Property Company of the Year - Offices

BNP Paribas Real Estate is one of Europe’s leading real estate consultancies, with over 3,600 employees in 80 offices. We are committed to improving the financial performance of our clients’ businesses through our real estate services which cover property development; transactions; consulting; valuation; property management and investment management.

As part of BNP Paribas, one of the World’s leading banks, BNP Paribas Real Estate has strong financial backing. From this base we have expanded and developed in order to meet our clients’ needs in an ever evolving and demanding environment. We deliver the  right solutions for property owners, investors and occupiers worldwide.

Outstanding Contribution to Property

Lovell Consulting formed 15 years ago and exclusively specialises in capital allowances.  Capital allowances are a simple means to save tax on property expenditure. It was one of the first independent firms to totally specialise and combine surveying and tax professionals. It is recognised as an industry leader in the provision of independent capital allowances expertise.

Lovell Consulting advises across industries and tax jurisdictions. Clients range from private commercial property owners to global funds. Lovell Consulting advises many leading accounting and tax firms in this specialist area. Lovell Consulting won Best Tax Firm in the World Finance Legal Awards 2012.

Investment House of the Year.

BLP has been providing building defects insurance since 1999, with policies underwritten by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty AG (UK Branch).

Our insurance offers the most comprehensive structural and M&E cover on the market. With full value cover as well as options to cover components and Business Interruption, our bespoke solutions significantly reduce your exposure to collateral warranty and PI claims by transferring all risks of defects to a single policy that protects the whole team.

roperty Company of the Year - Industrial

Malcolm Hollis is one of the UK and Ireland's leading commercial building surveying specialists. 

We are focused on getting the best outcomes for our clients and have a long-established reputation for offering practical, commercially-minded expert advice.  

We have great people, support teams and systems in place meaning we can deliver the best service and the best quality advice.  That’s why we are recognised market leaders in dilapidations and specialists in due diligence surveys, project management, party walls, rights of light and reinstatement cost assessments. 

We operate from a network of 13 offices combining consistently high quality advice with invaluable local presence.

New Business Launch of the Year

Capita Symonds Real Estate advises landlords and occupiers on their property needs and specialises in property management.  The business has been built on 30 years experience developing systems, experience and the capability to manage national portfolios with specialist teams dedicated to retail assets and prestige office properties. 

Our core services of leasing, investment, occupier services, development consultancy, property management and facilities management are complemented by other professional and technical expertise and all of this experience is found in house.

We are proud of the longevity of our client relationships which include some of UK’s largest investment funds, leading property companies, international retailers and household brand names.

www.capitasymonds.com/realestate

Fresh perspectives. Trusted partner.

Property Company of the Year Retail

Nash Bond continues to provide the highest level of service to our broad client base and has seen turnover growth in the past year when many property advisors are struggling.
Our competitors are large global players including CBRE, Cushman Wakefield and Savills yet we are able to claim a large market share of deals and instructions in the highly competitive central London retail market due to our experienced team and senior level resourcing.

Young Property Professional of the Year

Cluttons is a limited liability partnership of chartered surveyors and property consultants founded in 1765. Although proud of our long history, we are a forward-looking, dynamic and diverse business, with a total complement of nearly 500 people.
 
Through our network of offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Asia Pacific*, we offer a very wide range of professional property management, agency and consultancy services across the commercial and residential sectors, for both investors and occupiers.
 
Cluttons is proud to sponsor the Estates Gazette Awards 2012.

* VPC Asia Pacific in association with Cluttons

National Property Adviser of the Year

Location is one of the key influencing factors within the property market. Ordnance Survey is Great Britain's national mapping agency, providing the most accurate, detailed and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and individuals.

Occupier of the Year

Drivers Jonas Deloitte provides comprehensive real estate advisory, transaction and consultancy services to a wide range of private and public sector clients across the UK and abroad.  We are the real estate advisory practice of Deloitte LLP, one of the world’s leading providers of professional services.

Together we have established a new benchmark in how real estate advisory services are delivered, with an unparalleled capability to provide innovative cross service solutions to the most complex property challenges.

Property Adviser of the Year - Residential

Bruce Ritchie’s Residential Land has been one of the most prolific residential investors in prime central London property in the last decade. 

Residential Land currently owns and manages a portfolio of approximately 1,000 properties in prime central London. 

Edward Symmons provides solutions, not problems.

We believe that our niche expertise provides our clients with a different perspective that results in real estate and asset management solutions that add genuine value.

Our services include property and asset valuations and sales; hospitality, leisure and healthcare teams, who understand trading potential and complex financial data, and asset finance specialists.

Our ability to advise on real estate and inventory from our national network of offices means we offer a truly single source solution to our clients requiring a strategic review of their property portfolio or business.  Solutions, not problems.

 National Property Company of the Year

Established in 1855 in the UK, Savills is a global real estate service provider listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Savills now has a worldwide network of more than 500 offices and associates in 45 countries and offers a broad range of specialist advisory, management and transactional services to clients all over the world.

Property Adviser of the Year - Offices

Your office. Our business.

Instant are the world leaders in finding the right office space and making it work for you.

Whatever your need for space, Instant people go further to help you source it, and take pride in making the process stress free. We can help whether you need space for a handful of people for a few months in a serviced office, or for several hundred people in a custom-fitted, fully managed office in the location you choose for as long as you need it.

We will find you the best space in which to work, and then help turn it into a space that really works for you.

Property Adviser of the Year - Industrial

Stoford is a privately owned property company specialising in occupier led pre-lets and operating throughout the UK.

The company is involved in a diverse range of developments across the industrial, office, retail and hotel sectors, having completed or committed to projects covering over 10 million sq ft of commercial property since it was founded in 1996. Our innovative approach to site and contract procurement has ensured that Stoford remains highly competitive and is able to deliver a quality product on time and in budget.

We are proud to have been trusted to develop accommodation for some of the UK’s largest funds (Standard Life/Axa/LaSalle/Blackrock/GE), FTSE businesses (Severn Trent Water /Npower/Admiral Insurance/Tesco/Co-op) and Government Departments (Inland Revenue/DVLA/DSA)

Property Adviser of the Year – Leisure

Citygrove Securities PLC is a specialist developer of commercial property in the UK and Europe, concentrating on large scale retail, leisure, mixed use projects, hotels and offices.

Their strength is working with local authorities, landowners, financial institutions, occupiers and other industry professionals to secure sites, obtain planning permissions and construct high quality buildings.

All schemes are pre-let to major operators to secure bank funding or financial capital from major pension funds, and to minimise the risk to all stakeholders.

Citygrove take pride in their ability to forge successful, long-lasting relationships and are highly regarded for the skill with which they manage their development programmes.

EG Front Cover of the Year

M J Mapp is the UK’s largest firm of Chartered Surveyors specialising in the management of commercial property.

We are committed to providing the best possible level of management across all sectors and currently manage over £6bn of commercial property, from Inverness to Bodmin, for a number of Funds and REITS including; Shaftesbury, Schroders, Standard Life, Scottish Widows, Orchard Street, Cornerstone, Great Portland Estates, AXA, IVG, Mountgrange, Irish Life, Henderson, Lothbury, Invesco and CBRE Global Investors.

M J Mapp employs over 200 people, has a specialist shopping centre team and a Central London office team as well as offices in London, Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol.

 Property Company of the Year - Residential

MWB Business Exchange provides flexible serviced offices and meeting & training venues that fit perfectly around your business. Our spaces are unbranded, placing your business first. With 65 centres across London and the UK, we’re in the most high profile, easily accessible locations.

Businesses of all sizes rely on Business Exchange, from start-ups to SME to large corporates. Our levels of service are the same for every client, with exceptional business hospitality and the highest staff-to-client ratio in the industry.

Business Exchange serviced offices, meeting venues and virtual services allow you to focus on what you do best – run your business.

 Property Adviser of the Year - Retail

Pipers is a multi-disciplinary group based in London and Abu Dhabi providing design and marketing services for property, architecture, infrastructure and city planning.

Pipers Design is a creative agency specialising interactive communications. Pipers Models is one of the UK’s most trusted and diverse architectural model makers. Pipers Projects undertakes bespoke events and exhibitions, including the London Stand at MIPIM. Pipers are also cofounders of NLA – London’s Centre for the Built Environment; which includes exhibitions, conferences and publishing. For examples of work, please visit pipers.co.uk.

Property Company of the Year – Offices

TAP was founded by Howard Bottomley and Rob Riley to assist Tenants, Owners and Managing Agents to better understand their contractual relationship and the wider issues of occupying property. We are impartial and RICS regulated and operate as a bridge of communication between the parties to the lease.

We utilise web-based systems and a powerful email platform to host proprietary data about both the buildings themselves and important tenant documents before proactively communicating salient industry and building-specific messages on behalf of the Owner/Manager in support of their brand.

Our clients represent some of the UK’s leading Owners and Managers.