secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (ZARE)
CIK:        0001327978
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-04-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-024093
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 3.02, 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ares Real Estate Income Trust issues ~2.59M shares for $21.1M; board member resigns, new director appointed
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- Issued 1,020,998 Class S-PR shares ($8.39M) and 1,569,934 Class I-PR shares ($12.75M) in Reg D offering on April 1, 2026.
- Director Brian P. Mathis resigned effective April 7, 2026, not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Board appointed Bryan B. Sanchez as independent director effective April 7, 2026; Sanchez has background at BCG and Lionstone.
- Sanchez was also appointed to the conflicts resolution committee and nominating and corporate governance committee.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000162828026024093/0001628280-26-024093-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000162828026024093/are-20260401.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-024093

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