SAUL CENTERS INC

Overview

As of December 31, 2023, the Company is the owner and operator and developer of a real estate portfolio composed of 57 operating properties, totaling approximately 9.8 million square feet of gross leasable area (“GLA”), and four development properties. The properties are located primarily in the Washington, DC/Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. The operating property portfolio is composed of 50 neighborhood and community Shopping Centers, and seven Mixed-Use Properties totaling approximately 7.9 million and 1.9 million square feet of GLA, respectively. One property, Seven Corners Center, accounted for more than 5% of the total gross leasable area. A majority of the Shopping Centers are anchored by several major tenants and offer primarily day-to-day necessities and services. Thirty-three of the

Shopping Centers were anchored by a grocery store. One tenant, Giant Food (4.9%), a tenant at 11 Shopping Centers, individually accounted for 2.5% or more of the Company’s total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023.

The Company expects to hold its properties as long-term investments and it has no maximum period for retention of any investment. It plans to selectively acquire additional income-producing properties and to expand, renovate, and improve its properties when circumstances warrant. See “Item 1. Business—Operating Strategies” and “Business—Capital Policies.”

The Shopping Centers

Community and neighborhood shopping centers typically are anchored by one or more grocery stores, discount department stores or drug stores. These anchors offer day-to-day necessities rather than apparel and luxury goods and, therefore, generate consistent local traffic. By contrast, regional malls generally are larger and typically are anchored by one or more full-service department stores.

In general, the Shopping Centers are seasoned community and neighborhood shopping centers located in well established, highly developed, densely populated, middle and upper income areas. The 2023 average estimated population within a one- and three-mile radius of the Shopping Centers is approximately 15,600 and 82,400, respectively. The 2023 average household income within a one- and three-mile radius of the Shopping Centers is approximately $146,700 and $153,600, respectively, compared to a national average of $107,000. Because the Shopping Centers generally are located in highly developed areas, management believes that there is little likelihood that significant numbers of competing centers will be developed in the future.

The Shopping Center properties range in size from approximately 19,000 to 573,500 square feet of GLA, with six in excess of 300,000 square feet, and average approximately 157,600 square feet.

Lease Expirations of Shopping Center Properties

The following table sets forth, by year of expiration, the aggregate amount of base rent and leasable area for leases in place at the Shopping Centers as of December 31, 2023, for each of the next ten years beginning with 2024, assuming that none of the tenants exercise renewal options and excluding an aggregate of 367,748 square feet of unleased space, which represented 4.7% of the GLA of the Shopping Centers as of December 31, 2023.

Lease Expirations of Shopping Center Properties

(1)Calculated using annualized contractual base rent payable as of December 31, 2023 for the expiring GLA, excluding expenses payable by or reimbursable from tenants.

The Mixed-Use Properties

All of the Mixed-Use Properties are located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and contain an aggregate GLA of approximately 1.9 million square feet, composed of 1.0 million and 0.1 million square feet of office and retail space, respectively, and 1,006 apartments. The Mixed-Use Properties represent three distinct styles of facilities, are located in differing commercial environments with distinctive demographic characteristics, and are geographically removed from one another. Accordingly, management believes that the Mixed-Use Properties compete for tenants in different commercial and geographic sub-markets of the metropolitan Washington, DC market and do not compete with one another.

Lease Expirations of Mixed-Use Properties

The following table sets forth, by year of expiration, the aggregate amount of base rent and leasable area for commercial leases in place at the Mixed-Use Properties that the Company owned as of December 31, 2023, for each of the next ten years beginning with 2024, assuming that none of the tenants exercise renewal options and excluding an aggregate of 159,185 square feet of unleased office and retail space, which represented 14.0% of the GLA of the commercial space within the Mixed-Use Properties as of December 31, 2023.

Commercial Lease Expirations of Mixed-Use Properties

(1)Calculated using annualized contractual base rent payable as of December 31, 2023, for the expiring GLA, excluding expenses payable by or reimbursable from tenants.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company had 971 apartment leases, 865 of which will expire in 2024 and 106 of which will expire in 2025. Annual base rent due under these leases is $19.8 million and $1.6 million for the years ending December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively.

Current Portfolio Properties

The following table sets forth, at the dates indicated, certain information regarding the Current Portfolio Properties:

(1)Percentage leased is a percentage of rentable square feet leased for commercial space and a percentage of units leased for apartments. Prior year leased percentages, including Total Shopping Centers, Total Mixed-Use Properties and Total Portfolio have been recalculated to exclude the impact of properties sold or removed from service and, therefore, the percentages reported in this table may be different than the percentages previously reported.

(2)Total percentage leased is for commercial space only.

(3)For the purposes of the property count listed elsewhere in this document, residential and commercial are combined. The residential units at Clarendon South, Park Van Ness and The Waycroft are all part of the same building as the commercial tenants at those locations.

(4)Property is LEED certified.