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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-16-137763
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20160805
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Regulation FD Disclosure
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20160808
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160808

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			INVESTORS REAL ESTATE TRUST
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000798359
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798]
		IRS NUMBER:				450311232
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			ND
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0430

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-35624
		FILM NUMBER:		161812830

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1400 31ST AVENUE SW, SUITE 60
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 1988
		CITY:			MINOT
		STATE:			ND
		ZIP:			58702-1988
		BUSINESS PHONE:		701-837-4738

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1400 31ST AVENUE SW, SUITE 60
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 1988
		CITY:			MINOT
		STATE:			ND
		ZIP:			58702-1988
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):&#160; <b>August&nbsp;8, 2016 (August&nbsp;5, 2016)</b></font></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;">1400 31st Avenue SW, Suite&nbsp;60<br> Post Office Box 1988<br> Minot, ND 58702-1988</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;">Item 5.02.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On August&nbsp;5, 2016,&nbsp;Investors Real Estate Trust (&#147;Company&#148;) engaged Mark O. Decker,&nbsp;Jr. as the President and Chief Investment Officer of the Company, effective August&nbsp;8, 2016 (&#147;Start Date&#148;). Mr.&nbsp;Decker will replace Timothy P. Mihalick as President, but Mr.&nbsp;Mihalick will continue to serve as the Chief Executive Officer providing strategic leadership and vision for the Company.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;Decker, age 40, has nearly 16 years of experience in real estate investment banking. Most recently, from 2011 to May&nbsp;2016, he served as the Managing Director and U.S. Group Head of Real Estate Investment and Corporate Banking at BMO Capital Markets, the North American-based investment banking subsidiary of the Canadian Bank of Montreal, with which the Company has an ongoing investment banking relationship. Prior to that, he was with Morgan Keegan&nbsp;&amp; Company,&nbsp;Inc., a brokerage firm and investment banking business, from February&nbsp;2011 to September&nbsp;2011, where he served as the Managing Director and with Robert W. Baird&nbsp;&amp; Co., an employee-owned international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, from 2004 to 2011, where he last served as the Managing Director, Real Estate Investment Banking.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">There were no arrangements or understandings between Mr.&nbsp;Decker and any other person pursuant to which Mr.&nbsp;Decker was selected as an officer. Mr.&nbsp;Decker does not have any family relationships subject to disclosure under Item 401(d)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K or any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;Decker will receive an annual base salary of $395,000 and a hiring bonus of $200,000, paid in restricted common shares based on the average closing price for the 20 trading days ending before the Start Date, with one-third of the shares vesting on each annual anniversary of the Start Date. In addition, Mr.&nbsp;Decker will receive time-based and performance-based share awards under the long-term incentive plan (&#147;LTIP&#148;) for fiscal year 2017, based on 85% of his annual base salary, which awards were previously described in the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed with the SEC on June&nbsp;28, 2016 and the forms of which as previously filed as Exhibits 10.3 and 10.4, respectively, to the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K filed with the SEC on June&nbsp;29, 2016. He is also eligible to participate in the short-term incentive cash awards (&#147;STIP&#148;) for fiscal year 2017, based on the amount of annual salary earned during fiscal year 2017, which awards were previously described in the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed with the SEC on April&nbsp;20, 2016.</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 Company will also enter into an Indemnification Agreement with Mr.&nbsp;Decker in substantially the same form as previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed with the SEC on September&nbsp;21, 2015 and a Change in Control Severance Agreement as previously described in, and in substantially the same form as previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 to, the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K filed with the SEC on July&nbsp;7, 2015.</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 Company will reimburse Mr.&nbsp;Decker up to $75,000 in connection with relocation expenses and reimburse his commuting expenses for up to one year until he relocates to the Minneapolis, MN area. Mr.&nbsp;Decker will also be entitled to certain employee benefits of the Company, including participation in Company employee benefit plans subject to meeting applicable eligibility requirements.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On August&nbsp;8, 2016, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr.&nbsp;Decker, which is attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1.</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 information set forth in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit&nbsp;99.1, is being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 and shall not be deemed &#147;filed&#148; for purposes of Section&nbsp;18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section, and it shall not be deemed incorporated by </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:24.0pt;"><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 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;">INVESTORS REAL ESTATE TRUST HIRES MARK DECKER, JR. AS</font></b></p>
<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;">PRESIDENT AND CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">(Minot, ND) &#151; August&nbsp;8, 2016 - Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE: IRET) (NYSE: IRETPR) (NYSE: IRETPRB), a self-administered, equity real estate investment trust investing in income-producing properties located primarily in the upper Midwest, today announced that the Company has hired Mark Decker Jr. as its new President and Chief Investment Officer, effective Monday, August&nbsp;8, 2016. Mr.&nbsp;Decker will replace Timothy P. Mihalick as President, but Mr.&nbsp;Mihalick will continue to serve as the Chief Executive Officer, providing strategic leadership and vision for the Company.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#147;As we continue to transform IRET into a pure-play multifamily REIT, we have strengthened our bench of management talent with the addition of Mark Decker,&nbsp;Jr. as our President and Chief Investment Officer,&#148; stated Mr.&nbsp;Mihalick. &#147;Mark&nbsp;has been a valued partner to IRET for the last 9 years and with over&nbsp;19&nbsp;years of&nbsp;real estate, managerial, and&nbsp;investment banking&nbsp;experience,&nbsp;he&nbsp;brings&nbsp;a deep&nbsp;understanding of the&nbsp;real estate&nbsp;capital markets and strategic transactions. &nbsp;We believe Mark will add tremendous value to our organization during this exciting time, and we look forward to his contribution as we execute on our strategic initiatives. &#147;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As President and CIO, Mr.&nbsp;Decker will focus on furthering operational excellence, prudent capital allocation and balance sheet strength as part of the Company&#146;s overall mission to maximize value for shareholders.&#160; Mr.&nbsp;Decker most recently served as Managing Director and US Group Head of Real Estate Investment&nbsp;&amp; Corporate Banking at BMO Capital Markets, where he helped grow the platform into an active participant in real estate debt, equity and M&amp;A transactions.&#160; He has worked for nearly 16 years as a real estate investment banker at BMO Capital Markets, Robert W. Baird&nbsp;&amp; Co. and Ferris, Baker Watts and during that time, was responsible for more than&nbsp;$90 billion&nbsp;in real estate capital markets and advisory transactions.&#160; Prior to that, Mr.&nbsp;Decker started his career in banking in Friedman, Billings, Ramsey&nbsp;&amp; Co.,&nbsp;Inc.&#146;s Financial Institutions Group.&#160; Mr.&nbsp;Decker holds a B.A. in History from the College of William&nbsp;&amp; Mary.</font></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 IRET</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Company is a self-administered, equity real estate investment trust investing in income-producing properties located primarily in the upper Midwest. As of April&nbsp;30, 2016, it held for investment a portfolio of 146 properties consisting of 99 multifamily properties, consisting of 12,950 units, 31 healthcare properties, and 16 other commercial properties with a total of 2.9 million square feet of leasable space.&nbsp; The Company&#146;s common shares, Series&nbsp;A preferred shares and Series&nbsp;B preferred shares are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE symbols: IRET,&nbsp;IRETPR and IRETPRB, respectively). The Company&#146;s press releases and supplemental information are available on its website at www.iret.com or by contacting Investor Relations at 203-682-8377.</font></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;">Forward-Looking Statements</font></b></p>
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<p style="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 the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially, including statements related to our plans and organization. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to:&nbsp; fluctuations in interest rates, the effect of government regulation, the availability of capital, changes in general and local economic and real estate market conditions, competition, our ability to attract and retain skilled personnel, and those risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K for fiscal year ended April&nbsp;30, 2016.&nbsp; We assume no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Investor Relations<br> Stephen Swett<br> phone: 203-682-8377<br> email: IR@iret.com</font></p>
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