Lea Associates, Inc., provides professional consulting and advisory services in real estate. Our services are diverse, but our most requested services are in appraisal, real estate decision-making support, tax impact analysis and expert testimony. Organized in 1976, Lea Associates is owned by the professionals who work here. We are one of the largest independent firms doing this kind of work in California. In fact, we have ranked among the top ten firms in our field in Los Angeles County.

BRE Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the development, acquisition, and management of multifamily apartment communities in the western United States. As of July 19, 2005, the company owned and operated 84 apartment communities totaling 23,826 units in California, Arizona, Washington, and Colorado. It also had 9 other properties in various stages of development and construction consisting of 2,339 units, as well as joint venture interests in 2 additional apartment communities comprising 488 units, as of the above date. The company has elected to be treated as a REIT and would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. BRE Properties was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Nakheel PJSC The developer is best known for constructing man-made islands that, when finished, will add more than 600 miles of coastline to Dubai. The first island, shaped like a palm tree and called Palm Jumeirah, will be home to private villas, mansions, luxury apartment towers, and a 60-story Trump hotel. Nakheel is building two other palm-shaped islands, a 300-island archipelago called The World (shaped to mimic the continents), and more than a dozen other large-scale developments across Dubai. Nakheel is populating the projects with hotels, restaurants, and shopping malls that it will also manage

Integrated Data Corp., through its subsidiaries, offers a range of telecommunications, wireless, point-of-sale activation, financial transaction, and other services in the United States. It develops and sells prepaid and stored-value products that allow point-of-sale-activation of various products, such as cash cards, prepaid phone cards, and prepaid wireless phone time. The company also owns ClariCAST, a wireless technology that allows the distribution of data utilizing the existing broadcast infrastructure of FM radio stations. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, development, acquisition, management, and leasing of community shopping centers, single tenant retail properties, and one regional mall in the Midwestern, Southeastern, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the company owned interests in 89 shopping centers, which included 65 community centers, 21 power centers, 2 single tenant retail properties, and 1 enclosed regional mall. Ramco-Gershenson Properties has elected to be a taxable REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income taxes, if it distributes approximately 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Crest Nicholson is brushing up on urban life and trying to take a bite out of suburbia. The company is a residential development company with property interests primarily in central and southern England. The firm focuses on developing sustainable master-planned communities and mixed-use developments, along with urban regeneration and commercial property developments. Crest Nicholson hit troubles in 2008 when the property sector collapsed and demand for housing plummeted. The company restructured itself that year and its creditors agreed to a debt-for-equity swap. The deal gave creditors a 90% stake in the company. Crest Nicholson is now considering a handful of takeover offers.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns properties that are leased to firms in the technology sector. Its portfolio includes more than 90 properties in the US, Europe, and Asia, including data communications hubs, electronic storage and processing centers, tech manufacturing facilities, and offices of tech companies. All told, the REIT owns more than 16 million sq. ft. of rentable space, including space held for redevelopment. Digital Realty Trust focuses on properties in hot tech markets such as Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, New Jersey, New York, northern Virginia, and California's San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley (its largest market).

Westdale Asset Managemen also owns and manages more than 330,000 sq. ft. of retail and office space in Texas and is one of the largest property owners in Dallas' Deep Ellum arts and entertainment district. Services include facilities maintenance, financial reporting, and renovation management. President Joseph Beard founded Westdale Asset Management in 1991.Westdale Asset Management provides asset and property management services for multifamily and commercial real estate throughout the US. Its management portfolio includes more than 150 apartment communities (approximately 30,000 individual units) in about a dozen states in the South, West, and Midwest; most properties are located in Texas.

Founded in 1995, Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc.’s (IMH) primary business has been its long term investment operations, investing primarily in non-conforming residential loans, and to a lesser extent, small balance commercial and multifamily loans. Until August 2007, IMH subsidiaries specialized in residential and multifamily loan origination, in addition to warehouse operations. In an effort to be pro-active and adapt to current market conditions, we have modified our business strategy to help support the needs of today’s challenging lending environment. Our business is now primarily focused on providing real estate services and asset management solutions to the mortgage industry.

Established in 1976 as Steven D. Bell & Company, Bell Partners Inc. is a privately held real estate investment and management firm headquartered in Greensboro, N.C. Since its inception, the company has focused on the acquisition, financing, management and disposition of quality apartment communities, commercial and senior housing properties. These Bell-managed properties are located in more than 110 cities throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Massachusetts.

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