Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust (REIT). The firm engages in the ownership and operation of lifestyle oriented properties. Its portfolio of properties include various amenities and common facilities, such as a clubhouse, a swimming pool, laundry facilities, and cable television service, sauna/whirlpool spas, golf courses, tennis, shuffleboard and basketball courts, and exercise rooms. The firm leases developed sites to owners of manufactured homes referred to as resort homes, park models referred to as resort cottages, and recreational vehicles. It primarily invests in the markets of the United States. The firm primarily invests in land with lower maintenance costs and customer turnover costs, high quality real estate in and around major metropolitan areas, high barriers to entry, retirement and vacation destinations, growth markets, and appreciating component of real estate2. It was formerly known as Home Communities, Inc. The firm was founded in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in Clearwater, Florida, Phoenix, Arizona, and Aurora, Colorado.

Cooper Communities develops master-planned communities and resorts in the southeastern US. Some properties feature golf courses and lakes, with 20-30% of their land set aside for natural landscape. Subsidiaries include custom builder Cooper Homes, Cooper Land Development, and Escapes!, which sells timeshare options for Cooper's resorts. Cooper Realty Investments acquires and manages commercial properties. The largest homebuilder in Arkansas, Cooper Communities also has developments in eight other states. Cooper Communities was founded by John Cooper in 1954, and builds about 1,300 new homes each year.

Acadia owns or has interests in some 80 properties -- mostly shopping centers anchored by a grocery store, drug store, or big box store -- that contain more than 10 million sq. ft. of leasable space. It also has investments in self-storage properties, mortgage loans, and other real estate interests. The company's largest tenants include A&P, SUPERVALU, The TJX Companies, and Wal-Mart.A self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), Acadia Realty acquires, redevelops, and manages retail properties in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest. The REIT specializes in community shopping centers and mixed-use properties in urban areas.

Strategic Hotels & Resorts (SHR) is a busy BEE when it comes to hospitality. The self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), which is traded under the symbol BEE, owns or has interests in more than 15 upscale and luxury hotels (some 8,000 rooms) in the US, Europe, and Mexico. It also leases a handful of hotel properties from landlords in Europe. SHR also owns land for development, which is adjacent to existing hotel resorts. Affiliated brands include Four Seasons, Hyatt, InterContinental, and Marriott. Focused on the asset management aspect of its properties, SHR relies on third-party management companies to handle day-to-day operations at its hotels.

DYL Group, LLC based in South Florida with corporate offices in both Miami and Fort Lauderdale, is one of Florida's most active developers, specializing in hotels, resorts, luxury high-rises, residential condominiums, and retail and mixed-use projects. Its principals have strong track records building exceptionally attractive, functional and highly successful projects that are appropriate to their locale and are innovative to the market.

The Beijing Hualian Group Investment Holding Co.,Ltd. (referred to in short as, the Beijing Hualian Group) is one of the 15 largest retail enterprises supported by Ministry of Commerce. The Beijing Hualian Group has two publicly listed companies and several holding companies. The Group’s business is primarily focused on hypermarkets, supermarkets and commercial properties. By the end of 2007, the Group owned more than 80 hypermarkets in 35 key cities and 23 provinces across the country. Each store has more than 10,000 m2 of floor space. The Group operates with top flight management resources, merchandising resources and human resources. The Beijing Hualian Group has established a strong and growing retail network throughout the country.

The CNL story begins in 1973 with a $5,000 loan—father to son—one entrepreneur sponsoring another. That seed, nurtured and protected, has grown through the miracle of compounding into CNL Financial Group, Inc., one of the nation’s largest and most respected private real estate investment and development companies, Invested in Every Corner of America® and beyond.

Origen Financial, Inc. is an internally-managed and internally advised company specializing in the manufactured housing finance business that has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust ("REIT"). Although no longer originating or servicing loans, we continue to manage an existing portfolio of approximately $1 billion of manufactured housing loans and asset backed securities. These loans were originated in the highest credit quality sectors of the manufactured housing finance industry using our proprietary credit scoring system and fully documented underwriting information. Loan performance to date has resulted in lower than average default and delinquency rates and higher than average recovery rates compared to the manufactured housing industry as a whole. Despite the recent turmoil in the housing markets, our portfolio continues to perform well.

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.

Bresler & Reiner, Inc. engages in the acquisition, development, and ownership of commercial, residential, and hospitality real estate in the United States. It has operations in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; Delaware and Maryland Eastern Shore; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Houston, Texas; and the Tampa and Orlando, Florida metropolitan areas. The company is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.

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