CBRE Group
Real Estate
28
out of 100. Number 418 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where CBRE Group does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver: disputes go to state and federal courts in California (Los Angeles County), which is friendlier to the user than the mandatory-arbitration clauses most peers use.
- CBRE explicitly states it does not sell personal information and does not share sensitive personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- It offers a Data Subject Rights Portal plus CCPA rights (know, delete, correct, opt out, non-discrimination).
- The privacy policy is a current, detailed CCPA document rather than a token notice.
Anything you send them — a property listing, testimonial, comment, review, suggestion — becomes theirs to use forever, worldwide, in any medium, without paying you, and you give up any claim that it was confidential.
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.
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Anything you send them — a property listing, testimonial, comment, review, suggestion — becomes theirs to use forever, worldwide, in any medium, without paying you, and you give up any claim that it was confidential. They can republish it with or without crediting you.
By submitting or sending a submission to us, you ... grant us a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully transferable, assignable and sub licensable right and license to use, reproduce, publish, distribute, display, translate, summarize, modify and adapt such submission (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, in our sole discretion, with or without your name.
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They can change the terms whenever they want, and simply posting the new version on their site counts as your agreement — just by continuing to use the site, even if you never saw the changes. Your only option is to stop using the site entirely.
We may from time to time modify these Terms of Use and will post a copy of the amended agreement at [the terms page]. If you do not agree to, or cannot comply with, the agreement as amended, you should not use the site. You will be deemed to have accepted the agreement as amended if you continue to use the site after any amendments are posted on the site.
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They can hand your account information to authorities, officials, or 'any third-party' — no notice to you — based merely on an asserted (not proven) illegal action, even one unrelated to how you used the site.
CBRE may cooperate with and disclose information (including your account information) to any authority, government official or third-party, without giving any notice to you, in connection with any investigation, proceeding or claim arising from an asserted illegal action or infringement whether related or unrelated to your use or misuse of this site.
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Your personal data — identifiers, browsing history, geolocation, inferences about your preferences — can be shared with outside marketing and advertising agencies and third-party vendors as a routine 'business purpose,' even though CBRE says it does not technically 'sell' the data.
For each of the categories listed above, we may have disclosed Personal Information to the following categories of third parties for a business purpose: Third parties, including third party vendors; Service providers, who help us manage or provide our products and services, including but not limited to marketing, advertising and communications agencies, external auditors and advisors, and our vendors who provide data processing, IT, software, information security or other related services.
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Ads shown on their own site are presented by CBRE's business partners, and if you engage with those ads or advertisers, CBRE disclaims all responsibility for anything that goes wrong — the tracking-and-ad ecosystem on the site is at your risk.
CBRE or its business partners may present advertisements or promotional materials on or through the site. Your dealings with, or participation in promotions of, any third-party advertisers on or through the site are solely between you and such third party ... You agree that CBRE is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third party materials on the site.
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No fixed retention period is given — 'reasonably necessary' is undefined and left entirely to their judgment, so your data can be held indefinitely as long as they can justify a purpose or legal basis.
CBRE retains your personal information for no longer than reasonably necessary. We retain your personal information for the required period of time to achieve the purpose for which the information was collected. We also retain your personal information for as long as required to achieve legal obligations to which CBRE is bound.
How these were found
Both documents were read in full via direct text fetch from the official cbre.com domain on Oct 1, 2026 — no mirrors needed. The Terms of Use page is labeled 'Effective as of January 10, 2006' and appears not to have been substantively updated in over 20 years (page footer shows copyright 2026), so its age itself is a data point; the California Privacy Policy is dated Effective Jan 1, 2020 / Last Updated Jan 1, 2023. CBRE is a B2B commercial real-estate services company with a thin consumer-facing surface (no consumer subscriptions, no consumer purchases), so there was little in the auto-renew or unilateral price-change territory to score — the modest total reflects what actually exists rather than softness.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.