(12) Equity

Preferred Stock

On April 23, 2012, the Company redeemed all of its outstanding preferred stock consisting of 4,000,000 shares of its 7.25% Series E preferred stock and 7,820,000 shares of its 7.10% Series F preferred stock. The shares of Series E and Series F preferred stock were redeemed at a price of $25 per share, or $295.5 million in aggregate, plus all accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date. As a result of the redemption, which was announced on March 22, 2012, the Company incurred a charge of $10.4 million during the three months ended March 31, 2012 related to the original issuance costs of the preferred stock (this charge is presented as an additional preferred stock dividend in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of income).

Common Stock

The following table lists the common stock cash dividends declared by the Company in 2013:

Declaration Date	Record Date	Amount Per Share		Dividend Payable Date
January 24	February 4	$	0.525	February 19
April 25	May 6	0.525		May 21
July 25	August 5	0.525		August 20
October 24	November 4	0.525		November 19

In October 2012, the Company completed a $979 million offering of 22 million shares of common stock at a price of $44.50 per share, which proceeds were primarily used to fund the Blackstone JV Acquisition.

In June 2012, the Company completed a $376 million offering of 8.97 million shares of common stock at a price of $41.88 per share, which proceeds were primarily used to repay $250 million of maturing senior unsecured notes.

In March 2012, the Company completed a $359 million offering of 9.0 million shares of common stock at a price of $39.93 per share, which proceeds were primarily used to redeem all outstanding shares of the Company’s preferred stock.

The following is a summary of the Company’s other common stock issuances (shares in thousands):

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2013	2012
Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan	1,681	675
Conversion of DownREIT units(1)	85	72
Exercise of stock options	875	2,451
Vesting of restricted stock units(2)	110	385

(1) Non-managing member LLC units.

(2) Issued under the Company’s 2006 Performance Incentive Plan.

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss

The following is a summary of the Company’s accumulated other comprehensive loss (in thousands):

	September 30,			December 31,
	2013			2012
Unrealized gains on available for sale securities	$	—		$	7,776
Unrealized losses on cash flow hedges, net	(12,066		)	(18,452		)
Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan minimum liability	(2,983		)	(3,150		)
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment	(830		)	(827		)
Total accumulated other comprehensive loss	$	(15,879	)	$	(14,653	)

Noncontrolling Interests

At September 30, 2013, non-managing members hold an aggregate of 4 million units in four limited liability companies (“DownREITs”), for which the Company is the managing member. At September 30, 2013, the carrying and fair values of these DownREIT units were $185 million and $246 million, respectively.