ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA, March 8, 2005—Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income), The Monthly Dividend Company®, (NYSE:O) today announced the pricing of $100 million of 5-7/8% senior unsecured bonds due 2035. The price to the investor for the bonds was 98.296% of the principal amount for an effective yield of 5.998%. These securities are expected to be rated BBB by Fitch Ratings, Baa2 by Moody’s Investors Service and BBB by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group. The net proceeds from the offering will be used to repay borrowings under the Company’s $250 million unsecured acquisition credit facility and for other corporate purposes.

The joint-book running managers for the offering are Banc of America Securities LLC and Citigroup. Senior co-managers include Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Wachovia Securities. Other co-managers include: A.G. Edwards, BNY Capital Markets, Inc., Harris Nesbitt, Piper Jaffray, and Wells Fargo Securities. A copy of the prospectus related to this offering may be obtained from: Banc of America Securities LLC, Prospectus Delivery Department, 100 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, NY1-509-03-22, New York, NY, 10001, and from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, 10013, Attention: Syndicate Department.

These securities are offered pursuant to a Registration Statement that has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The notes are only offered by means of the prospectus included in the Registration Statement and the prospectus supplement related to the offering. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state where the offer, solicitation, or sale of these securities would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.

Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are “forward-looking” statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, which may cause the Company’s actual future results to differ materially from expected results. These risks include, among others, general economic conditions, local real estate conditions, the availability of capital to finance planned growth, property acquisitions and the timing of these acquisitions, charges for property impairments, the outcome of any legal proceedings to which the Company is a party, and the profitability of the Company’s subsidiary, Crest Net Lease, as described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, such forward-looking statements should be regarded solely as reflections of the Company’s current operating plans and estimates. Actual operating results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in this press release. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date these statements were made.

Realty Income is The Monthly Dividend Company®, a New York Stock Exchange real estate company dedicated to providing shareholders with dependable monthly income. To date the Company has paid 415 consecutive monthly dividend payments throughout its 36-year operating history. The monthly income is supported by the cash flow from over 1,500 retail properties owned under long-term lease agreements with leading regional and national retail chains. The Company is an active buyer of net-leased retail properties nationwide.