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.

Singapore's property pioneer since 1963, City Developments Limited (CDL) is a listed international property and hotel conglomerate involved in real estate development and investment, hotel ownership and management, facilities management, as well as the provision of hospitality solutions.

Forest City Ratner Companies maintains a strong commitment to developments that enhance local communities and encourage economic development. Based in Brooklyn, Forest City Ratner Companies is a full-service, vertically integrated real estate company with expertise in all facets of development. It is well known as a firm that consistently takes on and completes large, complex mixed-use projects.

Hostmark Hospitality Group manages 38 properties with more than 6,700 rooms in 15 states, Egypt and the British West Indies. The company also operates stand-alone concept restaurants and maintains a strong presence in this business segment.As a preferred, award-winning hotel management company for Marriott, Hilton, Starwood and IHG, Hostmark Hospitality Group consistently delivers superior results to institutional real estate owners, non-institutional ownership groups, publicly traded companies, joint ventures and privately held companies by providing hotel management, asset management, project management and lender consulting services.Hostmark Hospitality Group also offers specialized programs for CMBS special servicers and balance sheet lenders managing under-performing hotel loans. Acting in a consulting capacity, Hostmark provides hotel analytical and operating advisory services to lenders needing hospitality expertise and workout advice on asset disposition strategy. Hostmark Hospitality Group has also performed the role of court appointed receiver and operator in more than 170 foreclosed properties. Whether through workout advice, operational improvements or through management improvement, Hostmark has assisted numerous lenders and borrowers in maximizing both the short term cash flow and long term value of their assets.

Childress Klein develops, owns, leases, and manages commercial real estate in the southeastern US. It owns some 20 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use space, mostly in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, metropolitan areas. (Nearly 60% of its portfolio is office buildings and business centers.) The company's projects include Atlanta Galleria and LakePointe Corporate Center as well as the Wachovia Center, a two-block office, residential, and hospitality complex in downtown Charlotte.

Acanthe Développement is a property company with SIIC fiscal status in France and is listed on the Euronext Paris (Eurolist B segment). It also part of the IEIF – Foncières, EPRA-Europe and GPR – General Index indices. Its assets primarily comprise luxury office and commercial buildings located mainly in the central business districts of Paris. The company owns 30 buildings with a total surface area of 80,000m² including 38,100m² of office space (47.8% of total), 11,600m² of commercial premises (14% of total) and 30,470 m² of hotels and apartment hotels (38.2% of total). A total of 82.5% of the value of this portfolio is located in the central business districts of Paris, and the occupancy rate is 95%.

Sare Holding builds homes and apartments throughout eight states in central Mexico that are aimed at the low-, middle-, and high-income markets. Sare also derives part of its profit from brokerage services, subleasing, co-proprietor construction, and land sales. The company has benefited from Mexican President Vicente Fox's recent drive to build more homes for the poor and upgrade the country's housing stock. It also signed a $25 million strategic alliance with GMAC Hipotecaria in 2005 to acquire new land reserves.

Minerva plc is a property investment and development company in the UK.The group has a number of real estate developments; all located in the Greater London area, comprising city office, high-end residential and mixed-use schemes. Minerva is actively developing three of these prime development sites. Two are situated in London’s financial district, The City of London. The Walbrook a 445,000 sq. ft. office development and St Botolphs, a landmark 14 storey office building comprising circa. 560,000 sq. ft. The third is Lancaster Gate, a high end residential development overlooking London's Hyde Park.

Home Group is one of the UK's leading providers of affordable housing for rent or sale. Founded in 1935 the company manages approximately 52,000 rental homes throughout England and Scotland; it builds or refurbishes some 2,000 additional properties each year. The company conducts business through its various divisions, including Nashayman, which focuses on ethnic minority communities, and Stonham, which serves the homeless, the elderly, victims of domestic violence, people with mental or physical difficulties, and refugees. Live Smart @ Home is Home Group's commercial arm, providing middle-market rental and owner-occupied housing, including BoKlok prefabricated homes manufactured by IKEA.

Schostak is committed to a variety of civic and charitable organizations within the community. The company and family contributes to programs which support our troops overseas, stem cell research, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Within the metropolitan Detroit community, the company is actively involved in The New Detroit Science Center, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Opera House, Detroit Zoo, and Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan.

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