Industrial Logistics Properties Trust

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024

OR

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number 001-38342

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code:617-219-1460

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes☐No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.☒

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to § 240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes☐ No☒

The aggregate market value of the voting common shares of beneficial interest, $.01 par value, or common shares, of the registrant held by non-affiliates was approximately $238.0 million based on the $3.68 closing price per common share on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC on June 28, 2024. For purposes of this calculation, an aggregate of 1,328,849 common shares held directly by, or by affiliates of, the trustees and the executive officers of the registrant have been included in the number of common shares held by affiliates.

Number of the registrant’s common shares outstanding as of February 14, 2025:66,144,308.

References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to the Company, ILPT, we, us or our mean Industrial Logistics Properties Trust and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly stated or the context indicates otherwise.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Certain information required by Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements may include words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “estimate”, “will”, “may” and negatives or derivatives of these or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements about: economic and market conditions; our expectations regarding the demand for industrial properties; our future leasing activity; our leverage levels and possible future financings; our liquidity needs and sources; our capital expenditure plans and commitments; our existing and possible future joint venture arrangements; our redevelopment and construction activities and plans; our and/or our consolidated joint venture’s expected or potential exercise of extension options for the maturity date of loans; and the amount and timing of future distributions.

Forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations, are based on judgments and assumptions, are inherently uncertain and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from expected future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements. Some of the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following:

•Whether our tenants will renew or extend their leases or whether we will obtain replacement tenants on terms as favorable to us as the terms of our existing leases,

•Our ability to successfully compete for tenancies, the likelihood that the rents we realize will increase when we renew or extend our leases, enter new leases, or our rents reset at our properties located in Hawaii,

•Our ability to maintain high occupancy at our properties,

•Our ability to reduce our leverage, generate cash flow and take advantage of mark-to-market leasing opportunities,

•Our ability to cost-effectively raise and balance our use of debt or equity capital,

•Our ability to purchase cost effective interest rate caps,

•Our ability to pay interest on and principal of our debt,

•Our expected capital expenditures and leasing costs,

•Our ability to maintain sufficient liquidity,

•Demand for industrial and logistics properties,

•Our ability and the ability of our tenants to operate under unfavorable market and commercial real estate industry conditions, due to uncertainties surrounding interest rates and inflation, supply chain disruptions, emerging technologies, volatility in the public equity and debt markets, pandemics, geopolitical instability and tensions, economic downturns or a possible recession, labor market conditions or changes in real estate utilization,

•Whether the industrial and logistics sector and the extent to which our tenants’ businesses are critical to sustaining a resilient supply chain and that our business will benefit as a result,

•Our tenants’ ability and willingness to pay their rent obligations to us,

•The credit qualities of our tenants,

•Changes in the security of cash flows from our properties,

•Potential defaults of our leases by our tenants,

•Our tenant and geographic concentrations,

•Our ability to pay distributions to our shareholders and to increase or sustain the amount of such distributions,

•Our ability to sell properties at prices we target,

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•Our ability to prudently pursue, and successfully and profitably complete, expansion and renovation projects at our properties and to realize our expected returns on those projects,

•Risks and uncertainties regarding the development, redevelopment or repositioning of our properties, including as a result of inflation, cost overruns, supply chain challenges, labor market conditions, construction delays or our inability to obtain necessary permits, our ability to lease space at these properties at targeted returns and volatility in the commercial real estate markets,

•Our ability to sell additional equity interests in, or contribute additional properties to, our existing joint ventures, to enter into additional real estate joint ventures or to attract co-venturers and benefit from our existing joint ventures or any real estate joint ventures we may enter into,

•Our ability to complete sales without delay, or at all, pursuant to existing agreement terms,

•Non-performance by the counterparties to our interest rate caps,

•The ability of our manager, The RMR Group LLC, or RMR, to successfully manage us,

•Changes in environmental laws or in their interpretations or enforcement as a result of climate change or otherwise, or our incurring environmental remediation costs or other liabilities,

•Competition within the commercial real estate industry, particularly for industrial and logistics properties in those markets in which our properties are located,

•Compliance with, and changes to, federal, state and local laws and regulations, accounting rules, tax laws and similar matters,

•Limitations imposed by and our ability to satisfy complex rules to maintain our qualification for taxation as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for U.S. federal income tax purposes,

•Actual and potential conflicts of interest with our related parties, including our managing trustees, RMR and others affiliated with them,

•Acts of terrorism, outbreaks of pandemics or other public health safety events or conditions, war or other hostilities, global climate change or other manmade or natural disasters beyond our control, and

•Other matters.

These risks, uncertainties and other factors are not exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with other cautionary statements that are included in our periodic filings. The information contained elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including under the caption “Risk Factors”, or incorporated herein or therein, identifies other important factors that could cause differences from our forward-looking statements. Our filings with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

You should not place undue reliance upon our forward-looking statements.

Except as required by law, we do not intend to update or change any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Statement Concerning Limited Liability

The Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust establishing Industrial Logistics Properties Trust, dated January 11, 2018, as amended, as filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland, provides that no trustee, officer, shareholder, employee or agent of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust shall be held to any personal liability, jointly or severally, for any obligation of, or claim against, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust. All persons dealing with Industrial Logistics Properties Trust in any way shall look only to the assets of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust for the payment of any sum or the performance of any obligation.

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