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Colliers earns most of its revenue from commercial real estate services. Property owners, buyers, borrowers and tenants pay it to arrange sales, financing and leases; brokerage commissions depend on property prices, lease rates and lease duration. Owners and large corporate occupiers also pay it to manage properties, value assets and support their real estate portfolios, often under multi-year contracts. Its mortgage business originates and sells loans to investors and earns ongoing fees for servicing loans. This business depends on relationships with U.S. government agencies and must meet their capital and liquidity requirements to retain servicing authority.
Engineering is the next-largest revenue source. Public- and private-sector clients hire Colliers Engineering to plan and design buildings and infrastructure and manage projects through completion. Most contracts are medium- to long-term, with fixed prices or reimbursement of costs plus a fee. This gives Colliers a source of contracted work alongside its property transactions.
Its smaller Investment Management business manages funds and separate accounts for institutional and other investors, investing across real estate, infrastructure and credit. Investors pay management fees based on capital commitments or assets managed; some funds also pay performance fees when agreed return targets are met. The fee base depends on raising and retaining investor capital and, for some funds, asset values. Much of the capital sits in perpetual or long-dated strategies, with withdrawals from perpetual funds restricted because their private assets are illiquid.
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Beyond its rivalry with Savills, Colliers increasingly depends on recurring engineering contracts and real-asset investment-management fees, not property transactions alone.
JLL competes with Colliers for owners’, occupiers’ and investors’ spending on leasing, property sales and financing, property and project management, and investment management. Watch JLL’s workplace-management business for demand from corporations and institutions paying to outsource management of their occupied properties.
CBRE competes with Colliers for occupiers’ and investors’ fees from arranging commercial leases, sales and mortgages, valuing and managing properties, and managing real estate investments. Its leasing, property-sales and mortgage-origination fee revenue offers a read on the transaction demand Colliers also serves.
Cushman & Wakefield competes with Colliers for owners’ and occupiers’ business arranging commercial leases, property sales and financing, and providing valuations and property management. Its leasing and capital-markets fee revenue helps distinguish demand for transactions from demand for ongoing property services.
Newmark competes with Colliers for owners’, lenders’ and occupiers’ leasing, investment-property sales, mortgage-arranging, loan-servicing and property-management business. Watch its transaction commissions separately from loan-servicing and management fees to gauge demand for deals versus ongoing services.
Marcus & Millichap competes with Colliers for fees from helping commercial-property buyers and sellers complete investment sales and arrange financing, with a stronger focus on smaller private-client deals. Its brokerage commissions from private clients—64% of its brokerage commissions in 2025—offer a more focused view of that market than Colliers’ broader business.
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CBRE competes with Colliers for leasing, property-sale and mortgage fees, so its report will show whether demand for those transactions is picking up.
Check whether CBRE’s leasing, property-sale and mortgage-origination fees strengthen together, and compare them with ongoing property-service fees. Broad growth in transaction fees would point to better demand for the deals Colliers also pursues; steady service fees alongside weak transaction fees would mean clients are still paying to manage properties but are not doing more deals. The question is whether Colliers faces a better transaction market.
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Colliers’ leasing, Capital Markets and commercial-property loan businesses depend on property activity and financing, so interest rates shape transaction and loan volumes and the fees they generate.
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If it comes in above expectations
Higher borrowing costs may deter property buyers and borrowers, reducing leasing and Capital Markets activity and debt-finance originations, and weakening related fees and loan revenue.
If it comes in below expectations
Cheaper borrowing may support property purchases, leasing and commercial-property loan demand, helping Colliers’ transaction fees and debt-finance activity.
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Colliers earns fees from property deals and longer-term services, and its report will show whether growth extends beyond transaction activity.
Compare Leasing and Capital Markets revenue with property management, Engineering and Investment Management advisory revenue. If transaction fees and services both grow, growth is coming from a broader base; if deals grow while services stall, growth still depends on closings and remains more exposed to rate and market swings. The test is whether growth extends from transactions into longer-term services.
