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Home Properties company history timeline

1993

Home Properties of New York was established in 1993 as a corporation conducting its business through Home Properties of New York, L.P., a limited partnership in which the company held a 90 percent partnership interest at the time.

Predecessor Home Leasing had revenues of $21.42 million and net income of $1.8 million in 1993.

1994

By 1994 half of the 12-person management team were family members, consisting of Norman's two daughters and the husband of one of the daughters, plus the husband of Nelson's daughter, as well as the Leenhoutses themselves.

The company completed its initial public offering of 5.4 million shares in 1994 at $19 a share, netting $95.56 million.

Expanding West and South: 1994–99

1994: As Home Properties of New York, Inc., the firm becomes a public real estate investment trust (REIT).

1995

Another tenant-friendly initiative, adopted in 1995, offered to release dissatisfied tenants from their leases during the first 30 days of the contract and to let them break a lease, for reasons beyond their control, on 60 days' notice.

1996

Effective on the first day of 1996, the company acquired Rochester-based Conifer Realty, Inc. and Conifer Development, Inc. for $13.4 million.

1997

In 1997 Home Properties spent $266 million to purchase 7,496 apartments in four states—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Michigan—by means of 11 acquisitions.

1998

Picking up the acquisition pace, Home Properties acquired properties in Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., in the first three months of 1998 alone.

2000

In 1997 Home Properties Trust was formed as a Maryland real estate trust and REIT subsidiary. It became a limited partner of the operating partnership, Home Properties of New York, L.P., which at the end of 2000 was 62.5 percent owned by Home Properties of New York, Inc.

2001

Home Properties was planning to sell some of its holdings in 2001, having identified about two dozen complexes with over 5,000 units in all for sale at an estimated $200 million.

Formed to comply with the technical requirements of federal income tax laws, both were Maryland corporations that, effective in 2001, elected to convert to taxable REIT subsidiaries.

2003

In September 2003, the company acquired a property in Silver, Spring, Maryland for $58.9 million.

2005

In December 2005, the company acquired two contiguous apartment communities, Peppertree Farm and Cinnamon Run, in Silver Spring, Maryland for $172 million.

2011

In September 2011, the company acquired a property in White Marsh, Maryland for $90.4 million.

2012

In July 2012, the company acquired a property in Ellicott City, Maryland for $186 million.

2013

The company sold the property in April 2013.

In December 2013, the company acquired a property in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania for $15.5 million.

2014

In February 2014, the company sold a property in Montgomery Village, Maryland for $110 million.

Amber was one of HomeLight’s Buyer Center editors and has been a real estate content expert since 2014.

2015

In October 2015, Lone Star Funds acquired the company.

2021

Ninety-five percent of buyers searched online to find additional information about homes they were considering purchasing, according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.

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1993
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Rochester, NY
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Nelson Leenhouts
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