diff --git a/Source/cmTarget.cxx b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
index 1dad742cc..eb1756154 100644
--- a/Source/cmTarget.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
@@ -1164,7 +1164,8 @@ const char* cmTarget::GetProperty(const std::string& prop,
       }
     }
     // Support "<CONFIG>_LOCATION".
-    else if (cmHasLiteralSuffix(prop, "_LOCATION")) {
+    else if (cmHasLiteralSuffix(prop, "_LOCATION") &&
+             !cmHasLiteralPrefix(prop, "XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_")) {
       std::string configName(prop.c_str(), prop.size() - 9);
       if (configName != "IMPORTED") {
         if (!this->HandleLocationPropertyPolicy(context)) {
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 0684d5798..d43c80d77 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 include(RunCMake)
 
 run_cmake(XcodeFileType)
+run_cmake(XcodeAttributeLocation)
 run_cmake(XcodeAttributeGenex)
 run_cmake(XcodeAttributeGenexError)
 run_cmake(XcodeObjectNeedsEscape)
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/XcodeAttributeLocation-check.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/XcodeAttributeLocation-check.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f5513173
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/XcodeAttributeLocation-check.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+set(expect "DEPLOYMENT_LOCATION = YES")
+file(STRINGS ${RunCMake_TEST_BINARY_DIR}/XcodeAttributeLocation.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj actual
+  REGEX "DEPLOYMENT_LOCATION = .*;" LIMIT_COUNT 1)
+if(NOT "${actual}" MATCHES "${expect}")
+  message(SEND_ERROR "The actual project contains the line:\n ${actual}\n"
+    "which does not match expected regex:\n ${expect}\n")
+endif()
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/XcodeAttributeLocation.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/XcodeAttributeLocation.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ab5528a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/XcodeProject/XcodeAttributeLocation.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+enable_language(C)
+add_executable(some main.c)
+set_property(TARGET some PROPERTY XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEPLOYMENT_LOCATION YES)