BlackRock Announces Shareholder Approval of Certain Municipal CEF Reorganizations

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $BFK--BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that, at shareholder meetings held on October 15, 2025 and November 20, 2025, shareholders of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) have approved the following reorganizations or mergers, as applicable (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, the “Reorganizations”): Reorganization of BlackRock Long-Term Municipal Advantage Trust (BTA) with and into BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, I.

Business Wire • Nov 20, 2025

BlackRock Announces Updated Distribution Pay Dates for its Municipal Closed-End Funds

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $BFK--The BlackRock municipal closed-end funds listed below (the “Funds”) announced today their July 2025 distribution payable date has been updated to 7/31/2025. The prior press release listed the payable date for the July 2025 distribution as 8/1/2025. No other changes are being made to the information announced in the prior press release. Municipal Funds: Declaration- 7/1/2025    Ex-Date- 7/15/2025    Record- 7/15/2025    Payable- 7/31/2025   National Funds   Ticker Dist.

Business Wire • Jul 8, 2025

BlackRock Announces Board Approvals Seeking to Deliver Significant Scale Benefits to Municipal CEF Shareholders

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $BFK--BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that each of the Boards of Directors/Trustees of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) has approved the following reorganizations and mergers (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, the “Reorganizations”), as applicable: These include a number of previously approved reorganizations: 1-21-2025 Press Release. Reorganization of BlackRock Long-Term Municipal Advantage Trust (BTA).

Business Wire • Jun 9, 2025

BlackRock Announces Board Approval of Closed-End Fund Reorganizations

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $BFK--BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that each of the Boards of Directors/Trustees of each of the closed-end funds named below (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”) has approved the following reorganizations (each, a “Reorganization” and collectively, the “Reorganizations), as applicable: BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II (NYSE: BLE), BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust (NYSE: BYM) and BlackRock Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: BFK) into BlackRock Muni.

Business Wire • Jan 21, 2025

BlackRock Announces Management Fee Waiver for Certain Closed-End Funds

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $BFK--The BlackRock closed-end funds (each a “Fund,” and collectively the “Funds”) listed below announced today the implementation of voluntary management fee waivers, effective May 1, 2024. Under the terms of this initiative, BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BlackRock”) intends to waive management fees if certain conditions, detailed below, are met. In addition, BlackRock will be waiving an additional one-time $2 million in management/advisory fees pro-rata across the Funds. “We.

Business Wire • May 20, 2024

Certain BlackRock Municipal Closed-End Funds Announce Variable Rate Muni Term Preferred Shares Actions

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlackRock Advisors, LLC today announced BlackRock Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: BFK), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BKN), BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II (NYSE: BLE), BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust (NYSE: BYM), BlackRock MuniHoldings Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MHD), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II, Inc. (NYSE: MQT), BlackRock MuniHoldings Quality Fund II, Inc. (NYSE: MUE), BlackRock MuniVest Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MVF), and BlackRock MuniVest Fund II, Inc. (NYSE: MVT) (collectively, the “Funds”) intend to redeem a portion of their outstanding Series W-7 Variable Rate Muni Term Preferred Shares (“VMTP Shares”) on or about November 24, 2023, at a redemption price equal to the liquidation preference of $100,000 per share, together with accumulated and unpaid dividends through the day prior to the redemption date. Shareholders are expected to benefit from lower expenses as a result of the redemptions.

Business Wire • Nov 2, 2023

Municipal Closed-End Funds: Near-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain?

Municipal Closed-End Funds: Near-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain?.

Seeking Alpha • Apr 26, 2023

CORRECTING and REPLACING BlackRock Closed-End Fund Share Repurchase Program Update

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release dated April 11, 2023, with the following corrected version due to changes in the table, "Summary of share repurchase activity since Repurchase Program inception as of March 31, 2023".

Business Wire • Apr 14, 2023

BlackRock Announces Fiscal Year End Changes for Certain Municipal Closed-End Funds

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BlackRock”) announced today a change to the fiscal year end (“FYE”) for each Fund listed below. These changes were made to reduce operating costs for the Funds and will be effective as of July 31, 2022. Ticker (NYSE) Fund Current FYE New FYE BKN BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. 4/30 7/31 BTA BlackRock Long-Term Municipal Advantage Trust 4/30 7/31 MUA BlackRock MuniAssets Fund, Inc. 4/30 7/31 MUI BlackRock Municipal Income Fu

Business Wire • Jun 3, 2022