The Hampshire Companies is a privately held, fully integrated real estate firm that has over 40 years of hands-on, cycle-tested experience in acquiring, developing, leasing, repositioning, managing, financing and disposing of real estate. Over 80 years ago, James E. Hanson started the business based on the philosophy that the enterprise needs to be able to succeed in both good and bad economic times.

James demonstrated uncanny ability for capitalizing on strategic property locations and emerging business trends and the attendant accretive effect on the value of real estate. Mr. Hanson is credited with developing the first suburban industrial park in the United States, located in Teterboro, New Jersey.

James shared his expertise with his son, Jon F. Hanson, who entered the real estate business in 1959. Jon adopted and augmented his father's investment philosophy by applying financial expertise to real estate investing, expanding and growing the business through the founding of The Hampshire Companies ("Hampshire") in 1976.

Over the course of the past 40 years, the Hampshire business has evolved through a number of business phases: from its beginnings as a regional developer, to a national developer and real estate operator, to an investment manager and then to a fund manager. On the foundation of this broad-based real estate experience, Hampshire has now become an institutional fund manager, taking the next step in its strategic evolution with its first institutional fund, Hampshire Partners VI.

Hampshire is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, has 33 employees, and currently owns and operates a diversified portfolio of 224 properties in 31 states totaling over 14.7 million square feet. The breakdown of properties in the portfolio is as follows: 43% Industrial, 40% Retail, 8% Office, and 9% Other.