Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Completion of Class I Office Acquisitions in Western Canada

   Allied Properties REIT (TSX: AP.UN) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the following Class I office properties for $39.4 million:

Address                    Total GLA  Office GLA  Retail GLA  Parking Spaces
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123 Bannatyne Avenue,         20,511      20,511           0               0
 Winnipeg
840 Cambie Street,            91,746      91,746           0              20
 Vancouver
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Total                        112,257     112,257           0              20
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"This brings our total acquisitions in 2010 to over $100 million, which falls within our target range for the year," said Michael Emory, President & CEO. "More importantly, we established two new target markets in 2010, downtown Calgary and downtown Vancouver, and propelled our urban office platform to a national scale. We believe this bodes well for our growth prospects going forward."

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Allied Properties REIT is a leading owner, manager and developer of urban office environments that enrich experience and enhance profitability for business tenants operating from Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Kitchener, Calgary and Vancouver. Its objectives are to provide stable and growing cash distributions to unitholders and to maximize unitholder value through effective management and accretive portfolio growth.

Contacts: Allied Properties REIT Michael R. Emory President and Chief Executive Officer [phone] [e-mail]