Corio is a retail property company. It specialises in the selection, development, redevelopment and management of shopping centres. Currently Corio has operations in six countries: the Netherlands, where its headquarters are located, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Germany. The company’s shares are traded on Euronext NYSE in Amsterdam. Under Dutch law Corio is a closedend fiscal investment institution (FBI). It has a SIIC status in France. As of March 2008, Corio has been included in the Dutch blue-chip index of 25 leading shares, the AEX and the FTSE4 Good index. Corio wants to create favourite meeting places: sustainable centres where people like to meet, spend their leisure time and shop; places they want to return to.

Hatteras Financial Corp. Company Profile Hatteras Financial hopes for smooth sailing on the sometimes tumultuous seas of mortgage investing. The company is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in adjustable-rate and hybrid adjustable-rate single-family residential mortgages guaranteed by a US government agency or a government-backed company such as Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac. Hatteras Financial's investment portfolio, valued at some $7 billion, consists mostly of hybrid adjustable-rate loans with terms of three to five years. Hatteras Financial is externally managed by Atlantic Capital Advisors.

Lion Gables Residential Trust (LGRT) is a privately-owned real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, develops, and manages apartment complexes, mainly in the southern US. The company, which also manages properties for third parties, oversees approximately 35,000 apartment homes and more than 60 apartment communities with some 17,000 units. The company targets "affluent renters-by-choice" through its focus on luxury properties in upscale, high-growth urban areas, rather than outlying suburban complexes. In 2005 Gables Residential was acquired by a private partnership sponsored by ING Clarion Partners, a part of Dutch financial giant ING Groep.

CW was founded in 1991 and has about 15 offices in the US. Fortress Investment Group acquired the company in 2010. The deal increased CW's financial strength and helped expand its lending platforms. CW Financial Service (CW) invests in commercial real estate. It mainly focuses on lending money for multifamily and health care projects. The company offers primary servicing, special servicing, investment management, and research consulting. CW offers loans through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA programs and services about 12,000 commercial and multifamily loans worth some $160 billion. It operates through three subsidiaries: CWCapital, CWCapital Asset Management, and CWCapital Investments.

Milestone Properties owns about 30 shopping centers and other commercial properties, most of them in the Southeast. The properties, which total approximately 1.2 million sq. ft. of gross leasable area, are managed, leased, and maintained by Milestone Property Management. Milestone Properties is growing through acquisitions of non-anchored centers that have several smaller tenants instead of being dominated by a grocery or big-box store. It generally seeks out newer properties priced between $3.5 million and $15 million. Company officers (and brothers) Leonard and Robert Mandor took Milestone Properties private in 2001 by merging it into a subsidiary of their Concord Assets Group.

Capital & Counties (Capco) invests in, develops, and manages commercial properties in the UK and the US. The firm's portfolio is concentrated in central London's West End and West London, and contains some 3.5 million sq. ft. of retail, office, and mixed-use space. Capco also owns exhibition, conference, and events company Earls Court & Olympia. In the US, Capco owns some 2.6 million sq. ft. of commercial space in California. The firm also has operations in China. Former parent company Liberty International spun Capco off in 2010 to focus on its Capital Shopping Centres unit (even adopting the Capital name).

Most Cheshires have nine lives. This one has had more than that, and is still alive to tell about it. The Cheshire Building Society is the product of more than a dozen mergers dating back to the 1960s. The Society provides savings accounts, mortgage financing and brokerage, real estate leasing and sales, investments, and insurance. With more than 450,000 members, it operates a network of more than 40 branches and about 15 Cheshire Estate Agency property service branches throughout northwest England. Nationwide Building Society, the world's largest building society with assets of more than £200 billion ($333 million), acquired Cheshire Building Society in December 2008.

AFI Group implements a global strategy focused on developing core activities in the fields of real estate, construction & infrastructure, energy and related industries. This strategy is aimed at expanding the Group’s business activities and maintaining growth through innovation and entrepreneurship, developing and managing large-scale projects in diverse locations worldwide, consolidating the Group’s economic strength and building up sustainable net income on a reliable basis, and leveraging the Group’s management capabilities and capital to attain future growth.

Fairfield Residential Company LLC is among the most experienced multifamily real estate operating companies in the United States. The Company was built around providing complementary services throughout the life cycle of a project to real estate investors. We provide acquisitions, entitlement, development, construction, redevelopment, property and asset management, and disposition services to our joint venture affiliates and to third party entities.

Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR) operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company engages in acquiring, developing, redeveloping, owning, leasing, and managing shopping centers, mini-malls, and lifestyle centers. As of February 5, 2007, it owned or managed approximately 461 shopping centers and 7 business centers, as well as 1,170 acres of undeveloped land. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. DDR was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio.

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