Joel’s role at Terra Halona is to draw on his years of experience and industry relationships in identifying and pursuing unique investment and development opportunities for the company, as well as providing strategic direction and guiding the capital structure for the investments. The principals of Terra Halona invest their own capital alongside its investors which are primarily family offices and high net worth individuals.

Joel Scott has a 38+ year career in the commercial real estate industry which began with Coldwell Banker Commercial (now CBRE) in 1984 after graduating from the University of Texas – Austin with a BBA in Real Estate Development & Investment. Mr. Scott was with CBRE for 18 years, beginning in the retail specialty which quickly led to a concentration in land transactions. The majority of those transactions, representing both buyers and sellers, included the purchase and/or sale of raw and entitled land to users, developers, and investors. During his long tenure at CBRE, Mr. Scott was consistently a Top 10 producer in the Houston office.

In the late 1990’s, Mr. Scott began a transition from the land brokerage side of the business into the land development arena, and in 2002 formed TerraMark Communities with the principals of a former commercial development client. TerraMark was formed as a land development company with a focus in residential and mixed-use community development in Texas. Mr. Scott was responsible for the identification, acquisition, entitlement, partnership formation, capital structure, and marketing vision for many successful projects. TerraMark Communities acquired, entitled, planned, and developed and sold over 3,500 acres of raw land.

In 2015, Mr. Scott reconstituted TerraMark by forming TerraMark Ventures which has been actively acquiring, developing and marketing strategic mixed-use and residential projects in Houston and Central Texas. Mr. Scott and his development team cultivate and maintain a wide range of industry contacts and professional relationships which helps provide the current information and tools to understand the current market trends and identify the growth patterns which lead to the opportunities TerraMark pursues.

Personal: Mr. Scott is a native Houstonian and is married with four children in college.