Real Estate Forum: Forum 100
MetLife Real Estate Investments
Owner/Investor | Honorable Mention
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
*Number of Employees: 173
*Gross Revenues Fiscal Year 2006: 0.0 million
*Projected Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: 0.0 million
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 has $9+ billion in managed equity real estate, held directly, in joint ventures and through private real estate funds. 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.
*Total Portfolio Size:
Number of buildings: 468
Square Footage: 33,409,342
Number of Units/Rooms: 2140 Apts / 5,057 Hotel Rooms
*Total Value of Portfolio: 9.8 billion
Percentage by Property Type:  
Office: 62 %
Industrial: 8 %
Retail: 8 %
Apartments: 13 %
Hotels: 4 %
Other: 5 %
(Please specify) Parking Garages and Mezz Funds
Percentage by Geographic Area:  
Northeast: 25 %
Southeast: 17 %
Midwest: 3 %
Southwest: 14 %
West: 38 %
International: 3 %
Total Acquisitions in 2006:  
Number of buildings: 5
Square Footage: 1,517,414
Number of Units/Rooms:
Total Value of Acquisitions in 2006:   4.7 million  
Total Dispositions in 2006:  
Number of buildings: 21
Square Footage:
Number of Units/Rooms:
Total Value of Acquisitions in 2006: 5.9 billion