CBRE Group, Inc.

What does CBRE own?

CBRE owns Trammell Crow Company, CBRE Investment Management, a 60% stake in Turner & Townsend, a majority stake in Industrious, and UK developer Telford Homes, alongside the CBRE master services brand.

Is CBRE publicly traded?

Yes. CBRE Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker CBRE and is a member of the S&P 500. It has been public since 2004.

Who founded CBRE?

Colbert Coldwell and Benjamin Arthur Banker founded the predecessor firm Tucker, Lynch & Coldwell in San Francisco in 1906. The modern company took shape through the mergers that produced CB Richard Ellis and then CBRE Group.

Where is CBRE headquartered?

CBRE is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, having relocated its corporate home from California earlier in its history.

How many brands does CBRE own?

CBRE markets services primarily under the CBRE master brand and owns the Trammell Crow development brand, CBRE Investment Management, Turner & Townsend (60%), Industrious, and Telford Homes.

Who owns CBRE?

CBRE is publicly owned with no controlling shareholder. Institutional investors including Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street hold the largest positions.

How large is CBRE?

For FY2025, CBRE reported record revenue of $40.6 billion, GAAP net income of $1.2 billion, approximately 140,000 employees, and operations in more than 100 countries.

The company's roots are in San Francisco's post-earthquake reconstruction. Colbert Coldwell and Benjamin Arthur Banker founded Tucker, Lynch & Coldwell in 1906 to rebuild and broker real estate in the burned city. The firm became Coldwell Banker in 1927, expanded into commercial brokerage, and spent decades as one of the country's dominant real estate names.

The commercial arm separated from the residential business in 1989, operating as CB Commercial. A series of combinations followed: the 1995 acquisition of Westmark Realty Advisors began an investment management arm, the 1998 merger with Richard Ellis brought global scale, and the 2000 acquisition of Boston Financial's mortgage banking operations added the servicing business. The firm went public on the NYSE in 2004, absorbed Trammell Crow in a 2006 acquisition that added development capability, and rebranded as CBRE Group in 2011.

Growth since then has been equal parts organic and acquisitive. Notable deals include the 2015 purchase of Johnson Controls' Global Workplace Solutions business for approximately $1.48 billion, which made CBRE the largest facilities manager in the world; a 60% controlling stake in UK project manager Turner & Townsend in 2021; engineering services firm J&J Worldwide Services in 2024; a majority stake in co-working operator Industrious in January 2025; and infrastructure services firm Pearce Services in 2025, extending facilities work into telecom and renewables sites.

Bob Sulentic has led the company as CEO since 2012, making him one of the longest-tenured leaders in the industry, and he also serves as board chair. His tenure reshaped the company: he pushed the shift toward recurring services, championed the resilient-versus-transactional framework that now anchors how management describes the business, and presided over the deals that built the workplace solutions business into the largest in the world.

CBRE publishes an annual sustainability report and has set science-based emissions targets, committing to net-zero emissions across its value chain by 2040. The firm manages sustainability programs for clients as a service line, making ESG advisory part of the commercial offering rather than only a corporate posture. It has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index in multiple years, the sector's main independent benchmark.

CBRE has held the top revenue position among commercial real estate services firms for more than a decade and ranks on the Fortune 500. It has repeatedly been named to Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list and to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, both third-party recognitions rather than self-awarded claims.

CBRE's public record is comparatively clean for a company of its size. Its disputes are the ordinary friction of the brokerage business: occasional litigation over commissions, non-compete clauses when brokers defect to rivals, and antitrust-adjacent claims in real estate data that have touched most major brokers. No material regulatory enforcement action or existential litigation is on record against the company as of September 2026.