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

Hungarian developer and investor ‘s deputy CEO Sass elected as the sector’s Rising star industry professional while legal eagle Stankiewicz named Industry professional of the year

Polish agency continues it’s proprietorship of the award for the best agency operating in a single country market across 18 countries CEE & SEE

A hat trick of awards for overall Agent of the year, Capital markets agent of the year and Property management company of the year positioned the company as the leading real estate advisor of the sector for the second year in succession

Star Capital Finance, Crestyl, Zeitgeist Asset Management, AFI Europe, Archicom and Cushman & Wakefield were dominant in the awards at the 2025 edition of CEEQA with Kasparov, Polgar and company spearheading a chess theme at the event. Read all about it!