Robert Faktorow

Robert Faktorow

Vice Chairman, CBRE

McLean, VA 22102

Phone (703) 905-0205

Early entrant into the data center business and in 1997 was the founding member of CBRE’s Data Center Solutions Group.
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep (Flex), Tenant Rep (Industrial)
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Office, Flex
Markets
Washington, DC
Bio
Rob Faktorow is Vice Chairmen at CBRE and has been with the firm for 37 years. Rob was an early entrant into the data center business and in 1997 was the founding member of CBRE’s Data Center Solutions Group. He has also been a member of CBRE’s Institutional Investment Sales Group as well as the Americas Broker Advisory Board at CBRE. Rob currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and Data Center Advisory Board. Rob’s practice includes multi-disciplined expertise in data center investment sales and occupier representation. This diverse background affords Rob an inimitable perspective in advising clients on complex real estate decisions. He is widely regarded as one of the premier data center real estate advisors in the United States. Working with a wide range of data center uses including banking and financial services, government contracting, media, technology, cloud computing, and telecommunications, Rob has crafted unique outcomes for the firm’s clients by sharing trends across the spectrum of industries and applying his knowledge of leasing trends impacting data center property values. With a long history of institutional capital markets experience, Mr. Faktorow has completed the sale, recapitalization, or joint venture structure of more than 250 buildings with a total aggregate value in excess of $20 billion.
Education
B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland
Awards
Washington Business Journal "Best Real Estate Deal of the Year" 2007
CBRE Top Revenue Producer 1985-2019
Edward S Gordon Award – CBRE’s most prestious broker award.
Recognized as the firm’s most imaginative, creative and inspiring Broker
Commerical Observer – “Most Powerful Real Estate People” – 2022
NAIOP “ Best Real Estate Deal” 2019
NAIOP “Best Real Estate Deal” 2018
CREBA “Regional Sales Transaction of the Year” - 2016
NAIOP “Best Real Esate Deal” 2015
Washington Business Journal’s “Best Real Estate Deal of the Year” - 2012
NAIOP “Award of Excellence” - 2010
NAIOP “Real Estate Transaction of the Year” - 2009
Washington Business Journal’s “Best Suburbur Building Sale” - 2005
Washington Business Journal’s “Best Real Estate Deal of the Year”- 2003
Commercial Property News “America’s Best Real Estate Broker” Award - 1998
Washington Business Journal’s “Best Real Estate Deal of the Year”- 1997
Real Estate Forum “USA Top Broker” Award -1996