Research

"No one in the commercial real estate business, in my opinion, does a better job of compiling accurate, reliable real estate market statistics"

Leonard Sahling, Head of Research, ProLogis

Plenty of companies can provide you with market rents and availabilities. But which location is the right location for your headquarters? Your warehouse? Your storefront? That level of advice takes local knowledge and deep insight, the kind Cushman & Wakefield has been providing clients worldwide for generations.

We provide the timeliest, highest-quality information and analysis to help our clients optimize their real estate decisions. We achieve this goal through our vast resources, worldwide coverage, and multi-disciplined approach.

The Gold Standard for Property Research
Cushman & Wakefield performs rigorous, global, primary research and data-driven analysis. The extensive detail of our market intelligence represents the efforts our research professionals worldwide.

Primary local market knowledge is indispensable to our clients in providing actionable advice. Our research is also widely quoted in the international media, because our information is the gold standard for property-oriented research.

From this market intelligence, our highly skilled staff provides analysis of real estate trends and forecasts, tactical and strategic investment analysis, retail analysis, building or project specific feasibility analysis and peer group studies in support of client activities.

MarketBeat Series / Market Analysis
Cushman & Wakefield's award-winning publication, MarketBeat, profiles real estate conditions in major business markets throughout the world. Customized studies are also prepared to meet the specific information needs of owners, occupiers, and investors.

Forecasting
Occupancy decisions require timely, accurate data on availabilities, rental growth or decline and concessions. Tenants need to know the future direction of the market in order to plan their growth strategies. Research has forecasting models and expertise to analyze current conditions and provide advice on future market trends.

Peer Group Studies
We work with various owners and REITs to create a customized research product. The end product furnishes these companies with analyses customized for their portfolios and the market indicators and variables that are most important and unique to their market intelligence needs.

Proprietary Market Knowledge
Cushman & Wakefield performs proprietary research and data-driven analysis. SiteSolutions, a web-based system, tracks over 10 billion square feet of office and industrial real estate. By having the information at their fingertips, SiteSolutions enables Cushman & Wakefield professionals to respond faster to market opportunities. Cushman & Wakefield Research is the premier source of real estate data and advice for occupiers and investors.

Careers In Research
To be considered for opportunities in our research organization, please visit our careers page.

Advisory Services

Our Analytics professionals provide the most sophisticated advice on the current and projected value of real estate and real estate-related investments, evaluation of the performance of investment portfolios, the optimal timing of major actions, including acquisition or disposition, and forecasting the impact of economic and demographic trends in real estate.

Agency Executions

Our agents, bankers, and brokers apply the most sophisticated techniques to extracting maximum value for our clients from their real estate activities, whether they are buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, investors or occupiers. They have the knowledge and experience to optimize transactions from the client's perspective, including maximizing proceeds, minimizing costs, mitigating taxes. and achieving optimal accounting treatment.

Investment Management

Our investor clients benefit from the unsurpassed insight that results from the full range and geographic breadth of our market activities. The real-time market knowledge that we gain in buying, selling, financing and valuing properties on a global basis is gathered, analyzed, and applied for the benefit of our investor clients. We identify opportunities to achieve superior risk-weighted returns in investment products, ranging from separate accounts to fully discretionary funds.

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