Family Dollar closes $74.7M sale-leaseback for 47 retail locations nationwide

• JLL Capital Markets and GA Group Real Estate arranges a $74.7 million sale-leaseback for a 47-property Family Dollar portfolio spanning 387,945 square feet across 19 states

• The geographically diverse portfolio was acquired by an institutional real estate investor

• The transaction represents JLL's second major Family Dollar portfolio closing in 2026, following a successful 46-property sale earlier this year

CHICAGO, Sept. 25, 2026 – JLL Capital Markets and GA Group Real Estate announced today that it closed a $74.7 million sale-leaseback for a 47-property Family Dollar retail portfolio totaling 387,945 square feet across 19 states.

JLL’s Net Lease Team and GA Group Real Estate exclusively represented the seller, FD Retail Properties LLC. The assets were acquired by an institutional real estate investor.

The geographically diverse portfolio provides institutional investors with built-in risk mitigation through its coast-to-coast, multi-state footprint and reliable, long-term tenancy. Each store continues to serve as a neighborhood retail staple, providing essential goods and services to communities nationwide.

The transaction marks a significant milestone in Family Dollar's continued growth and momentum. Through disciplined operational improvements and strategic investments, the retailer has meaningfully strengthened its national platform, attracting a marquee institutional buyer and validating the progress made across the portfolio. The deal structure provides the financial flexibility to accelerate growth initiatives while ensuring the retailer maintains its footprint and operational continuity across all locations.

This marks JLL's second major Family Dollar portfolio closing in 2026, following a 46-property transaction that closed earlier this year.

JLL’s Capital Markets group is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors and occupiers. The group’s in-depth local market and global investor knowledge delivers the best-in-class solutions for clients, including investment sales and advisory, debt advisory, M&A and corporate finance, loan sales, equity & fund placement, net lease, derivative advisory and energy & infrastructure advisory. The group has more than 3,000 Capital Markets specialists worldwide with offices in nearly 50 countries.

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JLL (NYSE:JLL) is a leading global commercial real estate services and investment management company with annual revenue of $26.1 billion, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 112,000 as of June 30, 2026. For over 200 years, clients have trusted JLL, a Fortune 500^® company, to help them confidently buy, build, occupy, manage and invest across a variety of industries and property types, including office, industrial, hotel, multi-family, retail and data center properties. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY. Powered by rich global datasets and leading technology capabilities, we provide coordinated, end-to-end delivery of real estate services for a broad range of global clients who represent a wide variety of industries. Through LaSalle Investment Management, we invest for clients on a global basis in both private assets and publicly traded real estate securities. For further information, visit jll.com.

GA Group is a privately held global firm offering a comprehensive set of tailored solutions to meet our clients' diverse needs. Our experts provide advisory and valuation services, as well as monetize, lend against, and acquire assets across a broad range of sectors from both healthy and distressed companies. GA Group and its predecessors are celebrating 50 years of customer service, and the company's leadership has over 100 years of collective experience in the industry. GA Group is majority-owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. GA Group Real Estate is a premier advisory firm uniquely positioned to serve public and private companies focused on asset sales, restructuring, capital markets, and strategic advisory. The team’s seasoned experts leverage decades of experience to guide the execution of highly effective real estate strategies. On a combined basis, GA Group Real Estate's principals have sold over $6 billion in assets encompassing more than 25 million square feet of real estate, while successfully securing over $1 billion in lease savings for clients. For more information, please visit www.gagroup.com.