Maximum recognition for excellence in real estate development and investment.
5th November
Finalists
BTR (Build-to-Rent) Project of the Year
Casoni
Sioni Group
New York, USA
New York, USA
Dolphin Square
AXA IM
London, UK
London, UK
Newmarket Yards
Bain/Reddy A+U
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Corporate Project of the Year
65 Gresham street
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
London, UK
London, UK
Flamboyant Corporate
Flamboyant Urbanismo
Goiania, Brazil
Goiania, Brazil
RMZ Skyview
RMZ
Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad, India
Hospitality Project of the Year
Altaona Sports & Wellness Resort
The Art of Living in Spain
Murcia, Spain
Murcia, Spain
Baccarat Hotel & Residences Dubai
Shamal Holding
Dubai, UAE
Dubai, UAE
Waldorf Astoria en San Miguel de Allende
Hilton | Skyplus Developments
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Industrial & Logistics Project of the Year
Horizon Industrial Park Farukhnagar II
Horizon Industrial Parks
Farrukhnagar, India
Farrukhnagar, India
Urbanity Campus Tachov
URBANITY Development
Tachov, Czech Republic
Tachov, Czech Republic
Vesta Park Apodaca Building #8
Vesta
Monterrey, Mexico
Monterrey, Mexico
PropTech of the Year
Anarock
Blueground
Built AI
Residential Project of the Year
280 Art Boulevard
Benx
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil
520 Fifth Avenue
Rabina
New York, USA
New York, USA
Forma
Great Gulf | Dream | Westdale
Toronto, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Retail Project of the Year
Oakridge Park
QuadReal Property Group
Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
One Times Square
Jamestown
New York, USA
New York, USA
Sky City Mall
Oberoi Realty
Mumbai, India
Mumbai, India
Jury
António Pereira Dias
Partner
Havenstone
http://www.havenstonecapital.com
916694998
Portugal
Havenstone Capital is an Investment Management firm with a pan-European focus. Leveraging on the team’s extensive experience on both the Equity and Debt markets, the firm is dedicated to funding real estate projects in various asset classes, mostly through senior loans, whole loans and mezz facilities.
Havenstone Capital’s Private Debt platform addresses the observed funding gap in the European real estate market and the tightening of financing conditions from commercial lenders.
The firm also provides Pref Equity solutions as a means of providing liquidity to Real Estate projects across Europe headed by best-in class operating partners.
Attilio Giaquinto
CEO and Founder
Holding 18
http://www.holding18.it/
+39 011 53 43 87
Torino | Italy
My primary occupation is CEO of Giaquinto architetti associati, a design company in the top 150 companies in italy for architecture.
On the side I'm Ceo of other 8 real estate operators specialized in developing of real estate bussinesses
Cristina García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business Development
Azora
http://www.azora.es/
+34 913 106 370
Madrid | Madrid | Spain
AZORA is an independent private equity styled asset manager of real assets, based in Spain but investing across Europe and the USA. It currently manages €9.2 bn of AuM (once its various vehicles committed firepower is fully invested) with Hospitality and Living representing c. 70% of this. AZORA has a value-add approach with a strong track record in pioneering new assets classes in Southern Europe and a special expertise in building fully integrated platforms in operational assets classes.
Ema Iftimie
Managing Director
Globalworth
http://www.globalworth.com/
+40 372 800 000
St Peter Port | București | United Kingdom
GLOBALWORTH invests in best-of-class offices and through innovation, sustainability, and wellness initiatives, it offers spaces where people choose and are proud to work. Through its focused ESG efforts, it has a significant positive impact on its communities and through continuous investment in building technology, it ensures maximum efficiency
Gavin Neilan
Co-Founder
DFI
https://www.deutsche-finance-international.com/
+44 203 931 3792
London | United Kingdom
DFI is a pan-European private equity real estate firm with over €4 billion AUM and offices in London, Munich, Madrid and Luxembourg. The firm focuses on thematic value add and opportunistic strategies investing through discretionary funds, co-investment vehicles and separate managed accounts.
Janusz Dzianachowski
National Managing Partner, Head of Real Estate practice
Addleshaw Goddard
https://www.addleshawgoddard.com/en/
+48 22 526 50 00
Warsaw | Poland
Welcome to Addleshaw Goddard (AG). We are a London headquartered, international, full-service law firm that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes for our clients globally.
We have been advising clients for 250 years, and today we support over 5000 of the world's most respected organisations. We help them in over 50 areas of business law, across more than 100 countries. And while the opportunities and challenges they bring us vary, we solve each in a uniquely AG way.
Jean-Philippe Küss
Founder & CEO
Trustone REIM
https://trustone.fr/
+33 1 45 78 85 18
Paris | France
Investment Manager, Asset Manager and Fund Manager.
Omar Fjer
Head of RE France & Managing Director
Ardian
http://www.ardian-investment.com
+33 1 41 71 92 00
Paris | France
Ardian is a world-leading private investment house, managing or advising $140bn of assets on behalf of more than 1,370 clients globally. Our broad expertise, spanning Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit, enables us to offer a wide range of investment opportunities and respond flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. Alongside our range of direct funds, we build bespoke portfolios for institutional clients through Ardian Customized Solutions and offer a specialist service for private clients through Private Wealth Solutions.
Patricia Pinto
Sierra IG Board Member and Head of IR
Sonae Sierra
http://www.sonaesierra.com/
+351 21 751 5000
Lisboa | Lisboa | Portugal
Sonae Sierra is a property company and full real estate services provider, globally active from Europe to South America, Asia and North Africa. As the partner of choice, we create shared value for our business and society by applying our unique know-how to deliver world-class solutions – including investment management, architecture & engineering, property management, leasing and sustainability services – covering the whole real estate lifecycle. Sonae Sierra has 5 development projects currently
Tim Wilkinson
European Commercial Director
Indotek Group
http://www.indotek.hu/
+36-1 688-1700
Budapest | Hungary
Indotek Group is one of the leading investment management groups in Hungary. It is engaged primarily in investing the assets under its management to purchase real properties and non-performing corporate loans secured by real estate.
António Pereira Dias
PartnerHavenstone
Portugal
António Pereira Dias is a Partner at Havenstone Capital, a leading European venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments. With extensive experience in venture capital and private equity, he specializes in identifying and nurturing high-growth startups across various sectors including fintech, healthtech, and enterprise software. Based in Portugal, António plays a key role in Havenstone's investment strategy and portfolio management, leveraging his deep understanding of European markets and emerging technologies. His expertise spans deal sourcing, due diligence, and post-investment support, helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses internationally. António is recognized for his strategic vision and commitment to supporting innovative companies that drive digital transformation across Europe.
Attilio Giaquinto
CEO and FounderHolding 18
Italy
Attilio Giaquinto is founding partner of Holding18 and of Giaquinto Architetti Associati. He has matured, personally a deep and highly qualified experience in the Italian real estate market including retail, commercial, leisure and residential.
Attilio holds an EMBA at the ESCP Europe.
The G*AA architecture office is designing in this moment over 40 different projects all chacacterized by 3 crucial points:
- quality of architecture
- attention to the commercialization of the asset through very specific design
- sustainability
Attilio is bringing all these characteristics not only on the real estate companies he manages but also in his client investments creating a very special mix of opportunities.
Cristina García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business DevelopmentAzora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution, where she Chairs the Nominations and Sustainability Committee.
Ema Iftimie
Managing DirectorGlobalworth
Romania
Ema Iftimie serves as Managing Director at Globalworth Asset Managers Srl in Romania, one of the leading real estate investment and development companies in Central and Eastern Europe. With extensive expertise in asset management and real estate investment, she oversees strategic operations and portfolio management for Globalworth's diversified property investments. Her leadership contributes to the company's position as a major player in the regional commercial real estate market, focusing on office buildings, mixed-use developments, and retail properties across key CEE markets.
Gavin Neilan
Co-FounderDFI
United Kingdom
Gavin Neilan is a Co-Founder at DFI, a pan-European real estate private equity platform with over €4 billion AUM and offices in London, Munich, Madrid and Luxembourg. The firm focuses on thematic value add and opportunistic strategies investing through discretionary pan-European funds, co-investment vehicles and separate managed accounts. Gavin has 20+ years’ of industry experience, having been involved in more than €10 billion of transactions across Europe, America and Emerging Markets. He is a qualified lawyer, holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied law at UCL.
Janusz Dzianachowski
National Managing Partner, Head of Real Estate practiceAddleshaw Goddard
Poland
Janusz advises international and domestic corporates, investors and developers on major real estate transactions in Poland and CEE. The transactions on which he has advised include acquisitions (including portfolio transactions and sale and leasebacks), joint venture structures for real estate investments, property development, lease agreements (including for build-to-suit projects). He has extensive knowledge of all asset classes. Janusz has been regularly recommended by the most prominent legal directories such as Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and IFLR1000 for his real estate work. He is a member of the firm’s CEE desk
Jean-Philippe Küss
Founder & CEOTrustone REIM
France
Before founding TRUSTONE REIM, Jean-Philippe was Deputy Director within the Investment team at BNP PARIBAS REAL ESTATE and led the team dedicated to Families and Institutional Investors which he had launched 10 years before.
He worked on all types operations: development, yield investment, property trading transactions and supervised more than 500 commercial Real Estate transactions. Jean-Philippe started his career structuring Real Estate investment funds. He then moved to BNP PARIBAS where he held various positions in the Real Estate market. Jean-Philippe graduated from IEP Paris and ASSAS University, Paris.
He worked on all types operations: development, yield investment, property trading transactions and supervised more than 500 commercial Real Estate transactions. Jean-Philippe started his career structuring Real Estate investment funds. He then moved to BNP PARIBAS where he held various positions in the Real Estate market. Jean-Philippe graduated from IEP Paris and ASSAS University, Paris.
Omar Fjer
Head of RE France & Managing DirectorArdian
France
Omar Fjer joined Ardian in 2015. Prior to joining Ardian, he spent 2 years as head of investments at Société Foncière Lyonnaise. He started his career working at Unibail-Rodamco as an asset manager on major French shopping centers.
Patricia Pinto
Sierra IG Board Member and Head of IRSonae Sierra
Portugal
Patricia Pinto is Board Member of Sierra IG - the regulated management company - and Head of Investor Relations at Sonae Sierra. She also serves on the board of APAF – the Portuguese Financial Analysts Association. She has more than 25 years’ experience in capital markets and corporate finance, having held leadership roles at Siemens (the largest engineering company in Europe) and Sonae (the largest private employer in Portugal). Patricia began her international career in Germany and later became Financial and Commercial Director for the Telecommunications Networks Division at Siemens Portugal. She holds a degree in Economics from the Porto School of Economics.
Tim Wilkinson
European Commercial DirectorIndotek Group
Hungary
Tim Wilkinson is driving the European expansion strategy of the Indotek Group, a value-add private fund currently with over Eur 2 bln AUM. Tim is responsible for sourcing and acquiring opportunistic investments across 13 European countries, with a focus on direct assets and/or real estate companies that need new capital to unlock un-realised potential. Previously he spent over 20 years with a focus on the emerging markets of Central & South East Europe, most recently as the Head of Capital Markets and equity partner with the Romanian affiliate of Cushman & Wakefield. Tim is a graduate of Nottingham Trent University and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
How does the GRI Awards Global 2025 work?
Who can participate?
Real estate companies and professionals operating in any country can submit projects, transactions, or initiatives that meet the specific eligibility criteria of each category. There is no limit to the number of projects a company may submit, as long as all entries are eligible.
What is the submission deadline?
The final deadline to submit projects is September 19th, 2025. Submissions received after this date will not be considered.
What are the eligibility criteria?
- Delivery Timeline: Projects must be completed or scheduled for completion between January 2024 and December 2030, in at least one phase.
- Resubmissions: Projects submitted in previous GRI Awards editions may be resubmitted, provided they were not winners in their categories.
- Multiple Categories: A single project may be submitted in multiple categories if it meets the criteria for each. It will be evaluated independently in each category.
- Disqualification: Projects that do not meet the stated requirements will be automatically disqualified.
For more details, please refer to the official regulations.
Is there a submission fee to enter a project?
Yes. A submission fee of USD 800 per project is required for each entry. The project will only be officially eligible for evaluation after payment is confirmed.
Please note: the submission fee is non-refundable under any circumstances, including for projects that are not selected as finalists, with the exception of cases where a category is cancelled due to an insufficient number of eligible submissions. For more details, please refer to the official regulations.
Is there a limit to how many projects a company can submit?
No. Companies may submit as many projects as they wish, provided that each one meets the eligibility requirements.
Who evaluates the projects?
An independent judging panel made up of industry professionals, academics, and association leaders will evaluate the submissions. No judge may vote in a category where a conflict of interest exists. In addition to expert evaluation, there will be an online public vote equivalent to one judge’s vote. In case of a tie, the GRI Institute will cast the deciding vote.
When will the results be announced?
Top 10 finalists announced: September 26, 2025
Public voting: September 26 to October 10, 2025
Awards Ceremony & Cocktail: November 5, 2025 - Abu Dhabi
Need assistance?
For any questions or technical issues during the submission process, contact us at: [email protected]
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