Taconic Investment Partners invests in and manages commercial real estate in the New York metropolitan area. It owns about 10 office, multifamily residential, and mixed-use properties totaling more than 7 million sq. ft. of space in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Coney Island. The company's Taconic Management division handles property management, leasing, and construction management duties. Founded in 1997 by co-CEOs Charles Bendit and Paul Pariser, Taconic Investment Partners has also owned properties in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

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.

Formed in 1860, Principality Building Society is one of the largest financial institutions in the principality of Wales. Familiarly known as The Principality, the mutual organization (that's coop in American) provides a range of financial services including mortgages, savings, insurance, and shareholder's pensions to 420,000 members through approximately 50 branches. Owning assets of over £5 billion, The Principality also owns real estate agency Peter Alan Ltd., which owns and operates some thirty locations in South Wales. The company offices have been in the same building since 1914.

Sperry Van Ness is very big on commercial real estate. The company's services include brokerage, asset management, financial services, and property management. Sperry Van Ness touts its technology-driven method of marketing its clients' real estate assets -- including multifamily, retail, office, industrial, and hospitality properties -- to thousands of outside brokers and investors. Sperry Van Ness has expanded rapidly, from serving some nine US markets in 2001 to more than 150 markets in 2008. It also operates international offices in Costa Rica and Panama.

Hersha Hospitality Trust, a real estate investment trust, engages in the ownership and operation of mid scale limited service hotels in the Eastern United States. As of June 30, 2005, it owned interests in 35 hotels, including 4 hotels owned through joint ventures in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The company has elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, Hersha would not be subject to income tax to the extent it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

The Derbyshire owns and operates some 50 offices in the UK. Burned by bad money-market investments and subprime mortgages, the company was taken over in late 2008 by Nationwide Building Society, the largest in the world. In the race to savings, Derbyshire Building Society (or, as it is better known, The Derbyshire) evens the odds. The company offers personal financial services such as deposit and savings accounts, mortgages, fixed-rate bonds, and homeowners, mortgage, and term life insurance. Other insurance and investment products are available through an agreement with Norwich Union (now part of Aviva).

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, development, acquisition, management, and leasing of community shopping centers, single tenant retail properties, and one regional mall in the Midwestern, Southeastern, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the company owned interests in 89 shopping centers, which included 65 community centers, 21 power centers, 2 single tenant retail properties, and 1 enclosed regional mall. Ramco-Gershenson Properties has elected to be a taxable REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income taxes, if it distributes approximately 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Capital Shopping Centres (formerly Liberty International) owns, manages, and develops shopping centers, primarily in the UK. A real estate investment trust (REIT), the company owns or partially owns about 15 regional shopping centers totaling some 13 million sq. ft. of leasable space. Major tenants include Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, and Boots. Liberty International demerged its London-focused property arm Capital & Counties in 2010 and took the name of its Capital Shopping Centres retail arm. (The split-off Capital & Counties operates as a separately listed non-REIT.) Later that year, Capital Shopping Centres sold its US portfolio to Equity One.

Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The trust invests in real estate related bridge and mezzanine loans, preferred and direct equity, mortgage-backed securities, discounted mortgage notes, and other real estate related assets. It offers bridge financing products to borrowers who seek short term capital to be used in an acquisition of property. Arbor Realty Trust offers mezzanine loans, which are loans subordinate to a conventional first mortgage loan and senior to the borrower’s equity in a transaction. It provides financing by making preferred equity investments in entities that own real property. The trust also invests in mortgage-related securities. Arbor Realty Trust qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, the trust would not be subject to federal income tax if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC serves as the manager and advisor to the trust. Arbor Realty Trust was formed in 2003 and is based in Uniondale, New York.

Picerne Real Estate Group is one of the largest diversified real estate management and development firms in the country. Picerne is a leader in providing high-quality housing in markets throughout the United States. Picerne is a full service construction, design, development, management and acquisition real estate firm.

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