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CommonWealth REIT Closes 11,500,000 Common Share Offering Including Underwritersa? Full Over-Allotment Option

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  Published in Business and Finance on Monday, July 18th 2011 at 14:10 GMT by Market Wire

NEWTON, Mass.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--CommonWealth REIT (NYSE: CWH) today announced that it has closed its 11,500,000 common share offering including the underwritersa™ full over-allotment option to purchase an additional 1,500,000 common shares.

The joint bookrunning managers for this offering were Citi, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities. The co-lead managers for this offering were BofA Merrill Lynch, Jefferies & Company, Inc., RBC Capital Markets and UBS Investment Bank. The co-managers for this offering were BB&T Capital Markets, Janney Montgomery Scott, JMP Securities and Oppenheimer & Co.

This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy shares, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. The prospectus supplement relating to this offering and related prospectus were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and copies can be obtained by contacting the offices of: Citi, Prospectus Department, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, 8th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220, telephone: (800) 831-9146, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attn: Prospectus Department, telephone: (866) 718-1649 and Wells Fargo Securities, Attention: Equity Syndicate Dept., 375 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10152, telephone: (800) 326-5897.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.