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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327978-24-000100"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZARE"
cik: "0001327978"
company_name: "Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T12:11:00.064233+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Real Estate Income Trust redesignates share classes, launches private offering, and adjourns annual meeting

## Summary
- Initiated private offering on August 2, 2024, with Class S-PR, D-PR, and I-PR shares via Dealer Manager Agreement with Ares Wealth Management Solutions.
- Filed Articles of Amendment on July 31, 2024, redesignating 2.7 billion shares into new classes including Class S-PR, D-PR, I-PR, and others.
- Annual Meeting on July 31, 2024, lacked quorum and was permanently adjourned without electing directors or ratifying KPMG LLP as auditors.
- Board adopted Fourth Amended Share Redemption Program and Sixth Amended Distribution Reinvestment Plan effective August 2, 2024.
- Entered into Second Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement and Thirteenth Amended OP Agreement for the private offering.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327978-24-000100
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZARE
- cik: 0001327978
- company_name: Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797824000100/0001327978-24-000100-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797824000100/are-20240731x8k.htm

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