CBRE Group, Inc. Reports Financial Results for Q2 2026

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE) today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026.

Key Highlights:

• GAAP EPS of $0.69 and Core EPS of $1.56
• Revenue up 16% to $11.2 billion
• Resilient Businesses⁽¹⁾ revenue up 15%
• Transactional Businesses⁽¹⁾ revenue up 19%
• Cash flow from operations of nearly $1.4 billion and free cash flow of nearly $1.7 billion on a trailing 12-month basis
• 2026 core EPS outlook raised to $7.80 to $7.90 from $7.60 to $7.80, reflecting 23% growth at midpoint of new range

“The momentum in CBRE’s business continued in the second quarter, with Core EPS up 30% on a 16% revenue increase,” said Bob Sulentic, CBRE’s chair and chief executive officer. “Our strength was balanced across the company. Each of our segments – Advisory, Building Operations & Experience, Project Management and Real Estate Investments – grew Segment Operating Profit by more than 25%.”

“Our strategy is working the way we intended,” Mr. Sulentic continued. “Resources and investments are being productively directed into areas that drive current growth and position us for long-term growth.”

Consolidated Financial Results Overview

The following table presents highlights of CBRE performance (dollars in millions, except per share data):

• Second-quarter GAAP net income was reduced by $168 million due to the non-cash impact of an increased reserve for fire-safety remediation in the U.K. development business. Without this item, second-quarter GAAP net income would have increased by 53% and GAAP EPS by 57%.

Advisory Services Segment

The following table presents highlights of the Advisory Services segment performance (dollars in millions):

• Revenue and segment operating profit increased by 18% (17% local currency) and 29% (same local currency), respectively.
• Global leasing revenue increased 24% (23% local currency). The U.S. was also up 24% led by office and industrial. EMEA saw leasing revenue rise 27% (22% local currency) with especially strong growth in France, Germany and Spain, while APAC was up 19% (20% local currency).
• Global property sales revenue increased 20% (19% local currency). The U.S. was up 24% with strong growth across most property types. APAC and EMEA sales revenue grew more modestly.
• Mortgage origination revenue rose 8% (same local currency). Strong activity with private capital sources was partly offset by lower government agency lending..
• The loan servicing portfolio edged up 2% for the quarter to more than $468 billion. Loan servicing revenue growth was tempered by a decline in escrow income tied to lower average interest rates.
• Valuations revenue rose 12% (10% local currency), driven by especially strong growth in the U.S.

Building Operations & Experience (BOE) Segment

The following table presents highlights of the BOE segment performance (dollars in millions):

• Revenue and segment operating profit increased by 15% (13% local currency) and 25% (23% local currency), respectively.
• Revenue from critical infrastructure services increased 68% (66% local currency), driven by growth in data center solutions and contributions from Pearce Services, acquired in November 2025.
• Facilities management revenue rose 11% (10% local currency), led by local facilities management.
• Property management revenue rose 8% (7% local currency).
• Operating leverage was aided by the reclassification of certain amortization costs, as disclosed in first-quarter 2026 results.

Project Management Segment

The following table presents highlights of the Project Management segment performance (dollars in millions):

• Revenue and segment operating profit increased by 19% (18% local currency), and 28% (26% local currency), respectively.
• Project Management growth was underpinned by solid infrastructure activity in the U.K., Europe and the Middle East, and strong gains in real estate projects in North America and Asia.

Real Estate Investments (REI) Segment

The following table presents highlights of the REI segment performance (dollars in millions):

Real Estate Development

• Operating profit⁽⁸⁾ totaled $9 million.
• The portfolio of in-process projects and pipeline ended the second quarter at $29.6 billion, unchanged from the prior quarter. Excluding fee development, the overall portfolio stands at $21.2 billion.

Investment Management

• Revenue edged up 2% (1% local currency), reflecting higher recurring asset management fees.
• Operating profit⁽⁸⁾ increased 3% (same local currency), as higher asset management fees were partly offset by lower co-investment returns.
• Assets under management (AUM) ended the second quarter at approximately $155 billion, down slightly from the prior quarter, driven by unfavorable currency movement.

Core Corporate Segment

Core corporate operating loss increased by approximately $9 million for the quarter, primarily driven by higher incentive compensation related to the company’s strong performance.

Capital Allocation Overview

• Free Cash Flow – Free cash flow totaled nearly $1.7 billion for the 12 months ended June 30, 2026.
• Stock Repurchase Program – Year-to-date, the company repurchased nearly $1.0 billion worth of shares.

Leverage and Financing Overview

• Leverage – CBRE’s net leverage ratio (net debt⁽⁹⁾ to trailing twelve-month core EBITDA) was 1.60x as of June 30, 2026. The net leverage ratio is computed as follows (dollars in millions):

• Liquidity – At the end of the second quarter, the company had $4.4 billion of total liquidity.⁽¹⁰⁾

Conference Call Details

The company’s second quarter earnings webcast and conference call will be held today, Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Investors are encouraged to access the webcast via this link or they can click this link beginning at 8:15 a.m. Eastern Time for automated access to the conference call.

Alternatively, investors may dial into the conference call using these operator-assisted phone numbers: 877.407.8037 (U.S.) or 201.689.8037 (International). A replay of the call will be available starting at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 29, 2026. The replay is accessible by dialing 877.660.6853 (U.S.) or 201.612.7415 (International) and using the access code: 13761434#. A transcript of the call will be available on the company’s Investor Relations website at https://ir.cbre.com.

About CBRE Group, Inc.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services. The company has more than 155,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves clients through four business segments: Advisory (leasing, sales, debt origination, mortgage servicing, valuations); Building Operations & Experience (facilities management, property management, flex space & experience, critical infrastructure); Project Management (program management, project management, cost consulting); Real Estate Investments (investment management, development). Please visit our website at www.cbre.com. We routinely post important information on our website, including corporate and investor presentations and financial information. We intend to use our website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Such disclosures will be included in the Investor Relations section of our website at https://ir.cbre.com. Accordingly, investors should monitor such portion of our website, in addition to following our press releases, Securities and Exchange Commission filings and public conference calls and webcasts.

Safe Harbor and Footnotes

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the economic outlook, the company’s future growth momentum, operations and business outlook. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the company’s actual results and performance in future periods to be materially different from any future results or performance suggested in forward-looking statements in this press release. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, the company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any of them to reflect actual results, any changes in expectations or any change in events. If the company does update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: disruptions in general economic, political and regulatory conditions and significant public health events, particularly in geographies or industry sectors where our business may be concentrated; volatility or adverse developments in the securities, capital or credit markets, interest rate increases and conditions affecting the value of real estate assets, inside and outside the United States; poor performance of real estate investments or other conditions that negatively impact clients’ willingness to make real estate or long-term contractual commitments; cost and availability of capital for investment in real estate; foreign currency fluctuations and changes in currency restrictions, trade sanctions and import/export and transfer pricing rules; our ability to compete globally, or in specific geographic markets or business segments that are material to us; our ability to identify, acquire and integrate accretive businesses; costs and potential future capital requirements relating to businesses we may acquire; integration challenges arising out of companies we may acquire; increases in unemployment and general slowdowns in economic or commercial activity; trends in pricing and risk assumption for commercial real estate services; the effect of significant changes in supply/demand and capitalization rates across different property types; a reduction by companies in their reliance on outsourcing for their commercial real estate needs, which would affect our revenues and operating performance; client actions to restrain project spending and reduce outsourced staffing levels; our ability to further diversify our revenue model to offset cyclical economic trends in the commercial real estate industry; our ability to attract new occupier and investor clients; our ability to retain major clients and renew related contracts; our ability to leverage our global services platform to maximize and sustain long-term cash flow; our ability to continue investing in our platform and client service offerings; our ability to maintain expense discipline; the emergence of disruptive business models and technologies; negative publicity or harm to our brand and reputation; the failure by third parties to comply with service level agreements or regulatory or legal requirements; the ability of our investment management business to maintain and grow assets under management and achieve desired investment returns for our investors, and any potential related litigation, liabilities or reputational harm possible if we fail to do so; our ability to manage fluctuations in net earnings and cash flow, which could result from poor performance in our investment programs, including our participation as a principal in real estate investments; the ability of our indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, CBRE Capital Markets, Inc. to periodically amend, or replace, on satisfactory terms, the agreements for its warehouse lines of credit; declines in lending activity of U.S. Government Sponsored Enterprises, regulatory oversight of such activity and our loan servicing revenue from the commercial real estate mortgage market; changes in U.S. and international law and regulatory environments (including relating to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, trade sanctions, tariffs, currency controls and other trade control laws), particularly in Asia, Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, due to the level of political instability in those regions; litigation and its financial and reputational risks to us; our exposure to liabilities in connection with real estate advisory and property management activities and our ability to procure sufficient insurance coverage on acceptable terms; our ability to retain, attract and incentivize key personnel; our ability to manage organizational challenges associated with our size; liabilities under guarantees, or for construction defects, that we incur in our development services business; our leverage under our debt instruments as well as the limited restrictions therein on our ability to incur additional debt, and the potential increased borrowing costs to us from a credit-rating downgrade; our and our employees’ ability to execute on, and adapt to, information technology strategies and trends; cybersecurity threats or other threats to our information technology networks, including the potential misappropriation of assets or sensitive information, corruption of data or operational disruption; our ability to comply with laws and regulations related to our global operations, including real estate licensure, tax, labor and employment laws and regulations, fire and safety building requirements and regulations, as well as data privacy and protection regulations, sustainability matters, and the anti-corruption laws and trade sanctions of the U.S. and other countries; changes in applicable tax or accounting requirements; any inability for us to implement and maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting; the effect of implementation of new accounting rules and standards or the impairment of our goodwill and intangible assets; and the performance of our equity investments in companies we do not control.

Additional information concerning factors that may influence the company’s financial information is discussed under “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” and “Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as well as in the company’s press releases and other periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Such filings are available publicly and may be obtained on the company’s website at www.cbre.com or upon written request from CBRE’s Investor Relations Department at investorrelations@cbre.com.

The terms “core adjusted net income,” “core EBITDA,” “core EPS,” “business line operating profit (loss),” “net debt” and “free cash flow,” all of which CBRE uses in this press release, are non-GAAP financial measures under SEC guidelines, and you should refer to the footnotes below as well as the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section in this press release for a further explanation of these measures. We have also included in that section reconciliations of these measures in specific periods to their most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP for those periods.

Note: We have not reconciled the (non-GAAP) core earnings per share forward-looking guidance included in this release to the most directly comparable GAAP measure because this cannot be done without unreasonable effort due to the variability and low visibility with respect to costs related to acquisitions, carried interest incentive compensation and financing costs, which are potential adjustments to future earnings. We expect the variability of these items to have a potentially unpredictable, and a potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

For further information:
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