Hunt Companies Inc

EL PASO, TX – (July 14, 2010) – Hunt Development Group, an affiliate of Hunt Companies, Inc., announced that Lauren Smith-Hams Dressler has joined the company. Dressler will serve as Vice President, and will work within the transactions group focusing on acquisitions, dispositions and loans. The announcement was made by Chris Hunt, CEO of Hunt Development Group.

Lauren has over five years of experience in commercial real estate including raising capital, acquisitions, feasibility analysis, corporate planning and deal structuring. Her most recent position was Senior Associate of Acquisitions and Development with MacFarlane Partners, an investment management firm in San Francisco that manages real estate assets on behalf of some of the world’s largest pension plans and institutions. In her position, Lauren performed analysis and due diligence on investments totaling more than $2 Billion and was the primary analyst and underwriter for a $1 Billion planned, mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles.

“We are pleased that Lauren has made the decision to join our organization,” said Hunt. “Her work and educational background made her an ideal candidate for the position.”

Dressler earned her B.S. degree in Business Administration with honors from the University of Southern California with a concentration in both Real Estate Finance and Development, and Entrepreneurial Studies. In addition, Lauren was awarded her Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

ABOUT HUNT
Hunt Development Group is an affiliate of Hunt Companies, Inc., a privately held diversified investment, real estate investment management, real estate development, design-build, construction management and asset/property management holding company. Founded in 1947, Hunt and its affiliated companies have become one of the nation’s leading privately owned real estate investors, managers, developers and contractors with a focus on public-private ventures, military housing, mixed-use, multi-family housing, master-planned communities, retail, office, and value added asset management. Hunt’s real estate investments consist primarily of ownership interests in over 44,000 multi-family housing units across the country. In addition, Hunt owns commercial and industrial space, and residential and commercial land. In total, Hunt’s owned portfolio of real estate assets is in excess of $5 billion. Hunt subsidiary TRECAP Partners provides real estate investment management and advisory services to pension funds, corporations, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, insurance companies, banks and high-net-worth money managers with approximately $1.5 billion of equity assets under management and approximately $4.3 billion of gross domestic and international real estate assets under management in a group of diversified co-mingled funds and separate accounts with approximately 30 institutional investor clients.. The companies have been headquartered in El Paso and operated by the Hunt family for four generations. Regional offices are in Albuquerque, NM; Honolulu, HI; and Washington, D.C. Other Hunt affiliated companies include Hunt Building Company, Hunt Communities, Hunt Military Communities, Hunt Holdings (Venture Capital and Non-Real Estate Private Equity), TRECAP Partners, and Cimarron Mortgage Capital. For more information, visit www.huntcompanies.com.