PMC Commercial Trust likes lending to little businesses. The real estate investment trust (REIT) makes small business loans, primarily to limited-service hotel franchisees. The loans, ranging from $100,000 to $4 million, are secured by first liens on real estate and written for hotel owner/operators of national franchises such as Comfort Inn and Holiday Inn Express. PMC Commercial Trust also lends to owners of convenience stores, restaurants, and other small businesses. About 20% of its loan portfolio is concentrated in Texas. Subsidiaries are active in Small Business Administration (SBA) lending and in investing (as small business investment companies, or SBICs). The company was founded in 1993.

Founded in 1993, Franklin American Mortgage Company (FAMC), a privately-held mortgage banking firm located in Franklin, Tennessee, is a full-service professional mortgage banker licensed to provide residential mortgages across the nation. FAMC, which offers a host of diverse, flexible mortgage packages for customers with a variety of backgrounds and needs, is committed to helping families and individuals achieve the dream of home ownership through its three divisions: retail, wholesale and correspondent. An emerging leader in the mortgage industry, Franklin American Mortgage Company is fast becoming a preferred lender for consumers and mortgage professionals across the country. The Company’s Correspondent Lending division was designed to service small to large lenders across the nation. The Correspondent Lending division was created to harness FAMC’s growing national presence to provide high-quality services and products to these institutions and their customers. This will help smaller lenders compete with larger “mega banks” in an increasingly tight market.The Company’s Wholesale division funds and underwrites loans for mortgage brokers, offering efficiency and scalability through superior technology. FAMC’s Retail division offers individuals throughout the United States the opportunity to work directly with the Company to secure a mortgage.FAMC offers borrowers, brokers and lenders the strength and security of a forward-thinking national mortgage company, dedicated to remaining an industry trendsetter. FAMC truly values its relationship with each customer and mortgage professional they work with, maintaining a company tradition of responsiveness and personalized service characteristic of a much smaller organization. This philosophy has enabled FAMC to become one of the fastest growing mortgage bankers in the nation.This growth rate has enabled Franklin American to become a six-time recipient of the Inc. 500 Award, subsequently entering the Company into the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame. Additionally, the Company has twice been recognized by Business Nashville Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in middle Tennessee and was awarded top honors for the Small Business Award by the Nashville Business Journal. The Company is also a three time recipient of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and The Tennessean Music City Future 50 Award.Franklin American Mortgage Company is based in Franklin, TN with offices throughout the country. The company is FHA Direct Endorsed, VA Automatic, a LAPP authority and a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae Approved seller/servicer.

CYS is a specialty finance company that was created with the objective of achieving consistent risk-adjusted investment income. We seek to achieve this objective by investing on a leveraged basis in residential mortgage pass-through securities for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or Freddie Mac, or the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae, and collateralized by single-family residential mortgage loans. We refer to these securities as Agency RMBS. We have elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes.Our Chief Executive Officer and President, Kevin E. Grant, was a senior portfolio manager and member of the Aggregate Bond Team at Fidelity Investments, where he managed fixed income assets including the Mortgage Securities Fund, the Investment Grade Bond Fund, the Total Bond Fund, the fixed income portion of the Fidelity Puritan Fund and the Strategic Income Fund. Our investment team averages over 20 years’ experience in the fields of MBS, structured finance, and corporate finance. Our portfolio managers have experience managing assets through the various interest rate and credit cycles since the early 1980s, and have the proven ability to generate risk-adjusted investment income in these environments. The Company was founded in January 2006, and is managed by Cypress Sharpridge Advisors LLC, a joint venture between Cypress CSI Advisors LLC, a sponsor of private equity funds and leveraged buyouts of U.S. companies, and Sharpridge Capital Management, L.P., a specialist fixed income asset management company founded by Kevin E. Grant, our Chief Executive Officer.

Childress Klein develops, owns, leases, and manages commercial real estate in the southeastern US. It owns some 20 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use space, mostly in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, metropolitan areas. (Nearly 60% of its portfolio is office buildings and business centers.) The company's projects include Atlanta Galleria and LakePointe Corporate Center as well as the Wachovia Center, a two-block office, residential, and hospitality complex in downtown Charlotte.

Ambling Companies doesn't mind keeping the pace steady when it comes to developing residential real estate. Through five independent divisions, the firm owns, develops, constructs, and manages properties throughout the US. Ambling's construction arm builds multi-family, senior, and affordable housing (more than 4,000 units total), while its development arm acquires multi-family communities in need of rehabilitation (more than 8,800 units developed). It also develops student housing and luxury residential communities along the Florida coast

Extensa develops and invests in commercial, industrial, and residential real estate. A subsidiary of holding company Ackermans & van Haaren, the company manages a portfolio worth more than E500 million ($650 million), including the holdings of publicly traded real estate investment trust Leasinvest Real Estate , in which Extensa owns a 30% stake. Extensa also redevelops inner-city properties for a combination of office, retail, and living space. The company is looking to Central and Eastern Europe for expansion and has offices in Romania, Slovakia, and Turkey, in addition to its core markets Belgium and Luxembourg.

Bimini Capital Management, Inc. (OTCBB: BMNM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in, but is not limited to, residential mortgage-related securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae). Our objective is to earn returns on the spread between the yield on our assets and our costs, including the interest expense on the funds we borrow. Bimini Capital Management, Inc. is headquartered in Vero Beach, Fla.

Elbit Imaging Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the initiation, construction, operation, management, and sale of commercial and entertainment centers, and other mixed-use projects in central and eastern Europe, and India. It also operates and manages hotels primarily in European cities. In addition, the company engages in the research and development, production, and marketing of magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound treatment equipment; distribution and marketing of fashion apparel and accessories in Israel; and venture capital investments business.

Cornish & Carey (C&C) provides commercial real estate services to owners, investors, and tenants in Northern California. The firm specializes in office, industrial, retail, research and development, warehouse, and multifamily residential properties. There are some 250 C&C agents in about a dozen offices who provide services such as acquisition and sales, leasing, facilities management, and financial advice. The firm's special assets services division, C&C Capital Advisors, helps sell performing and sub-performing loans and seeks out opportunities to buy discounted, off-market assets. C&C, which is active in global markets through its affiliation with ONCOR International, was founded in 1935.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Grandbridge, one of the largest full-service commercial and multifamily mortgage banking companies in the nation, arranges permanent commercial and multifamily real estate loans, services loan portfolios, and provides asset and portfolio management as well as real estate brokerage services on a national basis. The company has a broad capital provider base that includes insurance companies, pension fund advisors, and commercial banks as well as a proprietary lending platform.Grandbridge is a Fannie Mae DUS® (Delegated Underwriting and Servicing) lender, a Freddie Mac Program Plus® Seller/Servicer and Targeted Affordable Housing Lender, and an active participant in FHA-insured loan products as a MAP-approved multifamily lender and a LEAN-approved healthcare lender.

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