Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is one of the largest and most respected commercial real estate services and investment companies in the world. Our 6,000 professionals in more than 100 company-owned and affiliate offices draw from a unique platform of real estate services, practice groups and investment products to deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions to real estate owners, tenants and investors. The firm’s transaction, management, consulting and investment services are supported by highly regarded proprietary market research and extensive local expertise. Through its investment subsidiaries, the company is a leading sponsor of real estate investment programs that provide individuals and institutions the opportunity to invest in a broad range of real estate investment vehicles, including public non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), mutual funds and other real estate investment funds.

DP Partners may have something in store for your company. DP Partners (a unit of commercial real estate firm Dermody Properties) specializes in developing and managing storage, distribution, and other industrial properties throughout the US. It maintains of portfolio of more than 25 million sq. ft. of space in about a dozen properties. DP Partners markets its master-planned industrial parks under the names LogistiCenter, LogistiCourt, and LogistiPort. The company tends to partner with other investors (notably California State Teachers Retirement System, or CalSTRS) on projects, allowing it to expand into new regions.

First Mortgage issues and purchases mortgage loans. Founded in 1975, the company originates loans for the purchase or refinancing of single-family residences. The company offers conventional, jumbo, and nonconforming loans, as well as loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Veterans Administration (VA). First Mortgage has more than 15 offices in California. The company is also an approved lender of the state's Public Employees' Retirement System, its State Teachers' Retirement System, and the state Housing Finance Agency.

Knight Frank represent the highest standards of quality and integrity in global property transactional, management and advisory services. Our reputation for uncompromising professionalism in everything we do is earned day in and day out serving our clients and earning their trust.Knight Frank & Rutley was founded in 1896 as a valuations, surveying and auctions business. Its first sale was held on 23 April at Conduit Street in London. Since then, Knight Frank has grown to become the world’s largest privately owned global property agency and consultancy. Today it is widely regarded throughout the world as the firm of choice for high quality commercial and residential property.In the 1960s the firm expanded into Europe, and in the decades that followed, acquired offices in Asia-Pacific and Middle East, Australia, Africa and the Caribbean. Its global network, including US based Newmark Knight Frank, encompasses 207 offices in 43 countries across six continents.More than 6,343 professionals handle in excess of US$886 billion (more than £594 billion) worth of commercial, agricultural and residential property annually, advising clients ranging from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants.

Aareal Bank knows the importance of having a roof over your head and some change in your pocket. It is engaged internationally in a variety of property-related banking and financial services for the public and private sectors. Its business is organized into two primary segments. Structured property financing (its most profitable business) specializes in financing large-scale retail, hotel, and logistics industry properties. Its consulting/services segment offers IT products that help users manage residential and commercial properties. The company operates in more than 25 countries in Europe, North America, and the Asia/Pacific region.

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).

Transwestern Investment Company, L.L.C. ("TIC") is a principal investment firm specializing in commercial real estate. Since its inception in 1996, TIC has acquired interests in over 455 office, retail, industrial and multifamily properties representing a gross investment of nearly $11 billion.

Extendicare Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) operates more than 250 long-term care and assisted-living facilities with approximately 30,000 residents in North America. Of those facilities, about 175 are located in the US, where subsidiary Extendicare Health Services operates the properties; Extendicare (Canada) operates more than 80. Extendicare REIT also offers outpatient therapy in the US through its ProStep unit and provides home health care services in Canada through ParaMed. All told, it has operations in about a dozen US states and four Canadian provinces. Extendicare REIT's Virtual Care Provider subsidiary offers interformation technology services to other long-term care providers in the US.

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.

Freedom Finance sold its Freedom Lending mortgage broker to Merrill Lynch in 2006. The loan broker was established in 1983 under the name Wilmslow Financial Services by chief executive Rupert Webb. As one of the largest loan brokers in the UK, Freedom Finance wants to liberate borrowers from the captivity of less-than-stellar credit. The company originates, sells, and services secured and unsecured personal loans through its affiliated operating segments of Freedom Ireland, Freedom Spain, and Freedom Sweden.

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