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.

Government Properties Income Trust (NYSE: GOV) is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns 53 properties, 43 of which are leased primarily to the U.S. Government and 10 of which are leased to the States of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and South Carolina, respectively. Our properties contain approximately 6.5 million rentable square feet and are located in 24 states and the District of Columbia. Most of our properties have been continuously occupied by government tenants since the properties were first acquired, developed or redeveloped. GOV was founded and our shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2009. We have been investment grade rated since 2010 and we are included in the Russell 2000® Index and the MSCI US REIT Index (RMS/RMZ).

Glimcher Realty Trust operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It owns, leases, acquires, develops, and operates a portfolio of retail properties, including regional and super regional malls, as well as community shopping centers. As of December 31, 2007, the company managed and leased 27 properties, including 23 malls and 4 community centers located in the states of Ohio, West Virginia, California, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington. Glimcher Realty Trust has elected to be taxed as a REIT and would not be subject to corporate income tax on that portion of its net income that is distributed to shareholders. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

HKR International. Since the 1980s HKR has been involved in developing some two dozen high-end residential properties comprising more than 10,000 units. Its primary development, the 70 million sq. ft. Discovery Bay on Hong Kong's Lantau Island, includes residences, a golf course, marina, swimming pool, clubhouse, shops, restaurants, schools, and a fleet of ferries and buses to transport residents to and from the property. HKR also owns two hotels: The Sukhothia in Thailand and The Sentosa Resort and Spa in Singapore. Other key investments include cancer treatment centers and dentist offices; Spa Botanica, with locations throughout Asia; and Imperial, a bathroom products manufacturer.

The Macerich Company operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company, through its majority-owned partnership, The Macerich Partnership, L.P., engages in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management, and leasing of regional and community shopping centers. As of June 30, 2005, it owned or had ownership interests in 76 regional shopping centers, 20 community shopping centers, and 2 development/redevelopment projects. The Macerich Company has elected to be treated as a REIT under Sections 856 through 858 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal income tax, provided that it distributes at least 90% of taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Crescent Resources, LLC has emerged as a leader in the growing real estate markets in the southeastern and southwestern United States. The company adds value to the land entrusted to it, whether it be through land management, a commercial development or a residential community. Crescent Resources is a real estate development and land management company comprised of dedicated people with uncompromising integrity. We are committed to excellence in serving our customers, developing the potential of our employees, honoring the obligations of our owners, and caring for the environment and communities we serve.

Founded in 1993, Franklin American Mortgage Company (FAMC), a privately-held mortgage banking firm located in Franklin, Tennessee, is a full-service professional mortgage banker licensed to provide residential mortgages across the nation. FAMC, which offers a host of diverse, flexible mortgage packages for customers with a variety of backgrounds and needs, is committed to helping families and individuals achieve the dream of home ownership through its three divisions: retail, wholesale and correspondent. An emerging leader in the mortgage industry, Franklin American Mortgage Company is fast becoming a preferred lender for consumers and mortgage professionals across the country. The Company’s Correspondent Lending division was designed to service small to large lenders across the nation. The Correspondent Lending division was created to harness FAMC’s growing national presence to provide high-quality services and products to these institutions and their customers. This will help smaller lenders compete with larger “mega banks” in an increasingly tight market.The Company’s Wholesale division funds and underwrites loans for mortgage brokers, offering efficiency and scalability through superior technology. FAMC’s Retail division offers individuals throughout the United States the opportunity to work directly with the Company to secure a mortgage.FAMC offers borrowers, brokers and lenders the strength and security of a forward-thinking national mortgage company, dedicated to remaining an industry trendsetter. FAMC truly values its relationship with each customer and mortgage professional they work with, maintaining a company tradition of responsiveness and personalized service characteristic of a much smaller organization. This philosophy has enabled FAMC to become one of the fastest growing mortgage bankers in the nation.This growth rate has enabled Franklin American to become a six-time recipient of the Inc. 500 Award, subsequently entering the Company into the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame. Additionally, the Company has twice been recognized by Business Nashville Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in middle Tennessee and was awarded top honors for the Small Business Award by the Nashville Business Journal. The Company is also a three time recipient of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and The Tennessean Music City Future 50 Award.Franklin American Mortgage Company is based in Franklin, TN with offices throughout the country. The company is FHA Direct Endorsed, VA Automatic, a LAPP authority and a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae Approved seller/servicer.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation provides assistance for affordable rental housing. Together, Fannie and Freddie guarantee some 70% of all new home loans in the US. Due to losses related to the subprime mortgage crisis, the federal government seized both Fannie and Freddie in September 2008.These siblings know there's no place like home. Government-sponsored enterprises Freddie Mac (officially Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) and Fannie Mae were established to buy residential mortgages and boost the nation's housing market. They do so by purchasing mortgages from lenders and packaging them for resale, thereby mitigating risk and allowing lenders to provide mortgages to those who may not otherwise qualify.

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in acquiring, owning, and operating apartment communities primarily in the Sunbelt region of the United States. As of December 31, 2007, Mid-America owned 100% of 137 properties representing 40,248 apartment units. Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent it distributes 90% of taxable income to its shareholders. Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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.

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