AMREP CORP.
For the period ended Apr 30, 2026. Filed Jul 24, 2026.
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FY2026 · Filed Jul 24, 2026
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Item 1. Business
AMREP Corporation was organized in 1961 as an Oklahoma corporation and, through its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in two business segments: land development and homebuilding. The Company has no foreign sales or activities outside the United States. The Company conducts a substantial portion of its business in Rio Rancho, New Mexico (“Rio Rancho”) and certain adjoining areas of Sandoval County, New Mexico. Rio Rancho is the third largest city in New Mexico with a population of approximately 114,000.
Land Development
As of April 30, 2026, the Company owned approximately 16,200 acres in Sandoval County, New Mexico. The Company develops both residential lots and sites for commercial and industrial use as demand warrants. The Company offers for sale both developed and undeveloped real property to its internal homebuilder as well as national, regional and local homebuilders, commercial and industrial property developers and others. Activities conducted or arranged by the Company include land and site planning, obtaining governmental and environmental approvals (“entitlements”), installing utilities and storm drains, ensuring the availability of water service, building or improving roads necessary for land development and constructing community amenities. Engineering work is performed by both the Company’s employees and outside firms, but development work is generally performed by outside contractors. The Company also provides landscaping services primarily to homebuilders.
The Company markets land for sale or lease both directly and through brokers. With respect to residential development, the Company generally focuses its third-party sales efforts on a limited number of homebuilders, with 100% of 2026 developed residential land sales having been made to three homebuilders. The number of new construction single-family residential starts in Rio Rancho by the Company, the Company’s customers and other builders was 805 in 2026 and 973 in 2025. The development of residential, commercial and industrial properties requires, among other things, financing or other sources of funding, which may not be available.
The Company opportunistically acquires land, focusing primarily in New Mexico. Prior to acquiring large properties, the Company generally performs market research, soil tests, environmental studies and other engineering work, reviews zoning and other governmental requirements, has discussions with homebuilders or other prospective end-users of the property and performs financial analysis of the project and estimated development costs.
The continuity and future growth of the Company’s real estate business, if the Company pursues such growth, will require that the Company acquire new properties in New Mexico or expand to other markets to provide sufficient assets to support a meaningful real estate business. The Company competes with other owners and developers of land that offer for sale developed and undeveloped residential lots and sites for commercial and industrial use.
The following table presents the property owned by the Company in certain subdivision development projects in New Mexico as of April 30, 2026:
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| · · Developed1 · · Under Development2 · · · · | ||||||||||||
| | | | | Commercial | | | | Commercial | | | | |
| | | Residential | | / Industrial | | Residential | | / Industrial | | Undeveloped3 | | |
| | | Lots | | Acres | | Acres | | Acres | | Acres | | Location |
| Lomas Encantadas | | 120 | | — | | 98 | | 5 | | — | | |
| Commerce Center | | — | | 27 | | — | | — | | — | | Unit 20 in Rio Rancho |
| Paseo Gateway | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 289 | | |
| Hawk Site | | — | | 40 | | 105 | | 97 | | — | | |
| Hawk Adjacent | | — | | — | | 53 | | — | | 92 | | Unit 25 in Rio Rancho |
| Papillon | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 656 | | |
| Park West Village | | 16 | | — | | — | | — | | — | | |
| Orchard Park | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 46 | | Unit 22 in Rio Rancho |
| Desert Sage | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 26 | | |
| Northern Exposure | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 17 | | Unit 8 in Rio |
| Vista Alegria | | — | | — | | — | | — | | 78 | | Rancho |
| La Mirada | 26 | | 1 | | — | | — | | — | Albuquerque, | ||
| Playa del Sur | 55 | | — | | — | | — | | — | New Mexico | ||
In addition to the property listed in the table above, as of April 30, 2026, the Company held undeveloped property in Sandoval County, New Mexico of approximately 15,300 acres in either high contiguous ownership areas or low contiguous ownership areas. High contiguous ownership areas may be suitable for development, including as special assessment districts or city redevelopment areas that may allow for development under the auspices of local government. Low contiguous ownership areas may require the purchase of a sufficient number of adjoining lots to create tracts suitable for development or lots may be offered for sale individually or in small groups.
Infrastructure Reimbursement Mechanisms. A portion of the Lomas Encantadas subdivision and a portion of the Enchanted Hills subdivision are subject to a public improvement district. The public improvement district reimburses the Company for certain costs of developing the subdivisions by imposing a special levy on the real property owners within the district. The Company has accepted and may in the future accept discounted prepayments of amounts due under the public improvement district.
The Company instituted private infrastructure reimbursement covenants on various land development projects. Similar to a public improvement district, the covenants are expected to reimburse the Company for certain costs of developing the subject property by imposing an assessment on the real property owners subject to the covenants. The Company has accepted and may in the future accept discounted prepayments of amounts due under the private infrastructure reimbursement covenants.
Impact fees are charges or assessments payable by homebuilders to local governing authorities in order to generate revenue for funding or recouping the costs of capital improvements or facility expansions necessitated by and attributable to new developments. The Company receives credits, allowances, offsets and other vested rate benefits applicable to impact fees in connection with certain costs incurred by the Company in developing and entitling subdivisions, which the Company generally sells to homebuilders.
1 Developed lots/acreage are any tracts of land owned by the Company that have been entitled with infrastructure work that is substantially complete, but excludes any lots that have been leased to third parties.
2 Acreage under development is real estate owned by the Company for which entitlement or infrastructure work has been started but not substantially completed. However, there is no assurance that the acreage under development will be developed because of the nature and cost of the approval and development process and market demand for a particular use. In addition, the mix of residential and commercial acreage under development may change prior to final development. The development of this acreage will require significant additional financing or other sources of funding, which may not be available.
3 There is no assurance that undeveloped acreage will be developed because of the nature and cost of the approval and development process and market demand for a particular use. Undeveloped acreage is real estate that can be sold “as is” (e.g., where no entitlement or infrastructure work has begun on such property).
Mineral Rights. The Company owns certain minerals and mineral rights in and under approximately 55,000 surface acres of land in Sandoval County, New Mexico.
Homebuilding
The Company owns and operates a homebuilder in New Mexico. The Company offers a variety of home floor plans and elevations at different prices and with varying levels of options and amenities to meet the needs of homebuyers. The Company focuses on building and selling single-family detached and attached homes. The Company selects locations for homebuilding based on available land inventory and the feasibility of the project. The Company utilizes internal and external sales brokers for home sales. Model homes are generally used to showcase the Company’s homes and their design features. The Company provides built-to-order homes where construction of the homes does not begin until the customer signs the purchase agreement and speculative (“spec”) homes for homebuyers who require a home within a short time frame. Sales contracts with homebuyers generally require payment of a deposit at the time of contract signing and sometimes additional deposits upon selection of certain options or upgrade features for their homes. Sales contracts also typically include a financing contingency that provides homebuyers with the right to cancel if they cannot obtain appropriate mortgage financing within a specified period. Contracts may also include other contingencies, such as the sale of an existing home.
The construction of homes is conducted under the supervision of the Company’s on-site construction field managers. Most construction work is performed by independent subcontractors under contracts that establish a specific scope of work at an agreed-upon price. Although significant changes in market conditions could impact seasonal patterns, the Company has historically experienced variability in its quarterly results from operations due to the seasonal nature of the homebuilding industry. The Company generally experiences increases in revenues during its fiscal first quarter and fourth quarter based on the timing of home closings. This seasonal activity increases the Company’s working capital requirements in the Company’s third and fourth quarters to support home production volume. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company did not experience this type of seasonality during 2026. As a result of the seasonality of the Company’s operations, the Company’s quarterly results of operations are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year; however any seasonal effect on revenues is expected to be relatively insignificant compared to the effect of the timing of opening of a property for sale and the subsequent timing of closings.
The housing industry in New Mexico is highly competitive. Numerous national, regional and local homebuilders compete for homebuyers on the basis of location, price, quality, reputation, design and community amenities. This competition with other homebuilders could reduce the number of homes the Company delivers or cause the Company to accept reduced margins to maintain sales volume. The Company also competes with resales of existing homes and available rental housing. Increased competitive conditions in the residential resale or rental markets could decrease demand for new homes or unfavorably impact pricing for new homes.
Materials and Labor
Generally, construction materials for the Company’s operations are available from numerous sources. However, the cost and availability of certain building materials are influenced by changes in local and global commodity prices and capacity as well as government regulation, such as government-imposed tariffs or trade restrictions. The ability to consistently source qualified labor at reasonable prices remains challenging as labor supply growth has not kept pace with construction demand, which is compounded by the limited supply of certain specialized trades and contractors in the market. To partially protect against changes in construction costs, labor and materials costs are generally established prior to or near the time when related sales contracts are signed with homebuilders or homebuyers. However, the Company cannot determine the extent to which necessary building materials and labor will be available at reasonable prices in the future.
Regulatory and Environmental Matters
The Company’s operations are subject to extensive regulations imposed and enforced by various federal, state and local governing authorities. These regulations are complex and include building codes, land zoning and other entitlement restrictions, health and safety regulations, labor practices, marketing and sales practices, environmental regulations and various other laws, rules and regulations. The applicable governing authorities frequently have broad discretion in administering these regulations. The Company has experienced, and may continue to experience, extended timelines for receiving required approvals from municipalities or other government agencies that can delay anticipated development and construction activities.
Government restrictions, standards and regulations intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or potential climate change impacts or related to the availability of water may result in restrictions on land development or homebuilding in certain areas and may increase energy, transportation or raw material costs, which could reduce the Company’s profit margins and adversely affect the Company’s results of operations. Weather conditions and natural disasters can harm the Company. The occurrence of natural disasters or severe weather conditions can adversely affect the cost or availability of materials or labor, delay or increase costs of land development or damage homes or land development under construction. These matters may result in delays, may cause the Company to incur substantial compliance, remediation, mitigation and other costs, and can prohibit or severely restrict land development and homebuilding activity in environmentally sensitive areas.
Human Capital Resources
As of April 30, 2026, the Company employed 52 employees, of which all were full-time employees. The Company believes the people who work for the Company are its most important resource and are critical to the Company’s continued success. The Company focuses significant attention on attracting and retaining talented and experienced individuals to manage and support the Company’s operations. The Company strives to reward employees through competitive industry pay, benefits and other programs, to instill the Company’s culture with a focus on ethical behavior and to enhance employees’ performance through investments in technology, tools and training to enable employees to operate at a high level. The Company’s employees are not represented by any union. The Company considers its employee relations to be good. The Company offers employees a broad range of company-paid benefits, and the Company believes its compensation package and benefits are competitive with others in the industry. All employees are expected to exhibit and promote honest, ethical and respectful conduct in the workplace. All employees must adhere to a code of conduct that sets standards for appropriate ethical behavior.
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
The Company maintains a website at www.amrepcorp.com. The Company’s annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available free of charge through the Company’s website as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information found on the Company’s website is not part of this or any other report that the Company files with, or furnishes to, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition to the Company’s website, the Securities and Exchange Commission maintains an Internet site that contains the Company’s reports, proxy and information statements, and other information that the Company electronically files with, or furnishes to, the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
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