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TORONTO, March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (“CAPREIT”) (TSX: CAR.UN) today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) has accepted CAPREIT’s notice of intention to renew its normal course issuer bid (“NCIB”) for its trust units (“Units”).
Subject to market conditions and other strategic opportunities for capital deployment, CAPREIT’s Board of Trustees believes that an NCIB represents an appropriate option for use of its liquidity to increase unitholder value and is in the best interest of CAPREIT and its unitholders to have available.
Pursuant to the notice, CAPREIT may purchase up to 16,047,885 of its Units, representing approximately 10% of the public float of 160,478,857 Units (as at the close of business on March 11, 2025), during the twelve month period commencing March 25, 2025 and ending March 24, 2026 (or such earlier date as CAPREIT completes its purchases pursuant to the renewed NCIB). As at the close of business on March 11, 2025, there were 160,801,449 Units issued and outstanding. Under the NCIB, other than purchases made under block purchase exemptions, CAPREIT may purchase up to 130,561 Units on the TSX during any trading day, which represents approximately 25% of the average daily trading volume of the Units on the TSX for the prior six calendar months (being 522,247 Units), all as calculated in accordance with the rules of the TSX. Any Units purchased under the NCIB will be cancelled.
Under its current NCIB, which expires on March 24, 2025, CAPREIT is authorized to acquire a total of 16,724,759 Units of which, as at the close of business on March 11, 2025, 6,762,762 Units have been purchased by CAPREIT at a weighted average price of $44.37 per Unit.
Although CAPREIT intends to purchase Units under its NCIB, there can be no assurance that any such purchases will be made. Any purchases made under the normal course issuer bid will be made by CAPREIT subject to favourable market conditions at the prevailing market price at the time of acquisition and on the open market through the facilities of the TSX, other designated exchanges and/or alternative Canadian trading systems, or by such other means as may be permitted by applicable securities laws. CAPREIT will enter into an automatic purchase plan during the term of the NCIB. The automatic purchase plan will allow for purchases by CAPREIT’s broker of Units during certain pre-determined blackout periods.
ABOUT CAPREIT
CAPREIT is Canada's largest publicly traded provider of quality rental housing. As at December 31, 2024, CAPREIT owns approximately 46,900 residential apartment suites and townhomes (excluding approximately 1,800 suites and sites classified as assets held for sale), that are well-located across Canada and the Netherlands, with a total fair value of approximately $14.9 billion, excluding approximately $0.3 billion of assets held for sale. For more information about CAPREIT, its business and its investment highlights, please visit our website at www.capreit.ca and our public disclosures which can be found under our profile at www.sedarplus.ca.