Colonial Properties Trust Sells Interest in Two Retail Assets

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Colonial Properties Trust (NYSE: CLP), a real estate investment trust (REIT), announced the sale of Colonial Pinnacle Turkey Creek, a 659,000 square foot retail center located in Knoxville, Tenn. for total sales proceeds of $131.7 million. The company had a 50% joint venture interest in the property. The company’s 50% interest was sold for total consideration of $65.9 million, comprised of $27.2 million in cash and the assumption and/or repayment of the company’s $38.7 million share of the existing loans secured by the property. Proceeds from the sale were used to repay a portion of the outstanding balance on the company’s unsecured line of credit and a portion of the proceeds will be used to acquire multifamily apartment communities.

Additionally, the company sold its remaining 5% interest in Colonial Promenade Alabaster II/Tutwiler II, a 420,000 square foot retail center located in Birmingham, Ala. to its joint venture partner. The company’s interest was sold for total consideration of $2.4 million, comprised of $0.4 million in cash and the joint venture partner’s assumption of the company’s $2.0 million share of the existing loan secured by the property. Proceeds from the sale were used to repay a portion of the outstanding balance on the company’s unsecured line of credit.

“The disposition of our joint venture interests in these retail assets is another step in the execution of our strategy to simplify the business and sell our non-core assets,” stated Thomas H. Lowder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Colonial Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that creates value for its shareholders through a multifamily focused portfolio and the management and development of select commercial assets in the Sunbelt region of the United States. As of September 30, 2011, the company owned or managed 34,369 apartment units and 13.3 million square feet of commercial space. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Colonial Properties is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CLP and is included in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.colonialprop.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

“Safe Harbor” Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Estimates of future earnings are, by definition, and certain other statements in this press release, including statements regarding signs of improvement in multifamily fundamentals and the company’s efforts to further simplify the business and strengthen the balance sheet, may constitute, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the company’s actual results, performance, achievements or transactions to be materially different from the results, performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by the forward looking statements. Factors that impact such forward looking statements include, among others, real estate conditions and markets, including recent deterioration in the multifamily market and the strength or duration of the current recession or recovery; increased exposure, as a multifamily focused REIT, to risks inherent in investments in a single industry; ability to obtain financing on reasonable rates, if at all; performance of affiliates or companies in which we have made investments; changes in operating costs; higher than expected construction costs; uncertainties associated with the timing and amount of real estate dispositions, including our existing inventory of condominium and for-sale residential assets; legislative or regulatory decisions; our ability to continue to maintain our status as a REIT for federal income tax purposes; price volatility, dislocations and liquidity disruptions in the financial markets and the resulting impact on availability of financing; the effect of any rating agency action on the cost and availability of new debt financings; level and volatility of interest rates or capital market conditions; effect of any terrorist activity or other heightened geopolitical crisis; or other factors affecting the real estate industry generally.

Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, the company assumes no responsibility to update the information in this press release.

The company refers you to the documents filed by the company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled “Risk Factors” in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, which discuss these and other factors that could adversely affect the company’s results.

Colonial Properties TrustJerry A. Brewer, 800-645-3917Executive Vice President, Finance

Source: Colonial Properties Trust

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