Insider's Midlands Residential Property Awards 2025

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Insider's tenth Midlands Residential Property Awards saw a range of projects, businesses and people celebrated for their outstanding successes. More than 350 property owners, professionals and advisers witnessed the presentation of 15 awards, including Residential Property Development of the Year , Small Residential Property Development of the Year, Deal of the Year and Property Personality of the Year. The glitzy black-tie dinner was compered by broadcaster Jason Mohammad.

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00:00Hello, my name's Ian Griffin, Deputy Editor of Midlands Business Insider, and I'm here tonight

00:14hosting the 10th Midlands Residential Property Awards here at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham.

00:21It's a new venue for me, and it's a venue we've not been at at Insider for a few years.

00:27It's a venue for winners, and I've actually just now been watching the conclusion of a four-day

00:34county championship game, and it actually ended in a draw. But tonight is about winners, and in front

00:42of 350 people this evening, there'll be 15 awards given out, everything from Emerging Person of the

00:49Year to Dealer of the Year and two flagship awards for Residential Development of the Year. It's going

00:56to be a fantastic evening. Now let's hear what some of the judges have to say, and let's hear from some

01:02of the winners. Hello, I'm Lucy Blasdale. I'm the Regional Strategic Land Director at Barrett Redrow,

01:08and it has been an absolute pleasure to be involved in the judging for this year's

01:13Midlands Property Awards. The standard of entries this year has been great. Yes, they might have

01:20been slightly fewer in number this year than we've seen in previous years, but they were ones

01:25that we did receive, were a really high standard. There was great dialogue between the judges,

01:32and we did have some debate over who were the winners, because we all had slightly different

01:37views, but we were all agreed in the end. Certainly you can see that a lot of effort has gone into the

01:45creation of these entries, and it's great to see so many people here this evening enjoying the

01:51ceremony. Hi, I'm Fraser Godfrey, Director at Howells. This is my first time being a judge at the

01:58Insider Midlands Residential Property Awards. I was really impressed with the quality of entries

02:03we've seen this year. I think the judges had a real sort of hard time debating who should win the

02:10awards, but we got there in the end, you know, reached the conclusion. And yeah, I think I was

02:15really impressed with the variety that we saw this year. The evening itself has been fantastic,

02:19seen lots of familiar faces, great networking, and you know, it's great to see the best developers,

02:26the best architects, designers here celebrating the awards tonight.

02:30Hi, I'm Hannah Booth, Senior Development Manager at HVD. I'm delighted that we have won

02:37Residential Development of the Year over 100 units. This is for Settle in the Jewellery Quarter

02:44in Birmingham. It's a real honour to have our scheme acknowledged by the Insider Midlands

02:50Residential Property Awards. Just highlights all the hard work that we've put into the scheme,

02:55creating it to be a community for people to work in our co-working lounge, rest in our wellness studio,

03:02and enjoy the rooftop terrace over the summer and the winter months if they can see it.

03:07Hi, I'm Vicki Fox from Turley. I've won the Emerging Property Person of the Year award tonight,

03:14and I'm extremely delighted to have won the award, thanks to the nomination from some of my wonderful

03:20colleagues who I work with at Turley. And yeah, it's a very exciting award to be given tonight. I think

03:30there's a lot of buzz around the industry at the moment, given the political agenda for delivering

03:37homes. And it's very exciting to be a part of some major regeneration projects, which I'm very proud to

03:44have been a part of. And I would just encourage the future generation to get involved and look at career

03:53opportunities. And I am very interested, particularly as someone who didn't know what planning was until

04:00I went to university. I do really want to be a role model for those in the industry and for newcomers who

04:10are aspiring for a really fulfilling career. Yeah, I just say there's a lot of opportunities in this career

04:16for placemaking, but also delivering much needed homes in the country. And I think the West Midlands

04:23at the moment is sort of thriving with opportunities. And it's great to see that this part of the region

04:31is doing so well. And if this part of the region is doing well, then nationally, I think we're all on the

04:38sort of same path for success. So Stuart Buckley, MD of Warwickshire Property Development Group. And I just

04:48have to say what a total shock and surprise it was to win the Personality of the Year award in front of what is

04:56a fantastic crowd and, you know, very experienced property people within the room. What really sort of brought you

05:07home was the fact that, as I was talked about on stage, it was all the partnerships we've done over the years,

05:14and all the schemes that are delivered with a lot of people in the room, and the fact that a lot of the schemes

05:22were difficult schemes. And they happened because of partnership, because, you know, it's not me as an

05:29individual, it's me working with the team. Both, you know, what I love about the Royal Ship Property Development Group

05:36is we have a fantastic team. We have fantastic support from our shareholder. And, you know, we're delivering

05:43thousands of homes across Warwickshire on some challenging sites and some big greenfield sites.

05:50We're delivering small commercial units for SMEs. We're delivering local centres to provide community facilities.

05:57You know, all of that, you know, all of that, you know, is benefiting the whole of the residents in the county.

06:02And so, for me, just, you know, listening to, you know, what people talk about in the room around delivery

06:10and delivering residential, commercial and mixed use, we're doing that and we're doing it, you know,

06:16across a whole county with the support of the county and the residents.

06:21And I think for me, just listening to sort of, you know, all the other people tonight that, you know,

06:29have been nominated and have been put up for awards, when you look at all the schemes that have been delivered,

06:34the first thing you notice on all the awards sheets is the partnership, the architects, the developers, the lawyers.

06:41And that's what embodies the industry win, really, and that's what I enjoy being part of for the last 20 odd years.

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