Best Real Estate Deals of 2025: Announcing this year's honorees
- Feb 11
- 3 min read
By Ryan Sharrow – Editor in Chief, Philadelphia Business Journal
Feb 10, 2026 I Updated Feb 11, 2026 10:49pm EST
Each year the Philadelphia Business Journal honors the Best Real Estate Deals in Greater Philadelphia, including the people behind them.
The projects and transactions that will be honored as part of our 2025 Best Real Estate Deals program span a wide range of categories that include top office sales in both the city and suburbs, industrial leases, apartment developments, and sales of higher education and health care properties.
More than 40 projects will being honored as the Best Real Estate Deals of 2025.
To determine this year’s list, we sought nominations from the public and considered notable projects that were not nominated. In total, we received dozens of submissions for projects and deals throughout the region.
Honorees were selected by an outside panel of judges with oversight from our editorial board. This year’s judges are:
Brad Boone, brokerage professional, KBC Advisors
David Dobkin, managing director, head of acquisitions, Parkway Corp.
Samantha Kupersmith, senior director, JLL Capital Markets
Sarah Maginnis, executive director, NAIOP Greater Philadelphia
The projects below have been judged among the year's best, but where they rank and in what category won’t be revealed until a March 26 event at Tendenza by Cescaphe. At the event, we’ll also announce which of the projects has been selected as the Deal of the Year.
All honorees will be profiled in a special print edition of the Business Journal on March 27.
Below are the Best Real Estate Deals of 2025, listed alphabetically.
11601 Roosevelt Blvd. sale - Philadelphia
1170, 1180, 1190 Devon Park Drive sale - King of Prussia
17 Market West development - Philadelphia
1801 Market St. sale - Philadelphia
2000 Market St. sale - Philadelphia
2116 Chestnut St. sale - Philadelphia
3.0 University Place lease - Philadelphia
3100 Horizon Drive, 3600 Horizon Drive, 3602 Horizon Drive sale - King of Prussia
Abercrombie & Fitch on Walnut Street lease - Philadelphia
AMY5 at James Martin School development - Philadelphia
Brookfield sales of One Franklin Town, 1835 Arch St., The Drake - Philadelphia
Care & Share lease - Harleysville
ChristianaCare lease of former Crozer Health outpatient buildings - Delaware County
Deptford Town Center redevelopment - Deptford, New Jersey
Dick's House of Sport lease at Cherry Hill Mall - Cherry Hill, New Jersey
DrinkPAK lease at Bellwether District - Philadelphia
Drexel College of Medicine lease at 3201 Cuthbert - Philadelphia
Eight Tower Bridge sale - Conshohocken
Eleven33 development - Media
Exton Square Mall sale - Exton
Future Standard lease at 3025 JFK Blvd. - Philadelphia
Gather Food Hall lease at Schuylkill Yards - Philadelphia
Hahnemann University Hospital property sales - Philadelphia
Harper Square financing - Philadelphia
Lansdowne Theater development - Lansdowne
Lilly Gateway Labs lease at 2300 Market St. - Philadelphia
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals headquarters lease at 1001 Conshohocken State Road - Conshohocken
Merck Wilmington Biotech lease - Wilmington, Delaware
Millennium Complex leases - Conshohocken
Netflix and Eataly at King of Prussia Mall - King of Prussia
Piazza Alta Phase 2 financing - Philadelphia
Power Home Remodeling lease - Chester
Quarry Center sale - Havertown
Rittenhouse Row sale - Philadelphia
Somerset Station sale - Philadelphia
St. Joseph’s University campus sale in University City - Philadelphia
Stateside headquarters lease at 1100 Ludlow St. - Philadelphia
The Chocolate Factory redevelopment - Philadelphia
The Josephine development - Philadelphia
The Plaza Grande at Garden State Park development - Cherry Hill, New Jersey
The Press development - Wilmington, Delaware
The Tower at Henry Avenue development - Philadelphia
University of the Arts campus sale - Philadelphia
Winslow Cross Creek Phase 5 sale - Philadelphia
In addition to these projects, the judges also selected Dealmakers and Rising Stars, individuals in the industry who stood out for their achievements in 2025. Those honorees will be revealed on Wednesday.
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