---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327978-25-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZARE"
cik: "0001327978"
company_name: "Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:21:40.759508+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Real Estate Income Trust secures $200M from affiliate; Sep NAV per share $7.8710

## Summary
- Entered subscription agreement with Ares Apogee Finance HoldCo for $200M of Class B shares at Sep 30 NAV.
- Class B shares have 3-year lock-up, subordinate redemption, convertible to Class I-PR on one-for-one basis.
- Sep 30 aggregate fund NAV $2.635B, NAV per share $7.8710, up from $7.8051 in August.
- Portfolio 93.8% leased; acquired eight industrial/one residential for $478.6M in Q3, sold one office for $80M.
- Distributions authorized $0.03450 per share for September, leverage ratio 34.9%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327978-25-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZARE
- cik: 0001327978
- company_name: Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 3.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797825000071/0001327978-25-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797825000071/are-20250930x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc.: Filed Articles of Amendment to increase authorized capital stock to 3,000,000,000 shares and common stock to 2,800,000,000 shares, and Articles Supplementary to create 300,000,000 Class B Common Shares with conversion, liquidation, and voting rights (effective 2025-10-14).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-14
  source text: On October 14, 2025, in connection with the Subscription Agreement, the Company filed Articles of Amendment (the “Articles of Amendment”) to its charter with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (the “SDAT”) to increase the number of shares of capital stock that the Company has authority to issue to 3,000,000,000 and the number of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, that the Company has authority to issue to 2,800,000,000. Immediately following the filing of the Articles of Amendment, the Company filed with the SDAT Articles Supplementary (the “Articles Supplementary”) to its charter, pursuant to which the Company classified and designated 300,000,000 authorized but unissued shares common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company as shares of Class B common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Class B Common Shares”) with the following conversion rights, rights upon liquidation and voting rights
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797825000071/0001327978-25-000071-index.htm

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