Cogdell Spencer puts its money where your health is. The self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) acquires, develops, and manages health care properties, including surgery centers, medical office buildings, and rehabilitation facilities, most of which are located on hospital campuses. It owns or manages about 110 properties, totaling nearly 6 million sq. ft. of space in a dozen states. The majority of its properties are located on hospital campuses in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Subsidiary Erdman designs and builds health care facilities. Erdman has provided planning, engineering, construction, and related services for more than 5,000 properties throughout the US.

First Advisors isn't your last. The firm invests in and raises capital for real estate and business ventures, primarily in Texas. It specializes in developing new and redeveloping existing commercial and residential properties such as retail shopping destinations, restaurants, multifamily units, and residential communities. Investment limited partnerships sponsored by First Advisors typically last three to five years; capital raises range from $250,000 to $2 million. The firm also provides business consulting in such areas as marketing, sales, strategic planning, and technology. First Advisors was founded in 1993 by president and CEO Gary Davis.

Duke Realty Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It offers leasing, property and asset management, development, construction, build-to-suit, and other tenant-related services. As of December 31, 2006, Duke Realty owned approximately 721 industrial, office, and retail properties comprising 113.8 million rentable square feet, as well as owned 6,400 acres of unencumbered land for development. The company has elected to be taxed as REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax purposes, provided that it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana with regional offices in Alexandria, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Nashville, Tennessee; Orlando, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; St. Louis, Missouri; and Tampa and Weston, Florida.

Societe Fonciere Lyonnaise (SFL) owns and manages property primarily located in Paris (about 75% of rents come from the Central Business District and Western region). SFL's holdings -- about 400,000 sq. meters of space, are dominated by office and retail buildings (93% of the portfolio); it also owns retail centers and parking lots. The firm adopted SIIC -- France's REIT-like structure -- status in 2004. SFL was established in 1879 by Henri Germain, also the founder of prominent French bank Credit Lyonnais.

Voit Real Estate Services does what it can to fill any void in your corporate real estate needs. The company and its affiliates, including Voit Commercial Brokerage, Voit Development, and Valley Commercial Contractors, provide commercial real estate services such as brokerage, development, and construction. Active in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada, the group specializes in office, industrial, and retail real estate, with a focus on distressed properties owned by banks and other financial institutions. Voit Real Estate Services has developed more than 20 million sq. ft. of real estate and has completed some $25 billion worth of brokerage transactions since CEO Robert Voit founded the company in 1971.

Alexander's knows what's great about real estate. The real estate investment trust (REIT) owns, manages, and leases about a half-dozen properties totaling about 3.5 million sq. ft. in metropolitan New York City. Once a department store chain, Alexander's held on to its property interests, including the site of its erstwhile flagship store -- an entire block on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. The REIT leases space at the mixed-use Lexington site to tenants such as Bloomberg, Citibank, The Home Depot, and The Container Store. The Lexington site is also home to about 100 condominiums. Bloomberg accounts for about a third of the REIT's sales.

American Spectrum Realty, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership, management, and operation of income-producing properties in the United States. As of December 31, 2008, it owned and operated 29 properties, which consisted of 23 office buildings, 5 industrial properties, and 1 retail property. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Guangzhou Investment Company focuses on real estate, paper, and toll roads, primarily in Hong Kong and China. The firm develops, manages, and invests in real estate properties, and also operates toll highways and bridges through its GZI Transport subsidiary. In addition, Guangzhou Investment makes newsprint paper; the company produces some 300,000 tons of paper each year. Guangzhou Investment Company plans to develop other service areas such as logistics, finance, exhibition, and cultural services. Yue Xiu Enterprises owns about 51% of the company.

Icahn Enterprises L.P., through its subsidiaries, engages in the investment management, automotive, metals, real estate, and home fashion businesses in the United States and internationally. Its Investment Management segment provides investment advisory, and administrative and back office services to the private funds. The company’s Automotive segment offers vehicle and industrial products, including pistons, piston rings, piston pins, cylinder liners, valve seats and guides ignition products, dynamic seals, bonded piston seals, combustion and exhaust gaskets, static gaskets and seals, rigid heat shields, engine bearings, industrial bearings, bushings and washers, transmission components, brake disc pads, brake linings, brake blocks, element resistant systems protection sleeving products, acoustic shielding, flexible heat shields, brake system components, chassis products, wipers, fuel pumps, and lighting products. It primarily serves automotive and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers. Its Metals segment engages in collecting, processing, and selling ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Its ferrous products include shredded, sheared and bundled scrap metal, and other purchased scrap metals; and non-ferrous metals comprise aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel, and nickel-bearing metals. The company’s Real Estate segment engages in the rental of retail, office, and industrial properties; property development and resort activities; and construction and sale of single-family and multi-family homes, lots in subdivisions and planned communities, and raw land for residential development. Its Home Fashion segment manufactures, sources, distributes, markets, and sells sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, quilts, comforters and duvet covers, towels, bed skirts and pillows, blankets, mattress pads, and kitchen towels and accessories. Icahn Enterprises G.P. Inc. serves as the general partner of Icahn Enterprises L.P. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.

Prudential Fox Roach will hope you find your own piece of Philly's rock. The company is the largest residential brokerage firm in the greater Philadelphia area, which includes southeast Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. (It calls itself the largest single-market firm in the US.) Prudential Fox Roach has more than 60 offices; it provides mortgage, transfer, and insurance services through The Trident Group. CEO Lawrence Flick controls the company, which is member of The Prudential Real Estate Affiliates. Prudential Fox Roach traces its roots back to the 1886 founding of Fox Real Estate and Roach Brothers Realtors in 1948.

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