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The winners, announced today at the 2026 Green Lease Leaders Winners and Trends webinar, exemplify a growing shift toward sustainability and equity in commercial and industrial real estate strategy.
Media release
Washington, DC – Today, the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) announced the 2026 Green Lease Leaders during the 2026 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 12th year of the program. 2026 Green Lease Leaders are now part of a cohort of over 150 organizations that utilize green leases to achieve sustainability action. This year’s 55 awardees cover over 2.4 billion square feet, including 18 organizations receiving Green Lease Leaders recognition for the first time.
“This year’s class of Green Lease Leaders represents continued commitment to utilizing leases to reduce risk.”
—Diana Lee, Director of Business Engagement
Additionally, Platinum winners, organizations who achieved Green Lease Leader’s highest tier of recognition, comprise nearly 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 nearly 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 2026 Green Lease Leaders
Platinum Recognition – Landlord
- Dream Industrial REIT
- Empire State Realty Trust
- Galvanize Real Estate
- SL Green Realty Corp.
Platinum Recognition – Tenant
- Freshfields
- IBM
- Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P.
Platinum Recognition – Team
- British Land
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- Royal London Asset Management
Gold Recognition – Landlord
- Agree Realty
- BGO
- Brixmor Property Group
- Brookfield Properties Logistics
- Clarion Partners
- Cousins Properties
- DRA Advisors LLC
- FIBRA MTY F/2157
- First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.
- GTIS Partners
- Highwoods Properties
- IDI Logistics
- Inventrust Properties Corp.
- Kilroy Realty
- LXP Industrial Trust
- Marq Logistics (U.S.)
- MetLife Investment Management
- Principal Real Estate
- Pure Industrial
- Realty Income Corporation
- Related Companies
- RMR Residential Management
- Shorenstein Investment Advisers LLC
- STAG Industrial
- Tishman Speyer
- Whitestone REIT
Gold Recognition – Tenant
- WSP Canada Inc.
Gold Recognition – Team
- Bank of Montreal (BMO)
- CHOICE Properties REIT
- Saarkoppel Consulting Inc. (SCI)
Silver Recognition – Landlord
- BlackRock
- Constellation Real Estate Partners
- Crow Holdings Development
- DWS
- Eagle Property Capital
- EPR Properties
- Faropoint
- Hillwood Investment Properties
- Lendlease
- Manova Partners
- Tanger
- VICI Properties Inc.
Silver Recognition – Tenant
- Ellucian
- ClaxoSmithKline
- State Street Bank and Trust Company
Learn more about Green Lease Leaders
- Visit GreenLeaseLeaders.com
- Assess your leasing process
- Download the free Green Lease Leaders Reference Guides
- Visit the Green Lease Leaders Resources page for a comprehensive collection of green lease resources.
- Read the Green Lease Leaders’ series of case studies.