Kent R. Peters, a Granite VP from 1998 to 2001, most recently was part of a new initiative to underwrite portfolios up to $500 million for commercial real estate debt investment at Koch Capital Markets in Houston office. Since he left Granite, he also was an associate director of investment sales in the Houston office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, where he helped to sell a 5,400-unit, $150-million multifamily portfolio in Texas.

Peters tells GlobeSt.com that he came back because he wanted to work in a "boutique firm" again plus he enjoyed working with Granite's senior managing director in Houston, Richard Rudd. Now that he's back, Peters is working on several large office transactions in the Houston area, but that's all he can say about the stack on his desk. His work at Granite previously targeted disposition of significant real estate assets and portfolios as well as debt and equity financing.

"Kent Peters understands the demands that need to be met in the real estate investment field," Rudd said in a press release. "As a part of the Granite Partners team he will help strengthen Granite Partners status as one of the best real estate banking firms in the country." Peters started in 1995 in real estate research at Caldwell Watson Real Estate Group in Houston and then became acquisitions analyst for Houston-based Camden Property Trust.