Property Guru Asia Property Awards opens for entries

PropertyGuru, Asia’s leading property technology company and the host of the region’s largest and most respected real estate awards, has officially opened the nominations and entries period for its prestigious competition to take place on July 26, at the Shangri-LaHotel in Colombo.

The third Annual PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Sri Lanka) recognises the year’s most outstanding developers, projects and design. Online submissions are now being accepted at www. AsiaPropertyAwards.com. Nominations are open to the industry and the public, the organisers said in a media release.

Open categories include Best Condo, Housing, and Residential Development in Colombo, North East, Central, and Southern Sri Lanka. There are also commercial categories for Best Retail, Office, Mixed Use, Industrial, Hotel Development, and Boutique Hotel Development. A new category for Best Residential Development (Maldives) has been added due to strong interest from residential developers on the island.

A few special awards are lined up for entrants with exemplary track record in Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR), Sustainable Development, Design and Construction, Customer Care, and Building Communities initiatives. In addition, a new Sri Lanka Real Estate Personality of the Year awardee will be named; it was presented for the first time in 2018 by the editors of PropertyGuru Property Report magazine to Pradeep Moraes, Director of Indocean Developers (Pvt) Ltd, and Chairman of the Condominium Developers Association of Sri Lanka (CDASL).

The highest honours will go to the Best Developer and Best Boutique Developer. The main category winners of the local competition will then be eligible to compete at the regional Asia Property Awards Grand Final to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in late November where finalists from more than 15 markets from Sri Lanka to Australia will vie for regional accolades.

“With a solid reputation for fairness, transparency and credibility, the 2019 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Sri Lanka) will be independently judged by a respected panel of experts led by Dr. Nirmal de Silva, Director and CEO of Paramount Realty. The judges will also conduct supervised site inspections for longlisted nominees,” the release added.