Weingarten Realty Investors operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The company engages in the management, acquisition, and development of real estate. It operates in two segments, Shopping Center and Industrial. The Shopping Center segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of real estate, primarily anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers located in Texas, California, Louisiana, Arizona, Nevada, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Utah, Kentucky, and Maine. Its customer base includes supermarkets, discount retailers, drugstores, and other retailers. The Industrial segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of bulk warehouses and office/service centers. Its properties are located in Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Florida, California, and Tennessee. As of June 30, 2005, Weingarten Realty Investors owned or operated under long-term leases, directly or through its interest in joint ventures or partnerships, a total of 350 developed properties and 3 properties that are in various stages of development. Its properties include 294 shopping centers and 59 industrial properties. Weingarten Realty Investors qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be taxed on the portion of its income, which is distributed to shareholders, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income. The company was founded in 1948 and is based in Houston, Texas.

EastGroup Properties points its compass all across the Sunbelt. The self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) invests in, develops, and manages industrial properties, with a particular emphasis on Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California. EastGroup specializes in operating multi-tenant distribution and bulk distribution facilities, from 5,000 to 50,000 sq. ft. in size, located near major transportation hubs. Its portfolio includes more than 200 industrial properties and one office building, totaling more than 27 million sq. ft. of leasable space. The REIT has developed build-to-suit projects for clients including United Stationers Supply Company and Dal-Tile Corporation.

Newcastle Building Society is one of the leading and strongest mutual building societies in the UK with in excess of £4.5 billion. We have more branches than any other building society in the North East, yet we are still small enough to care deeply about our members, employees and the communities we serve.As a mutual organisation, our profits are invested back into the business and not paid out in the form of dividends to a limited number of shareholders. We are committed to the principles of mutuality, which means putting you, the customer, first.You can view our Customer Charter which details the core values of our business and explains our service commitments.

Rancho Mission Viejo is doin' it 'til the cows come home. The working cattle ranch is 23,000 acres of land in Southern California's Orange County, including more than 500 acres of citrus groves. It is a producer of lemons, as well as avocados, beans, and barley. Purchased in 1882 by Richard O'Neill, Sr. and James Flood, the ranch has been owned and managed by members of the O'Neill family and its descendants. A majority of the land is reserved as permanent open space for parks and wilderness reserves, while other portions are leased out for business and industrial uses, such as sand and gravel mining, seed collection and plant growing, and aerospace, telecommunications, and utilities operations.

G&L Realty ("GLR") is a real estate developer and investor that owns, acquires, develops, manages and leases healthcare properties. G&L was founded in 1975 and has become one of the leading Medical Office building landlords in Southern California. GLR currently consists of investments, made either directly or through joint ventures, in medical office buildings ("MOB"), assisted living facilities ("ALF") and skilled nursing facilities ("SNF"). GLR owns over 1,000,000 square feet of "class A" MOB's in California, with a high concentration of "trophy" buildings in the heart of Beverly Hills, CA, two blocks from World famous Rodeo Drive.

Flocke & Avoyer knows RETAIL. Since its founding in 1985, Flocke & Avoyer has completed over $3.5 billion in total lease and sales consideration (3,500 transactions), effectively making it one of the most reputable retail brokerage firms in Southern California. Our clients have entrusted us for 25 years with their most valuable assets, holdings and portfolios, all the while navigating the ever-changing waters in the retail marketplace.

PS Business Parks, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, ownership, and operation of commercial properties primarily multi-tenant flex, office, and industrial space. As of December 31, 2007, the company owned and operated approximately 19.6 million rentable square feet of commercial space located in Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, as well as managed approximately 1.4 million rentable square feet. It also owned approximately 6.4 acres of land in Northern Virginia; 14.9 acres in Portland, Oregon; and 10.0 acres in Dallas, Texas for the development of commercial properties. PS Business Parks has elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code and would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1983. It was formerly known as Public Storage Properties XI, Inc. and changed its name to PS Business Parks, Inc. in 1998. The company is based in Glendale, California.

Genesis Land is involved in the construction of residential and commercial properties, and the acquisition and sale of land in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. The company builds single-family homes under the Reliant, Evolutions, and Majestic Homes trade names, and builds apartment complexes under the Generations Group of Companies banner. It also develops commercial shopping centers and mixed-use properties in urban areas of Alberta. Genesis Land has an inventory of some 14,000 single-family and multifamily residential building sites and more than 300 acres of commercial and industrial land in the Calgary, Alberta metropolitan area, plus an additional 10,000 residential sites elsewhere in Western Canada.

Corio is a retail property company. It specialises in the selection, development, redevelopment and management of shopping centres. Currently Corio has operations in six countries: the Netherlands, where its headquarters are located, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Germany. The company’s shares are traded on Euronext NYSE in Amsterdam. Under Dutch law Corio is a closedend fiscal investment institution (FBI). It has a SIIC status in France. As of March 2008, Corio has been included in the Dutch blue-chip index of 25 leading shares, the AEX and the FTSE4 Good index. Corio wants to create favourite meeting places: sustainable centres where people like to meet, spend their leisure time and shop; places they want to return to.

Douglas Jemal was born in Brooklyn, New York, and came to Washington, DC, in 1966. Mr. Jemal began his career in the retail trade with a small store on 7th Street, NW. He soon expanded into the electronics and music business. By the mid-1980’s he had created one of the most successful retail electronics chains in the nation.

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