Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The company, through its subsidiaries, provides investment banking, institutional brokerage and research, and asset management services in the United States and Europe. It invests in mortgage securities, whole mortgage loans, and other mortgage assets, as well as in merchant banking opportunities, including equity securities, mezzanine debt, and senior loans. The company's mortgage-related investments inclu ...

Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company acquires, originates, sells, and securitizes various mortgages. The company's operations include long-term investment, mortgage, commercial, and warehouse lending. The long-term investment operations primarily invest in adjustable rate and fixed rate Alt-A mortgages and commercial mortgages that are acquired and originated by its mortgage and comme ...

Duke Realty Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It offers leasing, property and asset management, development, construction, build-to-suit, and other tenant-related services. As of December 31, 2006, Duke Realty owned approximately 721 industrial, office, and retail properties comprising 113.8 million rentable square feet, as well as owned 6,400 acres of unencumbered land for development. The company has elected to be taxed as REIT under the Intern ...

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 ...

Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR) operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company engages in acquiring, developing, redeveloping, owning, leasing, and managing shopping centers, mini-malls, and lifestyle centers. As of February 5, 2007, it owned or managed approximately 461 shopping centers and 7 business centers, as well as 1,170 acres of undeveloped land. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, the company wo ...

AvalonBay Communities, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the development, redevelopment, acquisition, ownership, and operation of multifamily communities in the United States. It operates in the northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and northern and southern California regions of the United States. As of January 31, 2007, the company owned or held a direct or indirect ownership interest in 151 apartment communities that consist of 43,533 apartment homes in 10 ...

Boston Properties, a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, is one of the largest owners, managers, and developers of first-class office properties in the United States, with a significant presence in four core markets: Boston, Washington, D.C., Midtown Manhattan and San Francisco. The Company was founded in 1970 by Mortimer B. Zuckerman and Edward H. Linde in Boston, where it maintains its headquarters. Boston Properties became a public company in June 1997.

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Potlatch Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages timberlands located in Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota, and Oregon, the United States. It operates in five segments: New Resource, New Land Sales and Development, Wood Products, Pulp and Paperboard, and Consumer Products. The New Resource segment manages its timberlands, harvests timber, procures other wood fiber, buys and sells log, and enters into recreational and hunting leases. The New Land Sales and Deve ...