Arandkei
$SPG —
In Q2, management floated an unsent draft press release for a media-network business it couldn't size, and promised more Taubman margin upside with a 120bp comp drag "going away" on schedule.
This quarter: Simon Media Network signed its first contracts (dollar figures still undisclosed), the Taubman commentary dropped off now that the comp anniversary rolled out as forecast, and University Village, the quarter's one big acquisition, arrived without a disclosed yield.
What delivered: occupancy at 96.5%, tying a decade-high, the same 1,200-lease pace, new-lease rent growth holding at +17% YoY.
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