Government, defense, and a flight-to-quality office dynamic define the capital region, with data centers in Northern Virginia among the strongest asset classes in the country.
The Washington commercial real estate market is navigating a complex landscape characterized by shifting demand dynamics and evolving tenant preferences. While office space continues to face challenges from remote work trends, sectors such as multifamily and industrial show resilience, attracting interest from various capital sources. Lenders are adopting a cautious stance, reflecting broader economic uncertainties, which may influence allocator strategies as they reassess risk and opportunity across the region's diverse property types.
Items added to the wire per week · last 12 weeks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Real Estate Advisors has opened Aviator House, an office-to-residential adaptive reuse development located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The former Air Line Pilots A…
Active listings climb 30.7% year over year, driven by continued growth in condo and townhome inventory, while the median sold price rises 4.2%. FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Virginia's housing m…
Key takeaways from Destination AI 2026 in Washington D.C., where 500 hospitality leaders signaled a shift from AI experimentation to live operational deployment across hotel distribution.
Washington is seeing a boom in adaptive reuse downtown, but for a conversion to be successful, “You need the good fundamentals. You need a good location,” National Real Estate Development’s Peter Epstein told Multifam…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HUD will offer eleven (11) due and payable Secretary-held Section 232 healthcare mortgage loans with a combined unpaid principal balance of approximately $56 million. Each loa…
National Real Estate Advisors celebrated the grand opening of Aviator House, a former office building transformed into 157 residences, including 15 affordable units, in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. T…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Real Estate Advisors has opened Aviator House, an office-to-residential adaptive reuse development located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The former Air Line Pilots A…
Active listings climb 30.7% year over year, driven by continued growth in condo and townhome inventory, while the median sold price rises 4.2%. FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Virginia's housing m…
Key takeaways from Destination AI 2026 in Washington D.C., where 500 hospitality leaders signaled a shift from AI experimentation to live operational deployment across hotel distribution.
Washington is seeing a boom in adaptive reuse downtown, but for a conversion to be successful, “You need the good fundamentals. You need a good location,” National Real Estate Development’s Peter Epstein told Multifam…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HUD will offer eleven (11) due and payable Secretary-held Section 232 healthcare mortgage loans with a combined unpaid principal balance of approximately $56 million. Each loa…
National Real Estate Advisors celebrated the grand opening of Aviator House, a former office building transformed into 157 residences, including 15 affordable units, in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. T…
Newmark assisted KBS with the sale of Offices at Riverpark, a 107,029-square-foot office and medical office building located at 15809 Bear Creek Parkway in downtown Redmond, Washington. Newmark Co-Head of U.S. Capital…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The ALTA Good Deeds Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded by the American Land Title Association (ALTA), the national trade association of the tit…
All-suite hotel near Washington Dulles International Airport to undergo property renovations while serving business and leisure travelers visiting Northern Virginia. BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Embass…
Narrows Townhomes, a 15-unit townhome community located at 8524 19th Street W. in Tacoma, Washington, has sold for $7.3 million in a fully-marketed transaction arranged by Kidder Mathews . At $487,000 per unit, the sa…
Digital bank OakNorth and commercial real estate lender Hickory CRE Lending have provided a $37.8 million co-loan to ONE Street Commercial Properties to support the redevelopment of 3333 K Street NW in Washington, D.C…
One Street Commercial Properties has secured $37.8 million in financing to convert a vacant office building in Washington, D.C., into luxury condos. OakNorth and Hickory CRE Lending provided the loan for the redevelop…
JLL ’s Hotels & Hospitality Group has arranged refinancing for the AC Hotel Vancouver Waterfront, a 150-key, seven-story upscale hotel located at 333 W. Columbia Way in Vancouver, Washington. JLL worked on behalf of t…
Sidwell Friends School, a private co-educational school with campuses in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, has retained Cushman & Wakefield to sell its lower school campus at 5100 Edgemoor Lane, located near the Bethesda…
Six industry leaders at the Travel Tech Startup Summit in Washington DC identify AI obsolescence, broken acquisition funnels, and investor pressure as the top threats for travel startups heading into 2027.
BELLINGHAM, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap has directed the sale of Pak-A-Nut Storage, a self-storage facility in Bellingham. A local private owner that built and self-managed the property for 20 years sold the asset to a…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announces that George "Chip" Nierlich is joining the firm as a partner in the Antitrust Group, based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Nierlich join…
Tamarack, a 23-unit apartment community at 211 N. Delaware Avenue in Wenatchee, Washington, has sold for $3.25 million. Kidder Mathews Vice President Max Frame of the Simon | Anderson Multifamily Team represented the…
Northern Virginia’s office market continued to tighten in the third quarter as more demand from artificial intelligence, technology and defense tenants bolstered weaker leasing activity. The market posted 672,378 squa…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jemal Real Estate Strategies and DivcoWest have formed a joint venture to complete an office-to-residential conversion project in Washington, D.C.’s West End district. Madison Realty Capital provide…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its complex litigation, life sciences, and antitrust capabilities with the addition of Jonathan D. Janow as a shareholder in…
Jemal Real Estate , DivcoWest and JLS Capital have formed a joint venture to extend the wave of office-to-residential conversions in Washington, D.C. The JV plans to convert a 342,000-square-foot office building at 12…
Gantry has secured a $16 million permanent loan to refinance maturing debt for Russell Hall, a mixed-use property located at 1414 NE 42nd St, directly adjacent to the University of Washington and “The Ave” retail and…
An office building near Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC has changed hands in a deed in lieu of foreclosure after a distressed loan on the building sold, the Washington Business Journal reported. An affiliate of a…
Jemal Real Estate Strategies and DivcoWest have announced a joint venture to convert 1255 23rd Street NW, a 342,000-square-foot office building in Washington, D.C.’s West End, into approximately 323 apartments.…
Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) , a division of Marcus & Millichap , announced the sale of The Groves Apartments, a 366-unit multifamily property in Kent, Washington. The $72 million sales price equates to $196,…
MCLEAN, VA. — JLL has arranged the sale of a 10-story, Class A office building located at 8270 Greensboro Drive in McLean, part of Northern Virginia’s Tysons submarket. Andrew Weir, Kevin Byrd, Jim Meisel, Dave Baker…
KENT, WASH. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the $72 million sale of The Groves Apartments, a multifamily property in Kent, a southern suburb of Seattle. RISE P…
A Washington, D.C., developer has secured fresh capital to continue engineering the turnaround of a once-struggling office building just across the Potomac River. Jemal Equities , which is run by Douglas Development M…
Kidder Mathews has arranged the sale of the Smith-Western Building, a 58,255-square-foot, single-tenant industrial distribution facility located at 2223 S. 80th Street in Tacoma, Washington. Executive Vice Presidents…
TACOMA, WASH. — Regional brokerage firm Kidder Mathews has negotiated the sale of a single-tenant industrial building located at 2223 S. 80th St. in Tacoma, approximately 35 miles south of Seattle. Matt McLennan and A…
The initiative will explore national expansion of quality, resilient home construction through factory-built, industrialized means and methods WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Buildin…
Strategic partnership modernizes how senior living operators capture real-time resident and family feedback. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in healthcare decisi…
Newmark has arranged the full lease-up of Des Moines Creek Business Park West, a newly developed 405,680-square-foot industrial facility at 1800 S. 216th Street in Des Moines, Washington. The property was developed by…
Digital lender says its rates run about 50 bps below the national average
Concord Hospitality adds 12+ hotels and restaurants to its management portfolio, including properties in Washington D.C., New Jersey, and North Carolina under Hilton, Marriott, and independent flags.
Northmarq’s Seattle Debt + Equity team, led by Robert Spiro and Ben Biggers, arranged $25.5 million in acquisition financing for Chambers Reserve, a 125-unit luxury rental townhome community at 3725 Wildspitz La…
A tour of Washington’s Tri-Cities region gave state legislators a firsthand look at the costs, barriers and policy obstacles that impede local housing supply