Elvis has left the building

Daniel Peek, who led Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P.’s (HFF) hospitality brokerage operation and who negotiated major sales of in excess of $1 billion — including fully half of the largest Gulf Coast lodging transactions in history — has left the firm for a New York-based brokerage.

Peek joined Hodges Ward Elliott in early June, as president of the company’s Hotel Group. The move came as HFF, where Peek was a member of the executive committee, was preparing for its July 1 merger with brokerage firm JLL.