Hudson Pacific Properties Announces 2018 Dividend Tax Treatment

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (the "Company" or "Hudson Pacific") HPP today announced the tax treatment for its 2018 common stock dividends.

The Company's dividends related to its common stock (CUSIP #444097109) will be classified for United States federal income tax purposes as follows:

¹On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted Section 199A that generally allows a deduction for non-corporate taxpayers equal to 20% of ordinary dividends distributed by a REIT (excluding capital gain dividends and qualified dividend income). Ordinary Dividends eligible for the Section 199A benefit are a subset of, and included in, the Taxable Ordinary Dividend Amount. All the "Non-Qualified" dividends listed above are eligible for the Section 199A benefit.

²$0.02240 of the $0.07595 capital gain distributions should be characterized as unrecaptured Section 1250 gain.

About Hudson Pacific Properties

Hudson Pacific Properties is a visionary real estate investment trust that owns and operates more than 17 million square feet of marquee office and studio properties. Focused on premier West Coast epicenters of innovation, media and technology, its anchor tenants include Fortune 500 and leading growth companies such as Netflix, Google, Square, Uber, NFL Enterprises and more. Hudson Pacific is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol HPP, and listed as a component of the Russell 2000® and the Russell 3000® indices. For more information visit HudsonPacificProperties.com.

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