Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc is a commercial real estate finance company that is focused primarily on originating, investing in, acquiring and managing senior performing commercial real estate mortgage loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS, commercial real estate corporate debt and loans and other commercial real estate-related debt investments in the U.S. We are externally managed by ACREFI Management, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a leading global alternative asset manager with a contrarian and value-oriented investment approach in private equity and credit-oriented capital markets. We are led by an experienced team of senior real estate professionals, including Joseph F. Azrack, who serves as our Chief Executive Officer, Scott Weiner, who serves as our Chief Investment Officer, and Stuart A. Rothstein, who serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Messrs. Azrack, Weiner and Rothstein are supported by a team of senior executives who have significant experience in commercial property ownership and finance. We will also draw upon the extensive transactional, financial, managerial and investment skills of Apollo Global Management’s private equity, credit-oriented capital markets and real estate investment professionals. We believe our relationship with Apollo Global Management provides us with significant advantages in sourcing, evaluating, underwriting and managing investments. Our goal is to be a pre-eminent commercial real estate finance company that provides creative senior financing solutions to real estate owners while at the same time providing attractive risk adjusted returns to our stockholders over the long term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation. We distinguish ourselves from other providers of capital through our seamless execution, first class management, and creative and experienced investment professionals. Our primary purpose is to create a diversified portfolio of performing commercial real estate mortgage loans and CMBS assets that will be held to maturity and which we expect will provide stable attractive cash flow yields for our stockholders.

Higgins Development Partners has created over $5 billion in development value, delivering comprehensive real estate development services to a wide range of corporate, institutional and governmental clients throughout the United States and Canada.

Lendmark Financial Services was organized in 1996 in the basement of Liberty Mortgage Corporation in Atlanta. We became part of the BB&T family when our parent company, First Liberty Bank, merged during the summer of 2000 with Branch Banking and Trust Company in Winston-Salem. Lendmark Financial Services original mission was to meet the personal and mortgage lending needs of clients in the state of Georgia who could not be served by traditional bank products. The company’s founders are among the current executive staff at Lendmark, Bobby Aiken – President and CEO and Joe H. Burgamy – Senior Vice President of Branch Operations.Almost from the beginning, it was clear that we had developed a plan that would prove to be a winner. We opened four branches in October 1996 in Conyers, Covington, Dalton, and Blue Ridge. A short eleven months later, we opened three more branches in Macon, Milledgeville, and Savannah, followed by our eighth branch in Waycross in June 1998. With the existing operation doing well and exceeding our goals and objectives, we took on the task of completing our first acquisition. In August of 1998, Lendmark acquired First Credit Corporation, expanding our branch presence to the Kingsland, Brunswick, and Augusta markets. Upon the completion of this successful acquisition, we began searching for additional opportunities. In March 1999, we completed our second acquisition of Center Finance. This acquisition was unique in that it allowed us to expand beyond the borders of Georgia into Jasper and East Ridge, Tennessee.

Canary Wharf once had little to sing about -- but now it is chirping away. Perched three miles from the Bank of England in the revitalized Docklands of London, Canary Wharf was real estate mogul Paul Reichmann's 97-acre solution to the city's problems of high rents and scarce office space. The office and retail complex, when complete, will total around 20 million sq. ft. of space. The existing portions of Canary Wharf (more than 14 million sq. ft.) are 95% leased, with more construction underway. Songbird Estates, a consortium led by Morgan Stanley, owns a majority of Canary Wharf.

Colliers International is a leading global real estate services organization defined by our spirit of enterprise. Through our culture of service excellence and a shared sense of initiative, we have integrated the resources of real estate specialists worldwide to accelerate the success of our clients.

The paths of Philip Maritz and Lew Wolff, both real estate investors/developers and St. Louis natives, crossed in 1992 and led to a breakfast meeting at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in St. Louis, where they discussed collaborating on potential investment projects. Two years later they formed the hotel investment group, Maritz, Wolff & Co., and acquired The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. Following the investment, through an innovative approach to ownership, Maritz, Wolff worked with The Ritz-Carlton’s management team to increase the property’s revenues by 14 percent and operating profits by 127 percent. During this period, the partners observed factors in the hotel industry indicating strong investment opportunities for top-tier urban and resort lodging properties.

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.

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.

Walker & Dunlop, LLC, a real estate finance, and delegated underwriting and servicing company, provides advisory, financing, and investment services to commercial real estate investors, owners, and developers in the Mid-Atlantic region. The company offers multifamily loans, including conventional, affordable, manufactured, student, seniors, refinance, supplemental, and small loans on various multifamily assets, such as market-rate apartments, affordable apartments, manufactured housing developments, seniors housing, and student housing; and specialty loans, which comprise structured transactions, forward commitments, and affordable housing finances. It also provides loan securitization; acquisition financing or stabilized properties refinancing; healthcare financing solutions, including fixed-rate or variable-rate, and balloon or amortizing loans for seniors properties; financing solutions for office, retail, hospitality, and industrial real estate properties; and debt financing, investment sales, and principal investments solutions. The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in Walnut Creek, California; Plano, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; and New York, New York.

Innkeepers USA Trust is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that primarily invests in upscale and extended-stay hotel properties. (IT also invests in full-service hotels and mid-priced lodgings.) The REIT owns stakes in about 75 hotels with some 10,000 rooms in more than 20 states. Nearly all are leased by management company Island Hospitality. About half of its hotels are operated under the Residence Inn by Marriott brand. Other brands include Hampton Inn and Summerfield Suites. Laden with more than $1 billion in debt, the REIT filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2010.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.