Washington, DC Commercial Real Estate Report, August 2026
Every figure below is computed from the 64 headlines Real Estate Trail’s wire tagged to Washington from Aug 1 through the end of August 2026 (America/New York), each linked to its source. Nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Multifamily led Washington’s tagged coverage this month, followed by office, capital markets and retail, with industrial and hospitality thin. Sales were the dominant transaction type, with refinancings of grocery-anchored retail and suburban apartments the next largest group; leasing barely registered. Readers should note that the market tag currently sweeps in headlines from Washington state, so Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane apartment and self-storage trades appear alongside Northern Virginia office and data-center items, and the Commanders stadium award sits in the mix carrying no transaction cue at all, since it is not a property transaction. Connect CRE supplied the largest share of items, with REBusiness Online, PR Newswire and Commercial Observer behind it. About a third of items carried no sector tag.
Coverage by sector
| Sector | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Untagged | 20 | 31% |
| Office | 11 | 17% |
| Multifamily | 9 | 14% |
| Retail | 9 | 14% |
| Capital | 8 | 13% |
| Hospitality | 3 | 5% |
| Industrial | 3 | 5% |
| Mixed Use | 1 | 2% |
44 of 64 items carry a sector tag (69%). Tags are inferred from the headline by regex, first match wins.
Deal-type mix
| Type | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sale | 28 | 44% |
| Financing | 3 | 5% |
| Lease | 6 | 9% |
| Development | 0 | 0% |
| Other transaction | 2 | 3% |
| No transaction cue | 25 | 39% |
Classified from headline cues only. A headline with no transaction cue is counted, not dropped.
Disclosed-price sales
18 priced headlines · 14 distinct dealsLargest by square footage
Outlets
| Outlet | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Connect CRE | 20 | 31% |
| REBusiness Online | 13 | 20% |
| PR Newswire | 12 | 19% |
| Commercial Observer | 7 | 11% |
| HousingWire | 4 | 6% |
| Construction Dive | 2 | 3% |
| Hospitality Net | 2 | 3% |
| citybiz | 1 | 2% |
| CoStar | 1 | 2% |
| Shopping Center Business | 1 | 2% |
| The Business Journals | 1 | 2% |
Outlet names are canonicalized so syndicated and regional editions of one publisher count together.
Firms mentioned
A mention is a headline that names the firm, whatever its role in the deal. It is not a transaction count and does not imply a broker, lender or buyer relationship.
| Firm | Headlines |
|---|---|
| CBRE | 2 |
| Colliers | 2 |
| Cushman & Wakefield | 1 |
| JLL | 1 |
| Newmark | 1 |
Each table is produced by one named query in src/lib/figures.ts: the reporting threshold by marketMonthGate, coverage by sector by marketMonthSectorCounts, deal-type mix by marketMonthDealTypeMix, disclosed-price sales by marketMonthPricedSales, square footage by marketMonthLargestBySqft, outlets by marketMonthOutletShare and firm mentions by marketMonthFirmMentions. The month window comes from monthBoundsUtc, America/New York.
Excluded from the priced tables: headlines that state more than one distinct money figure, non-USD amounts, per-unit or per-square-foot prices, rows suppressed by the relevance gate, and duplicate reports of the same deal (same market, value within one percent, published within a week), which are folded into one row with the other outlets listed beneath it.
Excluded from every table on this page: 13 headlines the wire’s tagger assigned to this market whose headline names a different state, market or city (the tagger reads the story excerpt, so a firm’s home city can mis-tag a deal elsewhere). The rule is hasLocationConflict in the same file, applied before counting.
No figure on this page is produced by a language model. The editor’s note, where present, is written by a person and contains no numbers. Summed deal volume, per-firm deal credit, market share, cap rates and price-per-square-foot medians are deliberately not published: the corpus is a sample of what named outlets chose to report, not the market. Sources and methodology.