Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust Announces Second Quarter 2016 Common and Preferred Share Dividends

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., May 16, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust RPT (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Trustees declared a regular second quarter cash dividend of $0.21 per common share.  The Board also approved a second quarter Series D convertible perpetual preferred share cash dividend of $0.90625 per share. The dividends, for the period April 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016, are payable on July 1, 2016 to shareholders of record on June 20, 2016.  

ABOUT RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES TRUST:

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust RPT is a fully integrated, self-administered, publicly-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.  The Company's business is the ownership and management of large, multi-anchor shopping centers primarily in a number of the largest metropolitan markets in the central United States.  At March 31, 2016, the Company owned interests in and managed a portfolio of 72 shopping centers and one office building with approximately 15.7 million square feet of gross leasable area.  At March 31, 2016, the Company's consolidated operating portfolio was 94.9% leased.  Additional information regarding the Company is available on its corporate website: www.rgpt.com. 

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that represent the Company's expectations and projections for the future. Management of Ramco-Gershenson believes the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements made in this press release are based on reasonable assumptions. Certain factors could occur that might cause actual results to vary, including deterioration in national economic conditions, weakening of real estate markets, decreases in the availability of credit, increases in interest rates, adverse changes in the retail industry, our continuing ability to qualify as a REIT and other factors discussed in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.