2021 WINNERS AND FINALISTS

Congratulations to all winners, highly commended and finalist companies and individuals!

Your submissions were judged by our RESI Awards panel of senior level decision makers and influencers, who also elected the next Residential Personality of the Year. Find out more about our judges and take a look at the RESI 2021 Gallery.

Residential Company of the Decade *NEW*

WINNER : Places for People

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Moda Living

  • Allsop Letting and Management
  • Apache Capital Partners
  • Barratt Developments
  • Countryside
  • Far East Consortium
  • Fizzy Living
  • Get Living
  • Grainger
  • JLL Residential UK
  • Long Harbour
  • Moda Living
  • Moorfield Group
  • Places for People
  • Pocket Living
  • Quintain
  • Realstar Group
  • Sigma Capital Group c/o Simple Life Homes
  • Urban Splash


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Asset Manager

WINNER: Grainger

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Civitas Investment Management

  • Civitas Investment Management
  • Dandara Living
  • Grainger
  • Long Harbour
  • Urban Splash Residential Fund

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Best Covid Response - Residential *NEW*

WINNER: Sigma Capital Group c/o Simple Life Homes

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Resonance

  • Allsop Letting and Management
  • Audley Group
  • Canary Wharf Group
  • Get Living
  • Grainger
  • Greystar
  • Harris Associates
  • JLL
  • LIV Student (Valeo Management Europe)
  • McCarthy Stone
  • Moda Living
  • Places for People
  • Realstar Group
  • Redrow
  • Resonance
  • Sigma Capital Group c/o Simple Life Homes
  • Taylor Wimpey
  • Way of Life


Climate Crisis Initiative - Residential *NEW*

WINNER: TopHat

HIGHLY COMMENDED: ilke Homes

  • Chestertons
  • ilke Homes
  • LGIM Real Assets
  • Optimised Retrofit and Sero
  • Pure Haus
  • Re:Lease by David Phillips
  • Royal Borough of Greenwich
  • Telford Homes
  • Thakeham
  • TopHat

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Consultancy Practice

WINNER: SAY Property Consulting

  • chapmanbdsp
  • LIV Consult
  • Red Loft
  • Rendall & Rittner
  • Savills
  • SAY Property Consulting
  • Stubbings Property Marketing


Deal of the Year - Residential

WINNER: Realstar Group for Project Harmony

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Pension Insurance Corporation and Muse Developments for New Victoria, Manchester

  • Beech Holdings
  • Gracewood Group for  Eric Street Estate Rooftop
    Development and Regeneration
  • JLL for  Project Angel
  • Packaged Living for  The Castings, Manchester
  • Pension Insurance Corporation and Muse
    Developments for
    New Victoria, Manchester
  • Realstar Group for  Project Harmony
  • Westminster Builds and Linkcity for
    The Luton Street and Fisherton Street Regeneration

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Development of the Year

WINNER: Capital&Centric

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Verto Homes

  • A corn Property Group for  The Links, Rest Bay
  • Bellway for  Bellway's Heatherley Wood
  • Berkeley for  South Quay Plaza
  • Blenheim Estate Homes for  Park View
  • Capital&Centric for Phoenix and Crusader 
  • CBRE for  One Crown Place
  • Countryside for  Great Kneighton
  • David Morley Architects for  Matlock Spa
  • Generator Group for  Laureate Fields
  • Greystar and Henderson Park for  Ten Degrees
  • Helical for  Barts Square
  • HUB and Realstar Group  for  UNCLE Wembley
  • Joseph Homes for No. 1 Millbrook Park
  • Middlewood Locks, Manchester and Scarborough
    Group International for
    Middlewood Locks
  • Palace Capital for  Hudson Quarter
  • Places for People for  Brooklands 
  • Royal Borough of Greenwich for  Kidbrooke Park Road
  • Umberslade and Muse Developments for  Phase
    2 of Wapping Wharf, Bristol
  • Verto Homes for  Lyonesse Lane
  • Watkin Jones for  The Helm, Bournemouth
  • Wavensmere Homes for  The Nightingale Quarter
  • Way of Life for  The Wullcomb

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Financier of the Year - Residential

WINNER: ARA Venn

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Cain International

  • abrdn
  • ARA Venn
  • ASK Partners
  • Avamore Capital
  • Beaufort Capital
  • Cain International
  • CapitalRise
  • CrowdProperty
  • Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment
    Management
  • Fortwell Capital
  • Glenhawk
  • Housing Growth Partnership
  • Lloyds Bank
  • OakNorth Bank
  • Paragon Development Finance
  • Pluto Finance
  • Secure Trust Bank Real Estate Finance
  • Shojin Property Partners

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Health and Wellbeing Initiative - Residential *NEW*

WINNER: Building for a Health Life

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Moda Living

  • BPTW
  • Building for a Healthy Life
  • Design Work Studios
  • Foxtons
  • Glenbrook
  • Gravity Co-Living
  • LIV Student (Valeo Management Europe)
  • Londonist DMC
  • Mason & Fifth
  • Moda Living
  • Sigma Capital Group c/o Simple Life Homes
  • Taylor Wimpey

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Landlord (Private and Social)

WINNER: Get Living

  • Get Living
  • Grainger
  • Places for People
  • Windsor Patania

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Large Developer (More than 1000 units)

WINNER: Barratt Developments

  • Ballymore
  • Barratt Developments
  • Middlewood Locks, Manchester and Scarborough
    Group International
  • Places for People
  • Redrow
  • Salboy
  • Taylor Wimpey

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Later Living Operator

WINNER: Audley Group

  • Audley Group
  • Inspired Villages
  • Lilyford
  • Royal Boroug h of Greenwich

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Legal/Professional Team of the Year- Residential

WINNER: Shoosmiths

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Forsters

  • Foot Anstey
  • Forsters
  • Gateley
  • Gerald Eve Residential
  • Howe Chartered Surveyors
  • Macfarlanes
  • Mackrell.Solicitors
  • Pride Consulting IMS
  • Shoosmiths
  • Ward Hadaway
  • Winckworth Sherwood

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Newcomer Award - Residential

WINNER: Spec

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Home REIT

  • Blenheim Estate Homes
  • Bricklane
  • Gravity Co-Living
  • Harrison Street
  • HJ Collection
  • Home REIT
  • LEXI Finance
  • Medshare
  • Packaged Living
  • Pension Insurance Corporation
  • R&F Group UK
  • Silbury Finance
  • Spec
  • SPI Capital
  • Spike Global
  • Stories
  • Urban Splash Residential Fund
  • YTL Developments, Brabazon

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Property Manager of the Year

WINNER: Rendall & Rittner

  • Allsop Letting and Management
  • Ascend Properties
  • FirstPort
  • Gore Property Management
  • JLL
  • PBM Property Management
  • Rendall & Rittner
  • Rhodium
  • The LOWE Group
  • Thrive Homes
  • Touchstone

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PRS Deal of the Year

WINNER: London BTR Investments JV Fund (Sigma Capital Group Limited and EQT Exeter with Simple Life London)

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Get Living and Muse for Lewisham Gatew

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Pension Insurance Corporation and Muse Developments for New Victoria, Manchester

  • Beech Holdings
  • Abrdn and AIG GRE for  – Clarendon Quarter, Leeds
  • Get Living and Muse for Lewisham Gateway
  • Grainger for Capital Quarter - Cardiff, Exchange Square - Birmingham, Queens Road - Nottingham and Millwrights Place - Bristol
  • HUB and Realstar Group for Wembley Link
  • Packaged Living for The Almere
  • Pension Insurance Corporation and Muse Developments for New Victoria, Manchester
  • London BTR Investments JV Fund (Sigma Capital Group Limited and EQT Exeter with Simple Life London)
  • Wise Living and Keon for Cambridge Street

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Sales and Letting Agency

WINNER: Savills Sales and Lettings

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Rettie & Co New Homes Team

  • F oxtons
  • JLL Residential
  • Rettie & Co New Homes Team
  • Savills Sales and Lettings

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Small Developer (Fewer than 1000 units)

WINNER: Beech Holdings

HIGHLY COMMENDED: House by Urban Splash

  • Beech Holdings
  • Bijou Living
  • Fruition Properties
  • Generator Group
  • Hayfield
  • Hollins Homes
  • House by Urban Splash
  • HUB
  • Owl Homes
  • Pocket Living
  • Pye Homes
  • Verto Homes
  • Wavensmere Homes
  • YTL Developments, Brabazon

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Social Impact Initiative - Residential *NEW*

WINNER: Hill Group UK

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Capital&Centric

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Local Space

  • Barking Riverside, Thames Futures
  • Battersea Power Station
  • Bricks & Soul
  • Capital&Centric
  • Rentstart and Commonweal Housing
  • Hill Group UK
  • Home REIT
  • Local Space
  • Places for People
  • Scarborough Group International
  • Telford Homes
  • The LOWE Group
  • Thurston Group
  • Westminster Builds and Linkcity
  • Xmas Party Heroes

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Student Accommodation Operator

WINNER: Fresh

WINNER: Scape

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Abodus Student Living

  • Abodus Student Living
  • CODE Student Accommodation
  • Collegiate AC
  • Fresh
  • Greystar
  • Londonist DMC
  • Nido Student
  • Novel Student
  • Scape
  • Student Castle
  • The Stay Club
  • Torsion Students
  • Urban Creation
  • X1 Lettings
  • Yugo (previously The Student Housing Company)

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Residential Personality of the Year

WINNER: Stephen Ashworth


WINNER: Peter Freeman


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