$112 Million Capital Deployed and Committed

Winthrop Realty Trust FUR, a diversified REIT that focuses on opportunistic debt and equity investments in real estate, has executed or entered into several agreements positively effecting its equity owned property portfolio and its loan portfolio deploying and committing to deploy since January 1, 2011 an aggregate capital amount of $112.0 million. In addition, the Company has sold or received repayments totaling $75.0 million on outstanding loans. "With capital commitments, we have deployed $112.0 million of capital on a year to date basis and have taken in $75.0 million in loan repayments or property sales. Our pipeline remains full and we continue to identify accretive opportunistic transactions which we can add to our portfolio and selectively prune fully valued assets," commented Michael Ashner, Chief Executive Officer.