CRE is about to get a new boss

CRE is about to get a new boss.


JLL’s 2025 Global Real Estate Technology Survey shows CTOs becoming the dominant reporting line for CRE heads by 2030 and overtaking the CEO.
That’s a structural shift, and a clear signal.

In my view, it tracks. With well over a decade in corporate real estate portfolio strategy and workplace transformation across 30+ countries, the pressure from the core business to deliver tech-enabled insights has been building for a while. Space decisions don’t live in isolation from tech infrastructure decisions and their workplace impact anymore.

I think they never really did, but now the org chart is catching up.

The practical implication: if you’re in CREM and you’re still framing your value around cost reduction and headcount ratios, you’re speaking the CFO’s language to someone who’s now thinking about data infrastructure, AI deployment, and digital capability.

And I think this is a structural advantage for CREM to stay ahead of the broader real estate industry.

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