Valencia during 2023. Further, as we reengage with our guest builders over the next few months, we expect to be able to find mutually beneficial ways to structure and price our valuable residential land. At this time, we don't feel it will be prudent to provide estimates of the number of commercial acres or potential home site sales.
We expect as majority of 2023 land sales will occur in the third and fourth quarters.
Generally for the first half of 2023, we expect to generate cash from all sources of between $80 million and $100 million offset by total capital expenditures of $45 million to $55 million, debt service payments and other accruals of approximately $45 million and other expenses of $10 million for a cumulative expenditures of between $95 million and $110 million and by anticipated SG&A expenses of between $12 million and $13 million per quarter or approximately $25 million for the first half of the year.
We will continue to look for additional savings opportunities in our SG&A.
While our cash flow for the first half of the year is expected to be mildly negative, we continue to make constructive progress to a cash flow positive model, which we believe will be obtained by the second half of the year and into the future.
In summary, our last half of 2022 was challenging for the entire industry and we are well aware of the headwinds we are still facing.
We are cautiously optimistic about the opportunities available to us in 2023 and we're confident in our ability to capitalize on them. With a focus on accountability, we're looking to drive bottom line performance, create positive cash flow and fortify our balance sheet while building shareholder value.
We will continue to monitor the impact of rising interest rates and inflation on buyer demand for housing and we'll adjust our plans proactively to preserve and maximize the value of our master plan communities. Despite the recent challenges created by market conditions, we have positive momentum and are feeling ever more optimistic about our future.
Now let me turn over to Leo who will report on our financial results.