Hines

Hines is a privately held global real estate investment, development, and property management firm with a 66-year history of excellence in building, acquiring, and operating the world's most significant commercial real estate properties. Founded by Gerald D. Hines in Houston, Texas in 1957 and managing over $90 billion in assets across 30 countries, Hines has developed or acquired more than 1,700 properties across 200 cities worldwide — including some of the most architecturally significant and commercially prestigious office towers, mixed-use complexes, and residential developments in major global cities. According to its website at hines.com, Hines is committed to creating lasting real estate legacies that enrich communities and deliver exceptional returns to investors, drawing on a culture of design excellence, operational discipline, and long-term relationship-oriented investment management that has defined the firm since Gerald Hines built his first Houston office building.

Hines' investment and development platform, described at hines.com, encompasses development of ground-up commercial projects including office towers, mixed-use urban developments, logistics and industrial facilities, and residential communities; acquisition and value-add investment in existing commercial properties; core and core-plus real estate investment for income-oriented institutional investors; opportunistic and value-add funds targeting higher-return enhancement strategies; and real estate credit investments in construction and permanent mortgage financing. The firm's development capabilities — perhaps its most distinctive competency, developed through 66 years of building major commercial projects — provide a proprietary pipeline of high-quality investment opportunities and a differentiated ability to create value through ground-up development that is unavailable to managers focused exclusively on acquiring existing properties.

Hines serves institutional investors through a comprehensive range of fund vehicles including core open-end funds, value-add closed-end funds, separate accounts for large institutional mandates, and non-traded REIT and interval fund vehicles that extend Hines' real estate expertise to individual investors. According to hines.com, the firm's investor platform provides access to Hines' proprietary development pipeline, global market expertise, and operational excellence across property types and geographies that have generated consistent long-term outperformance relative to private real estate benchmarks. Hines' combination of 66-year development and investment history, $90 billion in global assets, iconic development portfolio spanning major world cities, comprehensive investment strategy range, and architecture-driven differentiation establishes it as one of the most distinctive, experienced, and respected real estate investment and development firms in the world.