iStar Financial Inc. operates as a finance company focusing on the commercial real estate industry. The company provides custom-tailored financing to high-end private and corporate owners of real estate. Its financing products include senior and mezzanine real estate debt, senior and mezzanine corporate capital, corporate net lease financing, and equity. The company also involves in corporate tenant leasing business, which provides capital to corporations and others who control facilities leased primarily to single creditworthy customers. As of December 31, 2008, iStar Financial owned 362 office, industrial, entertainment, hotel, and retail facilities in 39 states. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The iStar Financial Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.

AmREIT, Inc., a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), the company invests in, develops, and manages retail properties, primarily lifestyle centers, grocery store-anchored strip centers, and single-tenant retail properties. It owns some 50 properties in about 15 states; more than half are located in Texas. The company's preferred assets are located in dense, high-traffic areas in the suburbs of Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. The REIT's largest tenants are Kroger, DineEquity (formerly IHOP), and CVS Pharmacy. AmREIT went private in December 2008 as part of its Vision 2010 strategic plan to create a more streamlined and stable company.

Part of real estate finance and investment management company Ladder Capital Group, Ladder Capital Realty Finance will operate as a commercial real estate investment trust (REIT) targeting first mortgage loans secured by income-producing properties. Other investments will include senior commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other real estate-related assets. Externally managed by Ladder Capital Realty Finance Manager, an affiliate and indirect subsidiary of commercial finance company Ladder Capital Finance Holdings, Ladder Capital was formed and filed to go public in July 2009. It is currently backed by private equity firms TowerBrook Capital Partners and GI International (GI Partners).

Heron International has begun development of Heron Tower at 110 Bishopsgate in the City of London. The new office building will be completed by the first quarter 2011. Heron Tower is a multi-occupied building which will provide world class office space, setting the standards for offices of the future. Its design is both visionary and environmentally focused. Heron Tower has been designed by the leading international architectural practice Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), a firm recognised for design excellence and innovation in tower buildings. At 202 metres (663ft) in height, with a 28 metre mast, the 46 storey tower will be one of the tallest towers in the City of London.

Marden Homes purchases land, constructs homes and apartments, and carries out major refurbishments and extensions. Its developments range from midsized extensions to housing association projects. The company acquires residential and commercial properties for development throughout Greater London and the Home Counties. Marden also provides refurbishment, extension, and design services.

The Oak Holdings flight crew have thousands of hours experience in managing complex development projects and running successful investment portfolios, around the world. The Company is now using this experience to build an impressive development, investment and management programme with particular emphasis on the leisure, retail and hotel sectors.

Drucker & Falk is a real estate services firm specializing in third party multifamily fee management; third party commercial fee management; commercial sales & leasing; senior living; and related ancillary services.The company was founded in 1938, and has a proven record of success, surviving and thriving for over seven decades and through even the most challenging real estate cycles. Today, Drucker & Falk operates in seven Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states and has offices in Newport News, VA; Raleigh, NC; Richmond, VA; Charlotte, NC; and Wilmington, NC.The company has operated as a family business since it began, and is now in its third generation of leadership.

Since 2006, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation has been managing a Mayor Bloomberg-sanctioned expansion of the yard, including some 1.7 million sq. ft. of new industrial space.After the federal government closed the military facilities at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, the property on the East River was taken over and converted into commercial real estate by The City of New York. Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation is in charge of the management and development of the old Navy Yard, which contains about 4 million sq. ft. of leasable office and industrial space. Located near the Brooklyn Bridge, the Navy Yard is home to about 250 tenants, including small businesses, high-tech startups, and film and television studios.

Birmingham Midshires provides savings and mortgage lending products and services by telephone, by post, and online. Other products include bonds and individual savings accounts (ISAs). In 2005 and 2006 former parent company HBOS closed most of Birmingham Midshires' network of nearly 70 branch offices in the UK and rebranded the rest; employees were reassigned within the parent firm as Birmingham Midshires moved away from branch offices and exclusively to the Internet. In early 2009 Lloyds TSB acquired HBOS (along with Birmingham Midshires), forming Lloyds Banking Group.

Alexander's knows what's great about real estate. The real estate investment trust (REIT) owns, manages, and leases about a half-dozen properties totaling about 3.5 million sq. ft. in metropolitan New York City. Once a department store chain, Alexander's held on to its property interests, including the site of its erstwhile flagship store -- an entire block on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. The REIT leases space at the mixed-use Lexington site to tenants such as Bloomberg, Citibank, The Home Depot, and The Container Store. The Lexington site is also home to about 100 condominiums. Bloomberg accounts for about a third of the REIT's sales.

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