Stephen R. Blank

Home Properties LP provides investment services. It owns, operates, acquires, develops, and rehabilitates apartment communities. The firm focused primarily on Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast Florida markets of the United States. The company is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. is an American company that provides an array of industry data prepared by NAREIT staff and other outside sources. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The company specializes in REITs, or real estate investment trusts, which are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate across a range of property sectors. Most REITs trade on major stock exchanges, and they offer a number of benefits to investors. Steven A. Wechsler has been the CEO of the company since 1997.

The Counselors of Real Estate is an international consortium of commercial property professionals from leading real estate, financial, law, valuation, and accounting and business advisory firms, as well as real property experts in academia and government. The private company is based in Chicago, IL. The company offers expertise in more than 60 real estate disciplines across all asset classes and have resolved disputes, led privatizations, developed master plans, created and endowed centers, and valued both the Grand Canyon and Yale University.

BNP Residential Properties, Inc. operated a real estate investment trust. The company owned and operated about 32 apartment communities. It operated in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The company was founded in 1987 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Atlantic Realty Trust operates as a real estate investment trust. The company owns, acquires, develops, redevelops, leases, and manages primarily neighborhood or community shopping centers. It owns 41 retail properties located in Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Atlantic Realty Trust was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY

WestCoast Hospitality Corporation is a hospitality and leisure company primarily engaged in the ownership, management, development and franchising of mid-scale, full service hotels under its WestCoast® and Red Lion® brands.

CIBC World Markets is a full-service investment bank headquartered in New York City. CIBC provides an internationally integrated research product through three primary strategies. In the US, the firm provides research coverage available in areas of focus, including technology, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, power generation and technology, financial institutions, consumer growth, real estate and media. In Canada, the firm offers the full spectrum of coverage for all of the sectors that form the TSE 300 Index. Their broad investment grade analysis of return bond Indices provides daily performance of the Canadian bond market. The sectors covered are: government of Canada bonds, provincial and municipal bonds and corporate bonds rated AAA/AA, A and BBB. Also available is a monthly ABS/MBS market report that provides information on ABS market conditions, market summary data and monthly performance reports on outstanding transactions. This report includes information about the MBS market, including key statistics on MBS spreads and prepayments. Another report contains MBS trading data, cash flows and other key data. A separate monthly Portfolio Valuation Report provides month end pricing for ABS and MBS transactions. Corporate debt research produces highly targeted credit analysis and research for investment grade and high yield debt securities. The corporate bond review covers bond market action, new issues, price/yield movements, rating changes, and buy/sell recommendations. The fixed-income research group produces actionable fundamental and technical analysis, strategies, products, and runs bond indexes and quantitative models relating specifically to fixed income markets, bond portfolios, and individual securities. CIBC provides risk management solutions to corporations, investors, financial institutions, and governments across all asset classes: interest rates, equities, credit, currency, and commodities. CIBC World Markets is a subsidiary of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.