SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Notifies Shareholders of Trade Street Residential Inc. of Commencement of an Investi...

The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP:

To: All Persons or Entities who purchased Trade Street Residential Inc. stock prior to May 11, 2015.

You are hereby notified that Levi & Korsinsky, LLP has commenced an investigation into the fairness of the sale of Trade Street Residential Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRE) to Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: IRT) for $3.80 in cash and 0.4108 of a newly-issued IRT share for each share of Trade Street Residential. To learn more about the investigation and your rights, go to:

HTTP://ZLK.9NL.COM/TRADE-STREET-RESIDENTIAL

or contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. either via email at [e-mail] or by telephone at [phone], toll-free: [phone]. There is no cost or obligation to you.

Levi & Korsinsky is a national firm with offices in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington D.C. The firm’s attorneys have extensive expertise in prosecuting securities litigation involving financial fraud, representing investors throughout the nation in securities lawsuits and have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders. For more information, please feel free to contact any of the attorneys listed below. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

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