A full-floor penthouse atop the JW Marriott Residences Reston Station in Reston, Va., has sold for $10.9 million, setting a new record for the most expensive condominium sale in Virginia history, Comstock Holding Companies and McWilliams|Ballard announced Aug. 5.
The sale breaks the same building’s own record of $10.25 million, set earlier in 2026 β a mark that had itself topped the prior statewide record by more than $4 million. The building now holds both of Virginia’s two highest-priced condominium transactions on record.
The penthouse occupies the entire top floor of the 28-story tower, part of Comstock’s Reston Station mixed-use development along the Silver Line’s Wiehle-Reston East station. It offers 360-degree views spanning from Tysons Corner to the Blue Ridge Mountains and was custom-designed for its buyer over roughly two years, according to the companies.
“It’s rare to help a buyer build something this personal in such a sought-after community,” said Matt Cummings, sales director at McWilliams|Ballard, the firm handling sales and marketing for the property. Chris Masters, a partner at McWilliams|Ballard, added that “the buyer had the opportunity to purchase anywhere, yet chose to create a one-of-a-kind home here.”
Comstock Chairman and CEO Chris Clemente framed the sale as validation of the company’s investment in the Reston Station development. “To see the Residences break their own Virginia sales record within the same year is a strong validation of that vision,” he said.
The JW Marriott Residences Reston Station opened in September 2025 and have generated more than $115 million in total sales since then, according to the companies, making the property one of the top-performing luxury condominium developments in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
What it means
Back-to-back record sales at the same address, both within a single calendar year, point to sustained high-end demand in Northern Virginia’s Reston submarket, an area that has drawn heavy investment tied to the region’s transit expansion and, increasingly, competition for land from data center developers pushing up prices across Northern Virginia real estate broadly. A hotel-branded residence commanding this level of pricing outside the traditional luxury corridors of Washington, D.C., or Northern Virginia’s close-in suburbs suggests buyers are increasingly willing to pay urban-core prices for transit-connected suburban locations with hotel-level amenities.
For Comstock, a smaller, Virginia-focused developer, the record sale is a meaningful marketing win that could help sustain sales momentum at the property as it continues absorbing its remaining inventory, and it reinforces Reston Station’s positioning as a luxury address comparable to sales activity typically seen in larger coastal luxury markets like Miami’s branded-residence sector, albeit at a different price scale.
What to watch: whether the Residences’ remaining unsold inventory, including any additional upper-floor units, can command pricing near this new benchmark, and whether other Northern Virginia luxury developments see comparable demand as the region’s transit and employment growth continues.
