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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: IRET)
(NASDAQ: IRETP) announced that its Board of Trustees has declared a regular
quarterly distribution of 16.90 cents per share/unit payable on October 1,
2008, to common shareholders and unitholders of record at the close of
business on September 15, 2008. The distribution reinvestment price will
be the closing NASDAQ share price on October 1, 2008, less a discount of
5%. The Company has filed a registration statement with the Securities and
Exchange Commission to register the number of common shares necessary to
meet distribution reinvestment elections.
This 16.90 cents per common share/unit distribution represents the 150th
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 16.85 cents per common share/unit paid
July 1, 2008.
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 September 30, 2008, to Series A preferred shareholders of record on
September 15, 2008.
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
inneapolis, MN and Omaha, NE.
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