GVA Secures the Double at Insider Property Awards

November 26 2008

It was a great night for GVA Grimley's Birmingham office, which picked up the Office Agent of the Year award at last night's West Midlands Property Awards at the Hilton Metropole. GVA's Malcolm Gloster backed this up by taking the Personality of the Year prize, while the company was also shortlisted in the Industrial Agent of the Year category. Eight hundred West Midlands property professionals packed into the Metropole to join the BBC's John Inverdale to raise money for the Wellchild charity.
 
Property Deal of the Year
Winner DTZ for Wragge & Co's move to Two Snowhill, Birmingham
Shortlisted Coltham Developments' acquisition of Citadel Junction, Bilston
It just had to be this one, said the judges. This deal, in the face of such a difficult market, was the prime exemplar of how it should be done.
Sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland
 
Office Agent of the Year
Winner GVA Grimley
Shortlisted King Sturge, DTZ
There’s no other office agent like GVA Grimley, said the judges. Its team is a league apart and of outstanding quality.
Sponsored by Mace
 
Property Law Firm of the Year
Winner Martineau
Shortlisted Clarke Willmott (highly commended)
Martineau has been deeply involved in many of the year’s more interesting deals. It showed thorough and creative thought processes in its work, and that it was quicker off the mark compared with some of its major rivals.
Sponsored by Capita Architecture
 
Regeneration Project of the Year
Winner Walsall Regeneration for Walsall First, Manor Hospital and St Matthew’s Quarter
Shortlisted Transforming Telford for Nom Dairy, Telford International Rail Freight and Hadley Learning Community; St Modwen for Longbridge
Walsall put forward a range of very strong projects that showed excellence in regeneration, both in terms of business and socially, said the judges.
Sponsored by English Partnerships 
 
Architect of the Year
Winner SMC Corstorphine & Wright
Shortlisted Webb Gray, Glen Howells Architects
SMC Corstorphine & Wright demonstrated an ability to deal with major challenging projects in urban and rural spaces. The winner’s approach delivered sustainable and commercial solutions.
Sponsored by Locate in Birmingham
 
Industrial Agent of the Year
Winner King Sturge
Shortlisted GVA Grimley
In a year in which there was a lot of shed activity, the judges thought King Sturge was behind a strong set of lettings, which it kept up throughout the year.
Sponsored by St Modwen 
 
Residential Developer of the Year
Winner Crosby Lend Lease
Shortlisted Urban Splash 
Despite a very difficult market, the judges said Crosby had the confidence to maintain its work on residential schemes.
Sponsored by Celtic 
 
Inward Investment of the Year
Winner Coventry City Council
Shortlisted InStaffs (highly commended); Walsall Regeneration
Coventry was genuinely ahead of the rest, demonstrated by a series of quality inward investment schemes such as Severn Trent, QCA, and Ikea. A good outfit and well led.
Sponsored by Gallon
 
Commercial Developer of the Year
Winner Ballymore
Shortlisted Calthorpe, Gazeley
Ballymore’s work at Snowhill was an outstanding achievement in an impossible year. The words to describe Ballymore’s work are superlative – it showed nothing but excellence in the field of urban regeneration.
Sponsored by Challinors
 
Construction Project of the Year
Winner Urban Splash for the Rotunda
Shortlisted Bowmer and Kirkland for Lafarge
Urban Splash enabled a landmark building – the one piece of 1960s architecture in Birmingham that needed to be kept – not only to be preserved, but found a genuine new purpose for it. This was a difficult building to work with and Urban Splash made a real success of it.
Sponsored by Clarke Willmott
 
Sustainable Development of the Year
Winner Calthorpe Estates for Calthorpe House
Shortlisted Stoford the Severn Trent headquarters
Calthorpe Estates continues to show it is pioneering in sustainable development. Sustainability is not only top of Calthorpe’s agenda – it puts its words into action.
Sponsored by Faithful + Gould
 
Consultant of the year
Winner Rider Levett Bucknall
Shortlisted DBK Back (highly commended)
Rider Levett Bucknall showed both breadth and range in its work, and was clearly very competent in project management. It demonstrated a strong understanding of the demands of both the public and private sectors. 
Sponsored by RICS
 
Property Personality of the Year
Winner Malcolm Gloster, GVA Grimley
The judges said Gloster was the man who “led arguably the strongest of all the excellent property teams in the Midlands” and was “hugely respected in the public and private sectors for his professional advice, good counsel and wisdom”. He joined GVA Grimley in 1966, became a partner in 1974 and regional senior director in 1998, a post he held until his retirement earlier this year. Within that decade Grimley’s Birmingham office saw fee income reach £130m, an increase of 322 per cent. Gloster specialises in development consultancy with an emphasis on urban regeneration, acting for clients such as Advantage West Midlands, Leicester Coventry and Birmingham city councils and British Waterways.
Sponsored by Advantage West Midlands

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