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Exhibit 99.1

Report of Independent Auditor



To the Board Trustees and Shareholders of
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.


Report on the Statement
We have audited the accompanying statement of revenues and certain operating expenses (the “Statement”) of Alex City Marketplace (the “Property”) for the year ended December 31, 2013.

Management’s Responsibility for the Statement
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of this Statement, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this Statement based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Statement is free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the Statement. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Statement, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the Statement in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the Statement.

We believe the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion
In our opinion, the Statement referred to above presents fairly, in all material respects, the revenue and certain operating expenses of the Property for the year ended December 31, 2013 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Emphasis of Matter

The accompanying Statement was prepared as described in Note 2, for the purpose of complying with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be a complete presentation of the Property’s revenue and expenses.


/s/ Cherry Bekaert LLP

Virginia Beach, Virginia
March 24, 2015




Alex City Marketplace
Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2014 (unaudited) and the Year Ended December 31, 2013



 
 
 
Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2014
 
Year Ended
December 31, 2013
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
REVENUES:
 
 
 
 
 
Rental income
 
$
748,099

 
$
942,174

 
Tenant reimbursements and other income
 
99,045

 
116,618

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Revenues
 
847,144

 
1,058,792

 
 
 
 
 
 
CERTAIN OPERATING EXPENSES:
 
 
 
 
 
Property operating
 
95,341

 
113,180

 
Real estate taxes
 
56,295

 
75,071

 
Repairs and maintenance
 
20,649

 
16,360

 
Other
 
47,133

 
11,184

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Certain Operating Expenses
 
219,418

 
215,795

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Excess of Revenues Over Certain Operating Expenses
 
$
627,726

 
$
842,997



See accompanying notes to statements of revenues and certain operating expenses.
























Alex City Marketplace
Notes to Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2014 (unaudited) and the Year Ended December 31, 2013

1. Business and Purchase and Sales Agreement

On October 24, 2014, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc., through its subsidiary of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), acquired Wheeler Interests, LLC (“Wheeler Interests”), resulting in the transfer of the right to a Purchase and Sales Agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire Alex City Marketplace (the “Property”), a 147,791 square foot grocery-anchored shopping center located in Alexander City, Alabama for a purchase price of approximately $10.25 million. The Property is 98% occupied and is anchored by a Winn-Dixie grocery store which occupies approximately 33% of the total rentable square feet of the center through a lease which expires in February 2020 with four five-year renewal options available. The acquisition is expected to be completed prior to June 30, 2015.

2. Basis of Presentation

The Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses (the “Statements”) have been prepared for the purpose of complying with Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X, promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and are not intended to be a complete presentation of the Property’s revenues and expenses. Certain operating expenses include only those expenses expected to be comparable to the proposed future operations of the Property. Expenses such as depreciation and amortization are excluded from the accompanying Statements. The Statements have been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting which requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of the revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results may differ from those estimates.

3. Revenues

The Property leases retail space under various lease agreements with its tenants. All leases are accounted for as noncancelable operating leases. The leases include provisions under which the Property is reimbursed for common area maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance costs. Pursuant to the lease agreements, income related to these reimbursed costs is recognized in the period the applicable costs are incurred. Certain leases contain renewal options at various periods at various rental rates.

The following table lists the tenants whose annualized rental income on a straight-line basis represented greater than 10% of total annualized rental income for all tenants on a straight line basis as of September 30, 2014 (unaudited) and December 31, 2013:
Tenant
 
September 30, 2014
 
December 31, 2013
Winn Dixie
 
30.1
%
 
31.7
%
 
 
 
 
 
Goody's
 
14.2
%
 
15.0
%

The termination, delinquency or nonrenewal of one of the above tenants may have a material adverse effect on revenues. No other tenant represents more than 10% of annualized rental income as of September 30, 2014 (unaudited) and December 31, 2013.


Alex City Marketplace
Notes to Statements of Revenues and Certain Operating Expenses
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2014 (unaudited) and the Year Ended December 31, 2013
(continued)

3. Revenues (continued)

           The weighted average remaining lease terms for tenants at the property was 3.26 years as of September 30, 2014 (unaudited). Future minimum rentals to be received under noncancelable tenant operating leases for each of the next five years and thereafter, excluding CAM and percentage rent based on tenant sales volume, as of September 30, 2014 (unaudited) were as follows:

 
 
 
 
Years Ending December 31,
 
 
Twelve Months Ending
September 30,
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
2014
 
$

 
$
975,274

2015
 
949,323

 
930,863

2016
 
897,983

 
890,033

2017
 
820,343

 
801,721

2018
 
784,973

 
779,734

2019
 
716,157

 
666,435

Thereafter
 
433,033

 
288,258

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
4,601,812

 
$
5,332,318


The above schedule takes into consideration all renewals and new leases executed subsequent to September 30, 2014 through the date of this report.