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.
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With 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.
Expertise Spanning all Retail Categories and Property Types
- Food & Beverage
- Mixed-Use
- Banking Centers
- Convenience
- Grocery Anchored
- High Street & Luxury
- Large Format Retail
- Net Lease Properties
- Power Centers
- Store-in-store
- Street & Urban
- Short-term Activation & Pop-ups
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U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook 2026
Despite uncertainty, growth will continue for the U.S. commercial real estate market in 2026.
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Chris Gardener
Managing Director, Head of European Retail
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Retail Investor Services
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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.
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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Article | Intelligent Investment
Capital, Consolidation & Confidence: Multifamily Themes Emerging from NMHC
February 12, 2026
Danny Baker, Vice Chairman and Kris Lowe, Vice Chairman, join Capital Markets Conversations to recap their takeaways in multifamily investor sentiment from NMHC.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
Unlocking Opportunities: Multifamily Investment Perspectives
December 17, 2025
Kelli Carhart, President and Head of Multifamily Capital Markets at CBRE, shares insights on current investment trends and market dynamics.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
Navigating Change: Lee and Millon on CRE Investment Trends, Opportunities
October 17, 2025
Tommy Lee and James Millon, Co-Heads of CBRE Capital Markets for U.S. and Canada, share perspectives on the evolving capital markets landscape. They discuss opportunities in office and multifamily, particularly in gateway markets, as well as the return of banks to the CRE lending market and a wave of refinancing activity.
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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
- Large Format Retail
- 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.
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- Asia Retail Leasing Services
Vivek Kaul
Managing Director, Head of Retail Leasing, Advisory Services, Asia
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Figures and Reports
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Book | Intelligent Investment
U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook 2026
Despite uncertainty, growth will continue for the U.S. commercial real estate market in 2026.
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US net-lease investment surged 16% to $51.4B in 2025 driven by industrial and private investors marking a stable 6.9% cap rate with widened Treasury spread.
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Retail availability tightens to 4.8% in Q4 2025 as net absorption hits 11.3 MSF and Sun Belt markets drive new construction.
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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Podcast | Future Cities
Like a Hurricane: Raleigh’s incredible CRE growth (and hockey team)
Raleigh has long been one of the best-performing secondary markets. Its arena district is poised to be the next engine in its growth. Carolina Hurricanes CEO Brian Fork and Greater Raleigh Chamber CEO Adrienne Cole discuss how the Lenovo Center anchors a mixed-use redevelopment on state-owned land—structured through a complex public-private partnership.
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Podcast | Adaptive Spaces
This Must Be the Place: Food halls are enhancing asset value
Food halls are no longer just a trend—they are a high-impact amenity for improving a property’s dwell time, leasing velocity and NOI. Recorded at Central Perk in Times Square, a quartet of experts from Colicchio Consulting and CBRE explain how the best food halls prioritize operations and programming, new beverage and evening strategies, the lowdown on operator selection and deal structures that offer better risk-sharing and returns.
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Podcast | Future Cities
On the Road Again: Coast-to-coast opportunities in commercial real estate
Recorded at the CBRE Women’s Network Power of WE conference, this episode offers a rapid-fire, insights-rich tour of major U.S. commercial real estate markets. Our subject-matter experts provide inside views of how different regions are navigating supply, demand and economic forces—from industrial and logistics to multifamily, office and retail—and insights on where investors and occupiers may find value in 2026.
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Podcast | Intelligent Investment
New Day: What’s in store for the U.S. economy and real estate this year
PwC’s Karl Russo and CBRE’s Henry Chin share their outlook for the U.S. economy and commercial real estate in 2026, exploring opportunities and risks to growth.
Retail Insights
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Viewpoint | Creating Resilience
The retail market conundrum: Why is expansionary demand so strong when sales growth is slowing?
Over the course of 2024, CBRE has been tracking the emergence of a curious phenomenon across the Asia Pacific retail property market.
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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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