CBRE Korea took the top spot in Korea's commercial real estate investment advisory market for the seventh straight year.
CBRE Korea said on the 17th that it ranked No. 1 in the Korea commercial real estate investment advisory institutional sector in the 2025 global commercial real estate investment advisory rankings selected by MSCI Real Assets, maintaining its lead for seven consecutive years.
As of last year, CBRE Korea's investment advisory transaction volume came to $5,264 million (about 7.8723 trillion won). Its market share was 25.8%. That was up 118% from the previous year's transaction volume of $2,415 million (about 3.6116 trillion won). Market share also rose 7.0 percentage points, from 18.8% to 25.8%.
It showed particularly strong competitiveness in the logistics institutional sector. In logistics asset investment advisory, CBRE Korea ranked No. 1 with a 63.6% market share. The company said, "This is the result of proactively identifying the expanding investment demand for high-quality logistics assets and strengthening advisory capabilities based on market understanding of asset characteristics." It also maintained the lead in the office institutional sector with a 22.4% market share.
In the Asia-Pacific region as well, it recorded $34,619 million (about 51.7728 trillion won) in investment advisory performance through a total of 1,068 transactions last year. That was up 39.6% from a year earlier, with its market share tallied at 34.7%. CBRE ranked No. 1 in major markets including Korea, Australia, China, Japan and Singapore. It also maintained the lead for six consecutive years across key asset classes such as office, industrial, retail, apartments, hotels and development sites.
It also took the top spot in the global market with a 24.5% share. That was about 8 percentage points higher than the No. 2 competitor, and CBRE extended its streak as the No. 1 global commercial real estate investment advisor to 15 years.
Choi Seong-hyun, executive vice president and head of capital markets at CBRE Korea, said, "Maintaining the lead in the office institutional sector and posting a market share exceeding 60% in logistics asset transactions means the company's expertise is being recognized by the market," adding, "We will continue to provide optimal investment strategies to clients not only for core asset classes such as offices and logistics centers but also for a variety of investment assets including hotels and data centers."