10 Best Performing Real Estate Stocks to Buy According to Analysts

4. Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE:JLL)

Average Upside Potential: 23.45%

Gain Over Past 1 Year: 41.09%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 48

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE:JLL) is a global commercial real estate and investment management company. The firm helps buy, manage, build, occupy, and invest in various types of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. JLL serves clients through five business segments including Markets Advisory, Capital Markets, Work Dynamics, LaSalle, and JLL Technologies.

JLL has invested more than 200 years in building a premier global brand and platform. JLL’s key differentiators setting it apart from the competition include its integrated global platform combined with local industry and sector expertise. JLL continues investing in its business to differentiate in the market and achieve superior outcomes for clients. During its recent quarter, the firm announced the launch of JLL Falcon, its artificial intelligence platform which combines its comprehensive proprietary data with generative AI models to accelerate the digital transformation of the commercial real estate industry.

Other than having a global scale and diversification across asset classes, the Fortune 500 company has strong business segments. For the fourth quarter of 2024, revenue growth rates for Markets Advisory, Capital Markets, Work Dynamics, and LaSalle stood at 11%, 32%, 15%, and 42% respectively. Only the revenue for JLL Technologies declined 9% year-over-year, based on lower contract signings in technology solutions over the past year which was partially offset by a modest growth in software services.