Global Self Storage, Inc.

B usiness. General Global Self Storage, Inc. (the Company ) is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust ( REIT ) that owns, operates, manages, acquires, and redevelops self storage properties ( stores or properties ) in the United States. Our stores are designed to offer affordable, easily accessible, and secure storage space for residential and commercial customers. As of December 31, 2025, the Company owned and operated, or managed, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, thirteen stores located in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. The Company was formerly registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act ) as a non-diversified, closed end management investment company. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s ( SEC ) order approving the Company’s application to deregister from the 1940 Act was granted on January 19, 2016. On January 19, 2016, the Company changed its name to Global Self Storage, Inc. from Self Storage Group, Inc., changed its SEC registration from an investment company to an operating company reporting under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act ), and listed its common stock on NASDAQ under the symbol SELF . The Company was incorporated on December 12, 1996 under the laws of the state of Maryland. The Company has elected to be treated as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code ). To the extent that the Company continues to qualify as a REIT, it will not generally be subject to U.S.