Where AI Becomes Real
Real, Scalable AI Solutions – Purpose-Built for Commercial Real Estate
We leverage AI to power our solutions with advanced analytics, automated workflows and predictive insights. This transformative work is enabled by Ellis AI, the most advanced AI platform in commercial real estate, with access to the industry's most comprehensive dataset. From investment strategies to portfolio optimization, CBRE has been preparing for the future of AI for years and we are now helping our clients create real, tangible value with it.
Transformative Outcomes
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Ellis AI: Smarter Decisions, Real Impact
Ellis AI transforms how CBRE teams and clients work: automating tasks, surfacing insights, and unlocking portfolio-level value with the industry’s most advanced commercial real estate AI platform.
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Making AI Real for Your Business
From uncovering capital sources to optimizing building operations, CBRE’s AI-powered tools deliver measurable results helping clients reduce risk, improve efficiency and seize new opportunities.
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How CBRE Teams Use AI Every Day
Across CBRE, employees are using Ellis AI to work smarter and faster. Hear how our experts apply AI to solve real challenges and deliver better outcomes for clients every day, in every role.
Explore Expert Voices
Accolades
In the commercial real estate business, I have not encountered any company that demonstrates the level of adoption of Generative AI, or TuringBots, as CBRE has. Their use of this technology is significantly advanced compared to the current state of the end-user industry.
Responsible AI – Our Commitment
As we continue expanding our use of AI, we remain committed to responsible, ethical, and secure practices in line with our broader governance and risk management frameworks. Learn more on our approach for responsible AI and protecting your data.
Featured Insights
- Article | Evolving Workforces
Business Insights | Everyone Can Have a (Digital) Assistant, with Ellis AI
February 13, 2025 3 Minute Read
CBRE's Ellis AI platform revolutionizes commercial real estate with GenAI, enhancing productivity and efficiency through advanced AI digital assistants.
- Article | Adaptive Spaces
Business Insights | The Role of AI in Workplace Technology: 10 Ways Companies Are Maximizing its Impact
February 12, 2025 5 Minute Read
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a fundamental component of modern workplace technology.
- Viewpoint | Creating Resilience
Business Insights | How AI Is Advancing Decision-Making In Corporate Real Estate
January 29, 2025 3 Minute Read
AI is transforming corporate real estate by enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency across markets, portfolios and individual properties.
- Viewpoint | Adaptive Spaces
Artificial Intelligence and the Future Workplace
April 24, 2024 5 Minute Read
Technological innovation has profoundly impacted where and how people work.
- Article | Evolving Workforces
Artificial Intelligence Tech Hubs: Asia Pacific Talent Spotlight
May 23, 2023
2023 has been marked with the advent of mass scale adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 2022 saw a record amount of investment in generative AI start-ups, ...
- Brief | Evolving Workforces
Artificial Intelligence: U.S. Talent Spotlight
April 20, 2023 3 Minute Read
U.S. companies across many sectors are increasingly using artificial Intelligence, but it's no surprise that the software and technology industry dominates this...
- Brief | Adaptive Spaces
Artificial Intelligence: What is its future and how will it impact data center markets?
March 17, 2023 4 Minute Read
As Fortune 500 companies hunt for the next frontier of business growth, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken center stage.
In the News
- Forrester Research
Case Study: CBRE Pulls Off An AI Hat Trick With High-Performance IT
February 9, 2026
As a winner of Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award, CBRE shows how high‑performance IT drives business impact through its Ellis AI platform, boosting software development, AI-powered products, and employee productivity.
“The thing that distinguishes what you can do with AI is data,” says Sandeep Davé, CBRE Chief Knowledge Officer.
"AI is freeing brokers' time to focus on what's important, the consultative and advisory piece," says CBRE's Laura Barr.
Ampily Vijay shares how CBRE Investment Management integrates operating models that prioritize data, talent, and measurable impact.
The Digie Awards honor companies advancing the built environment through innovation, automation, and forward-thinking solutions.
Ellis AI helps analysts focus more time on value-add activities and less time hunting for documents.
The Realcomm award reflects CBRE's extraordinary level of business process automation and innovation with data at scale.
AI can enable business transformation to deliver positive outcomes for clients and propel sustainability goals.
Recognizing that the commercial real estate industry was ripe for AI and machine learning enhancements early on, Sandeep Davé and his team have tested countless use cases across the enterprise ever since.
- Real Commercial
Property industry on AI precipice as millions invested in new technologies
September 29, 2023
“Across this whole spectrum of efficiency through transformative ways of working, we’re only scratching the surface. There’s a significant efficiency gain to be had," says Sandeep Davé, Chief Digital & Technology Officer
- Dallas Morning News
How CBRE’s top tech expert thinks AI could change the commercial real estate industry
September 18, 2023
Strategic alignment and clear ROI have enabled AI deployment at scale.
Says CBRE's Chief Digital & Technology Officer Sandeep Davé, "[Our AI platform] allows CBRE employees to do a range of things. It is a phenomenal gain, all due to the step change in technology that we are seeing.”
AI-powered services include virtual maintenance, automated maintenance and dynamic services that offer insights into how space is being used.
Let’s Make AI Real for You
See how AI is transforming commercial real estate—start the conversation.
See how AI is transforming commercial real estate—start the conversation.
Ellis AI is the World’s Leading Commercial Real Estate AI Platform
With the industry’s largest data set, CBRE Ellis AI transforms how investors, occupiers and our people work. It enhances our services, expanding human productivity and transforming business as usual into a holistic, AI-driven experience. It’s how we move quickly, past the proof-of-concept phase, into delivering real use cases that drive portfolio-level impact. With Ellis AI staying ahead isn’t just possible – it’s built into every decision.

Unlocking Value

Unlocking Value
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Move and Develop Models Faster
With rapid model development and deployment, CBRE can move at the speed of technology and adapt to changing client needs. We help capitalize on opportunities faster and put you ahead. -
Access Trusted Data Faster Than Ever
Our industry-leading dataset is trusted for its reliability. We help clients clean and enhance their data, making it more accurate and accessible than ever before. -
Integrate Self Service Capabilities Into Solutions
Our products and services have Ellis AI embedded to bring self-servicing capabilities like document abstraction, summarization, content creation, and information retrieval seamlessly to our teams.

Accelerating Decisions

Accelerating Decisions
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Ellis AI for Sales
Surfaces leads, abstracts key data from leases, tracks market news, and spots trends in our extensive CRE data.
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Ellis AI for Research
Sifts large content sets and streamlines content creation for publication-ready insights.
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Ellis AI for Supply Chain
Analyzes and abstracts contracts and makes supply chain information instantly retrievable.

Powering Smarter Work

Powering Smarter Work
Our powerful tool streamlines information retrieval by quickly scanning and analyzing vast amounts of data.
For example, our asset management tool's advanced search and summarization capabilities empower property managers to work more efficiently – they can find the signal fast, then act.
Ellis AI automates routine tasks, freeing our experts to focus on what matters most – our clients.
Our Valuation teams can now automate quote ingestion and report review, for example, meaning they can move faster for clients and focus on more complex analysis and strategic advice.
Ellis AI automates data extraction from complex documents, saving time and improving accuracy.
Lease administrators for example can save time by automatically extracting key information from complex lease documents. This allows them to focus on more complex negotiations, spotting key risks, and client care.
Our AI-powered tool empowers our people to work smarter. It can summarize text, translate languages, generate content, and extract key information from documents, saving you time and effort.
By creating personalized Ellis AI Agents, our teams can have tailored interactions, such as our Consulting teams rapidly creating multiple strategic pathways for their clients.
Everyone Can Have a (Digital) Assistant, with Ellis AI
Ellis AI powers hundreds of solutions across CBRE. By combining advanced technology with deep real estate expertise, we deliver tailored solutions that drive results. Explore how we’re making AI real—right now.
Discover Hidden Opportunities with Next Action Engine
As part of CBRE Vantage® Analytics, Next Action Engine delivers the right insight to the right role at the right moment to drive strategic decision-making.
By analyzing vast amounts of data, Next Action Engine helps our clients identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and achieve optimal outcomes.
Unlock a Wider Pool of Capital With Capital AI
Using the power of artificial intelligence to analyze billions of data points, we unlock a 20% deeper pool of capital sources with Capital AI to achieve the best possible transaction outcomes for our investor clients.
This suite of AI-powered tools help our brokers to meet client needs with certainty and agility, from ranking likely buyers, to predicting property transactions, to streamlining underwriting and due diligence.
Increase Efficiency Through Facilities Management Insights
Our AI-enabled Facilities Management solutions are deployed across one billion square feet and 20,000 sites to lower operational costs and reduce risk by optimizing maintenance schedules, predicting equipment failures, and improving energy efficiency.
With agentic AI helping us to better monitor building systems and run them more efficiently, our teams are realizing 10-20% savings in cleaning costs for our clients, and a 98% reduction in repeat alarms for maintenance technicians.
Let’s Make AI Real for You
See how AI is transforming commercial real estate—start the conversation.
See how AI is transforming commercial real estate—start the conversation.
Across CBRE, teams are using Ellis AI to deliver smarter outcomes for clients. Here are a few ways they’re making AI real— today.
Dipal Patel, Global Alliance Director, on Ellis AI and Client Care
Emily Niguidula, Vice President, Global Services, on FM Technology
John Affleck, Senior Director, Insights & Intelligence, CBRE IM on Ellis AI
Megan Rios, Global Head of Digital & Analytics Solutions, on Vantage® Analytics
James Cooper, Global Head of Analytics Engineering & AI, CBRE IM, on Ellis AI
Kyle Renken, Senior Statistician, on Retail Analytics
Tim Schipper, EVP, Global FM & Engineering Services, on FM Technology
Kevin Aussef, COO, Capital Markets, on Capital AI
Jodi Copeland, Sales Director, Retail Analytics, on ShopoGraphics™ Retail Vitality
Adam Boal, Global Head of Procurement, on Ellis AI
Kevin Major, MD, Americas Consulting, on CBRE GeoNavigator™
Stephen Hinkle, Senior Director, Americas Consulting, on Ellis AI and Workplace Analysis
Let’s Make AI Real for You
See how AI is transforming commercial real estate—start the conversation.