Capri Capital wants its investors to experience the Mediterranean isle's legendary spirit of "la dolce vita", "the sweet life." The company provides capital in the lending and equity investments arenas to public and private real estate companies. Its Capri Capital Advisors is a real estate investment management firm specializing in multifamily (more than two-thirds of its investments), industrial, retail, and office projects in major US markets. Capri Capital, named after founders Daryl Carter and Quintin Primo, was created in 1992 and manages nearly $5 billion in loans and investments related to real estate.

Champion Partners is a privately owned firm employing a disciplined value-creation focus nationwide across a wide spectrum of commercial real estate investment opportunities. Pairing its thorough knowledge of real estate industry dynamics with a keen understanding of the overall capital markets, Champion continues to create significant value for the firm and its clients.

Oxford Development owns, invests in, manages, and develops commercial properties including office buildings, hotels and resorts, apartments and condominiums, and retail centers. Previously focused on its own investment portfolio of properties, the company has increasingly focused on providing third-party services, including brokerage and investment advisory services. It has a strong presence in its hometown and western Pennsylvania, but has developed projects outside the region. The closely held firm oversees more than 100 million sq. ft. of space, a significant amount of which is located in downtown Pittsburgh.

Sumitomo Realty supplies office space and tony condos, but can also make your old house "shinchiku sokkurisan" (good as new). One of Japan's largest real estate operators, Sumitomo Realty develops and leases office buildings and sells residential units in high-rise condominiums. Its properties are located primarily in Tokyo and other metropolitan areas (Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka/Kobe, Sapporo, and Sendai); it manages more than 3.4 million sq. meters of office space.

FAS was founded in 1996 and is a subsidiary of Canadian real estate services company FirstService Corporation.One homeowner's loss to foreclosure is this company's gain. Based in Austin, Texas, Field Asset Services (FAS) provides residential property preservation, repair, and maintenance services for mortgage and asset management companies nationwide -- services include re-keying and securing properties, preparing properties for sale, repairs, and rehabilitation. The company's service portfolio includes 85,000 properties worth an estimated $6.5 billion.

Americold Realty Trust is keeping temperatures low to make revenues grow. The company owns more than 180 temperature-controlled warehouses that are part of the supply chain serving food producers, distributors, and retailers who rent space to store frozen and perishable food products. A majority of its warehouse facilities are located in the US; they are operated by subsidiary and distribution services provider AmeriCold Logistics. Internationally, Americold Realty Trust owns and operates warehouses in Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. The company acquired more than 50 facilities from VersaCold in 2010. Americold filed to go public, but shelved its plans that year due to market conditions.

TVO Global Partners provides property, construction, and asset management services on an international scale for its parent, The Vandenburg Organization (which does business as TVO Groupe). TVO Global Partners has interests in several European properties. In 2009 TVO Global Partners expanded into Central Europe when it bought Luxembourg-based Orco Property Management, which manages assets worth some E2 billion ($2.7 billion). TVO traces its roots to 1983 when CEO Russ Vandenburg and TVO Groupe chairman Wayne Vandenburg acquired their first apartment property in El Paso, Texas.

Weyerhaeuser Company grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and manufactures forest products worldwide. The company manages approximately 6.6 million acres of private commercial forestland; and has renewable long-term licenses on 15.2 million acres of forestland. It grows and harvests trees for use as lumber, pulp and paper, and other wood and building products; and offers logs, timber, minerals, oil, gas, seed and seedlings, and poles, as well as plywood and hardwood lumber. The company also manufactures and distributes softwood lumber, engineered lumber, structural panels, and other specialty products to the residential structural frame market; delivers homebuilding solutions; and manufactures and sells hardwood lumber to manufacturers of furniture and cabinetry, as well as exports engineered building materials and industrial hardwood products. It sells its wood products primarily through its sales organizations and distribution facilities, as well as markets its wood products into the repair and remodel market through the wood preserving and home-improvement warehouse channels. In addition, Weyerhaeuser Company provides cellulose fibers, such as fluff pulp, paper grade pulp, specialty chemical cellulose pulp, slush pulp, and wet lap pulp for absorbent products; and manufactures liquid packaging boards used primarily for the production of containers for liquid products. Further, it constructs single-family housing, and develops residential lots for its use and for sale. The company was formerly known as Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and changed its name to Weyerhaeuser Company. Weyerhaeuser Company was founded in 1900 and is based in Federal Way, Washington.

Spirit Finance Corporation,a real estate investment trust (REIT), the company specializes in single-tenant, free-standing properties such as restaurants and gas stations; it owns or has financed more than 1,000 that are leased to retail, distribution, and service-oriented firms in more than 40 states. Spirit, founded in 2003, also offers commercial mortgage, business, and construction loans and equipment financing. An investment group led by Australia's Macquarie Bank and Iceland-based Kaupthing Bank acquired Spirit Finance in 2007 for some $3.5 billion including debt.

AGIV Real Estate is fighting a noble battle. Formerly invested in such varied sectors as machinery, energy, and transportation, the company turned its sights towards real estate pursuits. AGIV Real Estate, prior to its 2004 bankruptcy filing, had interests in real property holdings, real estate development, and portfolio management. It sold its majority-owned subsidiary Deutsche Real Estate to a division of Goldman Sachs. The company is embroiled in shareholder struggles but remains in administration.

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