Rich Lillis advises clients on hotel and resort investment sales, note sales and hotel financing in Florida, the Caribbean and the South Atlantic region. In the dynamic hotel investment market, Rich provides valuable solutions to hotel owners, investors, developers, land owners, regional lenders and special servicers.
Rich’s diverse background includes a wide range of experience in lodging and finance. As co-practice leader, Rich opened the Colliers International Hotels (formerly known as PKFCapital) office in Miami’s Brickell Avenue financial district in February 2009. Previously, Rich served as Miami hospitality practice leader for an international hotel consultancy firm since 2001, where he managed hotel and resort transactions and financings throughout Florida and the Caribbean. Prior, at Ocwen Financial Corporation (OCN) of West Palm Beach, Rich asset-managed the bank’s large commercial REO portfolio and managed the company’s corporate real estate. Before that, Rich enjoyed an illustrious career in hotel operations, starting as Night Clerk at The Plaza Hotel NYC, followed by management at six Marriott Hotels, Sheraton Plaza Chicago and Doral Arrowwood NY, and as General Manager of Doral Court & Tuscany NYC (now “W”), Knickerbocker Chicago and Mutiny Miami. Rich and his wife Maureen also owned and operated an acclaimed restaurant in Westport, Connecticut.
Rich graduated with a BS in Economics with honors from State University in New York. He has recently completed coursework as an MBA candidate at Florida Atlantic University. He resides in Boca Raton.
NOTABLE RECENT ENGAGEMENTS
Coral by Hilton Portfolio Dominican Republic (four resorts)
