Sell Your Warehouse or Industrial Building in Camden County

Direct Warehouse Buyers buys industrial buildings across Camden County, from the Camden waterfront to Pennsauken and Winslow. We're part of a family-owned business that has been operating for over 15 years. We buy through our own company and close as the buyer, so there's no listing, no repair list and no commission.

The county's port terminals include the South Jersey Port Corporation's Balzano Marine Terminal in Camden and the Gloucester Marine Terminal in Gloucester City. The region's planning commission names 10 freight centers here. New Jersey puts the transfer fee on the seller and has its own industrial cleanup law, so a sale here works differently from one across the river.

Camden County at a glance

Municipalities

36: 2 cities, 26 boroughs and 8 townships, since Pine Valley merged into Pine Hill in 2022Sources: the NJ Division of Taxation's 2026 equalization table and the NJ Department of Labor, checked October 2026

Industrial space tracked

13.7 million sq ft, 6.3% vacant, 267,389 sq ft under construction (Q3 2026)Source: Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026

Warehouse asking rent

$12.26 per sq ft a year, net, for warehouse and distribution space (Q3 2026)Source: Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026

Seller's transfer costs

New Jersey's Realty Transfer Fee, plus the Graduated Percent Fee on Class 4A commercial property sold for over $1 millionSource: NJ Division of Taxation, checked October 2026

Freight centers

10 named by the region's planning commission, including the Camden-Gloucester Port Complex and three in PennsaukenSource: DVRPC, 2025

Port terminals

The Balzano Marine Terminal and Broadway Terminal in Camden, and the Gloucester Marine Terminal in Gloucester CitySources: South Jersey Port Corporation and Holt Logistics, checked October 2026

Bridges to Philadelphia

The Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman and Betsy Ross bridges, all run by the Delaware River Port AuthoritySource: DRPA, checked October 2026

Do you buy warehouses and industrial buildings in Camden County?

Yes. Direct Warehouse Buyers buys in all 36 Camden County municipalities. That could be a warehouse in Pennsauken, a plant near the Camden waterfront, a distribution building in Bellmawr or a truck yard in Gloucester City. We buy as-is, in any size or condition, vacant, leased or still running.

Older multi-story buildings, small flex units, cold storage and sites with tanks or a long industrial history all fit. If the building has a low ceiling, one loading door or a tenant on an old lease, send it anyway. See what we buy for the full list.

What does it cost to sell an industrial building in Camden County?

The seller pays New Jersey's Realty Transfer Fee, which the state charges per $500 of the price at rates that rise with the price. If the property is Class 4A commercial and sells for more than $1 million, the seller also pays the Graduated Percent Fee on the full price. Class 4B industrial property doesn't pay that second fee. Selling to us adds no commission and no fees.

The Graduated Percent Fee has been the seller's since July 10, 2025, and it applies to the total price, including the first $1 million. Here's what it comes to at a few prices for Class 4A property:

The class that counts is the one on the municipal tax list, so check yours early. The Realty Transfer Fee comes on top, figured on your exact price. Our FAQ lists every Graduated Percent Fee bracket. A listing would also add your broker's commission, and our page on selling direct or listing compares the two routes.

If you sell as an individual, estate or trust and live outside New Jersey, the state also collects an estimated income tax payment before the deed is recorded. The payment is your gain times the state's top income tax rate (10.75% on Form GIT/REP-1), and never less than 2% of the price. Exemptions are listed on the state's seller residency form (GIT/REP-3), and sellers that aren't individuals, estates or trusts, such as corporations, are among those exempt. The title company confirms what applies to you. Our FAQ explains how the estimated tax payment for nonresident sellers works.

Our cost guide adds New Jersey's two seller fees together at five prices and shows a sample seller's net.

Property taxes in Camden County's industrial towns

New Jersey's Division of Taxation says the general tax rate, per $100 of assessed value, is the rate used to compute the tax bill. It also publishes an effective rate, the general rate adjusted by the town's equalization ratio (how its assessments compare with market value), so towns can be compared directly. Pennsauken's 2025 effective rate was 2.396; Gloucester City's was 3.251.

Rates change every year, so the tax bill on your building is the number that matters. A buyer weighs it, and so do we.

Does my Camden County municipality require a certificate of occupancy when I sell?

Several do, and the rules differ by town, so confirm yours with the municipality. The City of Camden requires a resale occupancy certificate before any property in the city is sold. Pennsauken and Voorhees each require a new certificate when a commercial property gets a new owner or tenant.

Some towns' published resale rules cover only homes. Haddon Township's and Barrington's resale inspections are residential programs. Lindenwold's posted code applies its change-of-ownership certificate to residential units, but the borough amended that section in June 2026 and hasn't posted the new text. We didn't find Gloucester City's rule published online, so we confirm it with the city. If your town isn't listed, we'll check its rule with you before we set a closing date.

Under New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code, the local construction official issues a certificate of continued occupancy for an existing building when the owner asks for one. Changing a building's use takes a new certificate of occupancy first. The local rules in the table add requirements of their own. Because we buy as-is, we price open items into our offer.

Does ISRA apply when I sell an industrial building in Camden County?

It can. New Jersey's Industrial Site Recovery Act applies when a covered industrial establishment closes operations or transfers ownership or operations. A sale of the business, or of any of the real property where it operates, counts as a transfer, so a landlord's sale of the building can trigger it. Whether a business is covered depends on its NAICS code, its dates of operation and its work with hazardous substances.

A business is covered when its NAICS code (the federal code for its type of business) is on the ISRA list and it operated on or after December 31, 1983. Its operations there must also have involved hazardous substances or wastes in one of the ways the rule lists, such as generating, storing, handling or disposing of them. Appendix C of the ISRA rules lists warehousing (NAICS 493) only for businesses that store raw materials for other establishments of the same company. It also lists several chemical and petroleum distribution codes, such as petroleum bulk stations and terminals. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) stopped ruling on whether ISRA applies to a given site on April 30, 2008. Owners and operators now decide that with their own environmental consultants.

When it does, any cleanup runs under a Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP), and a sale can still close before the cleanup ends. Our FAQ explains what that takes and how ISRA works. We price tanks, past spills and open cleanup cases into our offer.

For more detail, including landlord sales and the de minimis exemption, see our ISRA guide for New Jersey sellers.

Where are Camden County's industrial areas?

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) names 10 freight centers in Camden County in its 2025 update. They are the Camden-Gloucester Port Complex, three centers in Pennsauken, the areas around Turnpike Exits 3 and 4, Barrington-Magnolia, Lawnside-Ashland, Camden-Pavonia and Winslow. Half are classed as distribution and logistics.

DVRPC's 2025 update sorts the 10 centers by type:

• International gateway (a major port): the Camden-Gloucester Port Complex
• Distribution and logistics ("ample warehousing space and highway connectivity"): NJTP Exit 3, Pennsauken North, Barrington-Magnolia, and two centers new in 2025, Camden-Pavonia and Lawnside-Ashland
• Local manufacturing and distribution (smaller, general-purpose buildings used by small businesses): Pennsauken South, Pennsauken-Cooper River and Winslow
• High tech manufacturing (pharmaceutical, biotechnology or aviation businesses): NJTP Exit 4, which DVRPC lists under both Camden and Burlington counties

The ports and the waterfront

• Balzano Marine Terminal: the South Jersey Port Corporation's 122-acre terminal at 101 Joseph A. Balzano Boulevard in Camden, with four berths and 21 dry warehouses totaling 1,168,441 square feet. Its cargo includes cocoa beans, wood and steel products, iron ore, scrap metal, salt and containers. The port corporation says every warehouse and shed there is served by rail, with CSX, Norfolk Southern and CP connections, and direct access to I-676, I-76, US 130 and I-295.
• Broadway Terminal, Pier 5: a 28-acre pier at 2500 Broadway in Camden, owned by the port corporation and operated by Southport Distribution, with temperature-controlled warehouses for perishables.
• Gloucester Marine Terminal: at 160 Essex Street in Gloucester City, operated by Gloucester Terminals LLC. It has 25 million cubic feet of refrigerated storage and 1.1 million square feet of dry storage. Its tariff, the terminal's published schedule of rates and rules, lists refrigerated containers, steel tinplate, palletized fruit and frozen meat.
• Holtec Technology Campus: about 50 acres at 1 Holtec Boulevard in south Camden, opened in 2017. Holtec says its plants there are equipped for precision manufacturing of large, complex weldments (welded assemblies). Examples include those needed to assemble its SMR-300, a small modular nuclear reactor still under development.

Three Delaware River Port Authority bridges cross to Philadelphia: the Ben Franklin Bridge from Camden, the Walt Whitman Bridge from Gloucester City and the Betsy Ross Bridge from Pennsauken. The New Jersey Turnpike's Exit 3 sits on the Bellmawr-Runnemede line. The state Department of Transportation's 2026-2035 capital program includes the direct connection between I-295, Route 42 and I-76 in Bellmawr and Mount Ephraim. I-676 runs through Camden, with an exit for the port terminals; Route 90 carries Betsy Ross traffic through Pennsauken; and the Atlantic City Expressway crosses the county's southern end. US 130 runs north from Brooklawn through Gloucester City, a corner of Camden and Collingswood to the Airport Circle in Pennsauken. For freight rail, Conrail Shared Assets Operations runs Pavonia Yard in Camden, its main classification yard for southern New Jersey.

What should I have ready to sell a warehouse in Camden County?

Gaps are fine; we'll fill them in together. How It Works walks through each step from the first call to closing. For the fixed lead times in a New Jersey sale, from the bulk sale notice to a tax class review, see how long it takes to sell a warehouse.

Other places we buy

In New Jersey we also buy in Burlington County and Gloucester County. Across the river, we buy in Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County and Delaware County, Pennsylvania. See the map of all seven counties.