The Old Man & The PRE

The Rise of the Foreign Investor (Clone)

Accordant CFO, Jim Hime — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:55:47 GMT

A couple of years after I rocked up at Baker & Botts as a newly minted associate in August 1976, I found myself working on my first Hines deal.

It started with a meeting in the offices of the venerable Ford Foundation in Midtown New York City. I was asked to attend along with a couple of other lawyers from our firm together with Hines officers, including Gerry’s closest aide, his chief financial officer.

The backstory was that in 1972, Hines and the Ford Foundation had partnered up to buy 7500 acres of land in Fort Bend County, located southwest of Houston.

This land had been part of the original land grant that the Spanish government contracted in 1821 to convey to Stephen F. Austin, with the idea being that Austin would turn around and offer tracts of that land as an inducement to lure Americans to come and settle in what, to the government way down south in Mexico City, was a vast, distant, empty wilderness. In 1972, that land was still vast and mostly empty, but it was a century and a half later, finally in what real estate guys call “the path of growth”.

A CFO’s Journal (Clone)

Accordant CFO, Jim Hime — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:54:23 GMT

Howdy from Dallas, Texas, home of some of the great names in private real estate, such as Crow Holdings and Hillwood Investment Properties.

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Analyzing the impact of tariffs on investment markets can feel like trying to solve an “if/then” equation with limited and imperfect data. Still, we believe it’s important to assess these developments through the lens of private real estate, and it is from this perspective that we share our view and some of the potential outcomes we can envision ahead.

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