Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund I Sells Convergence Office Center in Dallas for $123 Million

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 12, 2012) - Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund I (the Fund), a private fund established by Brookfield Asset Management, is pleased to announce the sale of Convergence Office Center (Convergence) for $123 million.

Convergence is a 950,000 square foot, 10 building office/data centre property situated on 185 acres in Dallas (Lewisville), Texas. The transaction included nine office/data centre buildings totaling 846,000 square feet along with approximately 40 acres of development land. The Fund retained approximately 12 acres of land for future retail development.

"The sale of Convergence represents the successful execution of our strategy of acquiring underperforming assets, prudently investing capital to upgrade the properties, and actively managing them to create value for our Fund investors," commented David Arthur, the Fund's President and Managing Partner.

The Fund acquired Convergence, which was 25% leased on acquisition, in November 2006 for $54 million. Over the past five years, the Fund executed a multi-million dollar redevelopment and leasing plan to stabilize the property. The Fund leased over 800,000 square feet of space at the property to office and data centre tenants including Cyrus One, MedFusion, Nationstar Mortgage, Tribune Company and JP Morgan Chase. In addition to the lease up of vacant space, the Fund sold one of the 10 buildings to a tenant, Texas Instruments. At sale, Convergence was 95% leased on a long-term basis.

The Fund was represented in the sale transaction by CBRE and Cassidy Turley.

Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund I, established by Brookfield Asset Management Inc., invests opportunistically in underperforming and distressed real estate in North America, including commercial office, industrial and mixed-use properties. The Fund has over $1.3 billion in real estate assets under management with a solid platform of transactional, financial and operating expertise. Brookfield Asset Management is a global alternative asset manager focused on property, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity, with approximately US$150 billion of assets under management.

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