Mr. Kleinberg, 55, is the president and a partner of the design firm MKDA, along with his brother, Jeffrey, and his father, Milo, who founded the firm in 1959.
Mr. Coben, 49, is the founder of Glen & Company, an architectural and interior design firm in New York that specializes in the hospitality and retail sectors.
Mr. Ricciotti, 39, is the chief executive and a principal of Bond New York, an independent residential real estate brokerage. The company is involved in both rentals and sales.
The new executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says he is “focused on changing” the slow pace of development at the World Trade Center site.
The president and founder of Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation and Healthcare Real Estate Advisors helps businesses find and set up commercial space.
Mr. Cooper is the president and chief executive of WSP Flack + Kurtz, a building systems engineering company that provides a wide range of consulting, design and engineering services.
Mr. Jungreis is the president of the Rosewood Realty Group, a boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm that focuses on sales of multifamily, retail and office properties largely in the outer boroughs.
Mr. Gottesdiener is a managing partner in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the world’s largest architectural firms, best known for its skyscrapers.
Mr. Pizer, 45, is the president of Trinity Real Estate, the real estate arm of the historic Trinity Church, which owns six million square feet of property, much of it office space.
Ms. Ramirez, 63, is the president of Halstead Property, a residential brokerage that, along with the luxury brokerage Brown Harris Stevens, is owned by Terra Holdings.
Ms. Augustine is a managing partner in the New York office of the law firm McCarter & English, and a member of its real estate, construction and environmental group.
Ms. Albert is the chief executive of the Marketing Directors, a Manhattan-based company that specializes in marketing new residential real estate developments.
Mr. Malkin is the president of Wien & Malkin, which, through its divisions and partnerships, owns about 10 million square feet of commercial property in the New York area.
Mr. Durst, known in the industry by his nickname, Jody, is co-president of the Durst Organization, one of the city’s largest family-operated real estate firms.
Mr. Hauspurg is the chairman and chief executive of a brokerage and investment services company, which has helped to find buyers or tenants for many major Manhattan office buildings.
Investors are looking at various companies that build or manage highways and tunnels, water and waste systems, parking garages, airports and other properties.
To thin inventories, many beleaguered builders have sweetened the incentive pot, offering upgrades, discounts, financing and payment protection programs.
For a growing number of investors, the spate of home foreclosures across the country is creating extraordinary buying opportunities for distressed properties.
Farmland in general is considered an excellent diversifier: historically, the returns are negatively correlated with stocks but tend to track inflation.
Apparently believing that the worst of the housing crisis is behind them, some investors have been picking up stocks in this beleaguered sector, pushing up share prices.