Annaly Capital Management, Inc., a real estate investment trust, engages in the ownership, management, and financing of a portfolio of investment securities. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. invests primarily in mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations, agency callable debentures, and other mortgage-backed securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans. Annaly Capital also invests in Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and Federal National Mortgage Association debentures. The company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT). As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal corporate income tax, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. It was formerly known as Annaly Mortgage Management, Inc. and changed its name to Annaly Capital Management, Inc. in August 2006. Annaly Capital Management was incorporated in 1996 and is based in New York City.

HCP is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in, develops, and manages real estate that it leases to health care facilities, including senior living and skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, medical office buildings, and biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories. It has interests in about 700 properties in more than 40 states and Mexico, though nearly half of its holdings are in California and Texas. The company also provides mortgages and other financing to health care providers.

LSL Property Services plc (LSL) is one of the leading residential property services companies in the UK and provides a broad range of services to a wide range of customers including mortgage lenders together with buyers and sellers of residential properties .LSL’s operations cover four key areas; surveying, estate agency, corporate services and financial services.

Richmond Honan Medical Properties has partnered with health care providers and major hospital systems to build strong foundations for exceptional care-giving environments. Our business is real estate, but our inspirations are health, wellness and hope. We create, acquire and manage health-based facilities so doctors, hospital administrators and staffs can focus on what they do best – promoting the sound bodies and minds of their patients. With more than 6 million square feet of real estate developed or acquired specifically for the medical community over three generations, we understand the impact of successful relationships among patients, physicians and the spaces where healing begins.

Pacific Property Company is rather specific when it invests in multifamily residential properties. The company typically buys apartment communities, makes improvements to the properties, and sells them within five years. In the past Pacific Property Company mainly focused on California's coast and the Pacific Northwest. However, it has branched out with new investments in the Mid-Atlantic. Its portfolio includes some about 30 apartment properties. Since Pacific Property Company was established, it has acquired more than $2 billion in real estate assets. The company is part of the Marcus & Millichap group. CEO Alfred Pace co-founded Pacific Property Company in 1998.

The Irvine Company is a nearly 150-year-old, privately held best-of-class real estate investment company with operations throughout California. Its management structure is concentrated in two main operating groups: Community Development, an affiliate responsible for the planning and development of all for-sale residential housing communities and other land sales; and the Investment Properties Group, which plans and guides the development, marketing and management of the company’s large and diverse statewide portfolio of retail, office, apartment and resort properties.

Groothandelsgebouwen owns its own small slice of Rotterdam. The company owns and manages Rotterdam's Groothandelsgebouw business center. The structure houses a mix of light industrial, office, studio, and retail space and was built in part to symbolize the reconstruction of Rotterdam after WWII. The building, whose name means "large business building" was designed by architect Hugh Maaskant. The company whose name means "company that owns the large business building" doesn't have any significant holdings or operations beyond the Groothandelsgebouw.

Berkshire Property Advisors, L.L.C., is the operating entity of The Berkshire Group that is responsible for the property management of its multifamily portfolio and a series of funds including the Berkshire Income Realty Fund, a $600 million Real Estate Investment trust and Berkshire Multifamily Value Funds I and II. Berkshire Multifamily Value Fund I is a $300 million dollar real estate fund and Berkshire Multifamily Fund II is a $600 million Fund positioned to provide value-added investment returns by rehabilitating, redeveloping and repositioning high-quality multifamily real estate in major markets and submarkets throughout the United States.Berkshire Property Advisors core competency is in the multifamily real estate segment and is widely recognized as a fully integrated multifamily investment management firm. With properties extending throughout the United States, Berkshire Property Advisors provides investors with national reach and local market presence and expertise.Through a series of predecessor entities the Berkshire story goes back to 1969. Since that time Berkshire's senior management has witnessed impressive expansions in the real estate markets and prevailed through significant declines. These shifting economic and real estate market conditions called for management's resourcefulness in determining appropriate financial structure and property portfolio mix. Ownership structures have included both public and private limited partnerships, a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust and a subsequent $1.3 billion privatization of the company. Today there are more than 26,000 apartment units under management and a period of rapid growth is forecasted.Berkshire Property Advisors is located in Boston, Massachusetts. There is a national office located in Atlanta, Georgia with regional and district offices located in Texas, Maryland and Florida. Throughout Berkshire's history, the company's guiding principle has remained a commitment to providing exceptional service to residents and a challenging and rewarding work environment for staff. Sustained by this foundation, the company has been able to capitalize on its experience in the financial markets to create economic opportunities within the real estate industry.

The paths of Philip Maritz and Lew Wolff, both real estate investors/developers and St. Louis natives, crossed in 1992 and led to a breakfast meeting at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in St. Louis, where they discussed collaborating on potential investment projects. Two years later they formed the hotel investment group, Maritz, Wolff & Co., and acquired The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. Following the investment, through an innovative approach to ownership, Maritz, Wolff worked with The Ritz-Carlton’s management team to increase the property’s revenues by 14 percent and operating profits by 127 percent. During this period, the partners observed factors in the hotel industry indicating strong investment opportunities for top-tier urban and resort lodging properties.

iStar Financial Inc. operates as a finance company focusing on the commercial real estate industry. The company provides custom-tailored financing to high-end private and corporate owners of real estate. Its financing products include senior and mezzanine real estate debt, senior and mezzanine corporate capital, corporate net lease financing, and equity. The company also involves in corporate tenant leasing business, which provides capital to corporations and others who control facilities leased primarily to single creditworthy customers. As of December 31, 2008, iStar Financial owned 362 office, industrial, entertainment, hotel, and retail facilities in 39 states. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The iStar Financial Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.

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