New York, NY – May 26, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BRG) (the “Company”) announced today the completion of its underwritten public offering of 6,348,000 shares of Class A common stock, including 828,000 shares of Class A common stock issued pursuant to the full exercise of an option to purchase additional shares of Class A common stock granted to the underwriters, at a price to the public of $13.00 per share.
The Company received approximately $77.6 million in total net proceeds from the offering after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, fees and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to invest in multifamily assets and for other general corporate and working capital purposes, which may include the funding of capital improvements at the Company’s properties.
Wunderlich and Compass Point are serving as joint book-running managers for the offering. D.A. Davidson & Co., Janney Montgomery Scott, and Oppenheimer & Co. are serving as co-lead managers for the offering.
Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov or by contacting: Wunderlich Securities, Inc., Attention: Equity Syndicate, 6000 Poplar Avenue, Suite 150, Memphis, TN 38119, or by email at syndicate (at) wundernet (dot) com, or Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC, Equity Syndicate, 3000 K Street, NW, Suite 340,Washington DC, 20007, or by email at syndicate (at) compasspointllc (dot) com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, or any solicitation of an offer to buy, these securities in any state or jurisdiction which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering of these securities is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus.
About Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc.
Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BRG) is a real estate investment trust that focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of Class A institutional-quality apartment properties in demographically attractive growth markets to appeal to the renter by choice category. The Company’s objective is to generate value through off-market/relationship-based transactions and, at the asset level, through improvements to operations and properties. BRG generally invests with strategic regional partners, including some of the best-regarded private owner-operators in the United States, enabling the Company to operate as a local sharpshooter in each of its markets and to enhance its off-market sourcing capabilities. BRG has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For more information, please visit our website at: www.bluerockresidential.com.
