FAQ
“We help owners navigate complexity, make informed decisions, and achieve exceptional outcomes.”
– Grant Bowen, CEO & Founder
About Peak Projects
What makes Peak Projects different from other Owner's Representatives?
What geographic markets does Peak Projects serve?
How is Peak compensated?
Does Peak accept referral fees or commissions?
1. What makes Peak Projects different from other Owner's Representatives?
Founded in 2014, Peak Projects is the largest dedicated luxury residential owner's representation firm in North America, having supported more than 360 projects across a wide range of geographies, ownership structures, project types, and levels of complexity.
Operating in many of North America's most established luxury residential and wealth markets, Peak Projects combines national reach with a boutique, principal-led regional model that provides clients with both local expertise and direct access to experienced leadership and a national network of top providers.
Peak Projects supports clients from property evaluation and due diligence through planning, design, permitting, construction, project closeout, and occupancy preparation.
As an independent project advocate and trusted advisor, our role is to provide objective guidance, project-wide oversight, and experienced leadership - helping owners make informed decisions, manage risk, align teams, and achieve exceptional outcomes through a collaborative, empathetic, and highly personalized approach.
2. What geographic markets does Peak Projects serve?
Peak Projects operates throughout North America and selectively internationally. Markets where we have significant experience and regularly support projects include:
Mountain West
Aspen, Big Sky, Bozeman, Jackson Hole, Park City, Salt Lake City, Denver
Northwest
San Francisco, Marin, Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Peninsula, Monterey Peninsula, Lake Tahoe, Seattle, San Juan Islands
Southwest
Los Angeles, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, San Diego, Hawaii
East Coast
New York City, Hamptons, Hudson Valley, Connecticut, Boston, Cape Cod, Philadelphia, Washington DC
Florida & Caribbean
Miami, Palm Beach, Jupiter, Naples, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Virgin Islands
Peak Projects regularly supports projects outside these markets when the project and team are a strong fit.
3. How is Peak Projects compensated?
Peak Projects is typically engaged on a retainer, fixed-fee, or monthly time-and-materials basis, depending on the scope, complexity, stage, and duration of the engagement. Fee structures may evolve over the course of a project as the nature of Peak Project's involvement changes from due diligence and planning through design, pre-construction, construction, and project closeout.
Unlike many project participants, our compensation is not tied to construction costs, design fees, contractor contracts, consultant agreements, or project spend. This independent fee structure helps ensure our recommendations remain objective and aligned with the owner's goals, priorities, and long-term interests.
Because every project is unique, fees are tailored to the level of support required and the complexity of the engagement.
4. Does Peak Projects accept referral fees or commissions?
No.
Peak Projects does not accept referral fees, commissions, markups, or compensation from architects, builders, consultants, suppliers, or other project participants.
Our responsibility is to provide objective guidance and recommendations that support the owner's best interests.
Owner Representation & Project Management
What is an Owner's Representative?
Why do sophisticated owners hire an Owner's Representative?
How is Peak Projects different from an architect's project manager or contractor's project manager?
When should Peak Projects be engaged?
Can Peak Projects help assemble the project team?
1. What is an Owner's Representative?
Peak Projects serves as the owner's independent representative throughout planning, design, permitting, pre-construction, and construction.
Unlike architects, builders, designers, and consultants whose responsibilities are focused on specific scopes of work, Peak Projects provides project-wide oversight across the entire project. Our role is to help protect the owner's interests, bring order to complexity, align teams, guide critical decisions, manage risk, and keep projects moving toward successful outcomes.
2. Why do sophisticated owners hire an Owner's Representative?
Sophisticated owners often have demanding careers, businesses, family responsibilities, and competing priorities that make it impractical to manage the day-to-day complexities of a major project.
An Owner's Representative provides experienced leadership, project-wide oversight, risk management, decision support, and accountability - helping owners make informed decisions, anticipate and mitigate risks, save time, reduce stress, and remain in control without becoming consumed by the process.
The result is a project that remains better aligned with the owner's goals, budget, schedule, and quality expectations.
3. How is Peak Projects different from an architect's project manager or a contractor's project manager?
Architects, builders, designers, and consultants each play critical roles in a project's success and are focused on their respective scopes of work.
As the owner's independent representative, Peak Projects provides oversight across the entire project - helping align stakeholders, managing risk, guiding critical decisions, and keeping the project focused on the owner's goals, budget, schedule, and quality expectations.
Our role is not to replace the architect, builder, or consultant, but to help the entire team operate more effectively by providing project-wide visibility, accountability, and leadership.
4. When should Peak Projects be engaged?
Peak Projects can add value at virtually any stage of a project's lifecycle.
While the greatest opportunity to positively and efficiently influence outcomes exists during property evaluation, acquisition, and early planning, clients often engage Peak Projects after a property has been acquired, a team has been assembled, or a project is already underway.
5. Can Peak Projects help assemble the project team?
Yes.
Peak Projects regularly assists owners and advisors with identifying, evaluating, and assembling architects, builders, designers, consultants, and other specialists based on project goals, location, complexity, and ownership priorities.
Our recommendations are informed by experience across hundreds of projects and a broad network of industry relationships.
Real Estate Advisory & Due Diligence
What is Real Estate Advisory & Due Diligence?
Can Peak Projects help evaluate a property before purchase?
1. What is Real Estate Advisory & Due Diligence?
Peak Projects helps clients, advisors, and family offices evaluate properties and project opportunities before significant commitments are made.
Services may include:
Property evaluation
Feasibility analysis
Budget and schedule assessment
Entitlement and permitting feasibility
Land use, regulatory, and development constraint review
Risk identification
Development planning
Team assembly recommendations
The goal is to help owners understand what is possible, what it will take, what risks exist, and whether a property can realistically support their vision, timeline, investment, and lifestyle objectives.
2. Can Peak Projects help evaluate a property before purchase?
Yes.
Peak Projects regularly supports prospective buyers, family offices, real estate advisors, and brokers by evaluating properties before acquisition.
Our due diligence process helps identify opportunities, constraints, development risks, budget implications, permitting considerations, and timeline realities - providing owners with the information needed to make informed decisions before committing significant time and capital.
Industry Partners
1. How does Peak Projects work with architects, builders, designers and consultants?
1. How does Peak Projects work with architects, builders, designers and consultants?
Peak Projects works collaboratively alongside architects, builders, designers, and consultants as the owner's independent representative. We do not replace the responsibilities of any project partner, nor do we act as a barrier between the owner and the team. Instead, we help align stakeholders, facilitate communication, guide decision-making, and manage risk across the project lifecycle.
By providing project-wide oversight and coordination, we help create clarity, accountability, and alignment - allowing each team member to focus on delivering excellence within their area of expertise while keeping the project aligned with the owner's goals, budget, schedule, and quality expectations.
Family Offices & Trusted Advisors
Does Peak Projects work with Family Offices and other Advisors?
How does Peak support Family Offices and Advisors?
1. Does Peak Projects work with Family Offices and other Advisors?
Yes.
Peak regularly supports family offices, wealth advisors, real estate advisors, insurance advisors, estate managers, attorneys, and other trusted professionals who are helping clients evaluate, acquire, develop, renovate, or steward complex residential properties.
We provide independent project oversight, real estate advisory, due diligence, project governance, reporting, and owner representation services that help advisors protect client relationships while supporting successful project outcomes.
Specifically for Family Offices, we support governance, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making processes that help family offices maintain visibility and accountability throughout the project lifecycle
2. How does Peak support Family Offices and Advisors?
In addition to project-specific services, Peak serves as an educational resource for family offices and trusted advisors navigating complex residential projects.
We help advisors understand project risks, development realities, budgeting considerations, permitting challenges, team structures, and best practices that can help clients make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
Whether evaluating a potential acquisition or supporting a project already underway, our goal is to help advisors better protect their clients' interests and improve project outcomes.
Project Fit
What types of projects are the best fit for Peak Projects
Does Peak Projects work only on new construction?
1. What types of projects are the best fit for Peak Projects?
Peak Projects is typically engaged on complex projects beginning around $10M-$15M+ in hard construction costs.
The greatest value is often realized when projects involve:
• Multiple stakeholders
• Significant capital investment
• Complex design and construction teams
• Challenging sites, permitting, or entitlement requirements
• Family office ownership
• High expectations for quality and execution
2. Does Peak Projects work only on new construction?
No.
Peak Projects supports projects across a variety of stages, including:
• Ground-up custom homes
• Significant renovations and transformations
• Historic restorations
• Additions, expansions, and estate improvements
We are often engaged before a project begins, but frequently join projects after a property has been acquired, a team has been assembled, or work is already underway.
3. What types of residential properties does Peak Projects support?
Peak regularly supports a wide range of complex residential projects, including:
• Family compounds
• Ranches and recreational properties
• Mountain and resort residences
• Waterfront and coastal estates
• Urban luxury residences and penthouses
• Legacy properties and multi-generational estates
4. Does Peak Projects work only on residential projects?
Residential projects are our primary focus and area of deepest expertise.
We also selectively support hospitality, commercial, and specialty projects where sophisticated ownership, complex stakeholder environments, and exceptional execution are required.
