MacFarlane Partners | 2,121 followers on LinkedIn. Real estate promoting smart growth, urban revitalization, sustainability and equitable development in markets nationwide | MacFarlane Partners is a minority-owned real estate investment management and development firm that acquires, develops and manages properties on behalf of some of the world’s largest pension plans and institutions, as well as for its own account. Founded by Victor B. MacFarlane in 1987, the firm pioneered the urban investment concept among institutional real estate managers in the 1990s and today is a leading investor in and developer of properties that promote smart growth, urban revitalization and sustainability in urban and high-density suburban submarkets of top-tier metropolitan areas nationwide.