---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-141463"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMA"
cik: "0001585389"
company_name: "SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T06:28:46.071653+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SmartStop issues CAD$500M 3.907% notes due 2028; under contract for CAD$97M Alberta acquisitions

## Summary
- Issued CAD$500M 3.907% senior unsecured notes due 2028; effective rate ~3.85% after hedge; rated BBB (Stable) by DBRS.
- Proceeds used to repay 2027 NBC Loan, pay down Credit Facility, fund acquisitions, and for general corporate purposes.
- In addition to previously announced US$108M Houston portfolio closing June, company under contract to acquire five Alberta properties for ~CAD$97M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-141463
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMA
- cik: 0001585389
- company_name: SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585389/000119312525141463/0001193125-25-141463-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585389/000119312525141463/d101110d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-141463.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. incurred senior notes of up to CAD$500 million with Computershare Trust Company of Canada at 3.907% maturing 2028.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: up to CAD$500 million
  - Counterparty: Computershare Trust Company of Canada
  - Rate: 3.907%
  - Maturity: 2028
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On June 11, 2025, SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (the “Company”), as guarantor, and its operating partnership, SmartStop OP, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), as issuer, agreed to offer and sell, on a private placement basis in all of the provinces of Canada, an aggregate principal amount of up to CAD$500 million 3.907% Senior Unsecured Notes Due 2028
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585389/000119312525141463/0001193125-25-141463-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.