Government Properties Income Trust Announces Results for the Periods Ended June 30, 2009

Newton, MA (August 10, 2009): Government Properties Income Trust (NYSE: GOV) today announced financial results for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2009.  GOV completed its initial public offering on June 8, 2009.  Accordingly, GOV’s historical results of operations are not comparable to results which may be expected in future periods.

Results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009:

Net income available for common shareholders was $5.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, compared to $8.3 million for the same quarter last year.  Net income per share (EPS) for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 was $0.47.  For the quarter ended June 30, 2008, GOV did not have any outstanding shares.

Funds from operations (FFO) for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 was $9.7 million, or $0.78 per share compared to FFO for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 of $11.9 million.

The weighted average number of common shares outstanding was 12,384,066, for the quarter ended June 30, 2009.  GOV sold 11,500,000 common shares in an initial public offering on June 8, 2009.  If the initial public offering had occurred on April 1, 2009, GOV’s weighted average number of common shares outstanding would have been 21,450,000.

Results for the six months ended June 30, 2009:

Net income was $14.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2009, compared to $16.4 million for the same period last year.  Net income per share (EPS) for the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $1.67.  GOV was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of and issued 9,950,000 common shares to HRPT Properties Trust on February 17, 2009.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York
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No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.

Funds from operations (FFO) for the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $21.7 million, or $2.53 per share, compared to FFO for the six months ended June 30, 2008 of $23.4 million.

The weighted average number of common shares outstanding was 8,590,055 for the six months ended June 30, 2009.  If GOV’s formation transaction and initial public offering had occurred on January 1, 2009, GOV’s weighted average number of common shares outstanding would have been 21,450,000.

Initial Public Offering:

On June 2, 2009, GOV priced its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 10,000,000 common shares at $20.00 per share.  The IPO closed on June 8, 2009 and GOV received $187,500,000 in net proceeds.  On June 30, 2009, the underwriters exercised their over allotment option, purchasing an additional 1,500,000 common shares at $20.00 per share and GOV received $28,050,000 in net proceeds.  GOV used the full net proceeds from the IPO and the exercise of the over allotment option in the amount of $215,550,000 to repay outstanding borrowings under its $250,000,000 secured credit facility that was established and fully drawn on April 25, 2009.

Conference Call:

On Monday, August 10, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Adam Portnoy, President and Managing Trustee, and David Blackman, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss the second quarter 2009 results.

The conference call telephone number is (888) 820-9414.  Participants calling from outside the United States and Canada should dial (913) 312-6684.  No pass code is necessary to access the call from either number.  Participants should dial in about 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call.  A replay of the conference call will be available through 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, August 17 th .  To hear the replay, dial (719) 457-0820.  The replay pass code is 1047892.

A live audio webcast of the conference call will also be available in a listen only mode on GOV’s website, which is located at www.govreit.com.  Participants wanting to access the webcast should visit the company’s web site about five minutes before the call.  The archived webcast will be available for replay on GOV’s web site for about one week after the call.

Supplemental Data:

A copy of GOV’s Second Quarter 2009 Supplemental Operating and Financial Data is available for download at GOV’s web site, www.govreit.com.

Government Properties Income Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns properties located throughout the United States leased primarily to the U.S. Government and several state government tenants.  As of June 30, 2009, GOV owned 29 properties with 3.3 million square feet.  GOV is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Please see the pages attached hereto for a more detailed statement of our operating results and financial condition, along with an explanation of our calculation of FFO.

(1) We compute FFO as shown in the calculations above.  Our calculation of FFO is consistent with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT, definition of FFO.  We consider FFO to be an appropriate measure of performance for a REIT, along with net income and cash flow from operating, investing and financing activities.  We believe that FFO provides useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation expense, FFO can facilitate a comparison of operating performance between historical periods and among REITs.  FFO does not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, and should not be considered an alternative to net income or cash flow from operating activities as a measure of financial performance or liquidity.  FFO is one important factor considered by our Board of Trustees in determining the amount of distributions to shareholders.  Other important factors include, but are not limited to, requirements to maintain our status as a REIT, limitations in our revolving credit facility and the availability of debt and equity capital to us and our expectations of future capital requirements and operating performance.

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GOVERNMENT PROPERTIES

INCOME TRUST

Second Quarter 2009

Supplemental Operating and Financial Data

All amounts in this report are unaudited, except as noted.

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WARNING REGARDING

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

THIS SUPPLEMENTAL OPERATING AND FINANCIAL DATA CONTAINS STATEMENTS WHICH CONSTITUTE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995 AND OTHER FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS.  WHENEVER WE USE WORDS SUCH AS “BELIEVE”, “EXPECT”, “ANTICIPATE”, “INTEND”, “PLAN”, “ESTIMATE” OR SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS, WE ARE MAKING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS.  THESE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE BASED UPON OUR PRESENT INTENT, BELIEFS OR EXPECTATIONS, BUT FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO OCCUR AND MAY NOT OCCUR.  FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS IN THIS REPORT RELATE TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF OUR BUSINESS, INCLUDING:

OUR ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN OR IMPLIED BY OUR FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AS A RESULT OF VARIOUS FACTORS.  FACTORS THAT COULD HAVE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON OUR FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AND UPON OUR BUSINESS, RESULTS OF OPERATIONS, FINANCIAL CONDITION, FUNDS FROM OPERATIONS, CASH AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION, CASH FLOWS, LIQUIDITY AND PROSPECTS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

FOR EXAMPLE:

THESE RESULTS COULD OCCUR DUE TO MANY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES, SOME OF WHICH, SUCH AS GOVERNMENT TENANTS’ NEEDS FOR LEASED SPACE, OR CHANGES IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS OR THE ECONOMY GENERALLY, ARE BEYOND OUR CONTROL.

YOU SHOULD NOT PLACE UNDUE RELIANCE UPON OUR FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS.

EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LAW, WE UNDERTAKE NO OBLIGATION TO UPDATE OR CHANGE ANY FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AS A RESULT OF NEW INFORMATION, FUTURE EVENTS OR OTHERWISE.

CORPORATE INFORMATION

Government Properties Income Trust

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June 30, 2009

COMPANY PROFILE

The Company:

Government Properties Income Trust, or GOV, is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which primarily owns buildings majority leased to government tenants located throughout the United States.  The majority of our properties are commercial office buildings located in suburban areas and central business districts, or CBDs, of major metropolitan markets.  As of June 30, 2009, we owned approximately 3.3 million square feet comprising 29 properties, of which 25 are primarily leased to the U.S. Government and 4 are leased to the state governments of California, Maryland, Minnesota and South Carolina.  GOV was formed in February 2009 and became a public company on June 8, 2009.

Strategy:

Our primary business strategy is to maintain our properties, seek to renew our leases as they expire, selectively acquire additional properties that are majority leased to government tenants and to pay distributions to shareholders.  As current leases expire, we will attempt to renew our leases with our existing tenants or enter into leases with new tenants, in both circumstances at rents which are equal to or greater than the rents we now receive.  Our ability to renew leases with our existing tenants or to enter into new leases with new tenants and the rents we are able to charge will be dependent in large part upon market conditions which are generally beyond our control.  Although we sometimes sell properties, we generally consider ourselves to be a long term investor and are more interested in the long term earnings potential of our properties than selling properties for short term gains.  We currently do not have any investments in off balance sheet entities.

Management:

GOV is managed by Reit Management & Research LLC, or RMR.  RMR is a real estate management company which was founded in 1986 to manage public investments in real estate.  As of June 30, 2009, RMR managed one of the largest portfolios of publicly owned real estate in the North America, including nearly 1,350 properties, located in 45 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and Ontario, Canada.  RMR has approximately 570 employees in its headquarters and regional offices located throughout the country.  In addition to managing GOV, RMR also manages HRPT Properties Trust, or HRP, a publicly traded REIT that owns office and industrial properties, our former 100% parent company which continues to own approximately 46.4% of our outstanding shares.  RMR also manages Hospitality Properties Trust, or HPT, a publicly traded REIT that owns hotels and travel centers, and Senior Housing Properties Trust, or SNH, a publicly traded REIT that primarily owns healthcare properties.  RMR also provides management services to Five Star Quality Care, Inc., a healthcare services company which is a tenant of SNH, and to Travel Centers of America, LLC, an operator of travel centers which is a tenant of HPT.  An affiliate of RMR, RMR Advisors, Inc., is the investment manager of publicly offered mutual funds, which principally invests in securities of unaffiliated real estate companies.  The public companies managed by RMR and its affiliates had combined total gross assets of approximately $16.3 billion as of June 30, 2009.  We believe that being managed by RMR is a competitive advantage for GOV because RMR provides us with a depth and quality of management and experience which may be unequaled in the real estate industry.  We also believe RMR provides management services to GOV at costs that are lower than we would have to pay for similar quality services.

Corporate Headquarters:

400 Centre Street

Newton, MA  02458

(t)  (617) 219-1440

(f)  (617) 796-8267

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Senior Management

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GOV is followed by the analysts listed above.  Please note that any opinions, estimates or forecasts regarding GOV’s performance made by these analysts do not represent opinions, forecasts or predictions of GOV or its management.  GOV does not by its reference above imply its endorsement of or concurrence with any information, conclusions or recommendations provided by any of these analysts .

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION

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