Record Leasing Volume
Leased nearly 5,000,000 square feet in 2025 — the highest annual leasing volume in company history — driving improved lease structures, higher rent escalators and an increase in leased rate of 120 basis points sequentially.
Strong Anchor Leasing Performance
Signed leases with 9 anchor tenants in Q4 and 28 anchors in 2025 (~645,000 sq ft) with a 24% blended comparable cash spread and ~26% gross returns on capital; tenants include Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Crate & Barrel, Nordstrom Rack, Ulta and others.
Embedded Rent Growth Improving
Portfolio embedded rent bumps of 180 basis points (up nearly 25 bps from 2024) and a goal of reaching 200 bps; small-shop lease rate up 50 bps sequentially and 110 bps year-over-year.
Development & High-Quality Open-Air Wins
Active high-quality development (One Loudoun expansion: 86k retail, 33k office, 169 hotel rooms, 429 multifamily units; retail 65% leased to premium brands). Legacy West acquisition outperforming underwriting with new luxury tenants signed/opened.
Capital Recycling and JV Activity
Completed two JVs with GIC (~$1.0B gross asset value) and executed significant capital recycling — sold noncore assets (dispositions cited of ~$622M) while redeploying proceeds into $300M of share repurchases at an attractive ~9% core FFO yield.
FFO and NOI Results
Q4 NAREIT FFO per share $0.52 and core FFO $0.51; full year NAREIT FFO $2.10 and core FFO $2.60 with core FFO per share growth of 3.5% year-over-year. Full-year same-property NOI growth of 2.9% (100 bps above original guidance).
Signed-Not-Open (SNO) Pipeline and Leasing Momentum
Signed-not-open pipeline grew $4.0M sequentially to $37.0M of NOI; during Q4 executed 61 new leases adding ~$14.0M NOI that more than offset ~61 tenant openings representing ~$10.0M NOI. ~70% of SNO NOI expected to come online in 2026.
Strong Balance Sheet and Liquidity
Maintains over $1.0B in liquidity and net debt to EBITDA of 4.9x (below the company target range of 5.0–5.5x), providing flexibility for acquisitions, de-risking and buybacks.