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| Guys, your margins in the Americas region held up quite nicely in the back half of the year, which really speaks to the solid work you did rightsizing your cost structure |
| Adjusted earnings per share is expected to exceed EBITDA growth as interest expense starts to moderate from both debt paydown and lower floating rates as well as a reduction in the non-controlling interest share of earnings as our wholly-owned transactional operations rebound |
| So, there is lots of those kinds of factors that are swirling around, which are – we consider to be very positive to our longer-term strategy, which we've outlined in our five-year plan among others |
| The one thing over the last couple of years, that industrial leasing has become stronger for us |
| With our nearly 30-year track record of creating substantial shareholder value, Colliers is poised for continued success |
| Anticipating a rise in transaction revenue later this year and supported by a very strong pipeline for new growth prospects, we are more excited than ever about the future |
| And then also, there's been such a great demand for retailers, the e-commerce and the onshoring that has been quite a successful service line for us |
| I'm proud of the results that Colliers Real Estate Services delivered in the fourth quarter and the full year |
| Despite industry-wide headwinds, we have become more resilient than ever, demonstrating the strengths of our highly diversified professional services platform by both service line and by geography |
| And so we have an environment where valuations have gone up, but the reverse is that the types of deals that we are looking for are partnership deals, and they bring with them strong leadership teams that have stronger internal growth characteristics |
| We've enjoyed some great cross-selling opportunities between our project management clients and our developer clients in areas such as that |
| Additionally, the growth of our property management business has been driven by strong portfolio retention and expansion within our existing client base as well as the addition of new clients due to receiverships in key markets |
| We continue to see strong interest in our alternative investing strategies, which we expect will accelerate fundraising for 2024 to between $5 billion and $8 billion |
| However, with expectations of interest rates stabilizing, we have greater confidence that transaction velocity will improve in the second half of this year |
| And so it gives us a great opportunity to stay longer with the existing client |
| Having been with Colliers for 35 years, I'm especially proud of our enterprising professionals and our culture, the bedrock of our success |
| business, where we've had significant recruiting success over the past 18 months |
| It looks like looks obviously positive outlook going forward |
| Our recurring Outsourcing and Advisory and Investment Management service lines each reported robust revenue growth, predominantly internally generated |
| I do expect, going forward, we will have a stronger EBITDA performance throughout the year, given the expected rebound in activity levels as well as cost actions that have been taken in that region to adjust to those lower activity levels |
| Margins will improve somewhat, but we do have some variable costs coming back into the business and also some incentive compensation that will come back to the business, so expecting a modest margin improvement in 2024 across the Americas |
| In the fourth quarter, Colliers experienced robust revenue growth in its high-value recurring service lines |
| But if no acquisition comes through, we'll continue to grow our credit, our existing credit business, which is operated by an exceptional group of professionals and has some very interesting opportunities to accelerate its growth on its own |
| We're seeing strength in our Dutch business and our Polish business from a project management standpoint |
| It's nice to see and good luck on the year |
| And we continue to think that there is exceptional opportunities for us to continue to add value to our business, and probably reposition our company in some way to one that is much more highly diversified, high value, more recurring revenue, global in nature |
| So we're quite excited about how quickly this can turn once there's certainty around debt |
| We're seeing some strength in a very strong business in Canada |
| So we're very excited about many things that we've got on our plate right now, and we're hoping to be able to convert those over the next 12 or 18 months |
| Our Outsourcing & Advisory business saw a 10% revenue growth in the fourth quarter and for the full year has grown 11%, led by engineering, project management and property management |
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| So I think the first thing is we've had 18 months of a really challenging period for capital markets |
| I'd also say in the living sector, student housing, build to rent senior housing because of the demographics and shortage of housing |
| As mentioned, transaction volumes remained subdued during the quarter because of interest rate volatility, tighter lending standards and pricing mismatch between real estate buyers and sellers |
| Leasing revenue declined modestly across all asset classes |
| And if you look at the RCA volumes as an example, they're down 41% in the U.S., and our sales is only down 25% |
| Throughout the year, we observed industry-wide declines in one segment of our business, our transaction segment, our capital markets business |
| Capital Markets revenue declined 16% in its seasonally strongest quarter, on top of a 43% decline reported in Q4 of last year, with transaction sentiment continuing to be impacted by interest rate volatility and availability of credit |
| Consolidated adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter was $198 million, down 2% relative to the prior year with margins at 16.1% versus 16.6% in the prior year quarter |
| Investment management fundraising for 2023 totaled $3 billion, given the difficult market backdrop |
| Chris McLernon The other thing I can add is that Germany and the Nordics were specifically a challenging year last year in terms of capital markets |
| On an overall basis, our internal revenues declined 2% |
| Some of those markets in the cities in Germany were down 80% |
| The margin reduction was attributable primarily to service mix with a decline in higher margin capital markets revenues not fully offset by our ongoing cost control efforts |
| But our leasing was down 5% or 6% in the fourth quarter of 2023 |
| The FP AUM declined slightly in Q4 |
| And we also had some modest reduction activity in the fourth quarter as well |
| You said there were some redemptions in the quarter, but was the AUM decline driven by outflows or valuation marks? Christian Mayer There were some modest valuation marks taken as well, Dave, as well as some redemption activity, but very modest |
| The other factor around the lending market generally is that those that are under pressure are going to start to take action, whereas in the past, they were delaying their action |
| You've got smaller banks that are under pressure from regulators |
| There is a low vacancy |
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