Meet Our Sponsors
Headline Sponsor
Walter Cooper is a dynamic land agency set up in 2020 with a vision to create a bespoke, client-first service to help Housing Associations, SME’s and Housebuilders grow their housing portfolios. Set up by Simon Cox and joined by Ollie Dyson and Nigel Palmer, their 40 years of expertise spans across the UK with a South-East focus, positioned to, as well as see commercial businesses advance their logistic and industrial site outreach.
Acting with flair and pragmatism, Walter Cooper’s unique approach to putting land deals together, whilst considering the interests of each party, has already produced significant success in their first two years of trading.
More than just a land agency, Walter Cooper’s passion and genuine desire to improve the environment for future generations has led them to seek active involvement in a public affairs programme to help provide solutions to the current planning quagmire and promote socio-economic growth.
Affordable Housing Provider of the Year
Sponsored by SiteSales
Private Developer of the Year
Sponsored by The Media People
The Media People – Online, Offline we are your People
We love working with clients face to face, getting to understand their business and our biggest buzz, is helping to make that difference on their media campaigns
TMP specialise in creating campaigns that aren’t defined by any one media channel or one approach. You won’t find generic templates or dashboards, our team are customer-centric, curious and trained to give clients real insight.
Our client teams are expected to have a thorough understanding of each individual business and their market. If more specialist knowledge is required our Insight Team, Sensa, and the Digital Hub, combine cutting edge technology with expert advice, to steer through an ever changing media landscape.
TMP is a Media Agency that delivers results because we are specialists not generalists.
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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, 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-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 a satisfied client who has achieved their dream of homeownership with the minimum of fuss.
Best Small Development
Best First Time Buyer Apartment
Sponsored by JLL
JLL is the UK’s leading new homes property advisor with over 25 years’ experience. As trusted professionals, we provide access to the largest range of new homes, from boutique developers to the country’s largest housebuilders.
Our team of experts works closely with developers and housing associations in bringing some of the UK’s best properties to market, from Help to Buy developments available to first time buyers to high-end schemes in Prime Central London.
Best First Time Buyer Family Home
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 home ownership to affordable rent and back again.
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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 2500 potential buyers contact us, our goal is to help, help establish what’s affordable for the buyer, help them achieve the right mortgage. In tandem to helping 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 or portals for buyers and HA’s. 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 buyer and HA’s.
Can we do more? Always…working with lenders, regulators and stake holders to give Shared Ownership the positioning it deserves
Best Partnership
Sponsored by Sharratts
Sharratts are a boutique firm of senior housing Solicitors providing a professional, affordable service specifically for Affordable Housing providers and their partners.
Providing commercial and practical advice in a helpful and approachable manner, we are committed to excellence, are recognised affordable housing specialists and are acknowledged within the sector as experts in the field.
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 who can offer advice on all other types of property transaction.
Best Law Firm for Conveyancing
Sponsored by Dawson Cornwall
Best Use of Online Tools
Sponsored by Keaze
Brought to you by Keaze, KPro is a powerful digital software toolkit designed to streamline the sales and lettings process for both providers of affordable homes, and their customers.
As industry specialists, we understand the complexities that can arise in affordable home ownership which is why we designed our software with a range of different housing
providers. This means KPro responds to challenges you may face on a daily basis, as our software was designed by people in your industry; for your industry.
KPro can be taken on a modular basis, or as a
complete package and can easily integrate with your existing systems. Take data-driven decisions via your personalized dashboard, saving your organisation time, money and freeing up your sales and marketing teams to continue doing what they’re great at – making home-ownership dreams, a reality.
Best Off-Plan Development
Sponsored by Leaders Romans
Successful shared ownership specialist team covering the whole country with centres in Berkshire, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Northampton. The team benefits from the additional coverage, support and resource available from the branch network that now spans over 175 locations across the UK. Working with the UKs top Housing Associations and Registered Providers to source buyers before guiding them through from registration and eligibility/affordability qualification to handing the keys over and introducing them to their new home. The in-house financial advisers specialise in shared ownership mortgages and dedicated sales progression team ensure a smoother customer journey.
Best Provider to the First Time Buyer Market
Best Show Home
Sponsored by Faust
Faust PR are a boutique, London-based PR agency with a dynamic and tenacious team that understand the world of property inside out. Clients range from volume house builders, housing associations and estate agencies to high end developers and interior designers.
What sets us apart are the long-standing relationships we form with clients, retaining many of them year after year. We understand their needs and offer an original creative strategy to every organisation we work with. We’re a strategic agency that think like journalists, forever coming up with fresh new ideas to promote new homes, through all manner of promotional channels. We are highly experienced in PR stunts, events and crisis management, alongside daily press office functions such as copywriting, social media strategy and management.
Faust consistently compete with large global agencies, delivering impactful and meaningful campaigns. Whether you are a start-up firm or well established brand, we have the knowledge, experience and passion to deliver results that exceed expectations.
Judges Unsung Star
Sponsored by Devonshires
Pre-Drinks Sponsor