GGP Ggp Inc. (delisted)

General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE:GGP) announced today that it repaid $391 million of near term maturity mortgage loans, following another closing with respect to the staged funding of its $1.75 billion secured loan facility today. This brings the total loan facility amount currently outstanding to $1.41 billion. All remaining seven properties were added to the collateral pool which now completes the 24 property collection of assets. The company plans to add additional lenders to the loan facility until the total amount funded reaches $1.75 billion. General Growth is one of the largest U.S.-based publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) based upon market capitalization. The Company currently has ownership interest in, or management responsibility for, a portfolio of more than 200 regional shopping malls in 44 states, as well as ownership in master planned community developments and commercial office buildings. The Company�s portfolio totals approximately 200 million square feet and includes over 24,000 retail stores nationwide. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP. For more information, please visit the Company website at http://www.ggp.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements, including information regarding our expected liquidity and future financing transactions that have not yet closed. Actual results may differ materially from the results suggested by these forward-looking statements, for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to, the retail market, tenant occupancy and tenant bankruptcies, the level of indebtedness and interest rates, market conditions, land sales in the Master Planned Communities segment, the cost and success of development and re-development projects and our ability to successfully manage growth. Readers are referred to the documents filed by General Growth Properties, Inc. with the SEC, specifically the most recent report on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, which further identify the important risk factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this release. The Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.