NNN Realty Advisors Stockholders Approve Merger

NNN Realty Advisors Stockholders Approve Merger

SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NNN Realty Advisors, Inc. stockholders, who met earlier today in a special meeting in Costa Mesa, California, have voted to approve and adopt the previously announced agreement to merge with Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) .

Approximately 97.2 percent of the votes cast were in favor of the transaction, which represents approximately 79.2 percent of the shares of NNN Realty Advisors common stock outstanding.

Upon completion of the proposed merger, NNN Realty Advisors stockholders will receive 0.88 shares of Grubb & Ellis common stock for each share of NNN Realty Advisors common stock outstanding. The merger agreement was first announced on May 22, 2007.

NNN Realty Advisors, Inc.

NNN Realty Advisors is a nationwide commercial real estate asset management and services firm that sponsors real estate investment programs to provide investors with the opportunity to engage in tax-deferred exchanges of real property and to invest in other real estate investment vehicles, including public non-traded real estate investment trusts and real estate investment funds.

NNN Realty Advisors is the parent company of Triple Net Properties, LLC, Triple Net Properties Realty, Inc. and NNN Capital Corp., a registered broker-dealer. NNN Realty Advisors is the sponsor of commercial real estate investment programs; including tax-deferred 1031 tenant-in-common (TIC) exchanges and two public non-traded real estate investment trusts, NNN Apartment REIT and NNN Healthcare/Office REIT. NNN Realty Advisors currently manages a portfolio of commercial real estate valued at approximately $5.4 billion.

THIS PRESS RELEASE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT AN OFFER TO BUY OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO SELL ANY SHARES. In connection with the proposed merger, NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis have filed a joint proxy statement/prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a registration statement regarding the proposed merger. Investors and security holders are urged to read the joint proxy statement/prospectus of

NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis because it contains important information about NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis and the proposed merger. Investors and security holders may obtain copies of the joint proxy statement/prospectus and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus, and other documents filed by NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis with the SEC at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. The definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents may also be obtained free of charge from NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis by directing such request to: NNN Realty Advisors, Inc., 1551 N. Tustin Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Ana, CA 92705, 714-667-8252 x861, Attention: Michael Rispoli or to Grubb & Ellis Company, 500 West Monroe, Suite 2800, Chicago, IL 60661, 312-698-6707, Attention: Janice McDill. Investors and security holders are urged to read the joint proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant material when they become available before making any voting or investment decisions with respect to the merger.

NNN Realty Advisors, Grubb & Ellis and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis, respectively, in connection with the merger. Information about NNN Realty Advisors' and Grubb & Ellis' directors and executive officers is set forth in the joint proxy statement/prospectus, which can be found on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.

FORWARD-LOOKING LANGUAGE

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statement in this press release about expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and are forward looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the benefits of the proposed merger involving NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis, including the combined company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions with respect to future operations, products and services. Any forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of NNN Realty Advisors' and Grubb & Ellis' management and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements of transactions of Grubb & Ellis, NNN Realty Advisors and their affiliates or industry results or the benefits of the proposed merger to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements: changes in NNN Realty Advisors' results of operations; uncertainties relating to the implementation of the NNN Realty Advisors' real estate investment and asset management strategies; changes in general economic and real estate conditions; the failure to realize synergies and cost-savings from the transaction or delay in the realization thereof; the inability to combine the businesses of NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis successfully, or that such combination may take longer, be more difficult, time-consuming or costly to accomplish than expected; increased operating costs and business disruption following the merger, including adverse effects on employee retention and on business relationships with third parties; the failure of NNN Realty Advisors and Grubb & Ellis stockholders to approve the transaction; the ability to obtain governmental approvals of the transaction on a timely basis; the effects of general and local economic and real estate conditions; reliance on the largest stockholders as well as other key executive officers, the loss of any such key executive officers or the failure to hire and retain qualified employees; and the ability to expand the Grubb & Ellis footprint internationally.

Additional information or factors which could impact the companies and the forward-looking statements contained herein are included in each company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the companies' joint proxy statement/prospectus. Any forward looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the companies assume no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.

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