Jeffrey Hines

Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer, Hines Interests Partnership Hines

Search every verified Jeffrey Hines interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a March 2021 interview, Jeffrey Hines described the evolution of Hines from a development-focused firm into a global real estate investment manager. He said the company had "invested heavily" in expanding its role as an investment manager, noting that development is "one of the things we do" but not the entirety of the business. Hines also recalled that in the early 1990s, the U.S. central business district office market was "majorly overbuilt, horrendously overbuilt," which prompted the firm to diversify into acquiring existing properties and expanding internationally. He stated that it took about two years to get approval from his father to buy the company's first building.