Barry Hancock

Founding Partner

Barry Hancock is a founding partner of Cienda Partners and serves on the Board of the company. Barry brings over 25 years of diverse real estate acquisition, management, and investment experience in a variety of real estate asset types, including office, land development, retail, multi-family, hotel, healthcare, industrial and recreational projects.

From 2000 through 2004, Barry was a founder and partner of Precedent Equities, LLC. While at Precedent, Barry was tapped by one of the nation’s largest REITs to manage the disposition of a portfolio of 80 healthcare facilities across the U.S., securing approximately $300 million in sales. Barry also acquired and repositioned several healthcare facilities, creating over $40 million in incremental value.

Before Precedent, Barry was a Senior Acquisitions Officer for Crescent Real Estate Equities, the second-largest office real estate investment trust in the United States, from 1996 to 2000. As a member of the acquisition team, Barry was involved in over $1 billion of acquisitions that included the Carter-Crowley portfolio in Dallas, Houston Center in Houston, Energy Center in New Orleans, and the Sonoma Golf Club in Sonoma, California. Before Crescent, Barry was an asset manager of Crow Holdings.

Barry graduated from Southern Methodist University with degrees in economics and a Master of Business Administration. He is a Board Member of the Dallas Assembly and is involved in a variety of civic and non-profit activities.