Cushman & Wakefield Ltd Stock Price, News & Analysis

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) published its U.S. Outlook 2026 on December 4, 2025, saying the U.S. CRE market is shifting “from resilience to optimism.”

Key quantified takeaways: real GDP projected at 1.9% in 2025 and 1.7% in 2026; lending volume rose 35% YoY; institutional sales increased 17% YTD through October. The report cites easing debt costs, returning institutional capital, tighter availability of high‑quality office space (pipeline ~20M sq ft for 2026–2028), and a revised industrial demand outlook +70M sq ft for 2026–27. Multifamily starts are down about two‑thirds from peak, with rent growth forecast to strengthen to 5% by 2027.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) announced a global contract extension with BHP on December 3, 2025. The renewed off-market agreement covers 19 offices in 12 countries and more than 1,466,000 square feet across Australia, Asia, North America, South America and the United Kingdom. Cushion & Wakefield's Global Occupier Services will deliver an expanded suite of services including facilities management, workplace experience, workplace design standards, PMO/occupancy data & analytics, procurement and lease administration. The partnership began in 2017 regionally and became a global engagement in 2021; BHP cited operational performance, collaboration, cost containment and support for its Workplace Digital and AI Roadmap as renewal drivers.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE:CWK) completed a redomiciliation from England and Wales to Bermuda.

The High Court of Justice of England and Wales sanctioned the scheme of arrangement on November 25, 2025, and the redomiciliation was completed on November 27, 2025. At completion, all issued and outstanding shares of Cushman & Wakefield plc were cancelled and replaced with newly issued common shares of Cushman & Wakefield Ltd on a one-for-one basis. The New Cushman & Wakefield Shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on November 28, 2025 under the existing ticker CWK. The change affects the parent company’s jurisdiction of incorporation and governing documents and is not expected to have any material impact on day-to-day operations of the parent or its subsidiaries.

More information is available on the company investor website.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) announced two senior retail hires on November 24, 2025: Jessica Gangoso as Vice President, Emerging Brands, and Kristen Pash as Senior Director, Shopping Center Leasing and Development for North America. The appointments expand the firm’s retail leadership across the Americas, aim to blend data-driven insights with design and experience, and integrate tenant curation with broader services including consulting, capital markets, valuation, project & development, and asset services.

Both hires bring international and redevelopment experience to support mixed-use and lifestyle destinations.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) earned a Top Ten 2026 Military Friendly® Employer designation, ranking sixth among employers with revenue over $5 billion. The firm was named a Top Ten employer for the fourth consecutive year and a Military Friendly® Employer for eight consecutive years.

Cushman & Wakefield employs more than 1,450 veterans in U.S. operations and plans to hire an additional 600 veterans this year. The company partners with veteran organizations and shares its DoD SkillBridge and hiring programs with over 300 companies.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) launched a new Quantitative Insights Group on October 28, 2025 to advise institutional investor and occupier clients on capital allocation, investment decisions and risk management using advanced mathematics, statistics and AI+ tools.

Rebecca Rockey is appointed Head of Quantitative Insights and Principal Economist, reporting to Toby Dodd, Chief Revenue Officer, Americas, and will lead a team including David Hoebbel and Greg Nelson. The group will complement existing advisory services and support portfolio-level analysis and decisioning, building on the firm's research work such as Reimagining Cities.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE:CWK) advised Urban Industrial on a €470 million refinancing of its core industrial portfolio, described as one of the largest logistics & industrial refinancings in the Netherlands and Benelux.

The package blends a shorter-term floating rate loan with longer-term fixed debt, aims to optimise group capital, and supports completion of Urban Industrial’s flagship Groothandelsmarkt (GHM) facility in Rotterdam. Lenders were Nuveen and ABN. Cushman & Wakefield reported placing nearly €1.5 billion in the last quarter across its Debt Advisory practice.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) hired Walid Cheaib as Vice Chair, Canadian Capital Markets, based in Toronto on October 24, 2025. Cheaib will lead expansion of the firm's institutional capital markets practice across Canada and cross-border into the U.S., focusing on large-scale acquisitions, dispositions and capital strategies.

Cheaib brings over 25 years of industry experience and has been directly involved in more than $40 billion of commercial real estate and capital-raising transactions. He will advise institutional and private clients including pension funds, REITs, private equity and high-net-worth individuals.