{"url_path":"/sec/wpc/8-k/2026-06-30/item-1-01","section_key":"item-1-01","section_title":"Item 1.01 **","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-06-30","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/0001104659-26-079341-index.html","accession_number":"0001104659-26-079341","cik":"0001025378","ticker":"WPC","issuer_name":"W. P. Carey Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/0001104659-26-079341-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001025378","primary_entity_name":"W. P. Carey Inc."},"word_count":297,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 1.01.**\n**Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.**\n\n \n\nOn June 29, 2026, W. P. Carey Inc. (the “Company”)\nentered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, RBC Capital\nMarkets, LLC and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. as representatives of the several underwriters listed in Schedule 1 to the Underwriting\nAgreement (collectively, the “Underwriters”), in connection with the public offering (the “Offering”)\nof $350 million aggregate principal amount of 5.200% Senior Notes due 2036 (the “Senior Notes”), issued by the Company.\nThe Offering is expected to settle on July 2, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The Offering is being made pursuant to (i)\nthe Company’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-286885) filed with the Securities and Exchange\nCommission on May 1, 2025 and (ii) a final prospectus supplement relating to the Senior Notes, dated as of June 29, 2026.\n\n \n\nThe Company intends to use the net proceeds from this Offering to repay\nthe $350 million in aggregate principal amount outstanding of its 4.250% Senior Notes due October 2026 and for other general corporate\npurposes, including to fund potential future investments and to repay certain other indebtedness, including amounts outstanding under\nits $2.0 billion unsecured revolving credit facility.\n\n \n\nThe Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties\nand covenants of the Company, as well as certain customary indemnification provisions with respect to the Company and the Underwriters\nrelating to certain losses or damages arising out of or in connection with the consummation of the Offering.\n\n \n\nThe foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport\nto be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, which is being filed as Exhibit 1.1 to\nthis Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference."}