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:   2026-10-15T21:25:07+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-066024
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Ares Real Estate Income Trust NAV rises to $8.2841/share; Q3 acquisitions total $1.1B
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- NAV per fund interest rose to $8.2841 at Sept 30, 2026 from $8.2769 at Aug 31; Aggregate Fund NAV $3.95B on total investments of $10.47B.
- Portfolio spans 170 properties, ~36M sq ft in 35 U.S. markets, 95% leased; leverage 35% and weighted-average borrowing rate 4.97%.
- Q3 buys: nine retail, four industrial, four residential and one self-storage property for $1.1B contractual price; part of one industrial asset sold for $5M.
- Trailing-12-month rent growth on comparable commercial leases averaged 26% cash / 41% GAAP; industrial 33%/46%; residential rents fell 1%.
- Declared $0.03583/share monthly distribution for Sept 2026; Q3 gross proceeds raised ~$183M and $27M of redemptions for July-September.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000162828026066024/0001628280-26-066024-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000162828026066024/are-20260930.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-066024

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