Hutton Companies is one of Southern California's leading real estate developers, based in Orange County, California, United States. Founded in 1977, the Hutton Companies build state-of-the-art mixed-use, government, multi-family residential, office, retail and light industrial properties. Hutton Companies and its affiliates have owned, developed and managed a portfolio of more than 3,800,000 square feet of commercial real estate and 2,400 units of multi-family residential in Southern California. As of May 2009, Hutton Development Company ranked as the 8th largest commercial developer in California by the California Real Estate Journal's list of "California's 2009 Leading Commercial Developers" (ranked by total square footage of properties under development as of Jan.1, 2009).