For the past few years, EG has gathered a host of experts from across the industry at the BT Tower in London to comb through the hundreds of entries we get for the EG Awards.
Judges take in the 360-degree views of the capital as they debate, deliberate and drink copious amounts of coffee to come up with shortlists and winners for the awards. But not this year.
This year it was a case of BYOB (bring your own biscuit) as we spent a week on Teams calls with judges at their homes to pore over the entries. Some, as you’ll see, even gave us a little insight into what life in lockdown has been like for them – from getting the hang of parenthood, enjoying nature, spending time with their pooches and exercising their brains and bodies.
After much back and forth, our panels came up with a stellar shortlist and a cracking set of winners – but you’ll have to wait until 29 October to find out who was victorious. Judges were particularly tough this year, with only the very best of the best making it on to tight shortlists for each category.
Read on to see who is in the running for one of this year’s coveted EG Awards.
The shortlist
COMPANY AWARDS
UK Adviser Award
- BNP Paribas Real Estate
- Gerald Eve
- JLL
- Knight Frank
- Savills
Global Adviser Award
- Altus Group
- Knight Frank
- Savills
UK Company Award
- Derwent London
- Grainger
- Great Portland Estates
- M7 Real Estate
- Muse Developments
- Redrow Homes
- SEGRO
- St Modwen Properties
Global Company Award
- AEW
- M7 Real Estate
- Nuveen Real Estate
Legal Team Award
- Addleshaw Goddard
- Brabners
- CMS
- Gowling WLG
- Herbert Smith Freehills
- Kirkland & Ellis International
- Town Legal
- Shoosmiths
Property Management Innovator Award
- Grainger
- Knight Frank
- MAPP
- Student Cribs
SECTOR AWARDS
BTR Innovator Award
- Dolphin Living
- Get Living
- Grainger
- Greystar
- Long Harbour
Industrial & Logistics Innovator Award
- Knight Frank
- Mileway
- SEGRO
- Stenprop
Best Workspace Award
- Bruntwood SciTech
- Containerville
- Financial Conduct Authority with Perkins & Will and CBRE
Alternatives Innovator Award
- Fortwell Capital
- Ollio The Building Performance Consultancy
- Student Cribs
HUMAN AWARDS
Rising Star Award
- Amie McCabe, senior architect, AHR Architects
- Becky Jones, head of partnerships, Appear Here
- James Rosenfeld, principal, Blackstone
- Mariya Tsvetkova, associate, investments, FORE Partnership
- Maria Hatch, director, chapter resident experience, Greystar
- Emma Harvey, director, Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings, Green Finance Institute
- Gaia Arzilli, innovations & partnership lead, HB Reavis
- Adam Hinds, wellbeing property consultant & project manager, LifeProven Wellbeing Property Consultancy
- Prasanna Kannan, co-founder, Native Finance
- Esha Vatsa, investment manager, Pi Labs
- Tom Drogman, co-founder, Smart Spaces
- Hamza Shahkhan, data scientist, Travtus
- Eden Dwek, head of global expansion, WiredScore
- Hamish Dupree, head of London markets, WiredScore
- Riccardo Iannucci-Dawson, chief executive & founder, Yourkeys
Employer Award
- Hollis
- Knight Frank
- LCR
- VTS
Sustainability Award
- British Land
- Great Portland Estates
- Nuveen Real Estate
- Project Etopia
Social Impact Award
- Assura
- Battersea Power Station
- Patron Capital
- Dolphin Living
- The Communication Group
- TOWN
Future Of Real Estate Award
- Berkeley Group
- Matterport
- Project Etopia
- Sook Spaces
- TOWN
- Urban Splash
- VU.CITY
- Yourkeys
DEAL AWARDS
London Deal Award
- Connected Living London
- CO-RE and Mitsubishi Estate
- Delancey
- Derwent London
- Finchatton
Regional Deal Award
- Barwood Capital
- Blackstone
- Christie & Co
- DWS
- Knight Frank
- Legal & General and Oxford University
- Urban Splash
Entries for the Superhero Award are open until 28 August – nominate an individual, group, company, or body that has demonstrated superhero-like qualities during the coronavirus pandemic.
The judges
- Sebastian Abigail, vice president of business development, EMEA at Convene
- Tania Adir, chief executive, Uncommon
- Josh Artus, co-founder, Centric Lab
- Ross Bailey, chief exectuve & founder, Appear Here
- Chris Bennett, co-founder Evora Global
- Sue Brown, managing director, Real Estate Balance
- Etienne Cadestin, founder and chief executive, Longevity Partners
- Emma Cariaga, joint head of Canada Water for British Land
- John Carter, commercial director, Aldermore
- Helen Davis, director, Arup
- Sandeep Dhillon, principal surveyor, Cabinet Office
- Rachel Dickie, director of urban regeneration, Legal & General Capital
- Kaela Fenn-Smith, former managing director, Real Estate Balance
- Jakes Ferguson, commercial property adviser, Whitehall and central London
- Pete Gladwell, head of public sector partnerships, Legal & General
- John Gravett, head of real estate management, Cluttons
- Charlie Green, co-chief executive, The Office Group
- Emily Hamilton, associate director, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland
- Michela Hancock, managing director for Europe, Greystar
- Alanna Hasek, legal director, DLA Piper
- Chris Ireland, chief executive, JLL UK
- Andrew Jones, chief executive, London Metric
- Eva Kiivit, regional operations manager, Greystar
- Melanie Leech, chief executive, British Property Federation
- Rebecca Lovelace, founder, Building People
- Jon Lovell, co-founder, Hillbreak
- David Mann, executive partner, Tuffin Ferraby Taylor
- Sadie Morgan, co-founder dRMM; founder, Quality of Life Foundation
- William Murray, director & founding partner, Wordsearch
- Patrick Nelson, executive vice-president of real estate, WeWork
- William Newton, president and managing director, WiredScore
- Alexandra Notay, build-to-rent fund director, PFP Capital
- Anna Parry, company director, Hayes Davidson
- Alex Price, chief executive, Fiera Real Estate
- Sarah Ratcliffe, chief executive, BBP
- Richard Rees, managing director, Savills UK
- Mark Robinson, property director and co-founder, Ellandi
- Savannah de Savary, founder and chief executive, Built-ID
- James Seppala, senior managing director & head of real estate, Europe, Blackstone
- Jason Sibthorpe, principal and president, Avison Young UK
- Paul Wheatley, global property director, Lush
- John Woodman, senior partner, Hollis
