The residential and office property holder and operator commands more than 3.5 million sq. meters of floor space worth some E12 billion, with most of its holdings in Paris and surrounding communities. It has benefited from a vacancy rate in the region that historically has hovered around 5%. The company's portfolio also includes hotels, health properties, and student residences. Affiliate Locare is the firm's sales, leasing, and management arm. GECINA is registered in France as an SIIC, which is similar to a US real estate investment trust (REIT). Spanish real estate giant Metrovacesa owns more than a quarter of the company.

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.

Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation services, has a diversified business model that includes real estate franchising, brokerage, relocation and title services. Realogy’s world-renowned brands and business units include Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, The Corcoran Group®, ERA®, Sotheby’s International Realty®, NRT LLC, Cartus and Title Resource Group. Collectively, Realogy’s franchise systems have approximately 14,700 offices and 267,000 sales associates doing business in 100 countries around the world.

Tejon Ranch Co. operates as a real estate development and agribusiness company in the United States. It operates in three segments: Commercial/Industrial Real Estate Development and Services; Resort/Residential Real Estate Development; and Farming. The Commercial/Industrial Real Estate Development and Services segment engages in entitling, planning, and permitting land for development; the construction of infrastructure, pre-leased buildings, and buildings to be leased or sold; and the sale of land to third parties for their own development. It leases land to various types of tenants, including full-service truck stop facility, truck wash, auto service stations with convenience stores, fast-food operations, full-service restaurants, motel, antique shop, and the United States Postal Service facility. This segment also engages in leasing of land for oil and mineral royalties and grazing. The Resort/Residential Real Estate Development segment involves in the land entitlement, land planning and pre-construction engineering, and land stewardship activities. The Farming segment farms corps, including wine grapes in 1,702 acres, almonds in 1,608 acres, and pistachios in 1,053 acres in the San Joaquin Valley of California. It also manages the farming of alfalfa and forage mix on 775 acres in the Antelope Valley, as well as periodically leases 750 acres of land, which is used for the growing of vegetables. Tejon Ranch was founded in 1936 and is based in Lebec, California.

Healthcare Realty Trust has the prescription for health care providers. The self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) invests in, develops, and manages medical office buildings, physician clinics, and inpatient and outpatient health care facilities. It owns about 200 properties with more than 12 million sq. ft. of space in some two-dozen states. Healthcare Realty Trust also invests in mortgages backed by health care properties and provides property management services for about 140 health care facilities. The REIT's largest tenant is HealthSouth, which accounts for more than 10% of the company's revenues.

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.

ProLogis will help you spread the word -- or at least help you spread the goods. The industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) acquires and develops warehouses and distribution facilities for some 4,000 retailers and manufacturers such as MolsonCoors and Unilever. It owns more than 2,400 properties in Asia, Europe, and North America. All together, ProLogis owns, manages or is developing more than 475 million sq. ft. of space. The company is selective about development and usually only develops pre-leased properties. Its fund management operations oversee long-term property investments. ProLogis holds about 30% of publicly traded ProLogis European Properties.

Foncière Euris est présent dans la distribution alimentaire et spécialisée, à travers les participations majoritaires de Rallye dans les sociétés Casino et Groupe Go Sport. Par ailleurs, Foncière Euris détient, directement et indirectement, un patrimoine immobilier (principalement des galeries marchandes) ainsi qu'un portefeuille d'investissements de private equity, par l'intermédiaire de Rallye.

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.

We are the largest publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership and leasing of service stations, convenience stores and petroleum distribution terminals in the United States. We provide financing to the petroleum and convenience store industries for acquisitions, site upgrades and refinancing through our sale/leaseback and net lease financing programs. We own or lease approximately 1,050 service station and convenience store properties and nine petroleum distribution terminals in twenty-one states. We were founded in 1955 with the ownership of one gasoline service station in New York City and historically operated as an integrated wholesale and retail marketer and owner of gasoline stations. As our business grew, we combined real estate ownership, leasing and management with petroleum supply and distribution. We had our initial public offering in 1971 under the name Power Test Corp. In 1997, we spun-off our petroleum marketing business to our shareholders as a separate NYSE listed company, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by a subsidiary of OAO Lukoil, one of Russia's largest integrated oil companies. We lease approximately 78% of our properties to Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. on a long-term net basis. The balance of the properties are leased to individual operators and petroleum distributors.

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