Northfields received the ultimate industry accolades on Friday 20th November by being crowned as winners of three awards at the 2009 Estate Agency of the Year Awards in association with The Sunday Times, held at the Chelsea Football Club’s presentation suite at Stamford Bridge.
Northfields were delighted to receive awards in the following categories:
- Best Medium London Estate Agency of the Year 2009
- Best Training & Development 2009
- Best Estate Agency Innovation 2009
The judges’ report highlighted “Northfields is an impressive L
The event, now in its sixth year, was this year supported for the first time by The Sunday Times and is widely recognised as the most important in the industry calendar. The sold out event attracted agents representing over 4,000 branches nationwide and in a sign of improving times for the market, this year received a record number of award entries. The winners of the 28 categories at the award ceremony were presented with their awards by television personality Penny Smith.
Following their initial submissions, each of the winners was subjected to rigorous scrutiny by a panel of independent industry experts and the whole judging process was overseen by the Property Ombudsman Christopher Hamer.
In addition to title sponsor, The Sunday Times, the 2009 awards sponsors were also supported by the Property Ombudsman and leading professional bodies the NAEA and ARLA.
Peter Knight, Chairman of the event organisers Estate Agency Events was delighted with the 2009 awards, “I hope that our record number of entries this year and the very little time it took for the event to sell out is an indicator that we may have reached the bottom of the slump. There is no doubt that 2010 will still be a challenging year for our industry and the absolute commitment to excellence that all our winners have demonstrated will be vital for the industry to return to growth and thrive in the future. I cannot commend the examples set the winners highly enough.“
The chosen charity for the 2009 Awards was Help for Heroes and the event was addressed by the charity’s Mark Elliott who explained how money raised will go to help the charity’s Launchpad to Life and Combat Stress initiatives which help ex-service people who cannot return to active service and need help re-adjusting to civilian life due to physical or mental breakdowns or injury. Donations on the day raised £5,000 which will be donated to Help for Heroes via the Estate Agency Foundation, an umbrella charity through which agents’ donations go to existing charities that help combat the causes of homelessness.
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