2023 PARTNERS
Lead Partners
Sponsoring: Young Property Personality of the Year
Irwin Mitchell is proud to work with clients who are transforming our cities and towns and, in doing so, helping our economy and changing lives for the better. Our team works across major centres throughout the UK, so we understand the factors that influence your markets and the challenges you face. Our Real Estate team offers a broad range of services and specialist expertise for clients across the housing sector including PBSA and PRS, so whether you are investing in, developing, funding or occupying property, we can fulfil your legal needs and support you in achieving your business aspirations.
Sponsoring: Hall of Fame
We’ve been here 49 years, everyone knows who we are but not necessarily what we do. Not only do we have an unbelievably successful office letting and acquisition team, led by Mark Kleinman (West End) and by Lisa Moran (City), we also have an active Capital Markets team, led by Shaun Farmer and Andrew Soning. The group also contains the fastest growing residential block management team, headed by Fiona Docherty, and an active commercial management office with over £1billion of assets under management. All this under the watchful eye of our Chairman, Harvey Soning.
We are James Andrew International.
Shortlist Party Partner
haysmacintyre is an award-winning firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors based in London, with a strong, market leading international alliance. In the last five years our turnover has increased by 56% from organic growth alone, which reflects the level of our client service, the culture within the firm and our progressive outlook. We’re proud of our reputation for excellent client service, technical expertise, pragmatism and delivery of value added advisory services. The property sector is one of core sectors where we deliver multiple services including: tax compliance and advice, VAT advice, statutory audit, transaction support and outsourced accounting to an array of clients including property investors, developers, REITs and construction businesses.
Category Partners
Sponsoring: Placemaking Award
Ashdown Phillips & Partners is a niche commercial property management company with a diverse portfolio under management across the UK. Our expertise covers commercial offices, shopping centres, retail and leisure parks, industrial estates, flexible workspaces and events venues, as well as assisting clients with design for management projects and acquisition due diligence. With a people-centric ethos at our core and having grown organically over the last 19 years, Ashdown Phillips seeks to provide a best-in-class management and advisory service to its clients and occupiers.
Sponsoring: Newcomer of the Year
BKL is a Top 100 firm of chartered accountants and tax advisers based in North London. The firm specialises in helping entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals and families, and owner managed businesses. Property and construction is one of BKL's key sectors, with dedicated expertise in the business services, audit and tax teams.
In 2022, BKL became a Certified B Corporation, joining a global community of businesses dedicated to balancing profit and purpose.
Sponsoring: Climate Crisis Inititiative
Brunswick Property Partners are a private real estate investment company driven by a desire to deliver financial success for investors without compromising the environment and communities where we invest.
We identify thematic real estate strategies, capturing structural growth in progressive trends, and invest in properties with exciting prospects and the potential to create long-term real value.
With a passion for ESG and sustainability, we create workplaces that stand out from the crowd, have low carbon impact and are healthy and happy environments.
Sponsoring: Industrial Agency Team of the year 2023
Buzzacott is a top 25 UK accountancy practice that has been providing tailored advice to our clients for more than 100 years. We’re the largest single-office accountancy firm in the UK with over 550 of us based in the City of London. Our membership to PrimeGlobal, one of the largest international accounting associations in the world, connects us to expertise across the globe.Our real estate and construction team provides audit, assurance and tax advice to businesses operating across the whole real-estate spectrum, including partnerships and property funds, and corporates that either develop, own or occupy real estate or operate in the sector. Whether you’re dealing with changes in tax law and government regulations, or managing market risks, our sector experts know the issues you face and have the experience to deliver the solutions you need.
Sponsoring: Deal of the Year - Commercial Property
Dwellant is a state-of-the-art tool specially crafted to ease communication between managing agents and residents, simplify task management and solve problems that occur when managing a building. The Dwellant experience has been designed to bring everyone together. Residents can explore an interactive community, raise maintenance requests, access resident guides, personal documents and finances, using fully branded building portals.
Property Managers and On-Site Teams can seamlessly share tasks and updates, raise and manage work orders and interact with contractors, all while providing transparent, relevant and instant communications and updates to everyone involved.
Sponsoring: PropTech Innovator of the Year
Ecolibrium is a technology-driven sustainability company, providing cutting-edge solutions for enterprises, to identify, plan and operationalize their Net Zero Carbon ambitions.
Our mission is to deliver sustainable prosperity for companies, by balancing people, planet and profit. We demonstrate this by leveraging proprietary machine-learning algorithms which provide measurable outcomes.
Our goal is to partner with companies and help them to work smarter, make critical decisions more quickly and consume less. And, by doing this at scale, we will make a significant impact on the carbon footprint of commercial and industrial assets, globally.
Sponsoring: Retail, Leisure & Hotel Agency Team of the Year
“Why We Are Genius”At our Leisure and Retail Restaurant Agency, we are driven by a genuine love for the F+B industry and a desire to contribute to its growth. Our mission is to empower and support aspiring and established entrepreneurs, landlords and developers in their quest to source and create unforgettable dining and leisure destinations. Genius1 are a group of seasoned professionals with 30 years extensive experience in the leisure and restaurant industries. From property experts who source off market opportunities to leasing specialists who negotiate advantageous terms.If you have questions about leisure and retail, investments or general advice, the Genius1 Group will find what you need.We make sure you feel confident, educated and informed every step of the way.
Sponsoring: Health and Wellbeing Initiative – Commercial Property
Gowling WLG is an international sector-focused law firm. With more than 1,500 legal professionals in 19 cities worldwide, we provide our clients with in-depth expertise in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad.Home to one of the world's strongest multi-disciplinary real estate legal teams, Gowling WLG has more than 400 lawyers who know and understand the sector. Fully integrated, we offer legal services across our global offices. Whatever the matter, we deliver quality that enables you to derive maximum value from your deals and resolve your transactions quickly and efficiently. Our real estate lawyers are dedicated to providing exceptional client service, and thrive on teamwork, taking time to understand your priorities and help you to achieve your objectives. We provide clear, concise and pragmatic advice alongside fresh ideas and innovative solutions to legal and commercial challenges. Learn more at gowlingwlg.com/real-estate
Sponsoring: Legal/ Professional Team of the Year
Driven by Positive Land and Property DecisionsWe are a leading UK environmental and climate data authority. We give land and property professionals expert information on risks including land contamination, flooding and ground stability, as well as forward guidance on potential climate risks, to advise their clients in the transaction.
Sponsoring: Property Company of Year
Hollis is a leading international, independent real estate consultancy. We work with owners, occupiers, developers and funders, across both private and public sectors, to help them get more out of their real estate, at every stage of the property lifecycle. We’re a multi-skilled team of surveyors, engineers, technical specialists, consultants and project managers operating across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. We are committed to delivering and maintaining a sustainable built environment and are recognised specialists in due diligence surveys, dilapidations, measured surveys, project management, cost management, party walls, rights of light, M&E and ESG.
Sponsoring: Financier of the Year – Commercial Property
The London Belgravia Group is a multi-disciplinary organisation that provides bespoke insurance solutions and risk management advice to global property developers, investors and high-net-worth individuals.Our core areas of expertise are Latent Defects Insurance & specialist surety policies including but not limited to Performance Bonds, Insurance Backed Guarantees and Deposit Release Bonds for the UK property market. This array of expertise is spread across all aspects of commercial and residential developments.Our brands include London Belgravia Brokers, BuildSafe and London Belgravia Surveyors.
Sponsoring: Social Impact Initiative
Sponsoring: Irvine Sellar Award
Node is a forward-thinking real estate platform, with an expertise in delivering base-build fibre infrastructure and a mission for bringing assets to life. We are revolutionising how buildings are designed and operated in the smart technology space.We take an asset management-led approach to connectivity, ensuring our solutions are accretive to both tenant experience and investment performance. We work with the leading UK institutional, private equity and propco investors/ developers/ operators to reduce voids, increase rental values and support their long-term requirements for smart solutions.A Node managed solution is the foundation for all real estate technology, supporting strategies that differentiate portfolios, are ESG focused and drive significant improvements in sustainability. Our offering removes tenant-level wayleaves in perpetuity, while enabling unlimited brand access to fibre providers and hosting plug & play proptech services.From an operational perspective, NODE is Connectivity-as-a-Service.
Sponsoring: Niche/Regional Agency of the Year
NovaLoca is the expert in commercial property search. We live, eat and breathe commercial property and we have worked exclusively in the sector for nearly two decades so we understand the needs of owners, landlords, developers, agents and occupiers.
Our property listings service – with over 20,000 properties for sale or let - offers comprehensive coverage of commercial properties throughout the UK and our technology solutions, including powered search are being used by a growing number of commercial property agents and developers.
Sponsoring: Investment Agency of the Year
Trammell Crow Company (TCC) is a leading commercial real estate developer and an independently operated subsidiary of CBRE Group, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas. Founded in 1948, TCC has developed or acquired nearly 2,900 buildings valued at $75 billion and over 655 million square feet. As of March 31, 2023, TCC had $17.3 billion of projects in process and $13.1 billion in its pipeline. It employs 700 professionals in 28 major cities throughout the United States and Europe. In the UK, the company serves users of and investors in industrial/logistics, and designs and constructs high-quality Build-to-Rent (BTR) developments and communities through its residential arm, Telford Homes.
Sponsoring: Developer of the Year - Commercial Property
Trigon is a development management company with the sole aim of making our clients’ lives easier. While delivering developments is incredibly complex, Trigon’s approach to development management is intentionally simple. We streamline processes. We maintain precision. We operate with clarity and transparency. Most importantly though, we offer our clients a truly bespoke service. Ensuring they can focus on the key decisions, while we keep things on track, on time and on budget. With a particular focus on true ESG and the Building Safety Act we focus on successful completion and occupation of our Clients assets from the outset.
As our name suggests, our business is built on three guiding principles. More than a philosophy on what it means to be Trigon, these three sides to our business are our promise to our clients. As such they should underpin everything we do with the brand - Transparency, Proficiency, Adaptability.
Charity Partner
CRASH has been the UK construction and property industry’s social impact partner for over 26 years. We unite your professional expertise, construction products and fundraising to construct places that care for the sick, vulnerable and homeless in the communities in which we work and live.
Well designed and expertly built environments have a positive effect on how we all feel and behave. This is especially true for vulnerable homeless people and children and adults with a life-limiting illness. CRASH unites your passion, skills and resources to create places that care for people.
CRASH is your industry charity.Be proud of it.Be part of it.
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