CATEGORIES

This category is open to all real estate advisory businesses, domestic and international, operating in the UK.

Firms will be judged on excellence of service, delivery and corporate best practice, as well as revenue and profit. Judges will be looking for businesses that can prove they have been market leaders during the period under review.

Entries should demonstrate strong financial performance, key indicators of success and provide information on transformational deals or instructions during the review period. At least two client testimonials, with a client e-mail contact for verification for each, is essential to be considered for this category. Multi-disciplinary firms keen to showcase a particular advisory division, can and should, highlight specific wins and outperformance within that division.

This category is open to all real estate investors or developers, based in the UK or elsewhere – big or small, public or private, and working in either a specific asset class or across various asset types.

Entries should shine a light on as wide an array of activities as possible from the period under review, which could include development projects – planned, underway or completed – asset management initiatives and acquisitions or disposals.

Judges will look for a track record that underlines not only transactional expertise but also aligns with the entrant’s vision for their business and its contribution to the industry and built environment.

This category is open to real estate legal teams working on planning, transactions, investment, financing, development and construction, as well as in environment and regeneration.

In particular, judges will be looking for firms that can demonstrate outstanding advice on major transformative deals; and those that can demonstrate a commitment to championing core values such as diversity, inclusivity and sustainability in their working practices. At least two client testimonials, with a client e-mail contact for verification for each, is essential to be considered for this category.

This category will celebrate start-up businesses that have opened the doors during the period under review.

All real estate business types will be considered, including developers, financiers, technology firms, agencies and other advisory organisations.

Track records will be hard to prove for most young companies, so our judges will be looking for ambition, innovation and a business plan that could shake up your sector.

Entries should outline the pedigree of the founding team, the vision for the new business, any successes in its first months and a plan for how it will be differentiated in a busy market.

This category is open to any UK-based and focused real estate investor or developer – big or small, public or private, and working in either a specific asset class or across various asset types.

Entries should shine a light on as wide an array of activities as possible from the period under review, which could include development projects – planned, underway or completed – asset management initiatives and acquisitions or disposals.

Judges will look for a track record that underlines not only transactional expertise, but also aligns with the entrant’s vision for their business and its contribution to the industry and built environment.

For this category, you will be asked to provide:

• Your CV
• A submission no longer than 500 words and/or link to a two-minute video explaining why you think you should be EG’s Future Leader
• Maximum two pages of support material outlining key company/company growth information or supporting statistics, documentation, references, images or designs.

You may be traditionally trained or come from a non-property background, as long as uoi are making an impact on the industry right now. This award is open to everyone, whether you are a digital disruptor, outstanding up-and-coming dealmaker in your team, an entrepreneur or the next big thing in the agency world, we want you to enter this award and join our growing alumni of real estate’s future leaders.

This category is also open for nominations.

This award celebrates the individuals, the companies and the products that are doing more than ensuring their own success. The category is for those that are creating a solid future for the success of the real estate sector. Judges will be looking for clear evidence of business or individuals that are utilising new technologies, new methods or new ways of thinking or approaching business to deliver a real estate proposition for the future. A solid business plan with outlined indicators of success will enable judges to properly and effectively identify the future winners in the business of real estate. From developments in tech to the shifting nature of the built environment, from the race to embrace modern methods of construction to new ways to persuade the public how the industry can be a force for positive change, there is no shortage of potential candidates for this award. Nominations for this category are also welcome.

In partnership with the PMA, this category calls for examples of best practice in real estate marketing campaigns. We’ll be looking for campaigns delivered across digital, print and out-of-home media, showcasing building launches, investments, lettings and/or refurbishments, corporate branding, thought-leadership, placemaking, and more. Internal marketing campaigns will NOT be considered.

Submissions will be accepted by branding, PR and marketing agencies in partnership with their clients or direct from clients.

All entries must provide supporting evidence, including examples of the campaign and qualitative and quantitative metrics, and must be able to answer all of the following questions:

• What were the strategic aims of the campaign?
• What were the specific activities you undertook as part of the campaign?
• What did these achieve?
• What was your budget for the campaign?

This award is open for nominations as well as submissions and seeks to celebrate an individual in the built environment who has had an outstanding impact on the sector. Estates Gazette will be looking for an individual who has created amazing places, been involved in some of the most transformative deals or created real change across the industry. This could be a lifetime of work or an individual who has burst on to the scene but has already made a huge impact.

All nominations or submissions for this award should include a 500-word testimonial highlighting the key achievements of this individual and what their impact on the industry has been.

This award is open to all companies active in the built environment, including agents, developers, investors, lawyers, architects, local authorities, and industry bodies. Judges will be looking for evidence of businesses integrating a positive impact on society into the way they do business.

This should include examples of working with communities to drive societal outcomes such as building community cohesion, alleviating homelessness, creating opportunities for economic growth, skills & learning, health, wellbeing & quality of life within local communities. It should explain the system used to recognise, manage and quantifiably measure attributable social benefits for people and communities.

Achieving social impact could come through community collaboration, partnership or investment Entrants should make sure to provide evidence that they responded to local need, have integrated social impact potential into decision making, are accountable for their contribution to social outcomes and whether outcomes will achieve a lasting impact. Judges will be looking for examples of initiatives with the potential for wider reverberations and a wider social impact. Pioneering ideas and methods that can be replicated and scaled across portfolios to increase social impact will be particularly powerful in judges’ deliberations.

This award is open to all companies active in the built environment, including agents, developers, investors and architects. Judges will be looking for clear, quantitative examples of improvements being taken by your business, through your business practices and, if relevant, across your portfolio, to improve sustainability. This should include measures being taken to reduce carbon emissions, energy use, waste, etc. Clear examples of how key milestones in your journey to net zero have been met should form part of your submission. Judges will be looking for measures implemented and their impact, not just future plans.

This category recognises a standout build-to-rent-focused transaction anywhere in the UK.

This could include an acquisition or disposal, an asset management initiative that has reaped dividends or a new development completed during the period under review.

Big pound signs will be eye-catching, but the most significant deal will not always be the largest. Our judges will be looking for transactions that have defined a particular market, and dealmakers that have overcome challenges to seal the deal.

Submissions are welcome from any party involved with the transaction, regardless of role. Please ensure that the submission also credits other companies in the deal.

This category recognises a standout industrial or logistics-focused transaction anywhere in the UK.

This could include an acquisition or disposal, a significant letting or prelet, an asset management initiative that has reaped dividends or a new development completed during the period under review.

Big pound signs will be eye-catching, but the most significant deal will not always be the largest. Our judges will be looking for transactions that have defined a particular market, and dealmakers that have overcome challenges to seal the deal.

Submissions are welcome from any party involved with the transaction, regardless of role. Please ensure that the submission also credits other companies in the deal.

This category recognises a standout life sciences-focused transaction anywhere in the UK. This could include an acquisition or disposal, a significant letting or prelet, an asset management initiative that has reaped dividends or a new development completed during the period under review. Both lab and office-focused life sciences transactions will be considered. Big pound signs will be eye-catching, but the most significant deal will not always be the largest. Our judges will be looking for transactions that have defined a particular market, and dealmakers that have overcome challenges to seal the deal. Submissions are welcome from any party involved with the transaction, regardless of role. Please ensure that the submission also credits other companies in the deal.

This category recognises a standout office-focused transaction anywhere in the UK.

This could include an acquisition or disposal, a significant letting or prelet, an asset management initiative that has reaped dividends or a new development completed during the period under review.

Big pound signs will be eye-catching, but the most significant deal will not always be the largest. Our judges will be looking for transactions that have defined a particular market, and dealmakers that have overcome challenges to seal the deal.

Submissions are welcome from any party involved with the transaction, regardless of role. Please ensure that the submission also credits other companies in the deal.

This category recognises a standout student accommodation-focused transaction anywhere in the UK.

This could include an acquisition or disposal, a significant deal struck with a university, an asset management initiative that has reaped dividends or a new development completed during the period under review.

Big pound signs will be eye-catching, but the most significant deal will not always be the largest. Our judges will be looking for transactions that have defined a particular market, and dealmakers that have overcome challenges to seal the deal.

Submissions are welcome from any party involved with the transaction, regardless of role. Please ensure that the submission also credits other companies in the deal.

This award seeks to celebrate partnerships between the public and private sector that are delivering solutions through real estate. Partnerships should have been established during the year under review or have achieved a significant milestone during the review period. Judges will want to see evidence of success of the partnership, including financials. Innovative partnerships that are providing solutions to societal and environmental issues should also be highlighted. All submissions should be made by both partners.

This category recognises a standout retail or leisure-focused transaction anywhere in the UK.

This could include an acquisition or disposal, a significant letting or prelet, an asset management initiative that has reaped dividends or a new development completed during the period under review.

Big pound signs will be eye-catching, but the most significant deal will not always be the largest. Our judges will be looking for transactions that have defined a particular market, and dealmakers that have overcome challenges to seal the deal.

Submissions are welcome from any party involved with the transaction, regardless of role. Please ensure that the submission also credits other companies in the deal.