Real Estate Forum: Forum 100
TIAA-CREF
Finance | Rank: # 17 (Score: 95 )
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Company:   TIAA-CREF    
Address: 730 Third Avenue  
City: New York  
State: NY  
Zip:   10017-3206  
Phone: 1 800 842 2252  
Fax: NA  
Email: NA  
Website: www.tiaa-cref.org  
Key Executive    
1. Name: David Brown  
    Title: Managing Director, Global Private Markets  
2. Name: Sanjeev Handa    
    Title: Managing Director, Global Public Markets  
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*Number of Offices: 3 main headquarters 19
*Number of Employees: 6,547 2
*Gross Revenues Fiscal Year 2006: 0.0 million 26
*Projected Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: 0.0 million 22
Selected Areas of Specialization: NA  
Company Overview: As a seller, purchaser, shareholder and lender, the TIAA-CREF organization is one of the most active real estate investors in the country whose professionals have an extensive network of real estate relationships. TIAA-CREF is the largest U.S. tax-exempt real estate manager with more than $71 billion in assets under management and invests at least $100 million in each of the 50 regional markets, including all five property types for broad diversification. The TIAA-CREF organization has more than 60 years of real estate investment expertise, including more than 140 in-house real estate professionals whom provide acquisition, portfolio management, asset management, client service, administration financial accounting and research. The Real Estate research team develops internal property type and geographic market forecasts using a variety of propriety processes and data sources combined with commercially available tools. Forecasts are fully reviewed on an annual basis as part of the strategic planning process.  
*Total Number of Financing Transactions
Arranged or Committed in 2006:
454 11
*Total Value of Financing Transactions
Arranged or Committed in 2006:
6.0 billion 15
Percentage by Financing Type:    
Public Debt: 45 %  
Private Debt: %  
Public Equity: 55 %  
Private Equity: %  
Hybrid: %  
Value by Financing Type:    
Public Debt: 3.3 billion  
Private Debt: 2.7 billion  
Public Equity: .  
Private Equity: .  
Hybrid: .  
Percentage by Property Type:    
Office: 28 %  
Industrial: 9 %  
Retail: 35 %  
Apartments: 15 %  
Hotels: %  
Other: 13 %  
(Please specify) lodging, mixed-use  
Percentage by Geographic Area    
Northeast: 22 %  
Southeast: 25 %  
Midwest: 25 %  
Southwest: 25 %  
West: 25 %  
International: 25 %  
Percentage by Rate Types:    
Fixed: 94 %  
Floating: 6 %  
Interest-Only: %  
Percentage by Loan Types:    
CMBS: %  
Construction: %  
Mezzanine: %  
Permanent: %  
Bridge: %  
    Raw Score:   95