HFF Expands Hotel Sales Business

MIAMI-Houston-based Holliday Fenoglio Fowler is expanding its hotel investment sales practice with the hiring of Patrick Poggi as managing director. He will focus on hotel and resort property investment sales and capital markets transactions throughout the US, Caribbean and Mexico.

Poggi will be based in the firm’s Miami office and will be a member of the firm’s national hotel capital markets group. Poggi has more than 15 years experience in the hospitality industry spanning all areas of investment sales, consulting, operations and the development of luxury, full service, select service and resort properties.

Most recently, he served as director of real estate at JHM Hotels where he conducted functions related to hotel property dispositions, acquisitions of new properties and acquisition of hotel development sites. Prior to JHM Hotels, Poggi was a manager of KPMG in Miami where he worked on numerous transactions including the sales and acquisitions of the Four Seasons Hotel New York and the InterContinental hotel chain. He also has hotel operations experience with Divi Resorts in the Caribbean.

“We are delighted to have Patrick join HFF’s national hotel capital markets group and expand HFF’s growing hotel investment sales practice,” says HFF senior managing director Dan Carlo. “With over $1.5 billion of hotel capital markets transactions closed over the past 12 months, HFF is well positioned with hospitality professionals like Patrick to serve the capital markets needs of the hotel property industry.”