The winners, announced today at the 2025 Green Lease Leaders Winners and Trends webinar, exemplify a growing shift toward sustainability and equity in commercial and industrial real estate strategy.
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Washington, D.C. (May 29, 2025) – Today, the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) announced the 2025 Green Lease Leader during the 2025 Green Lease Leaders Winners and Trends webinar. Launched in 2014, Green Lease Leaders sets standards for what constitutes a green lease, while recognizing landlords, tenants, and teams who modernize their leases to spur collaborative action on energy and water efficiency, cost-savings, air quality improvement, and sustainability in buildings.
This is the 11th year of the program. 2025 Green Lease Leaders are now part of a cohort of over 200 organizations that utilize green leases to achieve sustainability action. This year’s 49 awardees cover over 1.5 billion square feet, including 24 organizations receiving Green Lease Leaders recognition for the first time.
“This year’s class of Green Lease Leaders represents growing international interest in energy-efficient leases, expanding use of green leases to new property types, and using the lease to reduce risk,” says Diana Lee, Associate Director of Business Engagement, who leads the Green Lease Leaders program.
Additionally, Platinum winners, organizations who achieved Green Lease Leader’s highest tier of recognition, comprise over a fifth of all winners, demonstrating continued enhancement of green leases. The overall program growth reflects a wide acceptance that green leases are a critical tool for improving buildings and reducing risk to investments. Green Lease Leaders comprise a diverse range of buildings from large and small commercial offices to healthcare and industrial and multifamily buildings. The cumulative floor area of all Green Lease Leaders is now more than 9 billion sq. ft. of building space.
IMT estimates that green leases can help reduce utility bills by an average of 17% in U.S. office buildings alone. If all leased office buildings executed green leases, the market could reap over $3 billion in annual cost savings. Learn more about green leasing by visiting greenleaseleaders.com or reading Green Lease Leaders’ case studies.
The 2025 Green Lease Leaders are:
Platinum Recognition – Landlord
- Brandywine Realty Trust
- BXP, Inc.
- Crombie REIT
- Harvard University Housing & Real Estate
- Healthpeak Properties, Inc.
- Regency Centers
Platinum Recognition – Tenant
- Colliers China
- Mastercard
Platinum Recognition – Team
- Crowe Soberman LLP
- Lennard Commercial Realty
- RioCan REIT
Gold Recognition – Landlord
- Acadia Realty Trust
- Agree Realty
- Canadian Urban Limited
- DRA Advisors LLC
- GID Investment Advisers
- Hudson Pacific Properties
- Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation
- Kite Realty Group
- LBA Properties | LBA Logistics
- Mapletree Investments: U.S. Commercial
- Office Properties Income Trust
- Phillips Edison & Company
- Primaris REIT
- Realty Income Corporation
- Rockhill Management, LLC
- Sabey Data Centers
- Stockbridge Capital Group
- TA Realty
- Macerich
- Tishman Speyer
- Triovest Realty Advisors
- Varia US Properties AG
Gold Recognition – Tenant
- Arrow Electronics Inc.
- Haleon plc
- Ulta Beauty
Gold Recognition – Team
- INVADER LANDS LIMITED
- Marina Pez Vela
Silver Recognition – Landlord
- Broadstone Net Lease, Inc.
- Mapletree Industrial Trust N.A.. Data Center
- Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc.
- Primestor Development
- Related Companies
- Sage Realty Corporation
Silver Recognition – Tenant
- Arcadis
- Securitas
- T-Mobile
Learn more about Green Lease Leaders
- Visit GreenLeaseLeaders.com
- Assess your leasing process
- Download the free Green Lease Leaders Reference Guides
- Visit GreenLeaseLibrary.com for a comprehensive collection of green lease resources.
- Read the Green Lease Leaders’ series of case studies.
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