Hall Equities Group was incorporated on December 27th, 1962 as Dynamic Agents, Inc. by Merle Hall and Phil LaMarche, two enterprising young residential real estate brokers. The first company office was located on Mt. Diablo Boulevard in Lafayette, California. Soon, other offices were opened in Walnut Creek and Concord. Within a few years, Merle Hall bought out Phil LaMarche's interest. The aggressive firm quickly established a reputation as the sales volume leader in central Contra Costa County, and was well known for the intensive and effective sales training courses Merle Hall personally instructed for all agent recruits.

By the mid-1970's, the firm moved out of the residential brokerage operation and Merle Hall began focusing on real estate investment counseling for private individuals.  Structuring 1031 tax deferred exchanges became a mainstay specialty practice of the firm, and a small property management business began to grow around the income property investment activity.  Consistent with this direction, the corporation adopted a DBA, changing its name to Merle Hall Investments. During this era, Merle Hall became one of the first IREM Certified Commercial Investment Members (C.C.I.M.), and taught a highly popular real estate investment course for 14 years at Diablo Valley College.  He also became active in the Realtor's Trade Association, twice serving as President of the Contra Costa Association of Realtors, and also serving as First Vice-President of the California Association of Realtors.  In the early 1980's, Merle Hall decided to try politics, and successfully ran for a seat on the Walnut Creek City Council.  He served two terms, both marked by contentious growth debates and divisive voter initiatives.  In late 1986, the firm again changed its name to Merle D. Hall Company, and Merle Hall's eldest son Mark joined the company after completing a five-year stint as a leasing specialist with a major national urban core high-rise office building developer.

Mark Hall was soon having an impact on the direction of the business, and kept busy assembling groups of investors to buy well-priced commercial property resulting from the real-estate crash of the late 1980's. By the early 1990's, well over half of the firm's book of business was associated with Mark Hall's activities, and Mark acquired a 50% interest in the firm in 1992. Soon thereafter, Merle Hall adopted a new hobby and spent the ensuing eight years sailing the seven seas and circumnavigating the globe on his 58' offshore performance sailing yacht "Tin-Tin."

In June of 2000, Mark Hall acquired 100% of all stock of the firm, and shortly thereafter renamed the company Hall Equities Group.  Under Mark Hall's leadership, the firm has grown into an active and diversified income property investor, and a developer of larger, mixed-use oriented projects.   With a broad product portfolio, and an expanding presence on the West Coast, Hall Equities Group is poised for the continued growth of interesting and rewarding real estate investment opportunities for its partners, shareholders, and employees.