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MetLife Real Estate Investments
Finance | Rank: # 20 (Score: 103 )
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Company:   MetLife Real Estate Investments    
Address: 10 Park Avenue  
City: Morristown  
State: NJ  
Zip:   07960  
Phone: 973-355-4000  
Fax: 973-355-4460  
Email: NA  
Website: www.metlife.com/realestate  
Key Executive    
1. Name: Robert R. Merck  
    Title: Senior Managing Director  
2. Name: Mark H. Wilsmann    
    Title: Managing Director  
3. Name: Kevin M. Thorwarth    
    Title: Managing Director  
4. Name: Ken A. McIntyre  
    Title: Managing Director  
*Number of Offices: 11 12
*Number of Employees: 173 14
*Gross Revenues Fiscal Year 2006: 0.0 million 26
*Projected Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: 0.0 million 22
Selected Areas of Specialization: MetLife’s investment focus includes retail, office, hotel, multi-family, industrial, portfolio, senior and student housing, land, parking facilities and structured transactions.  
Company Overview: MetLife is a global leader in real estate with an extraordinary real estate investments franchise. We have been involved in the real estate business since 1875 as a mortgage lender, developer and owner. MetLife maintains a portfolio of over $41 billion invested in real estate products including equities and commercial mortgages. MetLife Real Estate Investments ranks as one of the largest life-insurance-company commercial mortgage lenders with an annual transaction volume of $10 billion and an existing mortgage portfolio that exceeds $33 billion. MetLife also provides revolving lines of credit, subscription and acquisition lines. These programs, which provide low-cost floating rate capital to opportunity funds, pension funds and REITs, accounted for nearly $2 billion in volume in 2006. MetLife has also become more active in providing fixed-rate construction / permanent loans. The real estate investment group is backed by the full resources of MetLife, one of the nation’s leading providers of insurance and other financial services. MetLife Real Estate Investments’ global network keeps us close to our markets and better positioned to serve your commercial real estate needs for mortgages, leasing, sales, acquisitions, joint ventures and capital transactions. Please note: 16% of our geographic are financing should fall under  
*Total Number of Financing Transactions
Arranged or Committed in 2006:		 184 18
*Total Value of Financing Transactions
Arranged or Committed in 2006:		 10.0 billion 11
Percentage by Financing Type:    
Public Debt: %  
Private Debt: 100 %  
Public Equity: %  
Private Equity: %  
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Value by Financing Type:    
Public Debt: .  
Private Debt: 10.0 billion  
Public Equity: .  
Private Equity: .  
Hybrid: .  
Percentage by Property Type:    
Office: 45 %  
Industrial: 3 %  
Retail: 9 %  
Apartments: 10 %  
Hotels: 13 %  
Other: 20 %  
(Please specify) Includes multiple use and revolving LOC  
Percentage by Geographic Area    
Northeast: 19 %  
Southeast: 3 %  
Midwest: 3 %  
Southwest: 3 %  
West: 3 %  
International: 3 %  
Percentage by Rate Types:    
Fixed: 51 %  
Floating: 49 %  
Interest-Only: 53 %  
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Construction: %  
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Permanent: %  
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    Raw Score:   103