CBRE | Excellerate (UAE)

CBRE Excellerate is the Africa and Middle East joint venture between CBRE — the world's largest commercial real estate services firm — and Excellerate Property Services. The JV, announced in December 2018 and completed in 2019, merged CBRE's facilities management operations in Africa and the Middle East with several of Excellerate's businesses, including corporate real estate services, facilities management, valuation, project management and property management services outside South Africa. The combined organisation reports a workforce of more than 21,000 people, around 16.5 million square metres of floor space under management, over 22,000 managed leases and approximately USD 12.6 billion in assets under its care across the region.

In the UAE, CBRE Excellerate's published focus is on the operational side of real estate. Its UAE offering centres on integrated facilities management — solutions designed to optimise building performance, reduce operating costs and enhance occupant experience — and data centre solutions, covering end-to-end data centre services from site selection and design through construction, commissioning and ongoing operations. The UAE business is supported by a locally based facilities management leadership team, with regional direction from CBRE Excellerate's Middle East and North Africa management.

For building owners, owners associations, corporate occupiers and developers in Dubai, this positions CBRE Excellerate as an institutional-grade operational partner rather than a leasing brokerage: the company sits behind the scenes running the hard and soft services, engineering, vendor management and workplace operations that keep large assets performing. Its parentage matters here — CBRE brings global FM platforms, procurement scale and account-management standards, while Excellerate contributes decades of African and Middle Eastern property services experience.

It is worth understanding how the entity relates to the wider CBRE network in the Emirates. CBRE's advisory and transactions business in the UAE (valuation, leasing, capital markets, consulting) operates through CBRE Middle East, while CBRE Excellerate is the dedicated vehicle for outsourced facilities and property operations across the Africa and Middle East region. Enquiries about managing a building, portfolio or workplace in Dubai are handled through CBRE Excellerate's UAE team via the company's regional website.

Key Services (UAE)

• Integrated facilities management (hard & soft services)
• Building performance optimisation and cost reduction programmes
• Occupant / workplace experience management
• Data centre solutions — site selection, design, construction and commissioning support
• Ongoing data centre operations

Wider Regional Capabilities

• Property management (Africa & Middle East, outside South Africa)
• Corporate real estate services for occupier portfolios
• Project and development management
• Valuation services through the regional JV platform

Who It Suits

CBRE Excellerate is built for scale: corporate occupiers with multi-site portfolios, institutional landlords, developers handing over large assets, and operators of critical environments such as data centres. Smaller individual landlords with a single unit to let will usually be better served by a residential property management agency, while organisations that need SLA-driven, internationally benchmarked facilities and property operations — with the governance and reporting standards a global firm brings — are the natural client base. Engagements are scoped individually, so pricing is on request and depends on portfolio size, service lines and contract term. Initial enquiries for Dubai and the wider Emirates are routed through the UAE page of the company's regional website, where the locally based facilities management leadership team picks up the conversation.