The Reporting Persons have invested in the Issuer as follows: 6,682,751 Shares were acquired for a purchase price of $74,352,346 inclusive of $50,000,000 paid by Legg Mason, Inc. (now a subsidiary of FRI), from FRI's and Legg Mason, Inc.'s working capital; and 24,098,795 Shares were acquired for a purchase price of $285,226,423 for the benefit of fiduciary accounts managed by FRI's investment management subsidiaries from their working capital, including funds managed by FAV. As of April 16, 2025 93,329 Class S Shares of Common Stock of the Issuer, 5,232 Class T Shares of Common Stock of the Issuer, and 5,251 Class D Shares of Common Stock of the Issuer were transferred for no consideration from Legg Mason, Inc. to FRI. C. Johnson and R. Johnson, Jr. do not own directly any shares of the Issuer. On December 4 and 5, 2025, FRI transferred 1,755,926.251 Shares from its corporate account to Clarion Partners Real Estate Income International Access Fund, a series of Franklin Templeton Private Markets Fund, for total consideration of $20,000,000. On April 16, 2026, 88,028 Class I Shares were redeemed by FRI for its corporate account at a per share price of $11.36 and FRI purchased from its corporate account 88,106 Class S Shares at a per share price of $11.35 to maintain capitalization and liquidity in Class S Shares on account of an investor rebalancing its holdings from Class S Shares. On April 20, 2026, 1,672,535 Class I Shares were redeemed by FRI for its corporate account at a per share price of $11.36.

Not Applicable

Exhibit A: Joint Filing Agreement Exhibit B: Item 5 Ownership Exhibit C: Principal Executive Officers and Directors of FRI and FAV (incorporated by reference to Schedule 13D/A No. 24 filed on October 14, 2025) EXHIBIT A: JOINT FILING AGREEMENT In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the undersigned hereby agree to the joint filing with each other of the attached statement on Schedule 13D and to all amendments to such statement and that such statement and all amendments to such statement are made on behalf of each of them. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this agreement on the date of the signing of this filing. Franklin Resources, Inc. Charles B. Johnson Rupert H. Johnson, Jr. Franklin Advisers, Inc. By:/s/THOMAS C. MANDIA Thomas C. Mandia Assistant Secretary of Franklin Resources, Inc. Attorney in Fact for Charles B. Johnson pursuant to Power of Attorney attached to this Schedule 13D Attorney in Fact for Rupert H. Johnson, Jr. pursuant to Power of Attorney attached to this Schedule 13D Assistant Secretary of Franklin Advisers, Inc. Acknowledgment Franklin Custodian Funds on behalf of Franklin Income Fund By:/s/TARA GORMEL Tara Gormel Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Franklin Custodian Funds Exhibit B: Item 5 Ownership FRI is filing this report for itself and its affiliates, except as set forth herein. FRI and its investment management subsidiaries may be deemed to beneficially own the Shares for which such investment management subsidiaries are the investment adviser for purposes of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Act"). In addition, FAV may be deemed to beneficially own the Shares in its capacity as the investment adviser to Franklin Income Fund, a series of Franklin Custodian Funds, an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("Franklin Income Fund"), pursuant to an investment management contract that grants investment and/or voting power to FAV. When an investment management contract (including a sub-advisory agreement) delegates to FAV investment discretion or voting power over the securities held in the investment advisory accounts that are subject to that agreement, FRI treats FAV as having sole investment discretion or voting authority, as the case may be, unless the agreement specifies otherwise. Beneficial ownership by FRI and its affiliates is being reported herein in conformity with the guidelines articulated by the SEC staff in Release No. 34-39538 (January 12, 1998) (the "1998 Release ") relating to organizations, such as FRI, where related entities exercise voting and investment powers over the securities being reported independently from each other. The voting and investment powers held by each of FRI's affiliates whose ownership of securities is disaggregated from that of FRI in accordance with the 1998 Release ("FRI Disaggregated Affiliates") are exercised independently from FRI and from all other investment management subsidiaries of FRI (FRI, its affiliates and the investment management subsidiaries of FRI other than FRI Disaggregated Affiliates are collectively, "FRI Aggregated Affiliates"). Furthermore, internal policies and procedures of, on the one hand, FRI Disaggregated Affiliates, and, on the other hand, FRI, establish informational barriers that prevent the flow among, on the one hand, FRI Disaggregated Affiliates (including preventing the flow between such entities), and, on the other hand, the FRI Aggregated Affiliates, of information that relates to the voting and investment powers over the securities owned by their respective investment management clients. Consequently, FRI Disaggregated Affiliates report the securities over which they hold investment and voting power separately from the FRI Aggregated Affiliates for purposes of Section 13 of the Act. C. Johnson and R. Johnson, Jr. (the "Principal Shareholders") may each own in excess of 10% of FRI's outstanding common stock and are the principal stockholders of FRI (see FRI's Proxy Statement-Stock Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners). The Principal Shareholders may be deemed to be, for purposes of Rule 13d-3 under the Act, the beneficial owners of the Shares. FRI, FAV, and the Principal Shareholders disclaim any pecuniary interest in any of the Shares. In addition, the filing of the Schedule 13D on behalf of FRI and the Principal Shareholders should not be construed as an admission that any of them is, and each disclaims that it or he is, the beneficial owner, as defined in Rule 13d-3, of any of the Shares. FRI, FAV, and the Principal Shareholders believe that they are not a "group" within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 under the Act and that they are not otherwise required to attribute to each other the beneficial ownership of the Shares held by any of them.