CBRE leads global commercial property investment sales activity

Los Angeles -- CBRE Group for the fifth consecutive year was the top-ranked firm for commercial real estate investment sales throughout the world during 2015, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA). CBRE has achieved the number one position in each of the five years that RCA has published global rankings.



Real Capital Analytics credited CBRE with 21.9% of market share across all property types, office, industrial, retail, apartment and development sites, in 2015 on a global basis.



RCA — which tracks global commercial real estate sales of $10 million plus — estimates that approximately $1.21 trillion of commercial real estate, excluding entity level transactions, was sold throughout the world in 2015. According to RCA, CBRE’s investment sales volume grew at a faster pace than the market as a whole in 2015, rising by 30.7% to approximately $125.7 billion.



CBRE’s highlights from RCA’s 2015 rankings include:



• Top position in office sales in 2015, with $52.8 billion in transactions — an increase in volume of 48.3% year-over-year. CBRE increased its office sales market share by 640 basis points (bps) in 2015 to 22.3%.



• Top position in retail sales, with $16.5 billion in transactions – an increase to its retail sales market share by 370 bps in 2015 to 17.4%.



• Top firm in logistics and industrial sales, with $18.4 billion in transactions and a market share of 32.5%, an increase of 250 bps.



• Executed $26.6 billion in apartment sales, for an industry-leading market share of 23.6%.



• Development site sales totaled $7.4 billion — an increase in volume of 94.7% year-over-year. CBRE increased its development site market share to 30.3%.



• Market share has been calculated based on the dollar volume of transactions where CBRE represented the seller, divided by the total volume of seller-brokered transactions.