Hillwood Development invests in and develops commercial, industrial, and residential property throughout the US. Many of Hillwood's properties are located in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Projects in the group's portfolio include AllianceTexas, a mixed-use airport development; and the American Airlines Center, a sports and entertainment arena. Hillwood Residential develops master-planned communities, primarily in the Dallas area; its luxury properties arm has developed projects in Hawaii and Costa Rica, among other locations. Hillwood also invests in and sells land. Chairman Ross Perot, Jr., founded Hillwood Development in 1988.

Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) actually doesn't limit itself to hotel properties. The property investment, development, and management company has real estate holdings including hotels, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings in Asia, Australia, and Europe. It owns about 20 upscale hotels with a combined 4,000 rooms in tourist destinations, including resorts in Bali, Singapore, and the Maldives. Its hotel brands include Four Seasons and Hilton. Subsidiaries HPL Hotels & Resorts and Concorde Hotels and Resorts provide hotel management services.

Part of real estate finance and investment management company Ladder Capital Group, Ladder Capital Realty Finance will operate as a commercial real estate investment trust (REIT) targeting first mortgage loans secured by income-producing properties. Other investments will include senior commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other real estate-related assets. Externally managed by Ladder Capital Realty Finance Manager, an affiliate and indirect subsidiary of commercial finance company Ladder Capital Finance Holdings, Ladder Capital was formed and filed to go public in July 2009. It is currently backed by private equity firms TowerBrook Capital Partners and GI International (GI Partners).

Edens & Avant develops, owns and operates community-oriented shopping places in primary markets throughout the East Coast. Our expertise covers a broad range of areas including pioneering concepts, creating the right merchandise mix, delivering seamless construction projects and maintaining ownership and management.

In August 2005 it acquired A/S Emico, an electrical contracting and servicing operator in Estonia, through its YIT Building Systems subsidiary. The company was borne out of Yleinen Insinööritoimisto YIT, a water supply company that was established in 1912.YIT Corporation provides building, construction, and industrial and network services to customers in Scandinavia, the Baltic states, and Russia. The Finnish company's building systems operations -- including real estate management and building safety features -- are its largest segment. YIT also offers residential and civil construction, water and environmental services, and industrial piping, and marine services

Shaftesbury PLC,the real estate investment trust (REIT) buys, redevelops, and leases property in London's fashionable West End. It owns more than 400 mixed-use buildings, primarily in the Carnaby Street, Covent Garden, and Chinatown districts. Its portfolio includes more than 300 shops and 150 restaurants and bars, as well as about 500,000 sq. ft. of office space. Shaftesbury also leases more than 300 apartments located on the upper floors of some of its commercial properties. Its restaurant and retail tenants, however, account for most of its income. Peter Levy founded the company in 1986 by acquiring 32 properties in Chinatown, and he took Shaftesbury public a year later.

Bayerische Immobilien buys, sells, and rents properties in Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Dresden. The company's properties range from single offices in central locations to combined residential and office locations. Immobilien also leases retail, restaurant, and hotel properties Innerhalb der Bayerischen Hausbau ist das Leistungsspektrum in die drei Kerngeschäftsfelder Projektentwicklung, Immobilien und Immobilien Management gegliedert. Namentlich sind dies die Gesellschaften Bayerische Hausbau Projektentwicklung GmbH, Bayerische Hausbau Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG und Bayerische Hausbau Immobilien Management GmbH. Die Tochtergesellschaft Hanse Haus GmbH rundet mit dem Fertighausbau die Leistungspalette ab."

GPT has investments in Europe and the US but is selling most of its noncore assets to focus on commercial properties in Australia. In properties it trusts. GPT Group operates through units including General Properties Trust, one of Australia's largest real estate investment trusts (REITs), and funds manager GPT Management. The group develops, owns, and manages primarily retail, office, and industrial properties in Australia. Its largest segment is retail, which represents about half of revenues. GPT Group owns stakes in about 20 shopping centers with more than 1.1 million sq. meters of retail space. GPT Group also manages two property funds which have more than A$5.3 billion in assets under management.

In 2009 HOMEQ Corporation converted from an income trust to a corporation in order to operate CHIP as a deposit-taking bank; CHIP plans to change its name to HomEquity Bank. HOMEQ (formerly known as Home Equity Income Trust) invests directly and indirectly in reverse mortgages originated by its Canadian Home Income Plan (CHIP) subsidiary. Reverse mortgages allow homeowners over the age of 60 to stay in their homes while turning part of their home equity into a cash loan (CHIP typically loans up to about a third of the home's value); no interest or principal on the loan is due until the house is sold. HOMEQ's portfolio contains some 7,000 reverse mortgages worth more than $800 million

Public Storage operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). It engages in the acquisition, development, ownership, and operation of self-storage facilities in the United States and Europe. The company’s self-storage facilities offer storage spaces for lease on a month-to-month basis for personal and business use. Public Storage also has interests in commercial properties containing commercial and industrial rental space; facilities that lease storage containers; and ancillary operations, which include reinsurance of policies against losses to goods stored by its self-storage tenants, retail operations comprising merchandise sales and truck rental operations. As of December 31, 2008, the company had interests in 2,012 self-storage facilities with approximately 127 million net rentable square feet in 38 states; and 181 self-storage facilities with approximately 10 million net rentable square feet in 7 western European nations. It also had direct and indirect equity interests in approximately 21 million net rentable square feet of commercial space located in 11 states in the U.S. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Public Storage was founded in 1971 and is based in Glendale, California.

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