Corporate Office Properties Trust Sells Two Assets in Northern Virginia for $53M

FALLS CHURCH, VA. — Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT), a publicly traded office REIT, has sold $53 million of suburban assets in Northern Virginia. The REIT sold a 190,500-square-foot office building located at 3120 Fairview Park Drive in Falls Church’s Merrifield submarket for $39 million. The asset was 87 percent leased as of Dec. 31, 2016. The company also sold 5.3 acres of land in northern Virginia for $14 million. COPT has an additional $10 million of asset sales under contract and between $37 million to $47 million in contract negotiations, all of which are expected to close during 2017.