The Midlands PROPS Awards will span a wide range of categories, from Office Deal of the Year to Industrial Deal of the Year, to the Investment Deal of the Year, the ESG Award, and more!

Last year’s recipients of the PROPS Awards included well established and outstanding companies and individuals such as St Modwen Logistics, Paradise Birmingham, Court Collaboration, Avison Young, Prosperity Wealth, Frontier Development Capital and rising star Elisabeth Pywell from CBRE.

We are delighted to announce our 2024 shortlist:

Building of the Year Award Shortlist

  • Elevate Property Group – Restoration of Old Heaton House.
  • Bruntwood SciTech – Enterprise Wharf.
  • Fabric Design & Build – Radial Project.

The ESG Award Shortlist

  • Midlands Air Ambulance Charity – New Airbase and Headquarters.
  • Keepmoat – Gedling Green.
  • MEPC – One Centenary Way, Paradise.

Industrial Deal of the Year Shortlist

  • Stoford Developments Ltd – Victoria PLC Unit at Worcester 6 Business Park.
  • Frontier Development Capital – The funding and development of the Former Meggitt Facility, Holbrook Lane, Coventry.
  • Barberry – Wolfpack Industrial, at Hilton Cross Business Park.
  • Bromwich Hardy – Sucham Park, Southam, Warwickshire

Investment Deal of the Year Shortlist

  • Praxis – Acquiring Brindleyplace.
  • Moda Living – Build-to-rent scheme developed on former bomb site, Great Charles Street.
  • Sterling Property Ventures – M&B HQ Acquisition, on 103 Colmore Row.

Law Firm of the Year Shortlist

  • Gowling WLG – Advisement on Moda Living JV Deal with Aviva Capital Partners.
  • Higgs LLP – Acting on strategic, complex, and high-value transactions in the Midlands, including the letting for the new Philpotts outlet on Colmore Row.
  • Deloitte – Acted for Digbeth Loc Limited, in respect of the new MasterChef studios in Digbeth.

Office Deal of the Year Shortlist

  • CBRE, Mills & Reeve – Office Space at One Centenary Way, Paradise.
  • CBRE, Lloyds Banking Group – Flexible Office Space at Six Brindleyplace.
  • Cordia UK – Completion of heritage commercial building refurbishment, The Bank.

Residential Developer of the Year Shortlist

  • Wavensmere Homes – For their Urban Regeneration Schemes, including its £175m Nightingale Quarter scheme in Derby city centre, the £106m Belgrave Village development in central Birmingham, and the £130m Barrelman’s Point scheme.
  • Prosperity Developments – Gateway to the Jewellery Quarter, JQ Rise is a striking landmark tower offering extraordinary views and unrivalled city centre access. With its exclusive B1 postcode, this development will provide a contemporary selection of 226 one, two & three-bedroom modern and sustainable luxury city centre apartments.
  • Elevate Property Group – For their extensive contributions to Birmingham and Solihull with the completion of Priory House (£22m), the near sell-out at Heaton House (£20m) and phase 2 of the hugely popular 60-strong apartment scheme at Imperial House (£18m).
  • Barratt David Wilson Homes – For B5 Central. A modern development of 778 homes in central Birmingham. Delivering one and two-bedroom apartments as well as three- and four-bedroom family homes, the scheme not only met the needs of the local community in terms of housing but brought significant investment to the area.

The Rising Star Award Shortlist

  • Tom Rhodes – Keepmoat
  • Kaine Arkinson – Shepherd Commercial
  • Sophie Froggatt – Siddall-Jones
  • Siobhan McGlynn – Brookbanks