Real Estate Forum - October 2011

ANDREW WRIGHT, 31

Founder and CEO Franklin Street

Tampa, FL

At the young age of 26, Andrew Wright founded Franklin Street, a commercial real estate firm that helped clients buy, sell and lease within the main food groups: office, retail, multifamily and industrial. Under his leadership, Franklin Street’s management portfolio has grown to more than $200 million despite the economic downturn. He has also been involved in loan workouts totaling more than $250 million and helped clients in 18 Chapter 11 cases. In his career, Wright has been involved in over $1 billion worth of real estate transactions. On the side, he maintains memberships in the National Multi-Housing Council, the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Urban Land Institute and many other industry groups.

MAXIMUS YANEY, 34

Chief Executive Officer Campus Habitat

New York City

While attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an undergrad, Maximus Yaney recognized the need for better student housing options at the young age of 20. He then founded Campus Habitat, a REIT that takes underperforming assets and repositions them as student apartment communities. With value-add as its philosophy, the REIT has renovated, managed and developed housing near universities across the US since 2002. Under Yaney’s leadership, the organization has grown to include 4,500 beds and 160 employees, with properties in New York, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wyoming. INC magazine recognized the REIT among the 500 fastest growing US private companies in 2009 and 2010.

MICHAEL ZACHARIA, 39

Senior Vice President CBRE

McLean, VA

With 18 years of real estate experience and 1,500 retail transactions under his belt, Michael Zacharia has helped to re-shape the DC Metro retail landscape. Zacharia specializes in retail landlord representation for shopping centers, urban retail and ground-up development throughout Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. The CBRE SVP also coordinates tenant representation services for several national, regional and local retail tenants. To date, he’s closed $750 million worth of leasing and sales transactions. Zacharia has run the gamut of deals, introducing new concepts to the region such as PJ Clarke’s, West Marine, Planet Fitness, Cuba Libre and Cobb Theaters. ◆

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WEBINAR SERIES

Secondary Markets - There Is Life After Core DATE: November 16, 2011

TIME: 12:00PM ET

COST: FREE

Investors spent much of 2011 crowding into Top Tier cities in search of prime acquisitions. Yet often-overlooked secondary and tertiary markets can offer surprising opportunities both in terms of pricing and asset quality. But regardless of where on the map you set your targets, rewards won’t come easy, especially as the economic ground continues to shake.

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What you will learn:

• Where you’ll find the prime second and third-tier opportunities • Which product types are the best bets • What the pitfalls are in terms of slower ROIs and employment dynamics • What the evolving - and increasingly shaky - economy has in store for all investors.