2026 CATEGORIES
Take a look at the categories below. It's free to enter* and remember you can enter as many categories as you like!
ENTRY DEADLINE - 2 FEB 2026*
*Entries made after the free deadline will be charged an entry fee of £195.
Projects & Partnerships Categories
Deal of the Year - Industrial & Logistics
This award celebrates transformative transactions in the industrial and logistics property sector. It acknowledges deals that drive innovation, resolve complexities, and significantly impact the industrial and logistics landscape.
Note on mixed use deals: If your deal involves a mixed-use property, you may enter the category where the majority use aligns with the specific sector. For example, if the larger proportion of the property is designated for Industrial and Logistics use, you can submit your entry under this category.
Deal of the Year - Offices and Work space
This award acknowledges exceptional accomplishments in office property deals. It celebrates transactions that redefine the office sector, showcasing innovation, strategic importance, and significant industry impact. Whether it's a corporate transaction, property sale, or joint venture, this award highlights deals that have shaped the future of office spaces.
Note on mixed use deals: If your deal involves a mixed-use property, you may enter the category where the majority use aligns with the specific sector. For example, if the larger proportion of the property is designated for office use, you can submit your entry under this category.
Developer of the Year - Retail, Hospitality & Leisure
Are you the standout developer in the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors? This category celebrates projects that have redefined shopping centres, hotels, restaurants, leisure facilities, and entertainment spaces. Developers who have delivered innovative, bold, and transformative schemes in these sectors are encouraged to enter.
Note on Mixed-Use Developments:
If your development involves mixed-use property, you may enter the category where the majority use aligns with the specific sector. For example, if the larger proportion of the development is for retail, hospitality, or leisure use, you can submit your entry under this category.
Developer of the Year - Data Centres
This category recognises those who have delivered transformative data centre developments. Whether through cutting-edge design, exceptional ESG performance, or innovative engineering and technology solutions, this award honours developers who are setting new benchmarks in data centre excellence.
Note on Mixed-Use Developments:
If your development involves mixed-use property, you may enter the category where the majority use aligns with the specific sector. For example, if the larger proportion of the development is dedicated to data centre operations, you can submit your entry under this category.
Developer of the Year - Offices and Workspace
Are you the standout commercial real estate developer of the past year in the office sector? Have you developed landmark office schemes, pioneered innovative ideas, or delivered flagship projects that have transformed workspaces and raised industry standards? This category celebrates developers who have demonstrated excellence, innovation, and leadership in the development of office spaces.
Note on Mixed-Use Developments:
If your development involves mixed-use property, you may enter the category where the majority use aligns with the specific sector. For example, if the larger proportion of the development is for office use, you can submit your entry under this category.
Deal of the Year - Retail, Hospitality & Leisure
This award recognises transformative transactions in the retail, hospitality and leisure property sector, celebrating deals that reshape hotels, resorts, leisure facilities, and related industries. These deals demonstrate excellence in innovation, stakeholder engagement, and industry impact.
Note on mixed use deals: If your deal involves a mixed-use property, you may enter the category where the majority use aligns with the specific sector. For example, if the larger proportion of the property is designated for Hospitality and Leisure use, you can submit your entry under this category.
Outstanding Placemaking Award
This category aims to celebrate the best commercial or commercial-led, mixed-use development scheme that has regenerated or physically improved the built environment on and around a particular site, disused building or location. The award is aimed at private-sector and public-private projects, including mixed-use but NOT pure residential. These projects might have bought land, buildings or localities back into sustainable economic use or created a built environment that changes the perception or use of a location. Projects or initiatives still at the planning stage are not eligible.
Public - Private Partnership of the Year
This award recognises exceptional accomplishments in public-private partnerships (PPPs) within the commercial property sector. It celebrates collaborations between public and private entities that deliver transformative projects, demonstrate innovation, and create significant value for stakeholders and communities. From complex developments to innovative funding models, this award highlights deals that showcase the power of partnership in achieving ambitious goals.
Teams & Companies Categories
Articial Pratices of the Year
*NEW CATEGORY*
Article Practices of the Year celebrates exceptional written contributions that demonstrate insight, clarity, and thought leadership within the property industry. This award recognises organisations or individuals who produce high-quality articles that inform, influence, and elevate understanding of key issues, trends, and developments across the sector.
Alternatives Team of the Year
Do you have a dedicated alternatives team that deals with some of the following alternative asset classes: student housing, PRS, later living, healthcare, hotels, self -storage, data centres, automotive, education or renewables?
Have you moved the dial in the past year with a ground-breaking initiative, strategy, or deal? Are you blazing a trail that others are following? Then we want to hear from you. This category is open to all teams specialising in alternatives.
Finance Provider of the Year
This category aims to celebrate an organisation or individual that has moved the dial in the way they have provided debt or equity financing to the commercial property market in the past year. Has your firm been particularly innovative in its approach to development finance or forward funding packages, for example? Has it targeted new areas of growth? Then we want to hear from you.
Outstanding Legal Team of the Year
This category is aimed at law firms and specialist in house property consultants (or departments of larger agency firms) that provide one or more of the following: legal advice, valuation, rating, rent review and property/land and estate management. It is also open to building surveyors, firms that provide planning/development or environmental advice and practices that are strong in arbitration, claims, expert witness or legal services. It is not open to facilities management organisations or other property advisers.
Have you moved the dial in the past year in the legal/professional space? Then we want to hear from you.
PropCo of the Year (over 100 employees)
This award is aimed specifically at property organisations (active in development and/or investment) that have made a particular impact on the property industry in the past year. Have you made an important strategic change? Have you been involved in a landmark deal that has raised the bar? Have you been involved in innovative structuring, funding or partnering initiatives? Then we want to hear from you.
PropCo of the Year (under 100 employees)
This award is aimed specifically at property organisations (active in development and/or investment) that have made a particular impact on the property industry in the past year. Have you made an important strategic change? Have you been involved in a landmark deal that has raised the bar? Have you been involved in innovative structuring, funding or partnering initiatives? Then we want to hear from you.
Professional Services Team of the Year
This award celebrates the commercial property professional services team that has demonstrated outstanding expertise, service, and results over the past year. If your team has gone above and beyond to deliver exceptional service to internal or external clients, we want to hear your story. Whether through innovative solutions, deep market expertise, or exemplary client care, this award seeks to honour teams setting a new standard of excellence in the commercial property sector.
This category is open to in-house professional services teams or organisations primarily operating in the commercial real estate sector. Please note that legal firms should enter the Outstanding Legal Team category.
Property Agency of the Year (over 100 employees)
Open to large agencies that have significant operations in the property industry and are based inside of the M25.
Eligible agencies include but are not limited to:
• Agencies serving a particular vertical sector such as retail and hospitality, offices, industrial & logistics, life sciences, or residential.
• Agencies serving a particular region within the UK.
• Agencies serving particular process elements, such as valuation, financing, leasing, sales or acquisitions
Agencies that are NOT eligible include but are not limited to:
• Public relations, communications or social media agencies
• Investor relations agencies
• Government relations or public affairs agencies
Property Agency of the Year (under 100 employees)
Open to smaller agencies that have significant operations in the property industry and are based inside of the M25.
Eligible agencies include but are not limited to :
• Agencies serving a particular vertical sector such as retail and hospitality, offices, industrial & logistics, life sciences, or residential.
• Agencies serving a particular region within the UK
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• Agencies serving particular process elements, such as valuation, financing, leasing, sales or acquisitions
Agencies that are NOT eligible include but are not limited to:
• Public relations, communications or social media agencies
• Investor relations agencies
• Government relations or public affairs agencies
Regional Property Agency of the Year
*NEW CATEGORY*
Open to agencies that are based outside of the M25 that have significant operations in the property industry.
Eligible agencies include but are not limited to :
• Agencies serving a particular vertical sector such as retail and hospitality, offices, industrial & logistics, life sciences, or residential.
• Agencies serving a particular region within the UK (outside of the M25)
• Agencies serving particular process elements, such as valuation, financing, leasing, sales or acquisitions
Agencies that are NOT eligible include but are not limited to:
• Public relations, communications or social media agencies
• Investor relations agencies
• Government relations or public affairs agencies
Initiatives & Innovations Categories
Health and Wellbeing Initiative
The health and wellbeing award aims to celebrate the organisation or individual that has done the most in the past year to support the health and wellbeing of staff, occupiers or the local community.
We are looking for an exemplary initiative, scheme or project that has raised the bar in terms of health and wellbeing. Has your building achieved a WELL certification and/or best-in-class environmental accreditation standard rating (e.g. BREEAM, LEED, SKA)? Have you done something ground-breaking to support the health and wellbeing of your staff or occupiers? Perhaps you have prioritised health and wellbeing features in a new scheme. Have you worked collaboratively on a community-focused project aimed at enhancing community health and wellbeing?
PropTech Innovator of the Year – Proptech Companies
This category recognises organisations that have utilised technology to deliver meaningful innovation within the property sector. Entries are open to new offerings or upgrades from dedicated proptech providers as well as property companies that have delivered technology-enabled strategic initiatives. A partnership between the two types of organisation is also eligible, The emphasis is on tangible results from innovative or game-changing initiatives implemented in the past 12 months.
PropTech Innovator of the Year – Real Estate Companies
This category recognises organisations that have utilised technology to deliver meaningful innovation within the property sector. Entries are open to new offerings or upgrades from dedicated proptech providers as well as property companies that have delivered technology-enabled strategic initiatives. A partnership between the two types of organisation is also eligible, The emphasis is on tangible results from innovative or game-changing initiatives implemented in the past 12 months.
Inclusion Initiative of the Year
This award recognises an individual, team or organisation that has demonstrated exemplary commitment to promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) both within your business and across the industry as a whole over the past 12 months.
Entries are open to organisations dedicated to promoting EDI as well as property organisations that have undertaken specific EDI initiatives. Entries are also welcome from partnerships between the two types of organisation.
We are seeking programme that go beyond rhetoric, embodying real efforts to drive positive change and foster an inclusive workplace and industry culture. Judges will be looking to see tangible change that has moved the dial with EDI, either through cultural change or workforce diversity.
PropTech Solution of the Year – Real Estate & Service Companies
This category recognises suppliers that provide outstanding technology products or digital services tailored to the needs of the property sector. The focus is on strong innovation, value gained by owners, agents or occupiers, a robust business model, creativity, and strategic vision.
PropTech Solution of the Year – Technology Providers
This category recognises suppliers that provide outstanding technology products or digital services tailored to the needs of the property sector. The focus is on strong innovation, value gained by owners, agents or occupiers, a robust business model, creativity, and strategic vision.
Social Impact Initiative
Social impact has been one of the breakthrough issues of the past few years. We want to celebrate the best social impact projects and initiatives of the past year.
We are looking for an organisation or individual that has implemented, completed or committed to a ground-breaking social impact scheme, project or initiative that has had a real and measurable positive social impact on the community.
Sustainability Initiative
Over the past few years, climate change has rocketed to the top of the agenda, fuelled by the UK government’s target to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 – one of the most ambitious carbon targets in the world.
We want to celebrate the ground-breaking work the commercial real estate sector is doing to tackle the climate crisis and improve the sector’s environmental credentials.
Individual Awards
Next Generation Leader of the Year
We are seeking the stars of the future—those who demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit, tenacity, and vision needed to steer and lead the commercial property industry for years to come. Whether you or your nominee come from a property organisation, a proptech company, the agency world, law, or any other part of the industry, if you live and breathe property and consistently lead where others follow, we want to hear your story.
To be eligible for this award, nominees must be under the age of 35 as of 31 December 2025.
Property Leader of the Year
The Property Leader of the Year category honours an exceptional individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact within the commercial property sector. This award celebrates individuals who are driving success, fostering growth, and shaping the future of the industry.
• Role and Responsibility:
The nominee must hold a senior leadership or executive position (e.g., CEO, Managing Director, Partner) within a company operating in the commercial property sector. They should have significant influence over business strategies, market presence, or operations in the industry.
• Experience:
The nominee should have at least five years of experience in a leadership role within the commercial property sector.
Hall of Fame
Judges choice: The winner will be nominated by the judges and chosen by an anonymous ballot.
No entries will be taken for this category.
