Host Hotels & Resorts will leave the chandelier on for you. The largest hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) in the US, Host Hotels owns some 120 luxury and upscale hotels in North America, South America, and Europe. Most of its hotels operate under the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton brands and are managed by sister firm Marriott International. Other brands include Four Seasons and Hyatt. To maintain its REIT status, the company operates through majority-owned Host Hotels & Resorts LP. All properties are leased to management firms. Host Hotels holds interests in several partnerships, including a 49% stake in Tiburon Golf Ventures, which operates a golf course in Florida.

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.

Aspen Properties is a fully integrated privately held real estate company based in the city of Calgary. Together with investment partners Aspen owns and manages approximately 1.7 million square feet of office space and 1,465 parking stalls in the city of Calgary. The portfolio includes 6 buildings in downtown Calgary and, as well has over one million square feet of "A" office space on the drawing board for development in the Calgary market. Construction of the 300,000 square foot Palliser South office tower was completed in 2010.

Franklin Street Properties Corp. provides real estate and investment banking/investment services in the United States. The company’s Real Estate Operations segment involves in real estate rental operations, leasing, and secured financing of real estate for interim acquisition or other property financing, as well as provides asset management, property management, property acquisitions, dispositions, and development. As of December 31, 2008, it owned and operated a portfolio of 29 real estate properties, which include 28 office buildings and 1 industrial use property. The company’s Investment Banking/Investment Services segment involves in the structuring of real estate investments and broker/dealer services that include the organization of Sponsored real estate investment trusts (REITs), the acquisition and development of real estate on behalf of Sponsored REITs, and the raising of capital to equitize the Sponsored REITs through sale of preferred stock in private placements. This segment offers investment banking/investment services primarily to institutions and high net-worth individuals. The company has elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Franklin Street Properties Corp. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Heiwa Real Estate Co was formed by Japan's stock exchanges in 1947 to manage their properties.Heiwa Real Estate tries to find a little serenity in the Japanese stock market. The company, whose name translates to "peace," owns the buildings which house the Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, and Fukuoka stock exchanges. The company's four divisions are real estate leasing, housing sales, asset development and securitization, and brokerage. To regain its fiscal tranquility following upheavals in the Japanese economy, Heiwa has broadened its holdings by buying less-specialized office and commercial properties. Heiwa also runs a nursing home and a building maintenance and contract construction business through its subsidiaries.

Cofinimmo is the leading listed Belgian real estate company specialising in rental property (offices, healthcare properties, corporate operating properties and public properties).Our company focuses on creating value for our shareholders and close client relationship while optimising the composition and quality of the portfolio over the long term.We are listed on Euronext Brussels and included in the BEL20 index. As a company, we also benefit from the Belgian fiscal Sicafi regime and the French SIIC regime. These statuses grant us exemption from corporate income tax on rental income and realised capital gains, a.o. in exchange for a complulsary profit distribution policy.

First Industrial wants to be the first and only stop for your industrial property needs. The self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) owns, manages, and develops industrial real estate. Its portfolio consists of about 775 properties in nearly 30 states and Canada, with the largest concentrations in Michigan, Texas, and Colorado. The REIT's more than 70 million sq. ft. of space is weighted toward light industrial properties but also includes bulk and regional warehouses, research and development buildings, and manufacturing facilities. First Industrial also develops customized spaces. Its tenants include manufacturing, retail, wholesale trade, distribution, and professional services firms.

Signature Associates is the largest-volume, full-service commercial real estate firm in the region. Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, Signature is the dominant real estate firm with over a 42% market share. With additional offices in Lansing, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, and Kalamazoo, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio, Signature Associates provides a diversity of services, including industrial, office, and retail brokerage, investment sales, property/asset management, market research, mortgage banking and corporate services.

Helical Bar is a property development and investment group. We create shareholder value through a wide variety of high margin activities with property investment at our core. Whilst a profit centre in its own right, property investment provides a stable income stream to cover all our overheads and interest costs. Our spread of activities gives us the flexibility to deploy capital rapidly across our business and focus on whatever opportunities offer the best returns at different points of the property cycle.

Transwestern Commercial Services has offices in some 25 cities throughout the US and manages a portfolio of approximately 900 office, health care, retail, and multi-family residential properties (more than 170 million sq. ft. of space). Transwestern also provides agency leasing, property management, tenant representation, and property development services, as well as financing and advising to institutional investors. The firm has expanded its portfolio of sustainable projects by promoting green building practices and energy conservation. Chairman Robert Duncan founded Transwestern in 1978.

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