Retail Services Overview
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From Big-Box, F&B, Urban, Lifestyle, Strip/In-line and everything in between—we see more so you can do more.
Explore Retail PropertiesWith the industry’s largest retail services platform, we offer unrivaled real estate experience, superior data intelligence and integrated solutions to guide retailers, restaurateurs, investors and developers to adapt and grow in an ever-evolving retail world.
Our unique vantage point allows us to do more for our retail clients around the world.
Global 2023 Coverage
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13,425
Retail Transactions
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$38.1B
Annual Transaction Value
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1.4B SF
Property and Facilities Under Management
Expertise Spanning all Retail Categories and Property Types
- Food & Beverage
- Mixed-Use
- Banking Centers
- Convenience
- Grocery Anchored
- High Street & Luxury
- Mall & Large Format
- Net Lease Properties
- Power Centers
- Store-in-store
- Street & Urban
- Short-term Activation & Pop-ups
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Cross-Generational Attitudes That Will Transform the Built Environment
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Retail Investor Services
Find Your Next Retail Investment
CBRE brings a personal approach to our retail investor clients, with solutions across the full real estate life cycle. We know every aspect of the retail business — and how to deliver better client outcomes, today and for the future.
Our people have deep roots in the cities and towns where retail thrives. In every market, certain places become true retail destinations. CBRE helps investors deploy innovative solutions to position their properties, activate assets and generate momentum. Purchasing and selling. Property diagnostics and placemaking. Merchandising and marketing. Leasing and management. We make sure they all align seamlessly for retail property owners and investors.
#1 Retail Investment Sales
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$11.2B
Global retail sales volume 2023
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$1.2B
Global retail financing volume 2023
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1.4B SF
Global retail properties & facilities managed
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11,425
Global retail lease transactions
Our Services
Our Capital Markets professionals unlock value in the sale, financing, and recapitalization of retail properties.
We use world-class data and analytics on leading brands to draw true trade areas, understand consumer behavior and discover the right merchandise mix.
Innovative strategies to maximize asset value through a platform that handles day-to-day operations, accounting, consumer marketing and more.
As the leader in Valuation & Advisory services, we empower clients to make informed decisions by offering accurate insights and professional expertise.
CBRE's trusted specialists in economics, data science and forecasting at Econometric Advisors deliver the most sought-after analytical real estate research.
Streetsense is a global creative collective of placeshapers, brandbuilders, and storytellers who make space for great experiences and shape what’s next.
From controlling costs and mitigating risks to ensuring quality and brand consistency, our project managers deliver any retail project on schedule.
Realize your asset’s full potential with a team of experts working together to explore all intended uses with speed and agility.
Whether analyzing market rates or profiling consumers, our retail researchers' insights and tools help investors make informed, data-driven decisions.
Capital Markets Conversations
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Darin Mellott, Vice President & Head of Capital Markets Research, recently sat down with Matt Carlson and Patrick Gildea, Co-Heads of U.S. Office Capital Markets to discuss investing in office, where there are opportunities for investors and where the property type will be in five years.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
Assessing Investor Sentiment: A Window Of Opportunity
March 21, 2024
CBRE’s January 2024 U.S. Investor Intentions Survey showed that investors remain optimistic about the future, anticipating recovery despite short-term volatility. In this episode, Chris Ludeman, Global President of Capital Markets, provides a quarter-end update on investor sentiment.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
Southern California on Sale: Industrial & Logistics Perspective
February 29, 2024
Leading industrial investment specialist Barbara Perrier provides insights on the investment activity outlook, which investors are active today, and the opportunities of the Southern California market.
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Tap into our market intelligence to locate available space, negotiate the best transaction, manage your space and deliver the best outcome.
Tap into our market intelligence to locate available space, negotiate the best transaction, manage your space and deliver the best outcome.
Retail Occupier Services
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Global 2023 Coverage
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$20.0B
Global leasing value
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11,425
Retail leasing transactions
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1.4B SF
Managed portfolio
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11,425
Global retail lease transactions
Unique Insights Drive Exceptional Experience
Our passionate network of retail experts is deeply invested in every market we serve. We help our clients make strategic decisions based on proprietary research and industry-leading technological tools, including operational and competitive analyses, demographic studies, tenant-mix comparisons and digital tracking and reporting. This approach delivers superior outcomes, no matter our client’s size, scope or business goals, today and in the future.Expertise Spanning all Retail Categories and Property Types
- Food & Beverage
- Mixed-Use
- Banking Centers
- Convenience
- Grocery Anchored
- High Street & Luxury
- Mall & Large Format
- Net Lease Properties
- Power Centers
- Store-in-store
- Street & Urban
- Short-term Activation & Pop-ups
Retail Solutions for Today and Tomorrow
Our process increases speed-to-market, clarifies location decisions and enhances value by looking beyond the typical scope of transaction.
Across food and beverage, grocery, health and more, our retail project and program management experts ensure every project is set up for success.
For investment sales, acquisition and recapitalization services, our retail specialists offer tailored advice and a single point of coordination.
We create strategies for managing occupancy and capital costs related to merger & acquisition, underperforming assets, prototype changes and restructuring.
With vast market research, due diligence and on-the-ground knowledge, our best-in-class site selection process is tailored to your unique location needs.
Our customized analytics modeling validates retail decisions using data science, leading to smarter location decisions for brands of all sizes.
Our Portfolio Services professionals simplify complex processes to maximize the value of your holdings, so you can gain a competitive advantage.
We connect enterprise-grade technology, unmatched data, and world-class facility maintenance to enable retailers to optimize for today while anticipating the future.
Streetsense is a global creative collective of placeshapers, brandbuilders, and storytellers who make space for great experiences and shape what’s next.
Our supply chain experts can help you balance where your product is stored, how quickly it gets to your customers and at what cost.
Realize your asset’s full potential with a team of experts working together to explore all intended uses with speed and agility.
From anchors and entertainment concepts to kiosk tenants, we have the expertise to help brands of all sizes.
Leadership
- Global Services Leader
Mike McAlister
Senior Vice President, Sales, Solutions & Marketing – Global Services & Retail
Figures and Reports
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Economic Watch: Inflation Cools Slightly in April
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.3% in April and 3.4% year-over-year vs. respective expectations of 0.4% and 3.4%.
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Brief | Intelligent Investment
Expansion Trends & Emerging Markets
Markets in Focus
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Article | Future Cities
Retail Markets in Focus: Orlando
Orlando is a magnet for retailers due to its rapid population growth, world-class theme parks and steady flow of visitors that fuel strong consumer spending.
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Article | Future Cities
Retail Markets in Focus: San Francisco
Despite its downtown's well-publicized challenges, the greater San Francisco retail market has undeniable strengths, and its long-term prospects are buoyed by a local economy capable of producing job growth and higher incomes.
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Article | Future Cities
Retail Markets in Focus: Chicago
Chicago led all U.S. markets in net absorption of retail space in H1 2023. A strong recovery in restaurant traffic and a relatively affluent population base are two key drivers of Chicago’s attractiveness to retailers, contributing to its retail renaissance.
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Article | Future Cities
Retail Markets in Focus: Toronto
Robust population and job growth, combined with a resurgent tourism industry, are boosting retail sales and leasing activity in Toronto.
Food & Beverage Tomorrow
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Article | Future Cities
Food & Beverage Tomorrow: Why are luxe brands embracing food and drink concepts?
Luxury retailers are embracing new food and drink concepts, creating immersive brand experiences to enhance customer engagement.
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Article | Future Cities
Food & Beverage Tomorrow: Online grocery order fulfillment goes local
Grocers are evolving their stores into omnichannel micro fulfillment centers that function both as regular stores and distribution hubs that can more quickly fulfill online orders.
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Article | Future Cities
Food & Beverage Tomorrow: F&B’s crucial role in the success of sports and entertainment complexes
Attracting fans to arenas and stadiums has never been more important for U.S sports franchises.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
Food & Beverage Tomorrow: A hands-on approach to an operator search in hospitality and mixed-use environments
Best way to ensure that both landlords and operators achieve long-term success
The Weekly Take
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Marc Lore helped to revolutionize how consumers purchase goods—everything from diapers to office supplies. Now he wants to revolutionize the restaurant and food delivery business with his newest venture, a company called Wonder. Lore discusses his vision for Wonder, which combines e-commerce with traditional restaurant and real estate strategies.
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Podcast | Intelligent Investment
Don’t Look Back: What’s Ahead for Commercial Real Estate
Are we through the worst of the downturn? CBRE Global Chief Economist Richard Barkham offers insights on the outlook for the rest of 2023 and beyond, and CBRE Research’s sector specialists chime in with commentary from last week’s Midyear Global Real Estate Market Outlook.
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Podcast | Adaptive Spaces
Let’s Go to the Mall: New value in brick-and-mortar retail malls
The end of the pandemic and relatively low retail availability have rewritten the “Malls Are Dead” narrative. So asserts Tom O’Hern, CEO of Macerich, a REIT with 47 million sq. ft. of regional town centers. He joins Spencer Levy to discuss how the best malls are succeeding by reimagining their tenant mix and offering shoppers new experiences.
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Podcast | Intelligent Investment
Into the Great Wide Open: Why open-air centers are one of CRE’s shining stars
Many real estate investors are favoring retail right now. We caught up with DLC’s Adam Ifshin—along with CBRE’s Brandon Isner and Chris Decouflé— at the ICSC conference to find out why open-air retail has such compelling allure.
Retail Insights
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Article | Future Cities
Retail Markets in Focus: Orlando
Orlando is a magnet for retailers due to its rapid population growth, world-class theme parks and steady flow of visitors that fuel strong consumer spending.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
How can zoning reform improve dealmaking
The world has changed and so have the ways in which people spend their time and money.
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Article | Future Cities
Retail Markets in Focus: San Francisco
Despite its downtown's well-publicized challenges, the greater San Francisco retail market has undeniable strengths, and its long-term prospects are buoyed by a local economy capable of producing job growth and higher incomes.
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Article | Future Cities
Food & Beverage Tomorrow: Why are luxe brands embracing food and drink concepts?
Luxury retailers are embracing new food and drink concepts, creating immersive brand experiences to enhance customer engagement.
Definitive Guide to Omnichannel Real Estate
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Brief | Adaptive Spaces
Increased Sales Through Technology Helps Boost Grocery Store Openings
Grocery operators’ agile adaptation to changing consumer preferences, largely through in-store technology investment, helped boost overall sales by 5.3% year-over-year in 2023.
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Brief | Creating Resilience
Reverse Logistics Revs Up as 2023 Holiday Sales Rise
2023 U.S. holiday sales are expected to increase by 4% year-over-year to a record $957.3 billion, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF).
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Book | Intelligent Investment
Midyear Global Real Estate Market Outlook 2023
Are we through the worst of it? CBRE Research experts provide insights on what’s in store for the global economy.
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Podcast | Intelligent Investment
Into the Great Wide Open: Why open-air centers are one of CRE’s shining stars
Many real estate investors are favoring retail right now. We caught up with DLC’s Adam Ifshin—along with CBRE’s Brandon Isner and Chris Decouflé— at the ICSC conference to find out why open-air retail has such compelling allure.
Contacts
- Econometric Advisors
Henry Chin, Ph.D.
Global Head of Investor Thought Leadership & Head of Research, Asia Pacific