FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

               January 18, 2012

               Contact:   Susan M. Jordan

         732-577-9997

UMH PROPERTIES, INC. DECLARES COMMON AND PREFERRED DIVIDENDS

FREEHOLD, NJ, January 18, 2012…...........Eugene W. Landy, Chairman of the Board of UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE Amex:UMH) announced that, on January 18, 2012, the Board of Directors declared its quarterly cash dividend on the Company’s Common Stock of $0.18 per share payable March 15, 2012 to shareholders of record at the close of business February 15, 2012.  The Company’s annual dividend rate on its Common Stock is $0.72 per share.  

Also on January 18, 2012, the Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.515625 per share for the period from December 1, 2011 through February 29, 2012, on the Company’s 8.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock payable March 15, 2012 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2012.  Series A preferred share dividends are cumulative and payable quarterly at an annual rate of $2.0625 per share.

UMH Properties, Inc., a publicly owned REIT, owns and operates forty-one manufactured home communities located in Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.  In addition, the Company owns a portfolio of REIT securities.

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