Mission West Properties, Inc. - MSW- Profile

Mission West Properties, Inc.. The Group's principal activity is to acquire market, lease and manage research and development properties primarily located in the Silicon Valley portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 31-Mar-2007 it owned and managed 107 properties totaling approximately 7.7 million rentable square feet of R&D properties. The R&D property is designed for research and development and office uses and in some cases, includes space for light manufacturing operations with loading docks. It focuses on general purpose, single-tenant Silicon Valley R&D properties for information technology companies in order to maintain low operating costs, reduce tenant turnover and capitalize on its relationships with these companies and on the extensive knowledge of their real estate needs. The Group's customers include Microsoft Corporation and Fujitsu America. Acquires, markets, leases and manages research and development properties