Colliers Global Capital Markets Stats
US$250 billion
worth of transactions
-
No.2
2023 global ranking for number of properties sold
(Source: MSCI Real Capital Analytics) -
2500+
No. of transactions in 2023
(Based on deal size US$2.5+ million) -
1500+
Capital Markets professionals -
498
Offices
Latest Global Insights
LAUNCHED MAY 2024
Global investment volumes remained muted in Q1 2024, at the lower end of the 10-year average. Market uncertainty around pricing and interest rates, along with lower capital values due to yield/cap rate adjustments, contributed to this despite a slight increase in deal-flow.
Global Capital Flows
LAUNCHED MARCH 2024
Liquidity, transparency and pricing factors have propelled the UK to be the top destination for global cross-border capital, followed by the U.S. and Japan. Investment activity as a whole has been laboured and uneven during 2023, due to mixed economic growth and pricing fundamentals across markets.
LAUNCHED NOVEMBER 2023
What is the outlook for commercial real estate markets in 2024? Our annual Global Investor Outlook report has launched today with key market trends and perspectives from our senior Capital Markets experts and investor clients around the world. While we anticipate challenging conditions to persist, a clearer rate outlook and tightening bid-ask spreads appear to be on the horizon. I&L, multifamily, and office sectors largely remain investors’ top picks for the coming year, with new strategies being deployed for each. The report provides regional insights and key themes that we will continue to track throughout 2024.
LAUNCHED OCTOBER 2023
Interest in industrial and logistics assets driving real estate investment forward globally. Our latest report reveals a strong expansion of investment in the industrial and logistics (I&L) sector compared to other real estate asset classes, with activity having doubled from 12.5% in 2016 to 25% in 2023. This supports our Global Investor Outlook survey conducted last year, which found 60% of investors were looking to invest in a broad range of I&L assets in 2023.
Global Insights & Outlook: Global Capital Flows
Changes in interest rates have played havoc with foreign exchange rates over the past 12 months. Cross border investment activity has diminished markedly as a result in 2023, dropping to 18% of global investment volumes. It was as high as 39% in 2021 and 25% in 2022. APAC sources of capital have become more prominent. The U.S. is the leading destination for cross border capital so far in 2023.
Global Insights & Outlook: Offices
LAUNCHED JUNE 2023
The varying return to office attitudes post-COVID, underlying fundamentals of city functionality, approaches towards ESG compliance differences and how markets have reacted to shifts in inflation and interest rates have created significant divergence in office investment volumes, pricing, and appetite globally.
MAY 2023
Luke Dawson, Head of Global & EMEA Capital Markets, speaks with BNN Bloomberg to share his insights into the different factors that have impacted the return to the office globally, where he sees opportunities and what challenges investors need to consider when converting offices to another purpose, such as residential.
Global Insights & Outlook: All Sectors
LAUNCHED APRIL 2023
Global markets continued on their journey of price discovery during Q1 2023, with investment activity subdued relative to previous years.
2023 Global Investor Outlook
LAUNCHED DECEMBER 2022
Our third edition of our annual outlook for global property investors is an exploration of the forces set to shape the real estate world in 2023 and beyond.
Global Capital Markets Services
Investment property sales
Our global real estate professionals have the expertise to enhance our clients’ portfolio and provide advice throughout the full life cycle of property acquisition, asset management, and disposition.
Our deep domestic and global relationships and market leading, extensive track record means we can connect our clients to the right investors and opportunities across all sectors, assist with due diligence, and provide support throughout the sales process.
Debt & Equity
Our real estate debt and equity solutions experts provide independent, specialist advice supported by strong lender relationships and extensive experience.
Our financing professionals have broad and varied experience as accountants, advisors, investment bankers, lawyers and treasury experts, giving us a unique opportunity to add value throughout the entire lifecycle; from establishing an initial capital strategy to execution and documentation.
Our experts actively maintain relationships with hundreds of national and international capital solutions providers such as major life insurance companies, credit companies, debt funds, commercial banks, and private equity firms. We bring together those relationships with state-of-the-art IT and proprietary modelling to provide insights into capital market conditions, providing a competitive advantage in debt and equity placements and/or refinancing. Our teams source and execute funding solutions domestically and globally to enhance real estate transactions and improve the efficiency of portfolios – meaning our clients transact efficiently and on the best terms.
Advisory
We provide advice on trends across all markets and asset classes, considering macro and micro factors that could positively or negatively impact the real estate investment markets across the globe. With our consistent forward-looking approach, clients can leverage this knowledge to ensure they are prepared to take advantage of opportunities that may arise as a direct result of market activities.