The Shaner Hotel Group buys, renovates, repositions, re-brands, and builds hotels. The company owns and manages more than 20 hotels containing around 3,500 rooms in 15 states, mainly in the East and the South. Shaner's hotels are affiliated with several major brands, including Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn, Marriott, and Radisson. In addition to maintaining its existing portfolio of hotels, the company also is working together with investors and colleges and universities to develop new hotels on or near campuses. Shaner is affiliated with business services outsourcing firm Shaner Solutions.

Acadia owns or has interests in some 80 properties -- mostly shopping centers anchored by a grocery store, drug store, or big box store -- that contain more than 10 million sq. ft. of leasable space. It also has investments in self-storage properties, mortgage loans, and other real estate interests. The company's largest tenants include A&P, SUPERVALU, The TJX Companies, and Wal-Mart.A self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), Acadia Realty acquires, redevelops, and manages retail properties in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest. The REIT specializes in community shopping centers and mixed-use properties in urban areas.

GVA Grimley is the go-to guy for UK property advice. The firm provides property consultancy services to owners, tenants, developers, investors, lenders, and landowners through a network of more than a dozen offices located throughout the UK. Acquisitions, sales and development, building consultancy, corporate occupier services, and investment advice are just a few offerings among its array of services aimed at both public- and private-sector clients. Its client roster has included the likes of BHP Billiton, Ernst & Young, and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. GVA Grimley is a member of GVA Worldwide.

The JH Snyder Company offers the capacity to design, finance, entitle, build and operate various types of real estate assets. JH Snyder is able to assume the team lead role through all stages of development, or can step in at any point along the project timeline to design and entitle, commence or complete construction, manage an asset and/or provide financial and accounting expertise. The company has a fully integrated staff, including finance, construction, asset management and property management.

Silver Grant International Industries invests gold in China and Hong Kong. Through about 20 partially and wholly owned subsidiaries, Silver Grant is involved in commercial and residential property development, investment, and management. It is also in the business of securities trading; infrastructure financing for such projects as roads, bridges, oil refineries, and pipelines; and distressed asset portfolio management. (In 2005 Silver Grant set up a joint venture with Citigroup, known as Platinum One Limited, to boost its distressed assets investments.) Silver Grant International operates in Hong Kong, Macao, and China.

Triple Five’s activities encompass the development, management and ownership of world-scale ventures in many fields including shopping centers, tourism projects, office buildings, municipal planning and development, revitalization programs and their implementation, urban entertainment destinations, recreation and amusement parks, hospitality projects, casino, residential developments, commercial and industrial real estate, auto and industrial manufacturing, natural resource development (oil, gas and minerals), technology, research, venture capital, banking and finance. Triple Five® develops, manages, owns and operates its world-wide enterprises through its staff of over 2,000.

Service Link founded in 1997, ServiceLink is owned by Fidelity National Financial subsidiary Chicago Title Insurance Company.Service Link, doing business as ServiceLink, is the tie that binds together several of the largest residential lending companies. A licensed title insurance agency, ServiceLink provides centralized mortgage and residential real estate title and closing services to institutional mortgage lenders and financial institutions, including most of the mortgage-lending firms in the US. Because the company provides closing management services from a centralized location, it claims to decrease processing time by days, if not weeks.

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.

Entertainment Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), develops, owns, leases, and finances entertainment and related properties in the United States and Canada. Its properties include megaplex theatres, entertainment retail centers, and destination recreational and specialty properties. As of December 31, 2007, the company had a real estate portfolio of 79 megaplex theatre properties located in 26 states in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada; 1 additional theatre property under development; 8 entertainment retail centers located in Westminster, Colorado, New Rochelle, New York, White Plains, New York, Burbank, California, and Ontario, Canada; and 1 additional entertainment retail center under development and land parcels leased to restaurant and retail operators. Entertainment Properties Trust qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code and would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Kaufman & Broad is one of France’s leading property developers and builders. In 40 years,we have built nearly 70,000 apartments and single-family homes as well as some 480,000 square meters of offices on behalf of third parties. The Company was the first property developer to be listed on the Premier Marché of the Paris Bourse, in 2000. Today, Kaufman & Broad has operations in Paris, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulon and Toulouse.

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