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Salt Lake City • Extra Space Storage, a real estate investment trust that specializes in self-storage properties, said its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the company's common stock for the fourth quarter of 2012, a 25 percent increase over the third quarter 2012 dividend of 20 cents per share.

The dividend will be paid Dec. 31 to stockholders whose names are on the company's list of shareholders at the close of business on Dec. 10.