The winners of the 2008 Property Awards
Wednesday December 03 2008
More than 1,000 people including, developers, agents, bankers and senior executives, from the property industry north and south attended this year's Irish Property Awards.
Organised by Property Week and sponsored by the Irish Independent, the event raised more than €17,000 for Our Lady's Hospital For Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin.
This was a record level of fund raising since the awards began seven years ago and its generosity was all the more surprising considering the challenges that are facing the industry.
The awards are considered the top accolades in the Irish property industry across 19 categories in total including Northern Ireland awards, agency awards and developer awards.
The involvement of Property Week in organising the event means that the winners and sponsors receive recognition abroad as well as in the Irish market.
Speaking at the awards presentation the Irish Independent Property Editor Yvonne Hogan said that it was in these markets that genuine levels of excellence, achievement and innovation shine through.
Chris Kilbee, publisher, Property Week said the judging for this year's awards had been a challenging process.
The winners were: Industrial Agency Team of the Year: Jones Lang LaSalle. Irish Residential Agency Team of the Year: Savills Ireland.
Office Agency Team of the Year: CB Richard Ellis. Retail Agency Team of the Year: Savills. Investment Agency Team of the Year: Savills.
Osprey Property's Eircom HQ won two awards one for Sustainable Achievement and the other for Irish Commercial Development of the Year.
Treasury Holdings also won two awards one of which was won by its founding director Johnny Ronan and the other for International Property Achievement. The Developer of the Year went to Chartered Land.
Citi at Titanic Quarter was the Property Deal of the Year and the winners were Harcourt Developments. O'Flynn Construction won the Residential Development of the Year Award for The Elysian apartments in Cork City.
Funding Partner of the year award, which was sponsored by HWBC, went to Ulster Bank.
Tesco Ireland won the Occupier of the Year Award.
Northern Ireland Commercial Agent of the Year: BTW Shiells. Northern Ireland Residential Agency Team of the Year: BTW Cairns.
- Donal Buckley Commercial Property Editor
