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Investors Real Estate Trust Announces Increase in Regular Quarterly Common Share Distribution, and Declares Series A Preferred Share Distribution

Investors Real Estate Trust (NASDAQ: IRETS)
announced today that its Board of Trustees has declared a regular quarterly
distribution of 16.75 cents per share/unit payable on January 14, 2008, to
common shareholders and unitholders of record at the close of business on
January 2, 2008. The distribution reinvestment price will be the closing
NASDAQ share price on January 14, 2008, less a discount of 5%. The Company
will file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange
Commission to register the number of common shares necessary to meet
distribution reinvestment elections.
This 16.75 cents per common share/unit distribution represents the 147th
consecutive quarterly distribution paid by IRET since its inception in
1970, and represents an increase of .05 cents or .3% over the previous
regular quarterly distribution of 16.70 cents per common share/unit paid
October 1, 2007.
Investors Real Estate Trust's Board of Trustees also declared today a
distribution of 51.56 cents per share on the Company's Series A Cumulative
Redeemable Preferred Shares (NASDAQ: IRETP). This distribution will be
payable December 31, 2007 to Series A preferred shareholders of record on
December 15, 2007.
About Investors Real Estate Trust
Investors Real Estate Trust is a self-advised equity real estate investment
trust. Its business consists of owning and operating income-producing
multi-family residential and commercial properties located primarily in the
upper Midwest states of Minnesota and North Dakota. Investors Real Estate
Trust is based in Minot, North Dakota, and has additional offices in
Minneapolis, Minnesota and Omaha, Nebraska.
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