December 7, 2009
NEWTON, Mass., Dec 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE: HPT) today announced that it will begin paying a quarterly cash distribution to common shareholders of $0.45/share ($1.80/share per year) in 2010. HPT expects that a distribution to common shareholders may be declared in January 2010 and be paid in February 2010. In April 2009, HPT announced that it had suspended payment of common share distributions and that it would make an announcement in December 2009 regarding the amount of common share distributions which it would pay in 2009 in order to comply with Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") rules applicable to real estate investment trusts, or REITs, and whether the 2009 distribution, if any, would be paid in cash or some combination of cash and common shares. Simultaneously with today's announcement concerning 2010 distributions, HPT announced that it will declare no additional common share distributions for 2009 because it has met its minimum IRS...
December 2, 2009
NEWTON, Mass., Dec 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE: HPT) today announced that John Murray, President and Chief Operating Officer, will be presenting at the Wells Fargo 13 th Annual Global Real Estate Conference in New York City on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:20 a.m. Eastern Time. A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available in a listen-only mode on the company's website, which is located at www.hptreit.com. Participants wanting to access the webcast should visit the company's website about 15 minutes before the start of the presentation. Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns 289 hotels and 185 travel centers located throughout North America. HPT is headquartered in Newton, MA. WARNING REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS THE FOREGOING PRESS RELEASE CONTAINS FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995 AND THE FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS....
December 1, 2009
NEWTON, Mass., Dec 01, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE: HPT) today announced that its board of trustees has declared the regular quarterly dividend on HPT's Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares. A distribution of $0.5546875 per Series B preferred share is payable on or about January 15, 2010, to holders of record at the close of business on December 31, 2009. A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust. SOURCE: Hospitality Properties Trust Hospitality Properties Trust Timothy A. Bonang, 617-796-8232 Vice President of Investor Relations or Carlynn Finn, 617-796-8232 Manager of Investor Relations www.hptreit.com Copyright Business Wire 2009...