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Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement (2024) Renewal of Advisory Agreement Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (referred to herein as the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), AREIT Operating Partnership LP, the Company’s operating partnership (the “Operating Partnership”) and Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LLC, the Company’s advisor (the “Advisor”), previously entered into that certain Second Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement (2023), effective as of June 3, 2023 (the “2023 Advisory Agreement”). The term of the 2023 Advisory Agreement continued through April 30, 2024, subject to an unlimited number of successive one-year renewals. 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