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PHILADELPHIA--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: PEI) announced today that its Board of Trustees has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per common share, which represents a 6.7% increase over the prior dividend amount. The dividend will be paid on June 15, 2012 to common shareholders of record on June 1, 2012. The June 15, 2012 dividend payment will be PREIT's 141st consecutive distribution since its initial dividend paid in August of 1962.

The Company also announced today that its Board of Trustees has declared the initial dividend on its 8.25% Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares of $0.3151 per share. The dividend will be paid on June 15, 2012 to holders of record on June 1, 2012, and for this period, represents the dividend accrued from the date of the original issuance of the Preferred Shares, April 20, 2012 to the dividend payment date, June 15, 2012.

About Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, founded in 1960 and one of the first equity REITs in the U.S., has a primary investment focus on retail shopping malls. Currently, the Company's portfolio of 49 properties comprises 38 shopping malls, eight community and power centers, and three development properties. The properties are located in 13 states in the eastern half of the United States, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region, totaling approximately 33 million square feet of operating space. PREIT, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol PEI for its common shares and PEI PrA for its preferred. The Company's website can be found at [ www.preit.com ].

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain aforward-looking statementsa within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans, strategies, anticipated events, trends and other matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about future events, achievements or results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that might cause future events, achievements or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In particular, our business might be materially and adversely affected by uncertainties affecting real estate businesses generally as well as the following, among other factors: our substantial debt and our high leverage ratio; constraining leverage, interest and tangible net worth covenants under our 2010 Credit Facility; our ability to refinance our existing indebtedness when it matures, on favorable terms or at all, due in part to the effects on us of dislocations and liquidity disruptions in the capital and credit markets; our ability to raise capital, including through the issuance of equity or equity-related securities if market conditions are favorable, through joint ventures or other partnerships, through sales of properties or interests in properties, or through other actions; our short- and long-term liquidity position; current economic conditions and their effect on employment, consumer confidence and spending and the corresponding effects on tenant business performance, prospects, solvency and leasing decisions and on our cash flows, and the value and potential impairment of our properties; general economic, financial and political conditions, including credit market conditions, changes in interest rates or unemployment; changes in the retail industry, including consolidation and store closings, particularly among anchor tenants; our ability to maintain and increase property occupancy, sales and rental rates, in light of the relatively high number of leases that have expired or are expiring in the next two years; increases in operating costs that cannot be passed on to tenants; risks relating to development and redevelopment activities; the effects of online shopping and other uses of technology on our retail tenants; concentration of our properties in the Mid-Atlantic region; changes in local market conditions, such as the supply of or demand for retail space, or other competitive factors; potential dilution from any capital raising transactions; possible environmental liabilities; our ability to obtain insurance at a reasonable cost; and existence of complex regulations, including those relating to our status as a REIT, and the adverse consequences if we were to fail to qualify as a REIT. Additional factors that might cause future events, achievements or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements include those discussed in the section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K in the section entitled aItem 1A. Risk Factors.a We do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or otherwise.