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7 March 2013 - After closing of markets

Press release Aedifica included in the EPRA Index

Aedifica is pleased to forward the following announcement issued this evening by EPRA on its website: Aedifica will be included in the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Europe Index as of close-of- business Friday March 15, 2013. Aedifica passed all eligibility criteria during the Index's March Quarterly Review, according to EPRA.
Stefaan Gielens, CEO of Aedifica, commented: "Being included in the EPRA index has always been a key milestone we wanted to achieve, especially after the successful rights issue in 2012. We consider it to display a wider recognition of our commitment to best practice, and an opportunity for global investors to play a part in Aedifica's ongoing success."
The EPRA ("European Public Real Estate Association") is the voice of the publicly traded European real estate sector. With more than 200 active members, EPRA represents over EUR 250 billion of real estate assets. The EPRA index is the global benchmark, and the most widely used investment index for listed real estate. The total number of constituents in the European index, after these inclusions, stands at 86; which represents a free-float market capitalisation of approximately EUR 104 billion. The ground-rules for index inclusion are publicly available on the EPRA website.
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Aedifica is a Belgian listed property company investing in residential real estate. Aedifica has identified four strategic pillars in which it concentrates investments activities: - unfurnished apartment buildings in Belgian cities; - furnished apartment buildings; - senior housing; - hotels. Aedifica is a Belgian REIT quoted on NYSE Euronext Brussels (continuous market).


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