Government Lease Holdings 2 DST (GLH 2 DST)

Overview

A two-property government-leased portfolio held in a Delaware statutory trust (the Master Trust), leased to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and occupied by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, backed by U.S. Government credit. Property 1 is a 353,238 SF build-to-suit VA outpatient clinic at 1695 Kernersville Medical Parkway, Kernersville NC (built 2015, 39.26 acres, four floors, 1,914 parking spaces), the VA Kernersville Health Care Center hub clinic with 78 physicians across 34 specialties plus a 2023 urgent-care addition; the GSA/VA lease commenced December 2015 on a 20-year term expiring December 2035, and the property is financed by 2020 tax-exempt bonds (US Bank Trust Company NA trustee, $186,745,000 balance, 2.872%, maturing July 1, 2035, amortizing). Property 2 is a 574,767 SF USCIS national headquarters at 5900 Capital Gateway Drive, Camp Springs MD (built 2020, 10.71 acres, Security Level IV, seven-level 1,770-space garage, conference/press/training infrastructure), into which USCIS consolidated its headquarters from six prior locations; the GSA/USCIS lease commenced January 2020 on a 15-year term expiring January 2035 with one 7-year renewal option, and the trust owns a 50% interest financed by a $41,000,000 share (of $82,000,000) Wells Fargo Trust Company loan at 4.83%, interest-only through March 14, 2035 (extendable to 2042 on renewal). The total offering of $402,397,396 comprises $174,652,396 equity and $227,745,000 assumed debt (56.60% loan-to-value). Both GSA leases are full-service/modified-gross, with the landlord retaining operating-expense and tax responsibility above base-year stops. Distributions are a level cash-on-cash yield of approximately 4.70% over the lease term, with total return weighted heavily toward back-ended residual value at lease expiry (projected VAWS residual approximately $275,990,000 against $34,527,396 equity; USCIS 50% interest approximately $176,500,000 in 2035 or $250,500,000 in 2042). Sponsored by NLCA Real Estate LLC, an affiliate of Net Lease Capital Advisors LLC; managing broker-dealer Clearview.

Investment highlights

• The portfolio's defining strength is U.S. Government credit: both assets are leased to the GSA and occupied by federal agencies (VA and USCIS), among the strongest counterparties available in net lease, with a historically high government renewal rate. The qualifier is that GSA lease performance ultimately depends on congressional appropriations and agency footprint decisions, and the leases run through GSA rather than carrying the literal full faith and credit of the United States, so renewal is a policy and budget decision rather than a contractual certainty.
• Both buildings are mission-critical to their occupants, which materially raises renewal probability. USCIS consolidated its entire national headquarters into the Camp Springs facility for the first time in the agency's history, from six prior locations, in a purpose-built Security Level IV building with conference, press-briefing, filming, and training infrastructure, making relocation highly disruptive. The Kernersville facility is a purpose-built VA hub clinic anchoring the regional hub-and-spoke outpatient model, with 78 physicians across 34 specialties and a 2023 urgent-care expansion serving a growing regional veteran population.
• The capital structure embeds a rare financing advantage: the VA property is financed with 2020 tax-exempt bonds fixed at 2.872% for a 20-year term, a well-below-market, long-duration cost of capital that is effectively impossible to replicate in the current rate environment and is the principal engine of the projected equity residual. The USCIS loan is fixed at 4.83% and interest-only to its 2035 maturity. The locked-in, low-cost leverage is a structural asset, though it is heterogeneous across the two properties and concentrates the residual upside in the heavily levered VA bond structure.
• Location quality is strong and government-anchored on both assets. Camp Springs sits in the National Capital Region, the nation's sixth-largest and among its most affluent and educated MSAs, adjacent to the Branch Avenue Metro Green Line station and minutes from Joint Base Andrews, with demand driven by the federal government. Kernersville sits in the Piedmont Triad at the intersection of five interstate highways, a logistics and healthcare crossroads with a growing and aging regional veteran population that supports sustained outpatient-care demand.
• The return architecture is residual-driven and leverage-amplified: high leverage (approximately 84% on the VA property via the cheap tax-exempt bonds, with only a roughly 15.6% standalone equity slice) magnifies the equity claim on large projected terminal values, with the VA property's residual projected near $275,990,000 against $34,527,396 of equity and the USCIS 50% interest projected at roughly $176,500,000 in 2035 or $250,500,000 with renewal to 2042. This back-ended structure is the defining source of total return and, equally, the dominant risk, since the modest current yield contributes only a fraction of the projected outcome.

Sponsor

This offering is sponsored by Net Lease Capital Advisors. Baker 1031 Investments is independent of the sponsor and provides advisory and brokerage services to accredited investors.