UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 17, 2014

Trade Street Residential, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

(786) 248-5200

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

Class A Preferred Stock Redemption Agreement

On October 17, 2014, Trade Street Residential, Inc. (the “Company”) and Trade Street Operating Partnership, the Company’s operating partnership subsidiary (the “Operating Partnership”), entered into a Class A Preferred Stock Redemption Agreement (the “Agreement”) with BCOM Real Estate Fund, LLC Liquidating Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (“BREF Trust”), Trade Street Property Fund I, LP Liquidating Trust, a Delaware statutory trust (“TSPF1 Trust” and together with BREF Trust, the “Trusts”), and Michael D. Baumann.

Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company repurchased from the Trusts all 309,130 shares of the Company’s outstanding Class A Preferred Stock (the “Class A Preferred Stock”) in exchange for (i) title to four land parcels owned by the Operating Partnership known as Venetian, Estates at Maitland, Estates at Millenia – Phase II and Sunnyside, and (ii) cash consideration of $5,000,000. In addition, the parties agreed to mutual releases of claims against each other and certain other related parties.

The Class A Preferred Stock carried an original per share liquidation preference of $100.00 per share, or $30.9 million in the aggregate, subject to an adjustment upon certain events, plus any accrued and unpaid distributions to and including the date of payment. Shares of Class A Preferred Stock were convertible into common stock under certain circumstances.

The Trusts, as holders of Class A Preferred Stock, were entitled to receive preferential cumulative cash distributions at a rate of 1.0% per annum of the $100.00 per share liquidation preference (equivalent to $1.00 per annum per share). On each of the third and fourth anniversaries of the date of issuance of the Class A Preferred Stock, the rate was to increase to 2% and 3% per annum, respectively.

The foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement

On October 16, 2014, the Company and the Operating Partnership entered into a Fourth Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated January 31, 2014 (the “Credit Agreement”), with Regions Bank, as Administrative Agent, and the other lenders (collectively with the Administrative Agent, the “Lenders”) and guarantors party thereto. The Amendment amends the Credit Agreement to, among other things:

Except as amended by the Amendment, the remaining terms of the Credit Agreement remain in full force and effect.

The foregoing does not purport to be a complete description of the terms of the Amendment and such description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.