The Lipsey Co. recently announced its annual look at the Top 25 Brands in Commercial Real Estate.
The rankings themselves "reflect the ballots, informal focus groups, and opinions from a variety of sources made up of more than 50,000 practitioners and industry leaders from REITs, Institutions, Mortgage Bankers, Commercial Brokers, Asset Managers, Property Managers and related professionals we surveyed and interviewed."
The PDF in the last link above includes blurbs on each company as well as how this year's ranking compares to last year. Here's the list. It's mostly brokerage firms. One retail REIT cracks the top 25. We'll give you one guess as to who that is.
Commercial Real Estate Top Brands
1. CB Richard Ellis
2t. Colliers International
2t. Cushman & Wakefield
3. Jones Lang LaSalle
4. NAI Global
5. Coldwell Banker Commercial
6. Grubb & Ellis
7. CRESA Partners
8. ONCOR International
9. Cassidy Turley
10. CORFAC International
11. Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate Advisors
12. TCN Worldwide Real Estate
13. Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services
14. CoStar
15. LoopNet
16. ProLogis
17. Equity Office Properties
18. Transwestern Commercial Services
19. Newmark Knight Frank
20. Lee & Associates
21. Studley
22. RREEF Real Estate
23. Hines Interest
24. Duke Realty
25t. Simon Property Group
25t. DTZ Holdings
25t. Tishman Speyer
25t. AMB Property
25t. First Industrial Realty Trust
25t. Prudential Financial