FORM 3UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Morey Thomas C

(Last)(First)(Middle)
6110 EXECUTIVE BLVD., SUITE 800

(Street)
ROCKVILLEMD20852

(City)(State)(Zip)
2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
10/07/2008
3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
WASHINGTON REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST [WRE]
4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director10% Owner
XOfficer (give title below)Other (specify below)
S.V.P. & General Counsel
5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
XForm filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) 2. Amount of Securities Owned (Instr. 4) 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)4. Conversion or Excercise Price of Derivative Security 5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Date ExercisableExpiration DateTitleAmount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
No securities are beneficially owned

Thomas C. Morey10/14/2008
** Signature of Reporting PersonDate
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Laura M. Franklin signing singly, the undersigneds true and lawful attorney 
in fact to: 

  (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigneds
  capacity as an officer and or Trustee of WRIT (the "Trust"), Forms 3, 4, and
  5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  and the rules thereunder; 

  (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
  which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
  Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments
  thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities
  and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
  (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
  foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact, may be of benefit 
  to,in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
  understood that the documents executed by such attorney in fact on behalf
  of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form
  and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney in fact may
  approve in such attorney in facts discretion. 

The undersigned hereby grants such attorney in fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or 
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact, or 
such attorney in facts substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to 
be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein 
granted.   The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney in fact, 
in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not 
assuming, nor is the Trust assuming, any of the undersigneds responsibilities 
to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the 
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to 
the undersigneds holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the 
Trust, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered 
to the foregoing attorneys in fact.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this __7___ day of ___October___ , __2008_. 
 
___/s/THOMAS C. MOREY___________________
   Signature





 
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