 NEW YORK, April 7, 2021 PRNewswire -- American Finance Trust, Inc. Nasdaq: AFIN AFIN or the Company announced today that it collected 99 of the original cash rent due for the first quarter of 2021 as of April 1, 2021, including nearly 100 of the original cash rent due in the Companys single-tenant portfolio. Rent collection continued to increase for the third consecutive quarter across AFINs portfolio of necessity-retail tenants and has returned to pre-pandemic levels, said Michael Weil, CEO of AFIN. 