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Douglas Emmett Acquires Beverly Hills Office Building

^{Published on 2011-04-19 16:10:30 - Market Wire}
 

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI), a real estate investment trust (REIT), announced that it has acquired a 74,000 square foot Class aAa office building located at 150 South Rodeo Drive in the heart of Beverly Hills for a contract price of $42 million, or $568 per square foot, through its closed-end fund.

With this acquisition, Douglas Emmett now owns and operates 7 office properties in Beverly Hills, aggregating more than 1.4 million square feet and approximately 19% of the Class aAa office space within this submarket. Douglas Emmetta™s total office portfolio now consists of 58 properties totaling approximately 14.7 million square feet. The Company also owns 2,868 apartment units in Los Angeles and Honolulu.

About Douglas Emmett, Inc.

Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI) is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), and one of the largest owners and operators of high-quality office and multifamily properties located in premier submarkets in Southern California and Hawaii. The Companya™s properties are concentrated in ten submarkets a" Brentwood, Olympic Corridor, Century City, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Sherman Oaks/Encino, Warner Center/Woodland Hills, Burbank and Honolulu. The Company focuses on owning and acquiring a substantial share of top-tier office properties and premier multifamily communities in neighborhoods that possess significant supply constraints, high-end executive housing and key lifestyle amenities. The Company maintains a website at [ www.douglasemmett.com ].

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Except for the historical facts, the statements in this press release regarding Douglas Emmetta™s business activities are forward-looking statements based on the beliefs of, assumptions made by, and information currently available to us about known and unknown risks, trends, uncertainties and factors that are beyond our control or ability to predict. Although we believe that our assumptions are reasonable, they are not guarantees of future performance and some will inevitably prove to be incorrect. As a result, our actual future results can be expected to differ from our expectations, and those differences may be material. Accordingly, investors should use caution in relying on forward-looking statements to anticipate future results or trends. For a discussion of some of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see aRisk Factorsa in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.