CEEQA is widely regarded as the most trusted and important industry recognition in commercial real estate across 18 countries in New Europe, and one of the most respected industry awards for the real estate business in Europe. Organised each year by Imagine Live Media in association with the Financial Times to recognise business excellence and leadership and to showcase the achievements and opportunities of the Central & Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe commercial real estate sector to the global investment arena.
Entry forms are available in the CEEQA website www.ceeqa.com, the deadline for entries for the fourteenth edition of the awards is 31st January 2017. The awards are for the best new projects, best performing companies and outstanding industry professionals in the sector during the previous calendar year [2016] in 23 categories, they are judged each year by a panel of jurors selected from senior management representatives of market leading companies active in the New Europe real estate market place through a detailed and rigorous procedure, online and offline, closely supervised by Deloitte [see Appendix 2 for jury list].
The sector’s most coveted industry awards are presented at the annual CEEQA Gala in Warsaw each April attended by 750 regional and international business leaders from more than 50 countries, the flagship annual event for the sector.
The 2017 CEEQA Gala will be held at SOHO Factory in Warsaw on 26th April 2017. A special business report tie-in focusing on the New Europe property sector is published by the Financial Times on the day of the CEEQA Gala.
2016 CEEQA Gala shines bright light on sector successes
Warsaw based real estate investor and developer Griffin Real Estate continued their extraordinary rise up the New Europe real estate charts with the awards for Investor of the Year and, for the second year running, overall Company of the Year in the 2016 edition of the CEEQA Awards, while Skanska continued their run of CEEQA successes with another two awards in the Developer of the Year and overall Green Leadership categories, adding to their earlier successes in the RealGreen Developer and RealGreen Building of the Year categories announced at the CEEQA@Mipim reception in March, the fourth time the Swedish company has won four awards or more in the past five years.
Global advisor JLL was also a multiple winner in the Agent of the Year Office Agency and Capital Markets categories and remain the only company to have won a CEEQA award every year for the past thirteen years since its inception, as were New Europe Property Investments in picking up the Building of the Year SEE award for their Mega Mall Bucharest project as well as the Rising Star award, while Penta Investments’ Aviatica project in Prague was named Office Building of the Year as well as overall Building of the Year CEE.
Also in the buildings section Multi Corporation were successful in the Retail Development category with their Forum Lviv shopping centre in Lviv, western Ukraine, and the Hotel, Leisure and Residential Development of the Year award went to the new Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Hotel in Mlini, Croatia.
Also successful in the Agent of the Year categories were Cushman & Wakefield with the award for Retail & Leisure Agency and Colliers International with the award for Industrial Agency, while CBRE picked up the award for Property Management Company of the Year. Dentons stamped its extraordinary domination of the Legal & Financial Services category once again, as did Panattoni Europe in the Industrial Developer category and Arcadis in the Development Services category, as Helaba lifted the Lender of the Year award for the second time running and the third time in five years. Strabag were named Construction Company of the Year.
One of the highlights of the night was the crowning of Ian Worboys as 2016 CEEQA Industry Professional of the Year. Having built his regional company P3 Logistic Parks into a marketing leading logistics developer to rival the international power houses active in the region, he has shown impressive leadership in the past year as his company has firmly established itself as a top 3 player in the segment.
In addition to the live show by Bonnie Tyler, gala guests were treated to an opera singing performance by up-coming star Adriana Ferfecka and lounge sessions by Milan based musician and DJ/Producer Gioli Lipari among a stellar array of entertainment. Gala guests raised a total of 22,000 euros for a local children’s charity Fundacja Dziecieca Fantazja.
The 2017 edition of the New Europe property sector’s flagship annual gathering will take place once again at SOHO Factory on Warsaw’s post-industrial east bank. Tickets available on the CEEQA website.
