---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327978-25-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZARE"
cik: "0001327978"
company_name: "Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T19:06:26.567026+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Real Estate Income Trust enters into $2.0B amended credit facility with $1.0B revolver and $1.0B term loans

## Summary
- Amended and restated credit facility includes $1.0B revolving line, $700M A-1 term loan, and $300M A-2 term loan, total $2.0B.
- Facility matures June 18, 2029, with one 12-month extension option; interest based on SOFR plus 1.20%-2.00% margin.
- Aggregate outstanding borrowings unchanged; facility can be increased up to $2.5B subject to lender commitments.
- Annual meeting of stockholders convened June 25, 2025, but adjourned without opening polls to July 29, 2025 for proxy solicitation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327978-25-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZARE
- cik: 0001327978
- company_name: Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797825000038/0001327978-25-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797825000038/are-20250618x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc. amended credit facility of $2.0 billion with syndicate of lenders led by BofA Securities, Inc.; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; and Capital One, National Association at Term SOFR plus a margin ranging from 1.25% to 2.00% maturing June 18, 2029.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Principal: $2.0 billion
  - Counterparty: syndicate of lenders led by BofA Securities, Inc.; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; and Capital One, National Association
  - Rate: Term SOFR plus a margin ranging from 1.25% to 2.00%
  - Maturity: June 18, 2029
  - Event: amendment
  source text: On June 18, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), AREIT Operating Partnership LP (the “Borrower”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (the “Company,” and collectively with the Borrower, “we,” “us,” or “our”), amended and restated its existing senior unsecured revolving and term credit facility agreement by entering into a $1.0 billion revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), a $700.0 million term loan (the “A-1 Term Loan”), and a second $300.0 million term loan (the “A-2 Term Loan”) for an aggregate amount of $2.0 billion (collectively, the “Credit Facility”) with a syndicate of lenders led by BofA Securities, Inc.; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; and Capital One, National Association as both Joint Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers, together with Regions Capital Markets, Truist Securities, Inc. and The Huntington National Bank and M&T Bank as Joint Lead Arrangers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797825000038/0001327978-25-000038-index.htm

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