RAIT Financial Trust Declares Preferred Stock Dividends

2009-10-27 21:50:07 -

On October 27, 2009, RAIT Financial Trust (NYSE:RAS) announced that its Board of Trustees had declared a fourth quarter 2009 cash dividend of $0.484375 per share on RAIT’s 7.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares, $0.5234375 per share on RAIT’s 8.375% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares and $0.5546875 per share on RAIT’s 8.875% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares.

The dividends will be paid on December 31, 2009 to holders of record on December 1, 2009.



About RAIT Financial Trust

RAIT Financial Trust manages a portfolio of real estate related assets, provides a comprehensive set of debt financing options to the real estate industry and invests in real estate related assets. RAIT’s management uses their experience, knowledge and relationship network to seek to generate and manage real estate related investment opportunities for RAIT and for outside investors. Our objective is to provide our shareholders with total returns over time while managing the risks associated with our investment strategy. For more information, please visit www.raitft.com : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. or call Investor Relations at 215-243-9000.



RAIT Financial TrustAndres Viroslav, 215-243-9000 aviroslav@raitft.com : mailto:aviroslav@raitft.com