FirstService is a global diversified leader in the rapidly growing real estate services sector, providing services in: commercial real estate; residential property management; and property services.Industry-leading service platforms include Colliers International, the third largest global player in commercial real estate services; FirstService Residential Management, the largest manager of residential communities in North America; and TFC, North America's largest provider of property services through franchise and contractor networks.FirstService generates about US $2 billion in annualized revenues with more than 18,000 employees worldwide.

Established in 2007, Ellington Financial filed to go public in July 2009, hoping to take advantage of the current credit environment. Mortgage-related assets are music to Ellington Financial's ears. The specialty finance company manages a portfolio of primarily non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities, valued at more than $366 million. It also seeks to acquire other target assets, such as residential whole mortgage loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, commercial real estate debt, and asset-backed securities. Riskier residential whole mortgage loans, which are generally not guaranteed by the US government, include subprime, non-performing, and sub-performing mortgage loans.

Weingarten Realty Investors operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The company engages in the management, acquisition, and development of real estate. It operates in two segments, Shopping Center and Industrial. The Shopping Center segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of real estate, primarily anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers located in Texas, California, Louisiana, Arizona, Nevada, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Utah, Kentucky, and Maine. Its customer base includes supermarkets, discount retailers, drugstores, and other retailers. The Industrial segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of bulk warehouses and office/service centers. Its properties are located in Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Florida, California, and Tennessee. As of June 30, 2005, Weingarten Realty Investors owned or operated under long-term leases, directly or through its interest in joint ventures or partnerships, a total of 350 developed properties and 3 properties that are in various stages of development. Its properties include 294 shopping centers and 59 industrial properties. Weingarten Realty Investors qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be taxed on the portion of its income, which is distributed to shareholders, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income. The company was founded in 1948 and is based in Houston, Texas.

In the real estate industry, Casto is more than a development company. We are a privately held, fully integrated real estate services firm dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of client service. With eighty years of successful development and management of commercial, industrial and residential real estate, we continue to utilize our core competencies, market strengths and competitive advantages in ways that produce substantial returns, both financial and non-financial, for our clients, investors, partners and the communities in which our projects are located. We are a team of more than 300 associates who bring diverse talents, perspectives and experience to the Casto name and believe that the best efforts are rewarded with the best results.

CAPREIT restructured to qualify as a real estate investment trust under Canadian tax laws at the end of 2010. Apart from apartments, Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust doesn't have much on its mind. Known as CAPREIT, the company invests in multi-family real estate. Its portfolio contains some 28,000 residential units in apartment buildings and townhouse complexes in urban areas across the country. As part of its diversified strategy, CAPREIT's properties vary from affordable housing to luxury suites. Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust also owns two Ontario adult lifestyle communities with more than 1,200 land lease sites.

Coventry Building Society was set up to construct houses in the 1800s. Coventry acquired smaller building society Stroud & Swindon in 2010.Yanks may confuse it with bricks and mortar, but in the UK it stands for building for the future. Coventry Building Society, one of the top financial cooperatives in the UK, serves more than one million members. The building society has diversified over the years to offer mortgage banking, investment, personal loans ranging from £1,000 to £15,000 ($1,600 to $25,000), health and travel insurance services, and online banking. The society has more than £18 billion ($27 billion) in assets under management.

Bimini Capital Management, Inc. (OTCBB: BMNM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in, but is not limited to, residential mortgage-related securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae). Our objective is to earn returns on the spread between the yield on our assets and our costs, including the interest expense on the funds we borrow. Bimini Capital Management, Inc. is headquartered in Vero Beach, Fla.

Highwoods Properties, Inc. is a real estate investment trust. The trust engages in leasing, management, development, construction, and other customer-related services for its properties and for third parties. It invests in the real estate markets of United States. The trust’s portfolio includes office, industrial, and retail properties. Highwoods Properties was founded in 1978 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Winthrop Realty Trust is a Boston and New York-based real estate investment trust publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FUR”. Our principal business activities include investing and making loans secured by real estate, joint venture investments with local real estate partners and acquiring equity and debt securities where the underlying assets consist of real estate.Our management team is composed of individuals whose careers have been devoted to a value oriented opportunistic real estate investment strategy. Management seeks to earn high risk adjusted returns by targeting for acquisition assets which we believe are undervalued and/or exhibit the potential for superior growth. Where required, management has the skill sets to provide the property management, asset management and construction management expertise in order for our investments to realize their full potential. With certain limitations, we will invest in real estate asset categories as well as most positions throughout the capital structure.

Susquehanna Real Estate is a York, PA based real estate development and consulting company, established over twenty years ago as the real estate division of Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff Co., a national corporation with divisions in dinnerware, radio broadcasting, cable systems, internet services and e-business products.

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