Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns independent living and assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes, wellness centers, and medical office, clinic and biotech laboratory buildings located throughout the United States. All of our properties are triple net leased, meaning that each tenant pays us rent, and also is responsible to pay all operating costs, taxes, insurance and maintenance costs that arise from the ownership and use of our property.SNH was created by CommonWealth REIT (NYSE: CWH) in 1998 and spun out to CWH's shareholders in 1999 as a separate publicly traded REIT on the New York Stock Exchange. We have been investment grade rated since 2010 and we are included in a number of financial indices, including the Russell Index 1000®, the MSCI US REIT Index, the S&P REIT Composite Index, the S&P 400 and the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT United States Index.

Gyrodyne Company of America, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the investment in and the acquisition, ownership, and management of a portfolio of properties. The company also involves in the development of industrial and residential properties. It focuses on acquiring, developing, owning, leasing, and managing medical, commercial, and industrial real estate. The company has elected to be taxed as REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax purposes, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in St. James, New York.

Seeking somebody to manage your multifamily properties? Don't skip Riverstone. Riverstone Residential provides third-party management services of apartment communities for property investors. It oversees some 650 high-rise, midrise, and garden-style properties (approximately 200,000 individual units) in major markets thoughout the US. Services include leasing and marketing, due diligence, resident screening, and debt collection. Riverstone serves institutional investors such as BlackRock as well as smaller investors such as Hamilton Zanze. The company was established when Trammell Crow Residential spun its property management business off in 2006.

Locindus owns, leases, and manages French commercial and industrial properties and provides credit for property financing and development. Real estate financing accounts for more than 97% of Locindus' sales. Locindus' holdings includes offices, shopping malls, health clinics, and retirement homes, as well as warehouses and factories. The company owns several subsidiaries, including Oxiane, which provides real estate project management services to such clients as Carrefour, and Scribe-Bail.

Origen Financial, Inc. is an internally-managed and internally advised company specializing in the manufactured housing finance business that has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust ("REIT"). Although no longer originating or servicing loans, we continue to manage an existing portfolio of approximately $1 billion of manufactured housing loans and asset backed securities. These loans were originated in the highest credit quality sectors of the manufactured housing finance industry using our proprietary credit scoring system and fully documented underwriting information. Loan performance to date has resulted in lower than average default and delinquency rates and higher than average recovery rates compared to the manufactured housing industry as a whole. Despite the recent turmoil in the housing markets, our portfolio continues to perform well.

Captec provides equity capital for new development, opportunistic acquisitions, rehabilitation and adaptive reuse throughout the United States. Our equity investments usually range in size from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000 with investment terms ranging from two to four years.The company provides property acquisition and sale services, as well as equity capital and equipment financing, to developers, investors, institutional owners, and retailers. It owns or manages a portfolio of assets worth more than $1 billion and has overseen more than $2 billion in net-leased property transactions.

Macklowe Properties, the Big Apple has gone a bit rotten. The investment company made a name for itself as developer, renovater, and manager of Midtown Manhattan real estate. It invested in upscale residential and office buildings, including the GM Building which it bought in 2003 for $1.4 billion (the most ever paid for an office building in the US). In 2008, the debt-ridden company sold the GM Building and several other assets at a loss. Its portfolio now includes about a half-dozen properties, including more for-sale properties. Creditors including Deutsche Bank have also sought foreclosures for unpaid mortgages. Macklowe was founded in the mid-1960s by chairman emeritus Harry Macklowe.

Whitestone REIT, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the investment and operation of retail, office, and warehouse properties located in the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Phoenix metropolitan areas. As of March 31, 2008, it owned and operated 37 properties. Whitestone REIT has elected to be treated as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Whitestone REIT, formerly known as Hartman Commercial Properties REIT, was founded in 1998 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G) is a mortgage services and savings account provider with some 165 branches in the UK. Cheltenham & Gloucester is a division of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed in 2009 when struggling banks Lloyds TSB and HBOS joined forces. Still beset by losses, Lloyds announced plans to close the entire C&G branch network (and cut some 1,660 jobs). Lloyds later said it would sell the mortgage unit rather than shut it down; it will continue to offer C&G-branded services via telephone, mail, or from one of more than 1,800 Lloyds branches. C&G was established as a mutual building society in 1850 and acquired by Lloyds in 1997.

The Koll Company, headquartered in Newport Beach, California, was founded by Donald Koll in 1962. The company was originally established as a regional general construction firm and rapidly grew into a leading real estate services company. Koll's track record includes the development of over 90 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space, and over forty years in the industry. Today the company is a well-capitalized full-service real estate operating company, which is operated by some of the most experienced and visionary managers in the industry.

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