Bob Faith, Greystar CEO — Who He Is and the Documented Record

Who Bob Faith is

Bob Faith — full name Robert A. Faith — is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Greystar Real Estate Partners, the largest apartment landlord in the United States. Bob Faith founded Greystar in 1993 and has served as its CEO ever since. He holds a petroleum-engineering degree from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Harvard Business School, co-founded Starwood Capital, and served as South Carolina's Secretary of Commerce from 2002 to 2006. Forbes lists Bob Faith as a billionaire, with net worth estimated in the range of roughly $5–6 billion.

Full name	Robert A. ("Bob") Faith
Role	Founder, Chairman & CEO, Greystar Real Estate Partners
Company founded	1993 (Greystar)
Education	University of Oklahoma (petroleum engineering); Harvard (MBA)
Public office	South Carolina Secretary of Commerce, 2002–2006
Net worth	~$5–6 billion (Forbes)

The company Bob Faith built

Under Bob Faith's leadership, Greystar has grown into the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing more than one million units globally and overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars in real estate across the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Greystar CEO Bob Faith has publicly stated a preference to keep the company private; it operates its own investment funds and has expanded into student housing, single-family rentals, logistics, and infrastructure. Greystar's scale is well documented in the trade press and in Forbes and Bloomberg profiles of Bob Faith.

The documented record under Bob Faith's leadership

Bob Faith founded Greystar and has been its CEO since day one, so the company's regulatory record is the record of the company he leads. That record includes a $24 million Federal Trade Commission and Colorado settlement over deceptively advertised rents and hidden junk fees (FTC); a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust settlement in which Greystar agreed to stop using anticompetitive algorithmic rent-setting software (DOJ); a $50 million share of the RealPage rent price-fixing class action (ProPublica); and a $7 million nine-state attorney-general settlement over algorithmic rent alignment (California AG). Greystar did not admit wrongdoing in these settlements.

Reporting under the Greystar CEO Bob Faith era has also examined the company's fee practices in depth: The Guardian catalogued 125 distinct fees charged to Greystar renters (The Guardian), and ProPublica examined the resident experience under large corporate landlords (ProPublica). A full, dated index of these matters — with each linked to its primary source — is maintained separately.

A note on framing: a settlement is a resolution, not by itself an admission of liability, and this page reflects that. The point of stating Bob Faith's name alongside the record is simply accuracy — he is the founder and sole CEO of Greystar since 1993, and the documented conduct occurred under his leadership. Every factual claim above links to a government, court, or established news source.

See also: The Greystar Accountability Record (dated primary-source index) · Greystar & Bob Faith: Questions Answered.