Ashford Hospitality is in with the inn crowd. A self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT), Ashford owns and has interests in about 100 upscale hotels with more than 20,000 rooms in some two dozen states and Washington, DC; most operate under the Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, and Starwood nameplates. Nearly half of Ashford's properties are managed by firms owned by company chairman Archie Bennett and his son, CEO Monty Bennett, with the rest overseen by other third-party management companies. In addition to making direct investments in hotels, the REIT also originates loans secured by hotel properties.

Myriad Entertainment and Resorts, Inc., an investment holding company, owns and operates destination experience resorts. The company, through MER Resorts, Inc., owns 99% interest in Myriad World Resorts of Tunica, LLC, which engages in the development of the planned 513-acre resort, casino, and championship golf course in Tunica, Mississippi. It also intends to own, operate, and manage country clubs, casinos, resort amenities and facilities, real estate operations, and corporate services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tunica, Mississippi.

InnSuites Hospitality Trust wholly-owns and operates five studio and two-room suite hotels in Arizona, New Mexico, and southern California, four of which are co-branded as Best Westerns. The company also provides management services for nine hotels and trademark license services for 11 hotels. InnSuites Hospitality Trust primarily operates through the InnSuites Hotels & Suites and InnSuites Boutique Hotel Collection brands. InnSuites Hospitality Trust operates through its majority-owned affiliate RRF Limited Partnership, which in turn operates through subsidiary InnSuites Hotels.

Thakral Corporation Ltd is in the consumer electronics distribution business as well as strategic property and equity investments. Presently, China (including Hong Kong) and India are the Group's key markets for its products. Under its extensive consumer brand portfolio are global names such as Apple, Canon, Casio, Fuji, Hewlet-Packard, Kodak, Lenovo, Nikon, Nokia, Orion, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony.

Cornish & Carey (C&C) provides commercial real estate services to owners, investors, and tenants in Northern California. The firm specializes in office, industrial, retail, research and development, warehouse, and multifamily residential properties. There are some 250 C&C agents in about a dozen offices who provide services such as acquisition and sales, leasing, facilities management, and financial advice. The firm's special assets services division, C&C Capital Advisors, helps sell performing and sub-performing loans and seeks out opportunities to buy discounted, off-market assets. C&C, which is active in global markets through its affiliation with ONCOR International, was founded in 1935.

Hospitals trust Medical Properties to provide the leases under which their facilities operate. The self-administers real estate investment trust owns about 50 health care facilities, including acute-care, physical rehabilitation, and regional and community hospitals in more than 20 states. Almost half are in California and Texas; California alone represents approximately 45% of the REIT's annual revenue. It leases the facilities to some 15 hospital operators under long-term triple-net leases, where the tenant bears most of the operating costs. Prime Healtcare Services and Vibra Healthcare are the REIT's largest clients; together they account for more than half of its revenue.

E-House is a leading real estate services company in China with a diverse scope of services, wide brand recognition and geographic presence. We offer a wide range of services to the real estate industry through various business segments including primary sales agency, secondary brokerage, consulting and information services, advertising and investment management. For five consecutive years (2004-2008), we have been ranked by the China Real Estate Top 10 Committee as the largest real estate agency and consulting services company in China, as measured by the number of transactions facilitated, transaction value and gross floor area of properties sold, and by the expanse of our geographic coverage.

Groupe Affine comprises Affine, Buro Facility International (BFI), Promaffine, and the Concerto Group. The group is an independent force in the French property financing, leasing, rental, financial engineering, and property development sectors. Affine and its subsidiaries handle everything from initial financial planning and consultation to the logistics and engineering, and eventual construction or refurbishment, of industrial and commercial properties. The company manages hundreds of lease and rental properties around Paris and invests in property development operations in both France and the US.

In 2007 C-BASS bought Fieldstone Investment Corporation, which signaled the beginning of the end when Fieldstone's mortgage unit declared bankruptcy. C-BASS could not meet lenders' margin calls and had to throw in the towel itself and begin liquidation. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2010. When the subprime market got fishy, C-BASS had to be thrown back. Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization (C-BASS) purchased and securitized credit-sensitive and nonperforming single-family residential mortgages, investing in whole loans, subordinated securities, and properties on the verge of being foreclosed upon. It also developed loan-default management technology.

Breslin Realty has widespread experience in tenant relations, negotiations, landlord representation, land planning and development, real estate appraising, property management, construction and creative financing. With extensive knowledge of the New York tri-state area and consumer purchasing habits, the company offers expert retail leasing services, providing specialist brokers for a variety of national retailers.

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