Strong, stable returns in Texas CRE for more than 35 years.

A native Texan born in Houston and a Dallas resident since 1962, Jeff began his career in city management — ten years inside the City of Dallas City Manager's Office, the Mesquite city manager's office, and as Director of Regional Services at the North Central Texas Council of Governments, where he worked across a sixteen-county region.

In 1983, he stepped out of the public sector to form his own commercial brokerage and investment company. Eight years later, in 1991, he founded what is now Harkinson Investment Corporation, the holding firm for a portfolio that has since grown to three million square feet of office, medical, retail, and industrial space across Texas.

Between brokerage and principal investment, Mr. Harkinson has personally closed more than half a billion dollars in transactions. The portfolio carries a perfect closing record since 1991 — and across more than thirty years, has not missed a mortgage payment.

Outside the firm, Jeff is the steward of Blasingame Creek Ranch in Blanco, Texas — a Hill Country property anchored by an original 1854 log cabin, the site of the legendary shootout that killed Texas Ranger James Callahan. He sits on the boards of the Hill Country Alliance and the Old Blanco County Courthouse Preservation Society, and his interests run to environmental preservation, biodiversity, and Texas history.