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GlobeSt.com: How is your membership broken down?

van Ommen: We represent the listed real estate companies in Europe as well as the investors--the pension funds and institutional investors, the investment banks and fund managers. We have 160 organizations in our membership, 90% of which come from Europe. The other 10%, increasingly, comes from the US and from Asia.

GlobeSt.com: In 2004, Sam Zell said the European structure was flawed due to the lack of self-administration. Is it?

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John Salustri

John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.