Sperry Van Ness is very big on commercial real estate. The company's services include brokerage, asset management, financial services, and property management. Sperry Van Ness touts its technology-driven method of marketing its clients' real estate assets -- including multifamily, retail, office, industrial, and hospitality properties -- to thousands of outside brokers and investors. Sperry Van Ness has expanded rapidly, from serving some nine US markets in 2001 to more than 150 markets in 2008. It also operates international offices in Costa Rica and Panama.

Sotogrande is all about living "la vida del lujo" (the life of luxury). The 5,000-acre resort and residential development sits on the tip of Spain's southern coast. Sotogrande is a community of multimillion-dollar homes in private subdivisions, high-end resorts, a marina, beaches, and private schools, but it's most famous for its polo fields and golf courses. (The Valderrama golf course hosts the Volvo Masters every year). The Sotogrande concept was devised by an American, Joseph McMicking, who in 1962 bought five farms (one of which was named Sotogrande) to develop into a coastal resort community.

Belz, a leader in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of the South’s largest commercial and industrial real estate developers with interests throughout the Mid-South and much of the country.Belz develops, owns and manages warehouse/ distribution, retail, office/showroom, factory outlet malls, apartments/residential developments, land and hotels. Belz total property holdings include more than 20 million square feet of developed property

Brookfield Office Properties (formerly BPO Properties) provides space for the office gentry. The real estate investment trust (REIT) owns and manages about 30 commercial properties in Canada, mainly high-end office real estate in Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The company also develops commercial properties. Its holdings, which include Exchange Tower, home of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and Calgary's Bankers Hall, one of western Canada's largest office complexes, total approximately 20 million sq. ft. of space. Major tenants include Bank of Montreal, Imperial Oil, Petro-Canada, and the Canadian government.

Kushner Companies which once owned and managed some 8 million sq. ft. of property, drastically reduced its apartment holdings by selling more than 17,000 units in 2007. The company's hotel division continues to be run by Westminster Hospitality. Westminster Communities, the firm's construction division, develops property in the Northeast.

Panattoni develops, leases and owns, industrial, office and retail projects in more than 175 cities throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. The company client list includes over 500 companies. Panattoni has expanded and enhanced relationships with tenants, brokers and investors across all sectors of the commercial real estate market.

There are three certainties -- life, death, and mortgage payments -- and Security National Financial has you covered on all fronts. Its largest unit, SecurityNational Mortgage, makes residential and commercial mortgage loans through more than 20 offices in a dozen states. Its Security National Life, Memorial Insurance Company, Capital Reserve Life Insurance, and other subsidiaries sell life and health insurance, annuities, and funeral plans in about 40 states. Security National Financial also owns about 20 mortuaries and cemeteries in Utah, Arizona, and California

Parkway Properties, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the operation, acquisition, ownership, management, and leasing of office properties. It operates and invests principally in office properties in the southeastern and southwestern United States and Chicago. The company also offers real estate services. As of April 1, 2005, Parkway Properties had an interest in 64 office properties located in 11 states. It leased office properties to approximately 1,317 customers that comprise various industries, including government agencies, banking, professional services, energy, financial services, and telecommunications. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Parkway Properties is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

We are the largest publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership and leasing of service stations, convenience stores and petroleum distribution terminals in the United States. We provide financing to the petroleum and convenience store industries for acquisitions, site upgrades and refinancing through our sale/leaseback and net lease financing programs. We own or lease approximately 1,050 service station and convenience store properties and nine petroleum distribution terminals in twenty-one states. We were founded in 1955 with the ownership of one gasoline service station in New York City and historically operated as an integrated wholesale and retail marketer and owner of gasoline stations. As our business grew, we combined real estate ownership, leasing and management with petroleum supply and distribution. We had our initial public offering in 1971 under the name Power Test Corp. In 1997, we spun-off our petroleum marketing business to our shareholders as a separate NYSE listed company, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by a subsidiary of OAO Lukoil, one of Russia's largest integrated oil companies. We lease approximately 78% of our properties to Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. on a long-term net basis. The balance of the properties are leased to individual operators and petroleum distributors.

Capital & Counties (Capco) invests in, develops, and manages commercial properties in the UK and the US. The firm's portfolio is concentrated in central London's West End and West London, and contains some 3.5 million sq. ft. of retail, office, and mixed-use space. Capco also owns exhibition, conference, and events company Earls Court & Olympia. In the US, Capco owns some 2.6 million sq. ft. of commercial space in California. The firm also has operations in China. Former parent company Liberty International spun Capco off in 2010 to focus on its Capital Shopping Centres unit (even adopting the Capital name).

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