HartMarin focuses on a new paradigm of real estate development.

We strive to:

• Improve the social condition and
• Protect the environment with
• Projects that make financial sense

Welcome to our web site.

Real estate development is often viewed as destruction of the environment and erosion of the quality of life. It doesn't have to be that way. We have found a way to enable projects large and small to tread lightly on the land, respect and benefit the community, while maintaining strict financial efficiency.

In 1969, Rob Hart was a junior draftsman for Walt Disney World.  By 1983, he was project manager of a 2,700-acre resort with 2 miles of oceanfront.  In 2005 he created HartMarin to combine six generations of local Marin County conservation with 30 years of intense real estate development experience.  A year later, HartMarin was the first private developer in California to build low income single-family housing with no public funds, tax credits or subsidies. In 2007, Brian Swartz joined the firm to head up the community relations and entitlements division. By 2009, HartWest was formed to bring our own innovative green products to market and expand into the western region.

Today, HartWest | HartMarin is the leading real estate developer of non-profit facilities and the largest developer of religious/spiritual institutions in Marin County, CA.  As a Director of the Marin Economic Forum, Rob Hart, HartWest and HartMarin lead the way in creating new low-impact environments that improve the quality of life.  Here are some of the things we’re working on:

• Carbon-neutral congregate-living employee village served by electric vehicles
• Large-scale employer-provided affordable housing
• Real estate asset management for prime properties  held by non-profit institutions
• Buddhist Temple in a California setting
• Student Village for very low-income families in an historic institution
• Circular-system dining facility for 200 with supporting vegetable garden
• State-of-the-art green office building served by solar farm
• Updated master plans for major spiritual institutions
• Resource Protection Plans for large real estate holdings.
• Adaptive re-use of historic municipal structures
• Remote, off-the-grid Hermitage
• and more...