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Pat: What is your opinion of Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust? Thanks.

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Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust, $26.91, symbol CWT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 120.7 million; Market cap: $3.2 billion; www.callowayreit.com), owns, develops and operates big-box outdoor malls across Canada. In all, Calloway owns 129 shopping centres and two office buildings, with 25.3 million square feet of leasable area. Its malls are mainly located in the suburbs of larger cities and have lots of room for parking and additional building. The trust gets 58% of its revenue from Ontario, 15% from Quebec, 9% from B.C., 4% from Manitoba, 4% from Saskatchewan, 3% from Newfoundland and Labrador, 3% from Alberta, 2% from Nova Scotia, 1% from New Brunswick and 1% from Prince Edward Island. Calloway’s largest tenants are Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire/Mark’s Work Wearhouse/Forzani Group, Winners, Best Buy/Future Shop and Reitmans. Wal-Mart is currently a tenant in 76, or 79%, of the trust’s malls. Calloway depends on Wal-Mart for 26.3% of its revenue. In the three months ended September 30, 2011, Calloway’s revenue rose 6.5%, to $124.9 million…