COPT Defense Properties (NYSE: CDP) announced that it completed 557,000 square feet of vacancy leasing in 2025, surpassing its revised target by nearly 40%. The company initially set a vacancy leasing target of 400,000 square feet in February 2025, which was later raised to 450,000 square feet in July and 500,000 square feet in October. The achieved vacancy leasing exceeded the company’s third quarter projection by 57,000 square feet, or 11%. Of the total leasing, 424,000 square feet were in the Defense/IT Portfolio and 125,000 square feet in the Other segment, marking the highest level in the Other segment in over a decade. In the fourth quarter of 2025, COPT Defense completed 125,000 square feet of vacancy leasing, including 116,000 square feet in the Defense/IT Portfolio. At the start of 2025, the company’s total portfolio was 95.1% leased, and the vacancy leasing achieved during the year represented 47% of the unleased space at that time.

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