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- Morguard North American Residential Real Estate Investment Trust (MRG-UN.TO) is an open-ended real estate investment trust focused on owning, acquiring, developing and managing a diversified portfolio of multi-suite residential rental properties and ancillary retail space across Canada and the United States; its core assets include 16 Canadian apartment communities in Alberta and Ontario, 26 U.S. apartment communities in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, plus one retail property offering 229,500 square feet of commercial gross leasable area, totaling 12,315 residential suites with assets valued at $4.6 billion as of September 30, 2025. Formed in 2012 and headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the REIT, sponsored by Morguard Corporation which holds an indirect 48.5% interest, targets stable cash distributions to unitholders through active asset management, property improvements and strategic expansion primarily via third-party acquisitions. Recent developments include ongoing normal course issuer bid programs renewed in January 2025 to repurchase up to 2,648,573 units through January 2026 and $4,900 principal of debentures, unit repurchases totaling 1,313,709 for $22.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2025, key mortgage refinancings such as a $79.4 million CMHC-insured 10-year loan at 4.02% in March 2025 for a Kitchener, Ontario property and a $166.1 million (US$120 million) three-year loan at 5.35% in July 2025 for a Chicago, Illinois property, $40.3 million in capital expenditures on real estate properties, and a $50.9 million net fair value gain on properties for the same period.