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Debt
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
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7. Debt

Unsecured Debt

At March 31, 2026, our unsecured debt, excluding discounts and debt issuance costs, consisted of $18.9 billion of senior unsecured notes of the Operating Partnership, a €350.0 million ($402.7 million U.S. dollar equivalent) unsecured term loan, $460.0 million outstanding under the Operating Partnership’s $5.0 billion unsecured revolving credit facility, or Credit Facility, and $537.2 million outstanding under the Operating Partnership’s global unsecured commercial paper program, or Commercial Paper program. The Operating Partnership also has a $3.5 billion unsecured revolving credit facility, or Supplemental Facility, and together with the Credit Facility, the Credit Facilities.

On March 5, 2026, we amended, restated, and extended the Credit Facility and amended the Supplemental Facility. The Credit Facility has an initial borrowing capacity of $5.0 billion which may be increased in the form of additional commitments in the aggregate not to exceed $1.0 billion, for a total aggregate size of $6.0 billion, subject to obtaining additional lender commitments and satisfying certain customary conditions precedent. Borrowings may be denominated in U.S. dollars, Euros, Yen, Pounds Sterling, Canadian dollars and Australian dollars. The initial maturity date of the Credit Facility is June 30, 2030. The Credit Facility

can be extended for an additional year to June 30, 2031, at our sole option, subject to satisfying certain customary conditions precedent.

Borrowings under the Credit Facility bear interest, at our election, at either (i) (x) for Term Benchmark Loans, the Term SOFR Rate, the applicable Local Rate, the term CORRA Rate, the Adjusted EURIBOR Rate, or the Adjusted TIBOR Rate, (y) for RFR Loans, if denominated in Pounds Sterling, SONIA, if denominated in U.S. dollars, Daily Simple SOFR and, if denominated in Canadian dollars, Daily Simple CORRA, or (z) for Daily SOFR Loans, the Floating Overnight Daily SOFR Rate, in each case of clauses (x) through (z) above, plus a margin determined by our corporate credit rating of between 0.625% and 1.350% or (ii) for loans denominated in U.S. dollars only, the base rate (which rate is equal to the greatest of the prime rate, the federal funds effective rate plus 0.500% or the Term SOFR Rate for an interest period of one month plus 1.000%) (the “Base Rate”), plus a margin determined by our corporate credit rating of between 0.000% and 0.350%. The Credit Facility includes a facility fee determined by our corporate credit rating of between 0.100% and 0.300% on the aggregate revolving commitments under the Credit Facility.  Based upon our current credit ratings at March 31, 2026, the interest rate on the Credit Facility is SOFR plus 65.0 basis points.

The Supplemental Facility has a borrowing capacity of $3.5 billion, which may be increased to $4.5 billion during its term subject to obtaining additional lender commitments and satisfying certain customary conditions precedent and provides for borrowings denominated in U.S. dollars, Euros, Yen, Pounds Sterling, Canadian dollars and Australian dollars. The initial maturity date of the Supplemental Facility is January 31, 2029.  The Supplemental Facility can be extended for an additional year to January 31, 2030 at our sole option, subject to satisfying certain customary conditions precedent.

Borrowings under the Supplemental Facility bear interest, at our election, at either (i) (x) for Term Benchmark Loans, the Term SOFR Rate, the applicable Local Rate, the term CORRA Rate, the Adjusted EURIBOR Rate, or the Adjusted TIBOR Rate, (y) for RFR Loans, if denominated in Sterling, SONIA, if denominated in U.S. dollars, Daily Simple SOFR and, if denominated in Canadian dollars, Daily Simple CORRA, or (z) for Daily SOFR Loans, the Floating Overnight Daily SOFR Rate, in each case of clauses (x) through (z) above, plus a margin determined by our corporate credit rating of between 0.625% and 1.350% or (ii) for loans denominated in U.S. dollars only, the Base Rate (which rate is equal to the greatest of the prime rate, the federal funds effective rate plus 0.500% or the Term SOFR Rate for an interest period of one month plus 1.000%), plus a margin determined by our corporate credit rating of between 0.000% and 0.350%.The Supplemental Facility includes a facility fee determined by our corporate credit rating of between 0.100% and 0.300% on the aggregate revolving commitments under the Supplemental Facility. Based upon our current credit ratings, the interest rate on the Supplemental Facility is SOFR plus 65.0 basis points.

At March 31, 2026, we had an aggregate available borrowing capacity of $7.5 billion under the Credit Facilities. The maximum aggregate outstanding balance under the Credit Facilities during the three months ended March 31, 2026 was $460.0 million and the weighted average outstanding balance was $460.0 million. Letters of credit of $3.1 million were outstanding under the Credit Facilities as of March 31, 2026.

The Operating Partnership also has available a Commercial Paper program of $2.0 billion, or the non-U.S. dollar equivalent thereof. The Operating Partnership may issue unsecured commercial paper notes, denominated in U.S. dollars, Euro and other currencies. Notes issued in non-U.S. currencies may be issued by one or more subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership and are guaranteed by the Operating Partnership.  Notes will be sold under customary terms in the U.S. and Euro commercial paper note markets and rank (either by themselves or as a result of the guarantee described above) pari passu with the Operating Partnership's other unsecured senior indebtedness.  The Commercial Paper program is supported by the Credit Facilities and, if necessary or appropriate, we may make one or more draws under either of the Credit Facilities to pay amounts outstanding from time to time on the Commercial Paper program. On March 31, 2026, we had $537.2 million outstanding under the Commercial Paper program, fully comprised of U.S. dollar denominated notes with a weighted average interest rate of 3.94%. These borrowings have a weighted average maturity date of May 6, 2026 and reduced amounts otherwise available under the Credit Facilities.

During the first quarter of 2026, we settled the conversion of €173.5 million ($201.4 million U.S. dollar equivalent) of the Operating Partnership’s exchangeable bonds, which are exchangeable at the option of the bondholder into shares of Klépierre, reducing the outstanding balance to €561.1 million ($645.5 million U.S. dollar equivalent) as of March 31, 2026.  Amounts settled through the exchange of Klépierre shares are discussed in Note 6. The remaining conversions were settled in cash for €78.9 million ($90.9 million U.S. dollar equivalent). Subsequent to March 31, 2026, we settled additional conversions of €373.5 million of the

exchangeable bonds in cash for €468.7 million, further reducing the exchangeable bonds’ outstanding balance to €187.6 million, through the use of existing liquidity and the issuance of commercial paper.

On January 13, 2026, the Operating Partnership completed the issuance of $800 million of senior unsecured notes with a fixed interest rate of 4.30% and a maturity date of January 15, 2031. The proceeds were used to redeem, at par, its $800 million 3.30% senior unsecured notes at maturity on January 15, 2026.

On August 19, 2025, the Operating Partnership completed the issuance of $700 million of senior unsecured notes with a fixed interest rate of 4.375% and a maturity date of October 1, 2030, and $800 million of senior unsecured notes with a fixed interest rate of 5.125% and a maturity date of October 1, 2035. A portion of the proceeds were used to redeem, at par, its $1.1 billion 3.50% senior unsecured notes at maturity on September 1, 2025. Another portion of the proceeds were used to repay the €500 million outstanding under the Supplemental Facility on October 8, 2025.

On May 12, 2025, the Operating Partnership drew €500 million under the Supplemental Facility. The proceeds were used to fund the redemption at par of the Operating Partnerships €500 million notes maturing on May 13, 2025.

On April 25, 2025, the Operating Partnership drew $155 million under the Credit Facility.

On January 29, 2025, the Operating Partnership drew €376 million under the Credit Facility and used the proceeds to facilitate the acquisition of two Italian assets.  On March 13, 2025, we repaid €18 million that had been outstanding under the Credit Facility at December 31, 2024.  On March 20, 2025, the Operating Partnership entered into a €350.0 million unsecured term loan with a maturity date of March 20, 2027, and swapped the interest rate to an all-in fixed rate of 2.6% which matured on March 20, 2026.  The proceeds of the term loan, along with cash on hand, were used to repay the then remaining €376 million outstanding under the Credit Facility.

Mortgage Debt

Total mortgage indebtedness was $8.1 billion and $8.2 billion at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. On October 31, 2025, as part of the TRG Acquisition, discussed in Note 4, the Operating Partnership’s consolidated debt increased $3.1 billion.

Covenants

Our unsecured debt agreements contain financial covenants and other non-financial covenants. The Credit Facilities contain ongoing covenants relating to total and secured leverage to capitalization value, minimum earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or EBITDA, and unencumbered EBITDA coverage requirements.  Payment under the Credit Facilities can be accelerated if the Operating Partnership or Simon is subject to bankruptcy proceedings or upon the occurrence of certain other events. If we were to fail to comply with these covenants, after the expiration of the applicable cure periods, the debt maturity could be accelerated or other remedies could be sought by the lender, including adjustments to the applicable interest rate. As of March 31, 2026, we were in compliance with all covenants of our unsecured debt.

At March 31, 2026, our consolidated subsidiaries were the borrowers under 41 non-recourse mortgage notes secured by mortgages on 44 properties and other assets, including two separate pools of cross-defaulted and cross-collateralized mortgages encumbering a total of five properties. Under these cross-default provisions, a default under any mortgage included in the cross-defaulted pool may constitute a default under all mortgages within that pool and may lead to acceleration of the indebtedness due on each property within the pool. Certain of our secured debt instruments contain financial and other non-financial covenants which are specific to the properties that serve as collateral for that debt. If the applicable borrower under these non-recourse mortgage notes were to fail to comply with these covenants, the lender could accelerate the debt and enforce its rights against their collateral. At March 31, 2026, the applicable borrowers under these non-recourse mortgage notes were in compliance with all covenants where non-compliance could individually or in the aggregate, giving effect to applicable cross-default provisions, have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, liquidity or results of operations.

Fair Value of Debt

The carrying value of our variable-rate mortgages and other loans approximates their fair values. We estimate the fair values of consolidated fixed-rate mortgages using cash flows discounted at current borrowing rates and other indebtedness using

cash flows discounted at current market rates. We estimate the fair values of consolidated fixed-rate unsecured notes using quoted market prices, or, if no quoted market prices are available, we use quoted market prices for securities with similar terms and maturities. The book value of our consolidated fixed-rate mortgages and unsecured indebtedness including commercial paper was $26.9 billion and $28.1 billion as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. The fair values of these financial instruments and the related discount rate assumptions as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 are summarized as follows:

March 31, 

December 31, 

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2026

  ​ ​ ​

2025

 

Fair value of consolidated fixed-rate mortgages and unsecured indebtedness (in millions)

$

25,710

$

27,300

  ​ ​ ​

Weighted average discount rates assumed in calculation of fair value for fixed-rate mortgages

 

5.84

%  

 

5.63

%

Weighted average discount rates assumed in calculation of fair value for fixed-rate unsecured indebtedness

6.19

%  

6.05

%