Republic State Mortgage stand? Why ... liberty and mortgages for all, of course. The lender provides fixed rate, adjustable rate, and jumbo residential mortgages to help borrowers purchase new homes or to refinance existing ones. It also offers mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration. Republic State Mortgage operates nearly 20 offices in Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio. It's licensed to do business (or exempt from licensing) in more than a dozen other states. Founded in 1994, Republic State Mortgage is owned by chairman and CEO Robert Wagnon and is a member of Lenders One, a national cooperative of independent mortgage bankers.

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.

Since 1952, Levin Management has evolved into one of America's leading retail real estate services firms, offering clients the widest possible range of services needed to successfully operate any retail venue. Services include Leasing, Property Management, Financial Management and Reporting, Lease Administration, Construction Services/Management, and Marketing.Levin is an Accredited Management Organization of the Institute of Real Estate Management, and the winner of the organization's New Jersey Chapter 1's AMO of the Year Award. We have been selected as one of America's five fastest-growing 3rd party retail property management by Chain Store Age magazine, the largest and best retail property manager in New Jersey and Pennsylvania by Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal (which also recently named us the best place to work), and have consistently been ranked among the Top 100 shopping center managers nationally by Retail Traffic magazine

Regency Commercial Associates wants to be king of the strip. Doing business as Regency Properties, the company acquires, develops, owns, leases, and manages commercial property. It owns more than two dozen community shopping centers; about 20 of them are in its home state of Indiana, and the rest are in Alabama, Illinois, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Together, they comprise approximately 2 million sq. ft. of commercial space. Regency Properties also owns an office complex and land. Affiliate Regency Management Services acquires, develops, owns, and manages apartment communities in Indiana and Illinois.

Ambling Companies doesn't mind keeping the pace steady when it comes to developing residential real estate. Through five independent divisions, the firm owns, develops, constructs, and manages properties throughout the US. Ambling's construction arm builds multi-family, senior, and affordable housing (more than 4,000 units total), while its development arm acquires multi-family communities in need of rehabilitation (more than 8,800 units developed). It also develops student housing and luxury residential communities along the Florida coast

Beacon Capital Partners was formed in 1998 after predecessor public REIT Beacon Properties merged with Equity Office Properties Trust in a $4 billion transaction. Beacon earns its bacon by collecting offices. A private real estate investment trust (REIT), Beacon Capital Partners invests in, renovates, and operates commercial and mixed-use properties in major metropolitan markets throughout the US. Beacon also has properties in London and Paris. It buys properties that can be improved through redevelopment, repositioning, or through managing the capital markets, after which it sells its holdings at a profit. The company manages investment funds on behalf of institutional, corporate, and government investors.

Eurohypo has targeted Japan, Russia, and Turkey, as well as the US, for expansion. Only about 2% of Eurohypo's shares are publicly traded; Commerzbank controls 98% of the company. In 2008, Commerzbank acquired complete ownership of Hypothekenbank in Essen (Essen Hyp), another German real estate bank, and merged it into Eurohypo.Eurohypo is hyperactive in its quest to become Europe's leading mortgage specialist. The company is involved in commercial real estate finance, public sector finance, and real estate investment banking in Europe and the US. It also originates residential loans in Germany.

We are the largest publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership and leasing of service stations, convenience stores and petroleum distribution terminals in the United States. We provide financing to the petroleum and convenience store industries for acquisitions, site upgrades and refinancing through our sale/leaseback and net lease financing programs. We own or lease approximately 1,050 service station and convenience store properties and nine petroleum distribution terminals in twenty-one states. We were founded in 1955 with the ownership of one gasoline service station in New York City and historically operated as an integrated wholesale and retail marketer and owner of gasoline stations. As our business grew, we combined real estate ownership, leasing and management with petroleum supply and distribution. We had our initial public offering in 1971 under the name Power Test Corp. In 1997, we spun-off our petroleum marketing business to our shareholders as a separate NYSE listed company, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by a subsidiary of OAO Lukoil, one of Russia's largest integrated oil companies. We lease approximately 78% of our properties to Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. on a long-term net basis. The balance of the properties are leased to individual operators and petroleum distributors.

Cencor Realty Services is part of The Weitzman Group, which was founded in 1989 by CEO Herbert Weitzman. Deep in the heart of Texas is where you'll find Cencor's business core. The company provides management, development, renovation, and accounting services for commercial real estate in Texas. Cencor oversees a portfolio of retail shopping centers totaling nearly 22 million sq. ft. in the Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio metropolitan areas. Its Cencor Urban division specializes in the development, marketing, and leasing of urban mixed-use projects. Its Cencor Solutions arm advises owners of struggling retail properties and seeks out investment opportunities created by down markets

Brookfield Properties is making big ripples in the commercial property market. Doing business as Brookfield Office Properties, the company owns stakes in about 100 commercial properties around the world. It primarily invests in properties in large cities including Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Calgary, Toronto, and Washington, DC. The company's portfolio totals some 70 million sq. ft. and includes most of Manhattan's World Financial Center; Brookfield also has a handful of properties in the development pipeline. Tenants include Merrill Lynch, CIBC, JPMorgan Chase, and Target Corporation. Brookfield plans to spin off its residential property assets to concentrate on expanding its global office portfolio.

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