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Operator
Good afternoon and welcome to the Global Net Lease Inc's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings conference call.
At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation.
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I would now like to turn the call over to Jordyn Schoenfeld, Vice President at Global Net Lease Inc. Please go ahead.
Jordyn Schoenfeld - Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for GNL's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. Joining me today on the call is Michael Weil, GNL's Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Masterson, GNL's Chief Financial Officer.
The following information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1,995. Please review the forward-looking and cautionary statement section at the end of our fourth quarter 2025 earnings release for various factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements made during our call today.
As stated in our SEC filings, GNL disclaims any intent or obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements except as required by law. Also, during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures which we believe can be useful in evaluating the company's financial performance. Descriptions of those non-GAAP financial measures that we use, such as AFFO and adjusted EBITDA and reconciliations of these measures to our results as reported in accordance with GAAP are detailed in our earnings release and supplemental materials.
I'll now turn the call over to our Chief Executive Officer Michael Weil. Mike.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thanks, Jordyn. Good morning and thank you all for joining us today.
2025 was a transformational year for GNL as we executed a series of deliberate and highly impactful actions that materially reshaped our financial and operational profile, strengthened the quality and focus of our portfolio, and established a more durable foundation for our company's long-term growth.
The centerpiece of our transformation in 2025 was the successful execution of our $1.8 billion Multi-Tenant Retail Portfolio, which accelerated our deleveraging strategy, materially strengthened our balance sheet, and completed our evolution into a pure-play single-tenant net lease REIT.
This portfolio simplification improved the overall efficiency of the company by driving meaningful reductions in operational complexity, which allowed us to lower both G&A and capital expenditures.
The Multi-Tenant Retail Portfolio sale was a significant milestone in our disposition program launched in 2024, through which we have completed approximately $3.4 billion of asset sales to date.
The disposition program included $995 million of occupied single tenant noncore assets at a 7.6% cash cap rate and $2 billion of occupied multi-tenant assets at an 8.2% cash cap rate and concluded in December 2025 with the sale of the McLaren campus for GBP250 million, or approximately $336 million at a 7.4% cash cap rate.
The McLaren sale generated approximately GBP80 million pounds or $108 million of value above its original acquisition price and further enhanced the quality and focus of our portfolio as it increased the proportion of investment grade tenants among our Top 10 tenants to 80% in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 73% in the third quarter of 2025, while also reducing our exposure to the automotive industry.
The net proceeds from these non-core asset sales under our disposition program were deployed with clear priorities. We applied capital directly to deleverage our balance sheet, reducing outstanding debt by more than $2.8 billion since the fourth quarter of 2023, and improving net debt to adjusted EBITDA from 8.4 times to 6.7 times over the same period. This improvement meaningfully enhanced our financial flexibility and positioned us to act from a position of strength in the debt capital markets.
This enabled us to further de-risk our balance sheet by executing a $1.8 billion refinancing of our revolving credit facility, which secured improved pricing, enhanced liquidity, and extended the maturity from October of 2026 to August of 2030, including two additional six-month extension options.
Our decisive actions were recognized by the credit rating agencies, with Fitch upgrading GNL's corporate credit rating to investment grade from BBB- to BB+ and S&P Global lifting our corporate rating to BB+ while upgrading our bonds to investment grade. These upgrades marked a major milestone for the company and validate the progress we've made in reducing leverage, improving portfolio quality, and strengthening our overall credit profile.
Finally, as our disposition program continued to generate incremental proceeds, it provided additional flexibility to pursue other value enhancing initiatives. Beginning in 2025, this included the opportunistic repurchase of 17.2 million shares through February 20, 2026 at a weighted average price of $7.88 representing total repurchases of $135.9 million and an implied AFFO yield of approximately 12%.
We've been disciplined in deploying capital in a manner we believe supports long-term shareholder value, balancing accrete of share repurchases with continued deleveraging.
Our outperformance in 2025 was driven by disciplined execution of our corporate strategy, which translated into meaningful shareholder value creation, reflected by GNL's total return delivering 32% in 2025 compared to a 6% return for the net lease sector.
We've begun to close the valuation GAAP with our peers through disciplined execution in 2025, and while we're pleased with the results achieved so far, we also believe there is a clear path to continued growth by the execution of our 2026 corporate objectives.
We're evolving from a strategy centered primarily on deleveraging and dispositions to one focused on the accretive recycling of capital. This includes remaining selective and opportunistic with asset sales, particularly those that materially reduce our office exposure, and redeploying proceeds accretively into single tenant industrial and retail acquisitions on a leverage neutral basis.
Importantly, we continue to actively evaluate our office portfolio and are currently marketing the sale of several assets, and we'll provide additional details as the transactions progress.
At the same time, we're evaluating multiple redeployment opportunities that can be funded within our existing capital framework, executed on a leverage neutral basis, and meaningfully contribute to earnings growth while preserving the balance sheet quality we've worked to establish.
Turning to our portfolio, at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, we owned 820 properties spanning nearly 41 million rentable square feet. Our portfolio's occupancy stands at 97% with a weighted average remaining lease term of 6.1 years.
GNL's portfolio features a stable tenant base and a high-quality of earnings, with an industry leading 66% of tenants with an investment grade or implied investment grade rating.
It is an average annual contractual rental increase of 1.4%, which excludes the impact of 19.6% of the portfolio with CPI-linked leases that have historically experienced significantly higher rental increases.
On the leasing front, we delivered strong results across the portfolio, reflecting the depth of our asset management capabilities and the quality of our tenant relationships as we executed leases on more than 3.7 million square feet during 2025 and achieved renewal spreads of approximately 12% above expiring rents.
During the year we completed multiple lease extensions with high-quality tenants including Home Depot, GXO, and FedEx. Notably, we executed a GE Aviation extension at an office asset, releasing the space at a 37% renewal spread, demonstrating our ability to drive incremental value within our office portfolio and position assets for potential sale.
New leases executed in '25 carried a weighted average lease term of approximately 5.2 years, and renewals completed during the period had a weighted average lease term of approximately 6.5 years, further supporting cash flow visibility and the durability of earnings.
We remain focused on engaging with tenants well in advance of lease expirations to drive occupancy, retention, and rental growth while maintaining a long-term perspective on portfolio stability.
Our continued efforts and results in limiting exposure to high risk geography, asset types, tenants, and industries are a testament to our intentional diversification strategy and credit underwriting.
No single tenant accounts for more than 6% of total straight-line rent, and our Top 10 tenants collectively contribute 29% of total straight-line rent, with 80% being investment grade.
We carefully monitor all tenants in our portfolio and their business operations on a regular basis. I encourage everyone to look at the details of each segment of our portfolio, which can be found in our Q4 2025 investor presentation on our website.
I'll turn the call over to Chris to walk through the financial results and balance sheet matters in more detail, Chris.
Christopher Masterson - Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary
Thanks, Mike. Please note that as always, a reconciliation of GAAP net income to non-GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release, which is posted on our website.
For the fourth quarter of 2025, we recorded revenue of $117 million a net income attributable to common stockholders of $37.2 million.
AFFO was $48.5 million or $0.22 per share for the fourth quarter of 2025 and then $0.99 per share for the full year, exceeding our revised 2025 AFFO per share guidance range of $0.95 to $0.97, reflecting a strong finish to the year driven by disciplined execution.
Looking at our balance sheet, the gross outstanding debt balance was $2.6 billion at the end of 2025, a $2.1 billion reduction from the end of 2024, and our net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio was 6.7 times based on net debt of $2.5 billion, down significantly from 7.6 times at the end of 2024.
Our debt is comprised of $1 billion in senior notes, $324.2 million on the multi-currency revolving credit facility, and $1.3 billion of outstanding gross mortgage debt.
As of the end of 2025, 98% of our debt was effectively fixed through either contractual fixed rates or interest rate swaps, providing strong visibility into future interest expense.
As a result of significant debt reductions in asset sales, refinancing activity, and improved borrowing costs, our weighted average interest rates stood at 4.2%, down from 4.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024, driving a 45% reduction in quarterly interest expense to $42.6 million from $77.2 million a year ago.
Interest coverage ratio was 2.9 times, reflecting the combined benefits of lower leverage and reduced interest costs.
From a debt maturity perspective, we have limited expirations with only $95 million of debt maturing in 2027.
Given our strong liquidity position, we expect to address this maturity through refinancing onto a multi-currency revolving credit facility.
We will continue to manage borrowings effectively on a revolving credit facility to take advantage of its lower interest rate spreads across currencies, generating approximately 170 basis points of interest savings based on rates as of January 30, 2026.
As of December 30, 2025, we had liquidity of approximately $961.9 million, and capacity on our revolving credit facility was $1.5 million compared to $492.2 million and $460 million respectively as of the end of 2024.
Additionally, we had approximately 216 million shares of common stock outstanding and approximately 219.1 million shares outstanding on a weighted average base for the fourth quarter of 2025.
Beginning in 2025 and through February 20, 2026, we have repurchased 17.2 million shares totaling $135.9 million under our share repurchase program.
We repurchased shares at a weighted average price of $7.88 well below recent trading levels, which has since increased approximately 20%.
These repurchases were executed in a deliberate and highly creative manner, which we believe created meaningful value for shareholders.
We are pleased to establish initial 2026 guidance of AFFO in the range of $0.80 to $0.84 per share and net debt to adjusted EBITDA in the range of 6.5 times to 6.9 times. The 2026 guidance assumes a gross transaction volume of $250 million to $350 million inclusive of both acquisitions and dispositions.
This initial guidance also reflects our focus on reducing office exposure along with the optionality to redeploy net sale proceeds in a disciplined, leveraged neutral manner which we anticipate would drive earnings growth.
I'll now turn the call back to Mike for some closing remarks.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thanks, Chris.
The actions we executed throughout 2025 represent a decisive and comprehensive reposition of GNL as we enhance the overall quality of the company by simplifying the portfolio, materially reducing leverage, strengthening liquidity, and improving our credit profile. There were not incremental changes, but deliberate and coordinated actions taken by GNL to reset the company's trajectory, deliver measurable results across the balance sheet and portfolio, and meaningfully expand our strategic flexibility as we enter the next phase of growth.
We look ahead to 2026 from a position of strength with what we believe is a clear path to earnings growth driven by disciplined capital recycling alongside a continued emphasis on further deleveraging over the long-term. Our strategy prioritizes monetizing select office assets and redeploying capital into accretive acquisitions of single tenant industrial and retail assets that enhance earnings durability and portfolio strength.
We're currently reviewing a number of accretive acquisition opportunities that align with this approach and support our long-term objectives. With a streamlined operating platform and enhanced financial flexibility, we intend to execute this plan with discipline.
On behalf of the entire management team and board, I want to sincerely thank all of our shareholders and analysts who have put their trust in GNL as we've accomplished all of these corporate goals. We intend to remain on this path with a continued focus on thoughtful execution and long-term value creation. We're available to answer any questions you may have after the call.
Operator, please open the line for questions.
Operator
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session.
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Mitch Germain, Citizens Bank.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Hey, good morning, Mitch.
Mitch Germain - Analyst
Good morning or good afternoon maybe, and congrats on the year. Michael, I'd love to get some perspective on the McLaren office sale. Was that a reverse inquiry or was that an asset that you were marketing?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
We had an inquiry, from an independent-- from a third-party, as I have kind of talked about in the past having a relationship with McLaren that I did, I wanted to make sure that they had an opportunity to see the asset before we took any action and through kind of their ownership structure.
It proceeded that way, so no, it was not a highly marketed transaction, but as many people know, it is a very well-known campus, and McLaren being the successful organization that they are coming off of the two F1 championships, etc., there was just natural interest in that asset.
Mitch Germain - Analyst
That's helpful. Do you think that You could replicate that kind of pricing for additional office sales, or do you think that that's not representative given the quality of the property and brand that is tenanting the asset.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
So we actually believe, Mitch, that the net lease office portfolio within GNL is in many cases equivalent value to what we sold McLaren for, and one of the reasons that we've identified that as a 2026 goal is because we can say that, but I think the best way to prove value is to execute on it. So, we are not at a point where we want to disclose specifics, but we have a number of office assets that have significant interest, and I'm very comfortable that this is the area of pricing that you that you'll see we'll probably have announcements maybe end of first quarter but definitely second quarter on several office assets.
Mitch Germain - Analyst
Great.
Last one for me, just talking about capital allocation-- excuse me. Given, the attractiveness or the discount that you could buy your stock back at, I mean, how does that weigh in because it definitely seems like there might be a shift in deployment for asset rather than stock here. So just curious in terms of how the buyback fits in your overall strategy on a go forward basis, please, and thank you.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Yeah, thank you Mitch. So, the buyback remains a very important tool that we have at our disposal. We're going to continue to evaluate opportunities as I said, we have some interesting potential acquisitions, but we're certainly not going to just, put money out for the sake of saying we bought certain assets. There's still, benefit to opportunistically retiring more shares, of GNL, as you said, and I completely agree, two to three months ago it was a no brainer that stock buyback was much more creative than anything that we could see in the market.
There will still be a reasonable expectation that this stock is worth buying back, but we will be more active in evaluating acquisitions again, I think we've been extremely deliberate and very disciplined in how we've approached, this last 18 months of GNL's, performance, and there's nothing that we're more focused on than continuing that.
Mitch Germain - Analyst
Thank you.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thanks.
Operator
Upal Rana, KeyBanc Capital Markets.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Hi Upal.
Upal Rana - Analyst
Hey, how's it going and good morning out there. Just on the office, asset dispositions, is there a particular strategy you're trying to accomplish there that either improves your portfolio the most or showcasing the embedded value in your office portfolio?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Yeah, it definitely we want to highlight the implied value of the office because I think there's, a bit of a disconnect in the market, single tenant net lease investment grade with duration is still a valuable asset class. The other thing, Upal that we're really focused on is, we've heard from a lot of shareholders and frankly. The feedback is they believe that GNL will be a better portfolio, more heavily weighted to industrial primarily, and also, retail, so we certainly don't want to dismiss that, but we don't want to value either, so we're going to intentionally market the properties. Our asset management team, is working very hard on, identifying the right brokers, talking to potential buyers, and really unlocking value here, so, as Mitch asked and as you bring up, when we can do this in kind of the same, let's just call it mid seven range, maybe a little lower, maybe right there, that's real value, and then we'll redeploy into the asset classes of net lease industrial, some retail, but right now I'm really focused on industrial.
So, I think that's the way to proceed into 2026.
Upal Rana - Analyst
Okay, great. That was helpful and you know, can you talk about the decision to provide transaction guidance and maybe you could break down how much you are in dispositions and how much are acquisitions.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Yeah, so, I think that it was important that we made it very clear, we spent the last, call it 18 months aggressively pursuing a disposition strategy because it was really the, important part of what we could do, we lowered our leverage, we lowered our cost of capital, it was very important, that we continued that. Having sold about $3.4 billion frankly, we're ready now, as I talked about last quarter, kind of just alluding to, but we're really ready to get back on what I think of as the offensive, and we will evaluate opportunities, we will take our time and, as we've done in the past, we'll disclose when we believe that the deal is at a point that it has real assurety. But we're also going to, as I said, continue with a few more opportunistic dispositions, so no, we're not at a point right now where we want to, break out the transaction volume, but we did want people to know that there will be growth in this portfolio starting this year, that you know we've got still more focus on continued deleveraging, but we really also are focused on earnings growth and we're going to do that through the combination of opportunistic share repurchase and beneficial acquisitions for the long-term.
Upal Rana - Analyst
Okay, great. That was helpful. And then last one for me on acquisitions, and what cap rates are you eyeing and what investment spreads, are you targeting there? And are these acquisitions likely to be in the US or abroad?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Well, we haven't provided that level of detail in our disclosure opal, so what we are committed to is, accretion and AFFO growth, so you know as we take a look at cost of debt, and cap rates, the market is one where you really have to selectively pick and choose your acquisition targets.
As I've said in the past, The relationships that we have with developers with certain brokers in the market, it'll give us an opportunity to make sure that we're able to maintain buying cap rates that that allow for that type of growth.
So, without giving more detail than, I can, that is how we will underwrite. The opportunity to buy in the US and UK and Europe. We will certainly consider opportunities in the UK and Europe, as well as of course the US.
So, the team is busy, everyone is very excited to be back at that part of the job that, we had kind of put on hold for the last two years, but it will be a very selective process. It will continue to have duration, it'll have credit tenants primarily, investment grade or implied investment grade, and I think fair to say predominantly in the industrial space.
Upal Rana - Analyst
Okay, great. That was helpful and good luck for the rest of the year.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thanks Upal. Talk to you soon.
Operator
John Kim, BMO Capital Markets.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Hi John.
John Kim - Analyst
Hey, Michael, everyone, just wanted to ask about your strategy change. So over the last few years, you've been prioritizing strengthening the balance sheet and your stock got rewarded for it, last year.
And now you're seems like you're shifting to offense and focusing more on growth. I guess my question is why stop now, with your leverage at 6.7 times.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
So, we're not stopping, John. I think that's a great point to clarify.
But we also have to really mind the earnings within the portfolio you know we sold as $3.4 billion of assets which is quite a bit, we've been able to protect the dividend which is something that I feel very confident about and something that was really a priority of ours.
So, by no means are we saying hey we're now going to just 180-degree turn and go 100 miles an hour and just be blind to acquisition so that we can line the sheet and say we bought this and we bought that we will continue to look at different opportunities including share repurchase select acquisitions, etc. through the disposition targets that we have internally that will that will give us an opportunity to continue to take leverage into consideration.
So I think for right now it's important that we have that opportunity to selectively grow and we're going to balance the things that that we know are important to the market it will still continue to have a focus on leverage but we're we are going to start putting our foot back in the water on some potential acquisitions.
John Kim - Analyst
And you mentioned the office disposition cap races in mid seven.
Is there anything unique about these assets that you're selling that would, lead to, this attractive pricing, and if there's any secured debt, associated with these assets or locationally are they unique, and if you can give us just a quantum on how much you're looking to sell versus buy this year.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
So, what's unique about these assets, compared to Office in general is that the net lease characteristics of Office are just stronger than the overall US office market. We have a majority of our tenants are investment grade. We've got good duration on the portfolio, and these are tenants that people are comfortable with. They're typically, as I've said over the many quarters, mission critical to the companies themselves. They're predominantly office, but they may have a component of R&D or light assembly and storage. So, for the long-term operation of the tenant's business, these are important assets, and because of that, they have a successful return to office program that's been in place for probably longer than most office properties.
It's typically a local buyer who will acquire these properties. It could be a 1031 buyer, but we have sufficient evidence that we'll be able to trade at these types of levels and really prove value for these properties. We haven't specified dollar value of what we will sell, but we'll continue to update quarterly, and I think people will be pleased with the results.
John Kim - Analyst
And then in terms of acquisitions, your shares are currently trading at approximately 8.5% AFFO yield. Is that the hurdle rate for acquisitions that you're looking at or are there other factors that would lead to a different cap rate on acquisitions.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
I mean, as I say over and over because it's the primary focus, it's driven by accretion, and so we have those targets. Now we look at everything overall, so the proceeds from dispositions, the combination of stock buyback, and then acquisitions itself, we know where we need to be, and that will drive our kind of go no go on those acquisitions.
John Kim - Analyst
Okay. Thank you.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thanks, John.
Operator
Jay Kornreich, Cantor Fitzgerald.
Jay Kornreich - Analyst
Hi, good morning. Good morning. Hi. I guess just sticking with the theme here of the office sales. I guess I just wanted to clarify, is there a goal range for a percent of exposure you'd like to get the office segment down towards? And then, in add additionally, are there any other maybe non-office dispositions you'd be eyeing to reduce certain tenant exposures this year?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
So, I think that it's important that we evaluate the contribution that the stabilized office portfolio makes to the overall earnings of GNL. So, I think that if we can take a subset of the office portfolio and prove value, my hope is that it gives people the confidence that this is a good performing asset class, and we will intentionally continue to lower our exposure to office, but we don't want to get into any kind of rushed sale because then you lose the opportunity to really maximize value, and because of the performance of the office portfolio, there's no reason to sell at a price that we don't think represents the types of values that we're talking about, so we'll continue to update our activity as it relates to office, but we are committed to continuing to lower, you know, it's just part of the overall 2026 operating plan to do that.
As far as other assets, you know there are certain assets that, for a number of reasons, it could be potential value from redevelopment or a tenant's plan at an asset, that yes, we will potentially dispose of certain other assets during the course of the year.
Jay Kornreich - Analyst
Okay, thanks for that perspective. And then just, as you think about shifting more offensively, you referenced having a priority for industrial and some retail, but as you think about your, the markets between the US and Europe. Does one of those two presents, I guess, a more favorable, investment outlook for you guys going forward?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
You know, right now I think that, to be prudent, we probably are leaning a little bit more towards the US market just because there's some uncertainty as it relates to UK and Europe. We're very comfortable there, we have a great team in place, we know the assets and the markets very well. But as the US is working through tariffs and trade relationships and things like that, for the time being I think that the US just is a little easier to understand. But again, by no means do I want to say that we don't value the UK and European assets that we own.
One of the great things about them is they're typically not export businesses in the UK and Europe. They're operating businesses that supply their local market. So, they haven't been impacted by recent tariff and trade agreements. So, to come back to what I've already said, Jay, yeah, I think for right now, we're most focused on the US.
Jay Kornreich - Analyst
Understood. Thank you. All for me.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Yeah, thank you.
Operator
Michael Gorman, BTIG.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Hi, Michael.
Michael Gorman - Equity Analyst
Hi, good morning, thanks for the time. Just a quick one for me. Chris, I just want to maybe understand some puts and takes on the guidance side. fourth quarter run rate would annualize to about $0.88 a share, understanding you've got to make an adjustment for the McLaren sale, which was very late in the quarter.
Just when I think about the, even after that adjustment, kind of 2% to 3% growth from the in place portfolio, talk about accretion from capital recycling, it feels like maybe there's a couple of points that we're missing here, that would maybe kind of push the guidance down to that $0.82 midpoint from where I would expect it to be. Is there anything else kind of going into guidance in '26 that might be a headwind, against some of the growth metrics that you guys are talking about here?
Christopher Masterson - Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary
Well, I think it's probably worth just pointing out, within the fourth quarter, we did have some tax benefits that we identified for our year-end process, which did, give us a little over 1% in AFFO.
So that that's something that kind of throws off the fourth quarter run rate.
Michael Gorman - Equity Analyst
Yeah, that's super helpful.
Thank you. And then Mike, maybe just one quick one, we spent a lot of time talking about, the portfolio and kind of asset transactions going into '26. Are there any potential, vacant asset sales that you're targeting for 2026 that maybe could, provide funding for acquisitions and also benefit maybe from a debt to EBITDA perspective?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
The majority of the assets that had that vacant component had been addressed in 2025. There are a few important assets that we're looking at from that disposition standpoint that, yes, will have free cash post sale that we'll be able to deploy. Weâve taken an approach with the guidance, $0.80 to $0.84, because we're really at the beginning of the year. Those are definitely numbers that are backed up by what we know in the portfolio, but there are certain things that we will pursue during the course of the year that are kind of macro type events. We think that there could be some benefit in Fed pricing, as we come into spring, that could open up opportunities in the market that we think we're well positioned to take advantage of. So, the overall idea is to continue to execute the business, to be very smart and deliberate, and look for opportunities that we think are going to be there, primarily in the summer and second half of the year.
Michael Gorman - Equity Analyst
Great, thank you for the time.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thanks, Michael.
Operator
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Craig Kucera, Lucid Capital Markets.
Craig Kucera - Equity Analyst
Yeah, hey, good morning, guys. Mike, you made mention in the past that you were looking to reduce your CS store exposure, and I think you'd worked that down from maybe 5% or so of the portfolio last year to maybe a little bit more than 1% through the third quarter. Are you where you want to be on that front, or do you still think you might make some additional sales?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
I'm just trying to get the final breakdown, just second on gas inconvenience, because yeah you know as you said it was definitely an intentional strategy to reduce our exposure.
Gas inconvenience is, an asset class that has resilience, but it's very operator driven so you know if we're at 1%, we are definitely comfortable we have taken the real risk out of what we saw from an operator standpoint, and I think the team did a great job of getting value, for those assets and us move into some things that just are a little bit easier to forecast.
Craig Kucera - Equity Analyst
Okay, that, that's helpful.
Changing gears, I want to talk about your 2026 office lease expirations, which I think are a decent amount of the total in '26. Are those more concentrated in the US or Europe and how are those discussions going so far?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
They are, a lot-- they're more heavily weighted to, Europe and the UK. The conversations are, going well, tenants are engaged. We're figuring out opportunities. We know that, for the most part tenants are going to renew. There are, a number of conversations that will be playing out over the next one to two quarters. I'll be with the team next week, in London and. We'll be really digging in on some of these conversations.
Craig Kucera - Equity Analyst
Okay, great. And just one more for me, and you kind of alluded to it in the Q&A, but I guess if you're thinking about selling off, just given the McLaren sale, it would appear that there's, stronger demand in Europe and the UK, but are you expecting to also be able to sell out of the US portfolio as well, or is it going to be more heavily weighted towards, over the sea?
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
No, we definitely see the US market equivalently strong. It's just obviously McLaren was based in the UK, and we always felt that McLaren was a special credit in the portfolio. The building was so specifically designed for them. It was a large single tenant building, so when we had that opportunity, we were thrilled. We loved owning it, and we also loved selling it at that price. But as we think about office opportunities in the US, very strong market as well.
And Craig, I'm sorry, I just want to go back to your last question and put a little clarification around it. I believe the 2026 lease maturity on office is about 3.1% of straight-line rent, so it is something we're focused on, and we expect to have a lot of success with renewals, but it's by no means an overweight or disproportionate amount of potential in the coming year.
Craig Kucera - Equity Analyst
Okay, that's it. Thanks for me.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Thank you.
Operator
We have no further questions at this time. Mr. Weil, I'd like to turn the floor back over to you for closing comments.
Michael Weil - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Great. Well, thank you, everyone. We always appreciate you taking time to join us. We are very excited about not only what we've accomplished in 2025, but the year ahead. This is a business where you come to work every day and you just grind it out, and that's what we're already doing in 2026.
I think that we will have some announcements that are very interesting and beneficial for the company and, most importantly, for our shareholders. So, look forward to speaking again soon, and if anyone does have specific questions for Chris or myself, please reach out. We're always available for conversation. Thanks, everybody.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time.
Thank you for your participation and have a wonderful day.