Robert Festinger
Managing Principal, Festinger Advisors
Robert Festinger brings more than 25 years of hands-on experience across commercial real estate, hospitality, asset management, and complex advisory assignments. His career spans institutional platforms, private equity-backed ventures, owner-side leadership roles, and direct principal investing, with a consistent focus on execution, value creation, and operational accountability.
He has led acquisitions, asset management, repositioning strategies, and day-to-day operational oversight across luxury hotels, mixed-use assets, and Class A office portfolios in major markets including South Florida, Washington DC, Atlanta, and Chicago. His experience includes high-profile hospitality and real estate assignments involving some of the most recognized brands, owners, and capital partners in the industry.
Robert participated in the $375 million acquisition of the Trump International Hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue and its conversion into a Waldorf Astoria, working closely with the Trump Organization and Hilton. He has also overseen luxury hospitality assets across South Florida, including major repositioning initiatives in highly competitive markets such as Coral Gables and Miami Beach.
Across his career, Robert has been involved in more than $2 billion in financing activity, has raised more than $200 million in equity, and has executed hundreds of millions of dollars in acquisitions and dispositions. He has managed complex leasing, capital planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial oversight initiatives across institutional-quality office and hospitality assets, with direct responsibility for operating performance, cash flow management, and asset-level execution.
In addition to his transaction and operating background, Robert has led significant human resources and organizational oversight functions, including executive leadership support, team development, staffing strategy, operational accountability, and cross-functional coordination across property operations, leasing, finance, and ownership groups. His background reflects not only asset and investment judgment, but also the leadership required to align people, performance, and financial discipline inside complex organizations.
Robert's experience is differentiated by a rare combination of owner-side judgment, operational depth, transaction execution, human capital leadership, and financial oversight. He understands assets not just from the advisory side, but from the seat of responsibility where performance, capital, personnel, and execution matter most. Through Festinger Advisors, he brings that same institutional-level perspective to owners, investors, lenders, private equity firms, and family offices seeking senior-level guidance on acquisitions, asset optimization, distressed situations, and complex real estate strategy.
Festinger Advisors operates as a strategic advisory platform. Brokerage services — including listings, transactions, and tenant/landlord representation — are provided through the affiliated broker, We Are Miami LLC, in full compliance with Florida real estate licensing law.
For clients, the result is a single, principal-level point of accountability across both advisory strategy and transactional execution — covering both commercial and residential real estate equally.
Robert advises owners, investors, lenders, and family offices across the full lifecycle of an asset — from acquisition and repositioning to leasing, asset management, and disposition.
Throughout his career, Robert has worked alongside many of the most recognized institutions, brands, lenders, and capital partners in hospitality and commercial real estate.
Landlord-side and ownership-side leasing and asset management experience spanning luxury brands, financial institutions, corporate occupiers, hospitality operators, government agencies, and professional service firms.
Leasing and asset management experience includes transactions involving luxury brands, financial institutions, corporate occupiers, hospitality operators, government agencies, and professional service firms, including LVMH, Hublot, Richemont, UBS, RedBird Capital Partners, the United States Postal Service, Jose Andrés Group, Sushi Nakazawa, law firms, medical practices, accounting firms, financial institutions, luxury retailers, and executive office users.
City of Coral Gables
Civic appointments and active participation in initiatives impacting the City of Coral Gables and the broader South Florida community.
Festinger Advisors provides advisory and consulting services to owners, investors, lenders, family offices, and hospitality stakeholders. Real estate brokerage services, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, landlord representation, and tenant representation, are offered through We Are Miami LLC, a licensed Florida real estate brokerage.