The owner of several Maryland shopping centers on Monday said it was considering selling some of its properties to raise capital and boost its tumbling stock price.

General Growth Properties, a Chicago-based real estate investment trust and the country’s second-largest shopping center owner, has several billion dollars of debt that it must refinance in the coming months. Commercial real estate relies heavily on debt to finance properties.

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