Yes, your company must be a member in WA. If your company is not currently a Property Council of Australia member, contact the national membership team at [email protected] for more information on membership rates and benefits.

A nomination fee of $440 inc GST applies for all Development Awards, Innovation Awards and WA Property Team of the Year. The remaining four Individual Awards have a nomination fee of $220 inc GST. The nomination fee will be processed at the end of your nomination form and you will not be able to submit your nomination without making this payment. 

You will need to provide credit card details to make this payment, an invoice payment will not be available for this nomination fee. 

Yes. When you have begun your submission there will be an option to email an access link so that you can come back and complete the submission at a later date. If you lose this email, please contact [email protected] for assistance. However, the submission must be submitted by the due date, any submission started prior and not completed/paid for prior to the due date will not be included in the final submissions. 

The criteria is weighted to give entrants an understanding of what the judges will be focusing on. This weighting is also reflected in the judging score sheets. Each award category has different weightings.

Site Tours will be conducted beginning 26 August 2024, dates for each of the categories will be announced on our website. If you are shortlisted for a site tour, you will be contacted a minimum of 1 week prior and advised of your site inspection date and time. Virtual Site Tours, may need to take place in some instances and you will also be contacted one week in advance to organise a date and time.

Interviews will take place for all Individual and Team Award nominees across two weeks, beginning the week of the 16 September 2024. We will announce the interview date for each category on our website. If you are shortlisted for an interview you will be contacted to arrange a suitable date and time at least one week prior. Your referees may also be contacted for a phone interview during this time.

This year we will be holding briefing sessions, this will be a place for you to ask any questions you may have when it comes to your nominations. We have setup 3 general sessions to discuss across all categories. If you would like to attend one of these sessions, please register your interest for the session with [email protected] and we will add you to the team links.

Session 1: Tuesday 21 May 2024 9:00am WST – In person briefing (locations tbc)

Session 2: Thursday 13 June 2024 2:00pm WST – Teams briefing

Session 3: Monday 1 July 2024 12:00pm WST – Teams briefing (Nominations close this week)

All nominations will go through a strict judging process prior to finalists and winners being selected. If an insufficient number of applications are received for any award category, the Property Council WA reserves the right to withhold awarding a winner.  Should this occur, the nomination fee will be returned to any applications who have nominated in the award category.

Yes, many projects can be eligible for more than one category. Individual nominations must be completed addressing the relevant selection criteria.

Yes, please check award criteria for specific date of completion.

Where the development is multi staged the entrant may nominate a completed stage and will be awarded on the basis of the completed stage only. The entrant may also nominate further stages as they are completed in future awards but will only be recognised for those nominated stages not previous ones.

Whilst there is provision within the submission form to provide financial information, the WA Property Awards take into consideration many factors when judging a submission including but not limited to; project vision, placemaking, innovation, sustainability, user satisfaction, quality of design and finish and economic and financial factors.

Yes, you may submit a nomination with another company. It is important that both companies are listed on the nomination form for marketing purposes. However, if completing a joint submission there must be only one point of contact and payment made by one company. The main point of contact must be a member in WA, with the second at least a Property Council member.

All judges are highly experienced and respected professionals from various sectors of the property industry. The decision of the judging panel is final and no communication will be entered into concerning the final decision. The judges reserve the right to move a nomination to another category if appropriate and the nominee will be advised by the WA Property Council Events Manager if this action is deemed necessary. View the members of the judging panel.

For an asset to be considered operational for the purposes of award submission, the nominee must be able to demonstrate that the asset holds a current ‘Certificate of Occupancy’. Your project must be ready to be leased for the required time period listed for the award.

For an asset to be considered ‘single store’ it must be a single store inside a shopping centre, retails property, strip shop or on its own. For an asset to be considered ‘small scale retail’ it can be part of a shopping centre, part of a retail property or part of a strip shop development; for example, the project could be a food court refurbishment within a shopping centre. Should you submit your project, and it doesn’t fit these criteria the Property Council will contact you to advise.

You must provide a Business Logo and a minimum of 4 images for both the Development Awards and Marketing and Innovation Awards.

Please put your photos in a PDF document and upload this for ease of viewing for the judges.  For the Individual Awards, you are required to provide a headshot along with a business logo. You can also include images but these are not required.

Please note that any images uploaded may be used in our marketing internally and externally for the WA Property Awards.

All nominations must be submitted through the online nomination portal, nominations will not be accepted via email entry.