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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">ITEM 8.01&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Other Events.</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On December&nbsp;17, 2008, AvalonBay
Communities,&nbsp;Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) announced that its Board of Directors
declared a combined regular and special Common Stock dividend (&#147;Combined Dividend&#148;)
of $2.70 per share, The Combined Dividend is payable on January&nbsp;29, 2009,
to holders of record of the Company&#146;s Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share,
at the close of business on December&nbsp;29, 2008.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">A copy of the press release announcing the Combined
Dividend is attached to this Current Report as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 and is
incorporated herein by reference.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">ITEM 9.01&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Financial Statements and Exhibits.</font></b></p>

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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Press Release dated December&nbsp;17, 2008 regarding
  the regular and special dividend.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font></p>

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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC.</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">December&nbsp;18, 2008</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">By:</font></p>
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  <td width="46%" colspan="2" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:46.68%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">/s/ Thomas J. Sargeant</font></p>
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  <td width="5%" colspan="2" valign="top" style="padding:0in .7pt 0in .7pt;width:5.4%;">
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Name:</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thomas J. Sargeant</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Title:</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Chief Financial Officer</font></p>
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  <p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="1" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Description</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Press Release dated December&nbsp;17, 2008 regarding
  the regular and special dividend.</font></p>
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99.1</font></b></p>

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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Contact: Investor Relations</font></p>

<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;John Christie</font></p>

<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Senior Director</font></p>

<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Investor Relations and Research</font></p>

<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(703) 317-4747</font></p>

<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">ir@avalonbay.com</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 2.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">For Immediate Release</font></u></b></p>

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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">AvalonBay Communities Announces
Regular and Special Stockholder Dividend</font></b></p>

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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">ALEXANDRIA, VA (December&nbsp;17, 2008)</font></b><b><font style="font-weight:bold;">  </font>&#150; AvalonBay
Communities,&nbsp;Inc.</b> (&#147;AvalonBay&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;) (NYSE: AVB) announced
today that its Board of Directors has declared a combined regular and special
Common Stock dividend (&#147;Combined Dividend&#148;) of $2.70 per share. The Combined
Dividend is payable on January&nbsp;29, 2009, to holders of record of the
Company&#146;s Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, at the close of business on December&nbsp;29,
2008.&#160; AvalonBay&#146;s Common Stock will
begin trading &#147;ex-dividend&#148; on December&nbsp;24, 2008.</p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">A
portion of the Combined Dividend in the amount of $0.8925 per share represents
payment of the regular dividend for the quarter ended December&nbsp;31, 2008,
and the remaining portion represents an additional special dividend payment (&#147;Special
Dividend&#148;) in the amount of $1.8075 per share.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Special Dividend was declared to distribute excess income
attributable to gains on asset sales from the Company&#146;s disposition activities
during 2008 in which an historically high level of asset sales were completed. During
2008, the Company sold ten communities with aggregate gains recognized for
federal income tax purposes of $352 million. The Special Dividend is intended
to enable the Company to avoid corporate level income taxes for 2008 and reduce
federal excise taxes. The Company currently anticipates it will incur
approximately $3 million of federal excise taxes for 2008.&#160; The following table summarizes 2008
disposition activity:</font></p>

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  </font></b>$&nbsp;in&nbsp;Millions</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 1.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">* Ten communities including one held through AvalonBay Value Added
Fund, L.P. (AVB share).</font></p>

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<h3 align="center" style="font-weight:normal;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Copyright &#169; 2008 AvalonBay
Communities, Inc. All Rights Reserved</font></i></b></h3>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Stockholders
may elect to receive payment of the Combined Dividend in the form of cash,
shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock,
provided that the aggregate amount of cash payable to all stockholders (other
than cash payable in lieu of fractional shares), does not exceed the amount of
the regular dividend of $0.8925 per share multiplied by the total number of
shares of common stock outstanding on the record date.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">AvalonBay
reserves the right, notwithstanding any stockholder elections received, to pay
the Combined Dividend entirely in cash. For stockholders who do not return a
properly completed and signed election form before 5:00&nbsp;p.m., Eastern
Time, on January&nbsp;22, 2009, AvalonBay reserves the right to elect for the
stockholder payment of the Combined Dividend in the form of cash, shares of
Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, in its sole
discretion.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">AvalonBay
intends that the Combined Dividend will be a taxable dividend to its
stockholders, without regard to the form of payment, for the taxable year ended
December&nbsp;31, 2008.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">For
those stockholders who will receive shares of Common Stock in payment for all
or part of the Combined Dividend, the value per share used to determine the
number of shares to be issued will be calculated based on the average of the
volume weighted trading price per share of AvalonBay&#146;s Common Stock on the New
York Stock Exchange for the two trading days ending on January&nbsp;23, 2009.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">A prospectus and election form will be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and will be mailed to stockholders of record on or about December&nbsp;31,
2008.&#160; The prospectus will describe in
more detail the terms of the Combined Dividend. These terms include the ability
of stockholders to elect to receive the Combined Dividend in the form of cash,
shares of Common Stock<i>,</i> or a
combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, and the limitation on the
aggregate amount of cash to be paid as part of the Combined Dividend. The
stockholder election must be exercised by returning a properly completed and
signed election form to BNY Mellon Shareowner Services, the Information Agent
for the Combined Dividend, not later than 5:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time, on January&nbsp;22,
2009.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Registered stockholders with questions regarding the Combined Dividend
may contact the Shareholder Relations Department of BNY Mellon Shareowner
Services, the Information Agent (and the Company&#146;s transfer agent), at (866)
205-7271. If your shares are held through a bank, broker or nominee, and you
have questions regarding the Combined Dividend, please contact such bank,
broker or nominee, who will also be responsible for communicating to you the
election information and submitting the election form on your behalf.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This
press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an
offer to buy shares of the Company&#146;s Common Stock, nor shall there be any sale
of the Common Stock in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful under the laws of any such state or other
jurisdiction.</font></p>

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Communities, Inc. All Rights Reserved</font></i></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">About AvalonBay Communities,&nbsp;Inc.</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">AvalonBay Communities,&nbsp;Inc. is one of the largest equity real
estate investment trust (REIT) companies in the United States focused on the
business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing apartment
communities in high barrier-to-entry markets. As of September&nbsp;30, 2008,
the Company owned or held a direct or indirect ownership interest in 177
apartment communities containing 50,034 apartment homes in ten states and the
District of Columbia, of which 15 communities were under construction and seven
communities were under reconstruction. More information may be found on the
Company&#146;s website at the following address http://www.avalonbay.com.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">For additional information, please contact John Christie, Senior
Director of Investor Relations and Research at 1-703-317-4747 or Thomas J.
Sargeant, Chief Financial Officer at 1-703-317-4635.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Forward-Looking Statements</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This
press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section&nbsp;27A
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section&nbsp;21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. You can identify these
forward-looking statements by the Company&#146;s use of words such as &#147;expects,&#148; &#147;plans,&#148;
&#147;estimates,&#148; &#147;projects,&#148; &#147;intends,&#148; &#147;believes,&#148; &#147;outlook&#148; and similar
expressions that do not relate to historical matters. Actual results may differ
materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements as
a result of risks and uncertainties, which include the following: adverse
capital and credit market conditions may affect our access to various sources
of capital and/or cost of capital, which may affect our business activities,
earnings and common stock price, among other things; changes in local
employment conditions, demand for apartment homes, supply of competitive
housing products, and other economic conditions may result in lower than
expected occupancy and/or rental rates and adversely affect the profitability
of our communities; increases in costs of materials, labor or other expenses
may result in communities that we develop or redevelop failing to achieve
expected profitability; delays in completing development, redevelopment and/or
lease-up may result in increased financing and construction costs and may delay
and/or reduce the profitability of a community; debt and/or equity financing
for development, redevelopment or acquisitions of communities may not be
available or may not be available on favorable terms; we may be unable to
obtain, or experience delays in obtaining, necessary governmental permits and
authorizations; or we may abandon development or redevelopment opportunities
for which we have already incurred costs</font>. Additional discussions
of risks and uncertainties appear in the Company&#146;s filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K
for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2007 under the headings &#147;Risk
Factors&#148; and under the heading &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Forward-Looking Statements&#148; and
in subsequent quarterly reports on Form&nbsp;10-Q.</p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The
Company does not undertake a duty to update forward-looking statements,
including its expected operating results for the fourth quarter and full year
2008.&#160; The Company may, in its
discretion, provide information in future public announcements regarding its
outlook that may be of interest to the investment community. The format and
extent of future outlooks may be different from the format and extent of the
information contained in this release.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Copyright &#169; 2008 AvalonBay
Communities, Inc. All Rights Reserved</font></i></b></p>

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