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.

Allied Home Mortgage is the largest privately held lender and broker in the US, with hundreds of offices making thousands of residential mortgage loans in almost every state and the Virgin Islands. Allied can make a mortgage loan directly, or through one of our established relationships with national, regional and local lenders, allowing us to deliver a wide range of loan products to our customers. In fact, we don’t think anyone in the country offers more types of loan products than Allied. Combined with the energy of branch managers who have the freedom to respond to local market conditions, Allied has been the leader in residential mortgage lending since it was founded in 1991.With the experience of originating over $15 billion in loans in one year and as many as 12,000 loans in one month, Allied Home Mortgage has the experience, background and strength of a major force in lending nationwide. With our extensive administrative and product assistance, the Allied staff of professionals proves its commitment to extraordinary customer service every day. We were even named one of the Top 25 Tech-Savvy Mortgage Companies by Broker magazine for 4 years in a row. Need more reasons to choose Allied? Our size and experience allows our mortgage professionals to stay well informed on current trends, and we are constantly shopping the lending market, offering you greater convenience, more choices, and quicker loan approval. Allied Home Mortgage – your lender for life.

Ebby Halliday has been selling homes in Dallas and is, today, a household name. The Ebby Halliday, REALTORS inventory in 1945, consisted of some 52 houses built on the old Walnut Hill Golf Course in North Dallas. The successful marketing of these hard-to-sell, hard-to-finance, experimental insulated cement homes formed the springboard for the steady growth of Ebby Halliday, REALTORS as we know it today -- one of the largest privately owned residential real estate firms in the country.

Taubman Centers, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust. As of June 30, 2005, the company owned a 63% managing general partner's interest in The Taubman Realty Group Limited Partnership (the operating partnership). The operating partnership is a subsidiary that engages in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, development, and expansion of regional retail shopping centers and interests therein. As of August 23, 2007, it owned and/or managed 23 urban and suburban shopping centers in 11 states the United States. These centers are located in metropolitan areas, including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Detroit, Phoenix, Miami, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando, and Washington, D.C. The operating partnership also owns certain regional retail shopping center development projects, as well as approximately 99% of The Taubman Company LLC, which manages the shopping centers and provides other services to the operating partnership and to the company. Taubman Centers qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, the company would not be subjected to federal income tax to the extent it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Taubman Centers was founded in 1950 by A. Alfred Taubman and is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc is a commercial real estate finance company that is focused primarily on originating, investing in, acquiring and managing senior performing commercial real estate mortgage loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS, commercial real estate corporate debt and loans and other commercial real estate-related debt investments in the U.S. We are externally managed by ACREFI Management, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a leading global alternative asset manager with a contrarian and value-oriented investment approach in private equity and credit-oriented capital markets. We are led by an experienced team of senior real estate professionals, including Joseph F. Azrack, who serves as our Chief Executive Officer, Scott Weiner, who serves as our Chief Investment Officer, and Stuart A. Rothstein, who serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Messrs. Azrack, Weiner and Rothstein are supported by a team of senior executives who have significant experience in commercial property ownership and finance. We will also draw upon the extensive transactional, financial, managerial and investment skills of Apollo Global Management’s private equity, credit-oriented capital markets and real estate investment professionals. We believe our relationship with Apollo Global Management provides us with significant advantages in sourcing, evaluating, underwriting and managing investments. Our goal is to be a pre-eminent commercial real estate finance company that provides creative senior financing solutions to real estate owners while at the same time providing attractive risk adjusted returns to our stockholders over the long term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation. We distinguish ourselves from other providers of capital through our seamless execution, first class management, and creative and experienced investment professionals. Our primary purpose is to create a diversified portfolio of performing commercial real estate mortgage loans and CMBS assets that will be held to maturity and which we expect will provide stable attractive cash flow yields for our stockholders.

Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. engages in marketing and selling vacation intervals in the United States. The company develops and acquires timeshare resorts; and markets and sells one-week annual and biennial vacation intervals to new owners. It also engages in marketing and selling upgrade and additional week vacation intervals to its owners. In addition, the company provides financing for the purchase of vacation intervals, as well as operates timeshare resorts under management agreements. Further, for its owners, the company owns and operates a hotel near the Winter Park recreational area in Colorado. As of December 31, 2009, the company owned 13 timeshare resorts, including 7 getaway resorts in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, and Georgia; and 6 destination resorts in Texas, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Florida. It markets vacation intervals to individuals primarily through direct mail and telephone solicitation. Silverleaf Resorts, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Gladstone Commercial Corporation is closely affiliated with management investment firm Gladstone Capital, which is also headed by chairman and CEO David Gladstone.Gladstone Commercial will gladly buy your commercial property, or lease you some if you need a business home. A real estate investment trust (REIT), Gladstone invests in commercial and industrial real estate properties and long-term commercial mortgages. The company owns more than 50 properties across the US with assets that include office buildings, warehouses, retail, and manufacturing facilities. Gladstone predominantly leases to small and midsized businesses; most properties carry triple-net leases

E-House is a leading real estate services company in China with a diverse scope of services, wide brand recognition and geographic presence. We offer a wide range of services to the real estate industry through various business segments including primary sales agency, secondary brokerage, consulting and information services, advertising and investment management. For five consecutive years (2004-2008), we have been ranked by the China Real Estate Top 10 Committee as the largest real estate agency and consulting services company in China, as measured by the number of transactions facilitated, transaction value and gross floor area of properties sold, and by the expanse of our geographic coverage.

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.

Ideally, Paragon Real Estate Equity and Investment Trust would be the very model of real estate investing, but it merely is a corporate shell company. The firm is seeking investment opportunities in land development, joint ventures, other real estate companies, and retail, office, industrial, and hospitality properties. In 2008 it began investing in stock of publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs). Entities associated with CEO James Mastandrea control more than three-quarters of Paragon, which has expressed doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern and may seek additional investors or sell its corporate shell.

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