Crestyl named ESG Champion company as its developments Palace Savarin (Retail development of the year) and Hagibor Gamma Residence (Residential development of the year) both picked up awards

Across three rounds of judging including a live meeting the night preceding the Gala the 43 strong CEEQA Jury whittled down more than 600 candidates to 27 award winners

Polish developer Archicom’s vibrant restoration of the former Browary Piastowski in Wroclaw, Poland crowned Mixed-use development of the year as well as overall Building of the year Central & Eastern Europe

Region wide development services consultancy make it a hat trick of wins

Austrian bank Erste Group were rewarded for strong presence and performance across the CEE and SEE region

Czech investor’s Prague development crowned Office development of the year as well as overall ESG Champion building

Female chess G.O.A.T. Judit Polgar took on guests five at a time as well as defeating NEPI Rockcastle’s Marek Noetzel on stage blindfolded while the overall best ever  player in history Garry Kasparov lit up the evening with a fiery diatribe against Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Picking up the Portfolio deal of the year award for its acquisition of the Cromwell portfolio, the Czech investor also lifted the Rising star company award and was named overall Company of the year

One of the sector’s increasingly dominant developers scored two big wins at this year’s Gala with the Developer of the year award and award for Building of the year Southeast Europe for its residential sky scraper in Belgrade

Developer giant Panattoni continued its domination of the award taking home the Industrial developer of the award for the eighth time in 10 years