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Blue Owl Real Estate Exchange V DST

Industrial · KY, OH, MI · Sponsored by Blue Owl

$100,000
Minimum Investment
4.77%
Year-1 Cash Flow
0.00%
Loan-to-Value
2 Yrs
Est. Hold Period

Offering Overview

Three single-tenant net-leased industrial manufacturing properties held debt-free in a parent/operating DST structure: 111 Cosma Drive, Bowling Green KY (~1,351,200 SF on ~134 acres), 100% leased to Bowling Green Metalforming LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magna International Inc.; and two American Rheinmetall (Loc Performance Products) facilities, 1115 South Wayne Street, Saint Marys OH (~701,000 SF, 1939-1973 vintage) and 13505 North Haggerty Road, Plymouth MI (~289,000 SF, 2002), each leased to a subsidiary of Rheinmetall AG. Both tenant leases carry ~20-year base terms, with escalators of 1.25% per annum (Magna) and 2.0% per annum (American Rheinmetall). The Magna site includes a ground-lease and industrial-revenue-bond structure providing tax abatement. The properties are owned free and clear, with the trust agreements prohibiting permanent financing, and the master lease is guaranteed by Blue Owl's Operating Partnership subject to a net-worth standard. Thesis is durable, long-duration credit-tenant net-lease income with an optional Section 721 rollover into the non-listed, perpetual-life Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust.

Investment Highlights

  • The portfolio is leased to subsidiaries of two substantial industrial credits: Bowling Green Metalforming, a wholly-owned unit of Magna International, a publicly traded global Tier-1 automotive supplier, and Loc Performance/American Rheinmetall, a subsidiary of Rheinmetall AG, a German defense and industrial group benefiting from the European defense-spending expansion. The Rheinmetall-linked defense exposure is a differentiated, counter-cyclical demand driver atypical of net-lease portfolios, though both leases sit with operating subsidiaries rather than the rated parents.
  • Both the Magna and American Rheinmetall properties carry approximately 20-year base lease terms, producing an exceptionally long weighted-average lease term that underpins durable contractual income and supports the perpetual-life UPREIT thesis. Escalators differ materially, 2.0% per annum for American Rheinmetall versus a below-market 1.25% per annum for Magna, the latter eroding real income over the multi-decade term.
  • The portfolio is owned free and clear, and the trust agreements affirmatively prohibit the trustee from placing permanent financing, eliminating refinancing, maturity, and interest-rate risk entirely and removing the equal-or-greater-debt replacement requirement for 1031 investors. The structural cost is the absence of positive leverage, which caps levered return and is the primary reason the going-in distribution sits in the high-4% range.
  • The FMV Option permits Blue Owl's Operating Partnership, at its sole discretion, to acquire investor interests for OP units in the non-listed, perpetual-life Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust after a two-year hold, offering a potential tax-deferred path into a large, diversified net-lease REIT platform. The exchange is into a non-traded, illiquid vehicle whose NAV, redemption terms, and exercise timing are sponsor-controlled, ceding investor control and price transparency.
  • The assets are large, special-purpose manufacturing facilities purpose-built for their incumbents, the Magna plant alone spanning ~1.35M SF on 134 acres, which makes them mission-critical to tenant operations and raises renewal probability, but also concentrates re-leasing and repurposing risk given limited alternative-use demand if a tenant vacates. The AR Ohio asset is of 1939-1973 vintage, and the Magna site carries ground-lease and industrial-revenue-bond complexity tied to its tax abatement.

Forecasted Cash Flow

Projected annual cash-on-cash distributions with the corresponding tax-equivalent yield over the hold, based on the sponsor’s underwriting assumptions.

Cash Flow (Distribution)Tax-Equivalent Yield
4.77%4.77%4.77%4.77%4.77%5.15%5.15%5.15%5.15%5.15%11.17%11.17%11.17%11.17%11.17%12.05%12.05%12.05%12.05%12.05%Y1Y2Y3Y4Y5Y6Y7Y8Y9Y10

Illustrative projections only — targeted distributions are not guaranteed and actual results will vary. Tax-equivalent yield assumes depreciation shelter of distributed income.

4.96%
Avg Cash Flow
7.97%
10-Yr Growth
7.37%
Cap Rate Equiv.

Analyst Notes

Blue Owl V is a debt-free, long-duration credit-tenant net-lease industrial vehicle engineered as a feeder into Blue Owl's perpetual-life net-lease REIT via an optional Section 721 UPREIT. Return is almost entirely contractual and front-loaded by 20-year leases with modest 1.25%-2.0% escalators, so the investment is fundamentally an income-and-tax-deferral play rather than a total-return or appreciation strategy, consistent with its stated capital-preservation objective. The two credits are substantial but exposure runs through operating subsidiaries backed only by the sponsor's Operating Partnership guaranty, and the assets' special-purpose nature concentrates risk in tenant retention over a multi-decade horizon. The defining feature is the perpetual UPREIT optionality: rather than a defined sale, the likely path is conversion into non-listed Blue Owl REIT OP units, moving investors from a discrete, transparent net-lease portfolio into a sponsor-managed, illiquid NAV REIT, attractive for tax-deferral continuity and diversification but ceding control, liquidity, and valuation transparency. The 4.77% going-in distribution is well-supported by in-place contractual rent; the principal sensitivities are long-horizon tenant retention at special-purpose assets and the terms and timing of the eventual 721 conversion.

Pros

The offering provides a long-duration (~20-year WALT) single-tenant net-lease industrial portfolio leased to subsidiaries of two substantial industrial credits, Magna International and Rheinmetall AG, with the defense-linked Rheinmetall exposure adding a differentiated, counter-cyclical demand tailwind. The structure is debt-free with leverage contractually prohibited, removing all refinancing and maturity risk, and the master lease is guaranteed by Blue Owl's Operating Partnership subject to a net-worth covenant. Distributions begin at 4.77% and step up to 6.01% over the 20-year forecast, and the optional Section 721 FMV Option offers a tax-deferred path into the large, diversified, perpetual-life Blue Owl net-lease REIT.

Cons

The properties are large, special-purpose manufacturing facilities with limited alternative-use demand and elevated re-leasing cost if a tenant vacates, and the AR Ohio asset is of 1939-1973 vintage. Both leases are with operating subsidiaries (Bowling Green Metalforming, Loc Performance) rather than the rated parents, and the only contractual credit backstop is Blue Owl's own Operating Partnership guaranty subject to a net-worth standard, concentrating credit support within the sponsor family. The Magna escalator is a below-market 1.25% per annum, eroding real income across a 20-year term, and the Magna site's ground-lease/industrial-revenue-bond structure adds title and tax-abatement complexity. The 721 consideration would be units in the non-listed, perpetual-life Blue Owl REIT, an illiquid vehicle with sponsor-controlled NAV and redemption gates, exercisable only at the Operating Partnership's discretion. Going-in cash yield is modest at 4.77% against a 7.50% upfront load plus ongoing servicing and management fees and a disposition fee.

Financing

This offering is unleveraged — the DST holds its assets debt-free (0% loan-to-value), so no mortgage financing applies.

LenderNone (debt-free)
Interest RateN/A (no debt)
Loan TermN/A (no debt)
I/O PeriodN/A (no debt)
AmortizationN/A (no debt)
Year-1 DSCRN/A - no debt service

Benchmark Comparison

MetricThis OfferingBenchmarkDifference
Average Yield4.96%0.00%
Max Yield5.15%5.85%−11.97%
10-Yr Income Growth7.97%14.41%−44.69%

Benchmark reflects the average of comparable Industrial offerings. Differences are relative to the benchmark.

Offering Documents

Offering Documents Available By Request

About the Sponsor

Blue Owl Capital is a roughly $273 billion alternatives manager whose net-lease pedigree—anchored by the Oak Street platform it absorbed—feeds its DST/1031 vehicle, Blue Owl Real Estate Exchange (OREX). The strategy is purpose-built around triple-net, sale-leaseback assets leased to creditworthy corporate tenants, a cash-flow-stable profile well suited to exchange investors seeking predictability. With a permanent-capital orientation and a diversified credit-and-real-assets platform behind it, OREX brings institutional sourcing to a niche that rewards tenant credit discipline.

2009
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This page describes a specific Delaware Statutory Trust offering (Blue Owl Real Estate Exchange V DST) and is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Any offering is made solely to verified accredited investors and only by means of a confidential private placement memorandum (PPM).

All figures shown — including minimum investment, cash-flow projections, tax-equivalent yield, loan-to-value, and hold period — reflect the sponsor's current estimates and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance. Tax-equivalent yield depends on each investor's tax circumstances; projected distributions may not be achieved and actual results will vary. Sponsor track record, benchmark data, and full-cycle averages describe prior programs and are not indicative of the results of this offering.

An investment in a DST is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of the entire amount invested. There is no public market for these interests, distributions are not guaranteed, and investors have no control over property operations. 1031 exchange and tax treatment depend on each investor's individual circumstances and on tax laws that are subject to change; consult your own tax and legal advisors.

Tax-equivalent yield represents the pre-tax yield a fully taxable investment would need to generate in order to match the after-tax cash flow of this offering. It assumes that a portion of distributions is sheltered by depreciation and other deductions, and it depends entirely on each investor's individual tax bracket, state of residence, and holding structure. It is illustrative only and is not a projection of return. Cap rate equivalent is the implied capitalization rate (net operating income divided by purchase price) shown solely for comparison to direct real estate; it is not a distribution rate, a yield, or a measure of investor return.

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