Nationwide Health Properties is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in residential care facilities and medical office buildings throughout the US. It owns a portfolio of more than 600 properties, including senior housing facilities and long-term care facilities, which it leases to health care operators. Most of the REIT's properties are leased under long-term triple-net leases, under which the tenant pays for all expenses including property taxes, maintenance, and insurance. Nationwide Health Properties' largest tenants are Brookdale Senior Living and Hearthstone Senior Services, each accounting for more than 10% of total revenues.

Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. engages in marketing and selling vacation intervals in the United States. The company develops and acquires timeshare resorts; and markets and sells one-week annual and biennial vacation intervals to new owners. It also engages in marketing and selling upgrade and additional week vacation intervals to its owners. In addition, the company provides financing for the purchase of vacation intervals, as well as operates timeshare resorts under management agreements. Further, for its owners, the company owns and operates a hotel near the Winter Park recreational area in Colorado. As of December 31, 2009, the company owned 13 timeshare resorts, including 7 getaway resorts in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, and Georgia; and 6 destination resorts in Texas, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Florida. It markets vacation intervals to individuals primarily through direct mail and telephone solicitation. Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Cogdell Spencer puts its money where your health is. The self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) acquires, develops, and manages health care properties, including surgery centers, medical office buildings, and rehabilitation facilities, most of which are located on hospital campuses. It owns or manages about 110 properties, totaling nearly 6 million sq. ft. of space in a dozen states. The majority of its properties are located on hospital campuses in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Subsidiary Erdman designs and builds health care facilities. Erdman has provided planning, engineering, construction, and related services for more than 5,000 properties throughout the US.

Ventas, Inc. owns about 600 health care properties, including some 250 senior housing communities, about 200 skilled nursing facilities, and some 150 hospitals and medical office buildings. Its properties are located throughout the US and in two Canadian provinces; California and Illinois are its largest markets. Ventas leases more than a third of its properties to long-term care providers Sunrise Senior Living, Brookdale Senior Living, and Kindred Healthcare.

The origins of Renta Corporación date back to 1991, when a small group of young professionals, led by Luis Hernández de Cabanyes, now the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Renta Corporación, founded a company in Barcelona specialising in buying and selling parking spaces. The business of Renta Corporación has since undergone strong, steady growth as a result of an investment strategy that has gradually extended the type of properties acquired, their average size and geographical distribution.

Rugby Estates Plc was formed in 1990 by David Tye, Andrew Wilson and Stephen Jones, who had previously worked together as a successful management team at Rugby Securities Limited, part of the Hillsdown Holdings Group. Shares in Rugby Estates were first listed on the London Stock Exchange in April 1994.

DiamondRock Hospitality must be an investor's best friend. Operating as an umbrella partnership real estate investment trust (UPREIT), DiamondRock primarily functions through its taxable REIT subsidiary Bloodstone TRS. It owns (but does not operate) about 20 upper upscale full-service hotels with more than 9,500 rooms in North America, with an emphasis on such markets as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta. Its hotels are all operated under brands owned by Marriott International, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, and Hilton Worldwide.

Berkshire Property Advisors, L.L.C., is the operating entity of The Berkshire Group that is responsible for the property management of its multifamily portfolio and a series of funds including the Berkshire Income Realty Fund, a $600 million Real Estate Investment trust and Berkshire Multifamily Value Funds I and II. Berkshire Multifamily Value Fund I is a $300 million dollar real estate fund and Berkshire Multifamily Fund II is a $600 million Fund positioned to provide value-added investment returns by rehabilitating, redeveloping and repositioning high-quality multifamily real estate in major markets and submarkets throughout the United States.Berkshire Property Advisors core competency is in the multifamily real estate segment and is widely recognized as a fully integrated multifamily investment management firm. With properties extending throughout the United States, Berkshire Property Advisors provides investors with national reach and local market presence and expertise.Through a series of predecessor entities the Berkshire story goes back to 1969. Since that time Berkshire's senior management has witnessed impressive expansions in the real estate markets and prevailed through significant declines. These shifting economic and real estate market conditions called for management's resourcefulness in determining appropriate financial structure and property portfolio mix. Ownership structures have included both public and private limited partnerships, a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust and a subsequent $1.3 billion privatization of the company. Today there are more than 26,000 apartment units under management and a period of rapid growth is forecasted.Berkshire Property Advisors is located in Boston, Massachusetts. There is a national office located in Atlanta, Georgia with regional and district offices located in Texas, Maryland and Florida. Throughout Berkshire's history, the company's guiding principle has remained a commitment to providing exceptional service to residents and a challenging and rewarding work environment for staff. Sustained by this foundation, the company has been able to capitalize on its experience in the financial markets to create economic opportunities within the real estate industry.

Kenmore invests in and develops commercial properties throughout the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. The company acquires (independently and in joint-venture arrangements) land for development as well as existing buildings for refurbishment; its portfolio is comprised of industrial, office, and retail properties. Kenmore, in a partnership with other investors, controls a 93-store grocery chain in Sweden; it also holds interests in France and Norway. Chairman John Kennedy founded Kenmore in 1986. Kenmore announced a restructuring in 2009, placing 21 companies in its group into administration and two other into receivership.

Burroughs & Chapin Company's presence in Horry County (pronounced O-Ree) and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, began more than a century ago when Franklin G. Burroughs settled in nearby antebellum Conway and recognized the potential of the turpentine business there. As Burroughs' turpentine and mercantile business grew, Conway flourished as a primary destination on the Waccamaw River. Riverboats like the "F.G. Burroughs" linked Horry County to the rest of the world.

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