MEET OUR SPONSORS
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by
Penningtons Manches Cooper
Penningtons Manches Cooper is a leading UK and international law firm and is recognised as a top class provider of legal advice to the social housing sector. We establish dedicated, long-term relationships with clients, which result in an innovative and commercially aware service. Our award-winning team is valued for its commitment to high standards of customer care.
We recognise that our clients’ market is constantly shifting and faces regular overhauls as the Government tries to deliver much-needed new housing. We are used to advising our clients on these emerging polices; changes in the planning laws; the launch of new funding initiatives and the reversal of priorities in tenure from homeownership to affordable rent and back again.
PRIVATE DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Vesta
INVESTA provides design-led interior solutions to the property industry; servicing developers, housing associations, local authorities, registered providers and agents with unrivalled service and meticulous attention to detail.
Our team is a collaboration of creative minds and property experts. We have over 40 years of knowledge within the property rental and development markets, which makes us the perfect partner to enhance your investment.
Working on the most prestigious developments across London and further afield, we pride ourselves on offering a market-leading service at affordable prices. We are the experts if you want to rent, sell or dress your property.
Every property. Every room. Every detail. Without compromise. INVESTA is a sister company to Vesta Interior Design.
BEST LARGE DEVELOPMENT
Sponsored by LSL Land & New Homes
LSL Land & New Homes is one of the UK’s leading new homes experts, whose service covers all stages of the development process from site acquisition, feasibility through to the disposal of land. In addition we provide tailor-made sales and marketing solutions on behalf of our growing portfolio of clients. We also specialise in, volume, Shared Ownership and Part Exchange, via our dedicated ‘Hubs’ and are able to offer new homes mortgage solutions via RSC and Mortgages First.
We work closely with local authorities, housing associations and developers, across the UK, to help them deliver their strategic objectives for 2022 & beyond. Let us help you.
BEST MEDIUM DEVELOPMENT
Sponsored by Direction Law
Direction Law is one of the most established and largest specialist affordable housing solicitors in the country, operating nationwide from offices in London, the South East, South West and the Midlands. We work with well-over 100 housing associations and specialist agents across the country and completed almost 4,800 new build purchases between April 2021 and March 2022.
We are a friendly, professional firm and we pride ourselves on communicating with our clients clearly and concisely. While other firms may have conveyancers, who deal with a variety of affordable housing cases, we have taken it one stage further and have individual dedicated teams specialising in either new build shared ownership, resale sales and purchases, or new build/Help to Buy respectively – thus ensuring greater expertise.
Our goal is to progress cases to exchange and completion as swiftly as possible, resulting in satisfied clients who have achieved their dream of homeownership with the minimum of fuss.
BEST SMALL DEVELOPMENT
BEST FIRST TIME BUYER APARTMENT
Sponsored by Sharratts
We offer advice in relation to development site acquisitions (including joint ventures), plot sales of all tenures (together with shared ownership resales and staircasing) and have a specialist asset management team which can offer advice on all other types of property transaction.
BEST FIRST TIME BUYER FAMILY HOME
Sponsored by Spicerhaart Land and New Homes
BEST NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH
BEST NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH
Sponsored by Metro Finance
Metro Finance – we just love shared ownership! Every month around 2,500 potential buyers contact us, and our goal is to help – help establish what’s affordable for the buyer, then help them achieve the right mortgage; at the same time as helping to ensure regulatory requirements are met for our partner housing associations, nearly 100 from across the UK.
In support of the sector, we developed shared ownership affordability chatbots, staircasing chatbots and a series of portals for buyers and HAs, all aimed at tracking and streamlining the shared ownership journey. Not content with current speeds, we introduced facial recognition ID checks and Open Banking software to our portals, focused on making it easier for buyers and HAs. Can we do more? Always… working with lenders, regulators and stakeholders to give shared ownership the positioning it deserves