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.

Filinvest Development Corporation (FDC) is one of the Philippines’ leading conglomerates, with interests in real estate development and leasing, financial and banking services, hotel and resort management, and the sugar milling and refining. The group continues to diversify and is currently considering investments in the power and water sectors. FDC is controlled by the Gotianun Family through ALG Holdings Corporation.

DASCO doctors up the medical real estate market. In business since 1989, DASCO develops, acquires, and manages medical properties throughout the US. Its holdings include ambulatory care centers, imaging centers, outpatient centers, sports medicine facilities, and medical office buildings (MOBs). Over the years DASCO has developed more than 60 properties or 3.5 million sq. ft. The company also looks to acquire strategically located medical properties around the US. It provides hands-on management for all of its developments and acquisitions. The firm was once partially owned by CNL Retirement Properties.

Vinings Marine Group, LLC consists of three managing members with over 60 years of combined real estate experience. They bring with them their passion from the apartment industry where our emphasis on customer service, well landscaped, clean environs and on site management brings value to the customer as well as the investor. The managing members of VMG are Peter Anzo, Stephanie Haugen and Jeff Rotter. Together these individuals have acquired, repositioned, financed, managed and sold real estate in excess of $3,000,000,000 representing 350 separate investments. Vinings Marine Group, LLC is striving to create communities where boaters come to relax with family, friends, and business associates.

Leeds Building Society also offers mortgages in Spain's Costa del Sol for European Union nationals residing in Spain or Gibraltar. One of the UK's 10 largest building societies, Leeds Building Society was founded in 1875. It is a sponsor of the Leeds Tykes rugby union team.Leeds Building Society can help you get a piece of the rock -- Gibraltar that is. The mutual company offers mortgages and savings services, along with property investment, through about 60 branches, including one on Gibraltar. Services include insurance, financial planning, and credit cards

Morguard is one of Canada's largest integrated real estate companies with a diversified portfolio of more than $8.7 billion in properties owned or under management. We offer investment and property management services across all asset classes: office, retail, industrial, and residential. We operate from a nationwide network of offices in the country's major Markets.

Place Properties, an affiliated group of companies, is a privately held diversified real estate company with expertise in developing, acquiring and managing award-winning housing communities in college and military markets. Since 1995, the affiliated companies have developed over 33,000 beds nationwide valued at more than $1.4 billion. In 2008, Place Properties was ranked the #10 Builder in the Top 50 Builders nationally.Place Properties student and military housing communities offer convenience, upgraded apartment features and stylish amenities, all for a great value. With housing communities near colleges, universities and military bases around the nation, living in a Place community is the perfect housing choice.

Grosvenor’s history began with the marriage of Mary Davies and Sir Thomas Grosvenor in 1677. Mary had inherited 500 acres of land north of the Thames to the west of the City of London. Sir Thomas was the descendant of a family which traces its roots back to William the Conqueror.The company is owned by trusts for the Grosvenor family, which has held land in central London since 1677.

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.

Sponda was formed in 1991 by the Bank of Finland to take over the real estate properties held by Skopbank Group. Sponda rents history in Helsinki. The company is a real estate investment trust (REIT) with about 850,000 sq. meters of office, commercial, and logistics properties. Most of Sponda's properties are located in the Helsinki metropolitan area, including several historic properties in the central business district, such as the City Center complex (known by the locals as "Makkaratalo"). Sponda Plc also owns properties in the High Tech Espoo and Vantaa Airport City regions of Helsinki, as well as properties in other areas of Finland.

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