The most recent Charlotte Business Journal lists the area’s largest commercial real estate firms, ranked by number of full-time local employees. All companies on the list have local brokerage operations.
JLL tops The List with 1,068 employees in the Charlotte area. The company currently has 27 licensed commercial real estate brokers here.
JLL recently brokered an office lease in NoDa for engineering and architecture firm Pond & Co. and a distribution facility sale in Conover to Diamond Properties. That property is fully leased by BSN Medical.
CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield round out the top three on The List. CBRE has 743 employees and 40 licensed brokers locally. Cushman & Wakefield ranks No. 3 with 276 local employees and 46 brokers, the most of any firm in the Charlotte area.
CBRE this summer represented homebuilder PulteGroup in an office relocation to Toringdon Office Park. The company also recently brokered the sale of a Rock Hill plant formerly occupied by packaging company Greif Inc. for nearly $4.7 million.
Cushman & Wakefield recently reported that Charlotte’s overall office vacancy hit an all-time high of 24.7% in the second quarter of 2024.
Charlotte Business Journal