{"id":186778,"date":"2026-02-12T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:50:09","slug":"share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/12\/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption\">Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/12\/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/12\/share-values-of-property-services-firms-tumble-over-fears-of-ai-disruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 12:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shares in commercial property services companies experienced significant declines, with major players such as Savills, International Workplace Group, British Land, and Landsec seeing drops in their stock prices.<\/li>\n<li>The downturn in commercial property stocks has been driven by heightened fears regarding disruption from advances in artificial intelligence (AI), mirroring sell-offs affecting other sectors impacted by AI concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Shares of prominent U.S. firms like CBRE, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Cushman &amp; Wakefield also plummeted, following steep declines from the previous day.<\/li>\n<li>Despite AI firms releasing new tools, analysts suggest the sell-off might be overdone due to limited news on Thursday and that the immediate impact on complex deal-making might be overstated.<\/li>\n<li>There are investor concerns that AI could automate many office-based jobs and reduce demand for commercial offices, posing long-term risks to property companies.<\/li>\n<li>Dallas-based CBRE reported strong financial results for the fourth quarter and projected a year ahead, citing resilience in leasing and facilities management, and predicting a positive long-term impact from AI.<\/li>\n<li>CBRE\u2019s CEO remains optimistic that the company\u2019s core competencies\u2014such as creativity, strategic thinking, and deep market knowledge\u2014are not easily replaceable by AI in the near future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption | AI (artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa34b7fa4b1128132c4cb04504f8108b473af0c8\/131_0_5417_4334\/master\/5417.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=bc408b687346c2c2cd3c8f957bc7dc14","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-186778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186780,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186778\/revisions\/186780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}