Best agency and best eco-warrior

am Golding Properties was recognised as the Best Estate Agency SA for the 12th year in succession at the International Property Awards (IPAs) held in London. The company was also awarded Best Real Estate Agency Marketing SA and Best Real Estate Agency Website SA.

PPam Golding Properties now competes for the regional award for Best

Real Estate Agency Africa and, if successful, for the international award World’s Best in this category.

“In this highly competitive, ever-evolving industry, coupled with ongoing technological advances, retaining a leadership

position requires constant innovation, dedication and flexibility across all spheres of the business,” says Pam Golding Property Group CEO Andrew Golding.

Pam Golding Properties has also been sponsoring awards locally — its Eco-Angel Award at

SA’s Eco-Logic Awards 2019 aims to drive green consciousness among consumers and to integrate a green agenda into future residential property. The awards acknowledge South Africans or organisations for ecological products, services or initiatives.

The winner of this year’s Eco-Angel Award is environmental activitist Rhian Berning from Plettenberg Bay. Berning’s online platform Eco Atlas empowers citizens to vote with their wallets for a better planet.

She also initiated Renew Able Plett, a campaign with Ecobrick projects at schools that also incentivises businesses and the public to stop the scourge of singleuse plastics. In addition, Berning built herself a new off-the-grid home after the Garden Route fires of 2017.

Pam Golding Properties head of strategy Anthony Stroebel says Berning and other local innovators are “actively promoting a more sustainable world and finding solutions to the earth’s most pressing environmental challenges”.