COLONIAL REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (a Delaware Limited Partnership) Debt Securities TERMS AGREEMENT

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Exhibit 1.2

Execution copy

COLONIAL REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(a Delaware Limited Partnership)

Debt Securities

TERMS AGREEMENT

Dated: June 16, 2004

To:   COLONIAL REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

2101 6th Avenue North
Suite 750
Birmingham, Alabama 35203

Attention:

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We (the “Representatives”) understand that Colonial Realty Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), proposes to issue and sell $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its senior debt securities (such debt securities being hereinafter referred to as the “Underwritten Securities”). Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference herein, the underwriters named below (the “Underwriters”) offer to purchase, severally and not jointly, the respective principal amounts of Underwritten Securities (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement referenced below) set forth below opposite their respective names at the purchase price set forth below.

 


 

         
    Principal Amount of
Underwriter
  Underwritten Securities
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
  $ 120,000,000  
Banc of America Securities LLC
    75,000,000  
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
    35,000,000  
SouthTrust Securities, Inc.
    35,000,000  
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC
    35,000,000  
 
   
 
 
Total
  $ 300,000,000  
 
   
 
 

     The Underwritten Securities shall have the following terms:

     
Title:
  6.25% Senior Notes due 2014
 
   
Rank:
  Pari passu with all other unsecured and
 
  unsubordinated indebtedness of the
 
  Operating Partnership
 
   
Ratings:
  Baa3/BBB-
 
   
Aggregate principal amount:
  $300,000,000
 
   
Denominations:
  $1,000 and integral multiples thereof
 
   
Currency of payment:
  U.S. dollars
 
   
Interest rate or formula:
  6.25% per annum
 
   
Interest payment dates:
  Payable semi-annually in arrears
 
  on each June 15 and December 15,
 
  commencing December 15, 2004
 
   
Regular record dates:
  June 1 and December 1, as applicable
 
   
Stated maturity date:
  June 15, 2014
 
   
Redemption provisions:
  Redeemable at any time at the option of the
 
  Operating Partnership, in whole or
 
  in part, at a redemption price equal
 
  to the sum of: (i) the
 
  principal amount of the Underwritten
 
  Securities being redeemed plus
 
  accrued but unpaid interest to the
 
  redemption date; and (ii) the
 
  Make-Whole Amount, if any
 
   
Sinking fund requirements:
  N/A
 
   
Conversion provisions:
  N/A

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Listing requirements:
  N/A
 
   
Black-out provisions:
  The Operating Partnership will not from
 
  the date of this Terms Agreement through
 
  the Closing Time, without the prior
 
  written consent of Citigroup Global
 
  Markets Inc. and Banc of America
 
  Securities LLC, offer, sell or contract
 
  to sell, or otherwise dispose of (or
 
  enter into any transaction which is
 
  designed to, or might reasonably be
 
  expected to, result in the disposition
 
  (whether by actual disposition or
 
  effective economic disposition due to
 
  cash settlement or otherwise) by the
 
  Operating Partnership or any affiliate
 
  of the Operating Partnership or any
 
  person in privity with the Operating
 
  Partnership or any Affiliate of the
 
  Operating Partnership), directly or
 
  indirectly, or announce the offering of,
 
  any debt securities issued or guaranteed
 
  by the Operating Partnership (other than
 
  the Underwritten Securities listed
 
  above).
 
   
Fixed or Variable Price Offering:
  Fixed Price Offering
 
   
Initial public offering price per Underwritten Security:
  99.30% of the principal amount, plus accrued
interest, if any, from June 23, 2004
 
   
Purchase price per Underwritten Security:
  98.65% of the principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any,
 
  from June 23, 2004
 
   
Other terms and conditions:
  N/A
 
   
Closing date and location:
  June 23, 2004 at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP at
 
  9:00 A.M.

     All the provisions contained in the document attached as Annex A hereto entitled “Colonial Realty Limited Partnership — Debt Securities — Underwriting Agreement” are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety herein and shall be deemed to be a part of this Terms Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been set forth in full herein. Terms defined in such document are used herein as therein defined.

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     Please accept this offer by signing a copy of this Terms Agreement in the space set forth below and returning the signed copy to us.

             
    Very truly yours,
 
           
    CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
    BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
    BEAR, STEARNS & CO. INC.
    SOUTHTRUST SECURITIES, INC.
    WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC
 
           
    By: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
 
           
  By:   /s/ Mark Chu    
     
 
   
      Name: Mark Chu    
      Title: Vice President    
 
           
    By: Banc of America Securities LLC
 
           
  By:   /s/ Peter J. Carbone    
     
 
   
      Name: Peter J. Carbone    
      Title: Vice President    
 
           
    Acting on behalf of themselves and the other named Underwriters.
     
Accepted:
 
   
COLONIAL REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP,
the Operating Partnership
 
   
By:
  Colonial Properties Trust
(its general partner)
 
   
By:
  /s/ Weston M. Andress
 
 
  Name: Weston M. Andress
  Title: Chief Financial and Investment Officer

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