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<font> Essex Property Trust, Inc. ( ESS ) announces its second quarter 2009 earnings results and related business activities. </font>

<font> Funds from Operations ("FFO") for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, totaled $42.0 million, or $1.43 per diluted share compared to $39.2 million, or $1.42 per diluted share for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. </font>

From Yahoo "Essex Property Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, operation, management, acquisition, development, and redevelopment of apartment communities primarily in the West Coast of the United States."

Based ionm regular dividends tyhis stocl pays a 3.4% dividend Last March they raised their dividend by 10%!!!!

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