West Bromwich Building Society teetered on the brink of collapse in 2009 before it struck a debt-for-equity deal with creditors. The West Brom also made workforce cuts and pulled the plug on pension benefits in order to cut costs. The society is looking into a number of corporate changes, including a possible headquarters move, name change, and/or expansion into Birmingham.One of the 10 largest building societies in the UK, West Bromwich Building Society (aka the West Brom) has about 50 branches in the West Midlands region of England. It provides home mortgages and a variety of savings products (including ISAs. Struggling under the weight of bad subprime, buy-to-let, and commercial property loans.

Big Yellow Group may conjure up an image of giant bananas, but they want their storage properties to be the main appeal. The company owns and operates some 60 self-storage facilities in the UK (and has several more under development), most of which are located in London. Closing in on 3.5 million square feet of space, Big Yellow acquires and develops its distinctive big yellow storage sites at highly visible locations; it offers 24-hour security and unlimited visits to it customers. Expanding outside the UK, the company has acquired property in the United Arab Emirates. In 2009, Big Yellow acquired the 10-unit Armadillo Self Storage portfolio. Big Yellow became a real estate investment trust (REIT) in 2007.

SL Green Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The firm engages in the property management, acquisitions, financing, development, construction, and leasing. It also provides tenant services to its clients. The firm invests in real estate markets of the United States. It primarily invests in commercial office and retail properties. SL Green Realty Corp. was founded in 1970 and is based in New York, New York.

Alexander's knows what's great about real estate. The real estate investment trust (REIT) owns, manages, and leases about a half-dozen properties totaling about 3.5 million sq. ft. in metropolitan New York City. Once a department store chain, Alexander's held on to its property interests, including the site of its erstwhile flagship store -- an entire block on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. The REIT leases space at the mixed-use Lexington site to tenants such as Bloomberg, Citibank, The Home Depot, and The Container Store. The Lexington site is also home to about 100 condominiums. Bloomberg accounts for about a third of the REIT's sales.

Marden Homes purchases land, constructs homes and apartments, and carries out major refurbishments and extensions. Its developments range from midsized extensions to housing association projects. The company acquires residential and commercial properties for development throughout Greater London and the Home Counties. Marden also provides refurbishment, extension, and design services.

The Lion Group was established in the 1930’s and today, has operations in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, USA, Mexico, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Its main businesses are steel, motor, tyre, computer, plantation, retail and property development. Since 1992, the Group has also ventured into China with operations in the retail, automotive and tyre businesses.

Colony Financial, Inc. is a commercial real estate finance company engaged in acquiring, originating, investing in, financing and managing a diversified portfolio of real estate-related debt investments, with a primary focus on commercial mortgage loans (which may be performing, sub-performing or non-performing loans), CMBS, mezzanine loans, real estate owned properties, debtor-in-possession loans, B-notes, bridge loans and other commercial real estate-related debt investments. We are externally managed and advised by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Colony Capital, LLC, a privately-held independent global real estate investment firm founded in 1991 by Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., which has an extensive global footprint and corresponding infrastructure, with over 250 employees operating in a total of 12 offices in 9 countries. This global infrastructure provides Colony Capital, LLC's acquisition team with proprietary market knowledge, exceptional sourcing capabilities and the local presence required to identify and execute complex transactions.

EBL&S Development and affiliates have operated as real estate development, acquisition and management companies under the control of a senior leadership team that has been in place continuously for over 35 years. Over the past three and a half decades, the EBL&S group of companies has developed, redeveloped, managed, financed, refinanced and/or restructured over 200 commercial projects. During the height of the real estate market from 2004 through early 2008, EBL&S was an active seller of properties, disposing of holdings at the highest prices in the company's history.

Schlosser Development is a unique and growing property development and property management company based in Austin, Texas. We specialize in knowing the buying public and building retail environments especially suited for that buying public. We have developed and manage over 2,000,000 square feet of retail. Currently, we have another 750,000 square feet under development. Click below for more information on our company, our history, and our philosophy.

n the 1930s, the late Teo Teck Huat founded a building construction business. A historical landmark project is the original Cathay Cinema. Following the incorporation of the Company in 1970 under the name Teo Teck Huat Enterprises (Private) Limited, the Group continues to expand in the building construction and property development business. Subsequently, it changed its name to Teo Teck Huat Investments Pte Ltd and later to Amara Holdings Pte Ltd. Amara Holdings Limited was listed on SGX Sesdaq on 15 August 1997 and transferred to SGX Mainboard on 10 July 2000.

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