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Host Marriott Corporation Announces Quarterly Dividends on Common and Preferred Shares BETHESDA, Md., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Host Marriott Corporation (NYSE:HMT) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.08 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on April 15, 2005 to stockholders of record on March 31, 2005. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040324/HOSTMARRIOTTLOGO ) Host Marriott Corporation also announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.625 per share for the Company's Class B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and its Class C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock to stockholders of record on March 31, 2005. A cash dividend of $0.5546875 was declared on its Class E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock for the first quarter of 2005. The preferred dividend is payable on April 15, 2005. Host Marriott Corporation is a Fortune 500 lodging real estate Company that currently owns or holds controlling interests in upscale and luxury hotel properties primarily operated under premium brands, such as Marriott(R), Ritz-Carlton(R), Four Seasons(R), Fairmont(R), Hilton(R), Hyatt(R), and Westin(R). For further information, please visit the Company's website at http://www.hostmarriott.com/. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040324/HOSTMARRIOTTLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Host Marriott Corporation CONTACT: Gregory J. Larson, Senior Vice President of Host Marriott Corporation, +1-240-744-5120 Web site: http://www.hostmarriott.com/

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