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Hines Global REIT Liquidating Trust Sells Final Property, Issues Special Distribution

HGR Liquidating Trust, the liquidating trust of non-traded real estate investment trust Hines Global REIT Inc., has sold the Galleria in Edina, Minnesota.

HGR Liquidating Trust, the liquidating trust of non-traded real estate investment trust Hines Global REIT Inc., has sold the Galleria in Edina, an upscale shopping mall near Minneapolis, for approximately $150 million, excluding transaction and closing costs.

Hines Global REIT originally purchased the 380,300-square-foot shopping mall in 2012 for $127 million. As the last remaining property in its portfolio, the sale marks the completion of the liquidation.

Completed in 1974, the property includes more than 60 stores on two levels, as well as a five-level parking structure with a climate-controlled walkway to the center.

Following the sale, the board declared a special distribution of $0.62 per unit, paid to the trust’s unitholders of record at the close of business on March 17, 2022. The special distribution will be paid in cash around March 22, 2022.

After this special distribution is paid, the company will have paid total special distributions, including return of invested capital distributions and liquidating distributions, of approximately $9.47 per share/unit between January 2018 and March 2022.

In addition to the $9.47 of special distributions, the company paid $5.64 of regular operating distributions since inception, for a combined total of $15.11. Shares were originally priced at $10.00 each.

In addition, the trust’s previous net asset value of $0.66 per unit was adjusted to reflect the special distribution, resulting in a new NAV per unit of $0.04.

Hines Global REIT launched its offering in December 2008 and raised $2.7 billion in investor equity before closing in April 2014.

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