Commercial property appraisal firms: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank commercial property appraisal firms by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Commercial property appraisal firms providing valuation, advisory, due diligence, and asset appraisal services across office, industrial, retail, multifamily, and specialty real estate. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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When AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answer questions about commercial property appraisal firms, CBRE comes up most often, appearing in about 12.5% of relevant AI responses across the engines tracked. JLL and Cushman & Wakefield follow as the next most frequently named brands. These three firms dominate the conversation, leaving the remaining 17 brands splitting a much smaller share of AI-generated visibility.
The sources AI engines cite most when discussing this category include google.com, m.yelp.com, blockappraisals.com, eastcoastappraisal.com, and lowerypa.com. Several of these are aggregator or review platforms, which means AI engines are partly building their recommendations from third-party ratings and directory listings rather than from the firms' own content. A strong presence on those platforms carries real weight in how AI engines rank and mention brands.
For a buyer using this page, the practical takeaway is to look beyond brand size when comparing firms. AI engines weight recent third-party validation heavily, so a smaller firm with strong, up-to-date reviews on Yelp or Google may appear more credible in AI answers than a larger firm with an outdated profile. Check whether the firms you are evaluating have active, well-reviewed listings on the sources AI engines actually cite.
At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
CBRE, JLL, and Cushman & Wakefield jointly lead the category, each scoring 12.5% visibility and a composite score of 8.8, well above the category average of 1.9%. No other brand in the top 10 records any visibility at all. All three are also new entrants to the rankings, having risen from zero visibility in the prior period, which means this leadership gap emerged abruptly rather than building gradually. The distance between these three and every other tracked brand is absolute, not marginal.
A clear split exists between brands that are named and brands that are cited. CBRE, JLL, and Cushman and Wakefield hold all the visibility but carry 0.0% citation each. Meanwhile, Valbridge Property Advisors, Integra Realty Resources, BBG, Bowery Valuation, Colliers, and Newmark each record 12.5% citation but zero visibility. This means AI Mode mentions the top three firms without linking to them, while the citation-only group earns source links without being surfaced in narrative answers. SitusAMC registers neither metric.
The top cited sources in this category are dominated by non-brand domains: google.com, blockappraisals.com, eastcoastappraisal.com, lowerypa.com, m.yelp.com, reddit.com, and youtube.com all appear ahead of or alongside nmrk.com, the only tracked brand domain in that list. This pattern suggests Google AI Mode is anchoring on third-party directories, review platforms, and user-generated content rather than the owned domains of the major commercial appraisal firms when constructing cited responses in this category.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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CBRE 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #1+12pp
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JLL 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #2+12pp
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Cushman & Wakefield 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #3+12pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
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| 1 |
cbre.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
CBRE shares the top visibility score of 12.5% with two peers but holds zero citations, meaning AI Mode names it without ever linking to cbre.com. |
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| 2 |
jll.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
JLL matches CBRE exactly at 12.5% visibility and 0.0% citation, producing an identical composite score of 8.8 with no differentiation between the two brands. |
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| 3 |
cushmanwakefield.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Cushman and Wakefield mirrors the top two brands across every metric, all three rising from zero visibility in the prior period to 12.5% simultaneously. |
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| 4 |
valbridge.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Valbridge holds 12.5% citation but zero visibility, placing it in a tier of brands that earn source links from AI Mode but are never mentioned in its narrative answers. |
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| 5 |
irr.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Integra Realty Resources shares the rank 4 citation pattern of 12.5% with four other firms, each scoring a composite of 3.8 against the category average of 1.9%. |
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| 6 |
bbgres.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
boweryvaluation.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
colliers.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
nmrk.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
situsamc.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
kidder.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
altusgroup.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
stout.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
hilcoglobal.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
brileyadvisoryservices.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
apprise.us
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
arrowheadvaluation.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
partnerval.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
jjb.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
kroll.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on commercial property appraisal firms, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer. More on visibility →
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence, different from being named. More on citation rate →
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps. How AI engines pick sources →
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically. How AI search ranking works →
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Frequently asked about commercial property appraisal firms AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in commercial property appraisal firms?
CBRE, JLL, and Cushman and Wakefield jointly lead with 12.5% visibility each and composite scores of 8.8, far above the category average of 1.9%. All three entered the rankings from zero visibility in the prior period.
Which commercial appraisal brands are cited most by Google AI Mode?
Valbridge Property Advisors, Integra Realty Resources, BBG, Bowery Valuation, Colliers, and Newmark each record 12.5% citation, the highest in the category, though none of them register any visibility score.
What sources does Google AI Mode anchor on for commercial property appraisal queries?
The top cited sources include google.com, blockappraisals.com, eastcoastappraisal.com, m.yelp.com, reddit.com, and youtube.com. Only nmrk.com, the Newmark domain, appears among the cited sources as a tracked brand domain.
Is there a gap between which brands are named and which are cited in this category?
Yes, there is a hard split. The three highest-visibility brands each carry 0.0% citation, while six brands with 12.5% citation each carry zero visibility, meaning named brands and cited brands are almost entirely different sets.
How does SitusAMC perform relative to other top-10 brands in AI Mode?
SitusAMC is the only top-10 brand recording zero visibility and zero citation, giving it a composite score of 0.0 compared to the category average of 1.9%.
How concentrated is AI visibility in this category?
Visibility is highly concentrated: three brands account for all 12.5% visibility scores while 7 of the top 10 brands register zero visibility, and the category average sits at just 1.9%.