CBRE Group

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CBRE Group, Inc.
Company type Public
Industry Real estate
FoundedAugust 27, 1906;117 years ago (1906-08-27) (as Tucker, Lynch & Coldwell)
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas
,
U.S.
Number of locations
500+ (2022)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Bob Sulentic (chairman and CEO)
Services Commercial real estate services and investment
Revenue US$30.8 billion (2022)
US$1.5 billion (2022)
US$1.4 billion (2022)
Total assets US$21.6 billion (2022)
Total equity US$7.9 billion (2022)
Number of employees
44,000 (2022)
Website cbre.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

CBRE Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm. [2] The abbreviation CBRE stands for Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis. It is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2022 revenue). [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The firm is ranked 135th on the Fortune 500 and has been included in the Fortune 500 every year since 2008. [6] CBRE serves more than 95+ of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 100. [7] It is one of the "Big 4" commercial real estate services companies, alongside Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers and JLL. [8]

Services

CBRE provides services to both occupiers of and investors in real estate. For occupiers, CBRE provide facilities management, project management, transaction (both property sales and leasing) and consulting services and valuation among others. For investors, CBRE provide capital markets (property sales, commercial mortgage brokerage, loan origination and servicing), property leasing, investment management, property management, valuation and development services, among others. [7]

History

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