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Virginia's first **$12.5M** condo close signals branded-residence pricing power has migrated to Dulles Corridor family-office buyers.
$12.5 million
penthouse at JW Marriott Residences Reston Station
$10 million
concentrated in Arlington and Alexandria urban cores
8,000 square feet
with closings scheduled for Q4 2026 after interior completion
25 million square feet
of Dulles Corridor office inventory seeking repositioning
Comstock and sales team McWilliams|Ballard closed a $12.5 million penthouse at JW Marriott Residences Reston Station, establishing a new price ceiling for condominium transactions in Virginia. The residence occupies the full 28th floor of the tower anchoring Reston Station's mixed-use development in Northern Virginia's Dulles Corridor. Sales Director Matt Cummings led the transaction.
The deal resets branded-residence expectations in the Washington metro corridor. Previous Virginia condo records clustered below $10 million, concentrated in Arlington and Alexandria urban cores. This marks the first eight-figure transaction tied to a hospitality brand outside the District proper. The buyer secured a custom build-out across approximately 8,000 square feet, with closings scheduled for Q4 2026 after interior completion. Marriott International's residential division provided brand oversight but holds no equity stake in the tower.
Three dynamics converge. First, Northern Virginia's office-to-residential conversion wave has stalled while ground-up luxury projects maintain velocity—Reston Station benefits from 25 million square feet of Dulles Corridor office inventory seeking repositioning, creating supply-side scarcity for new residential product. Second, family offices with Dulles technology exposure now anchor demand rather than diplomatic or government buyers—the shift began in 2023 as defense-tech and cloud-infrastructure principals sought primary residences within 15 minutes of campus headquarters. Third, Marriott's residential pipeline has tightened post-pandemic; the brand now operates 30 percent fewer residential projects globally than in 2019, concentrating allocations in gateway secondaries where development partners demonstrate pre-sale velocity above 60 percent before groundbreaking.
Operators should track three follow-ons. Comstock will release remaining penthouse inventory pricing within 90 days, likely testing $1,600-plus per square foot after this comp establishment. Competing Dulles Corridor residential projects—including Toll Brothers' Reston Town Center towers and Brookfield's Tysons developments—face repricing pressure into Q1 2027. Marriott's residential division will use this transaction as underwriting precedent for its 12-project North American pipeline currently in site-selection phase, particularly for secondary-gateway locations where brand premium previously struggled to justify construction costs above $650 per square foot.
The JW Marriott Residences Reston Station tower holds 250 units across 28 floors, with 87 percent of inventory contracted as of this transaction. Comstock initiated sales in Q2 2024 with base pricing at $950 per square foot for mid-floor units. The development sits 1.2 miles from Reston Town Center Metro station and 6 miles from Dulles International Airport, positioning for the corridor's $8.4 billion Silver Line extension completion effects.
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