Singapore’s PropertyGuru Scoops Prestigious CNBC Asia Pacific Property Award for 2nd Year in a Row

PRLog (Press Release) - May 11, 2009 -
Rightly proud of its success, http://www.PropertyGuru.com.sg has won an award in the category of “Best Property Portal, Singapore”. Winners will be invited to attend a high profile industry gala dinner at the Marina Mandarin in Singapore on July 16th where they will be presented with their awards.

The event is part of the International Property Awards, the world’s most prestigious competition dedicated to finding the best real estate professionals across the globe. Hundreds of residential property-related firms from over 56 countries in Asia, Europe and Americas were evaluated by a senior panel of real estate and Internet experts as part of CNBC’s annual International Property Awards process. The fact that http://www.PropertyGuru.com.sg has won one of these coveted awards is proof that it is able to compete at this level and triumph within the highly competitive Asia Pacific property arena.

“We have worked hard to build http://www.PropertyGuru.com.sg into the leading Singapore property site and are delighted to be recognized by our industry peers. It will encourage us to continue to innovate and provide even better service to Singapore’s consumers and real estate clients” said Steve Melhuish, PropertyGuru co-founder and Director.

Later this year, top scoring winners from the Asia Pacific Property Awards will compete against other winning companies from Europe, the Americas and Arabia to find the ultimate World’s Best in each category. Last year, the Asia Pacific region scooped no less than five World’s Best awards – an amazing feat and one which the property industry will be watching with interest to see if it can be beaten in 2009.

Entries were judged by a panel of professionals whose collective knowledge of the property industry is second to none and unsurpassed by any other property awards. Chaired by Eric Pickles, chairman of the Conservative Party, this year’s judges included Ben Wood, industry head property markets of Google UK; Peter Bolton King, group chief executive of the National Federation of Property Professionals; Imtiaz Farookhi, chief executive of the National House Building Council; Christopher Hall, president elect of FIABCI; Wilhelm Harnish, Master Builders of Australia (MBA); Thijis Stoffer, International Consortium of Real Estate Agents Association (ICREA); Helen Shield, editor-in-chief of International Homes magazine and Gillian Farr, head of design of Laura Ashley Home.