CBRE Group
company
CBRE Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm, with corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas, and global financial headquarters at Lever House in Midtown Manhattan. It is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm based on 2025 revenue.
The firm is ranked 118th on the Fortune 500 and has been included in the Fortune 500 every year since 2008. CBRE serves approximately 90 of the companies on the Fortune 100. It is one of the major commercial real estate brokerage firms, alongside JLL, Cushman & Wakefield and Newmark Group.
Services
CBRE provides services to occupiers of and investors in commercial real estate as well as critical infrastructure services. For occupiers, CBRE provides facilities management, project management, transaction (both property sales and leasing) and consulting services, financial services, and valuation, among others. For investors, CBRE provides capital markets (property sales, commercial mortgage brokerage, loan origination and servicing), property leasing, investment management, property management, sustainability, valuation and development services, among others. Its critical infrastructure services include management and operations of data centers and technical services for digital and power infrastructure assets.
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