The 17th edition of private real estate’s most anticipated awards is launching today with our customary call for submissions.

The 2022 PERE Global Awards are bigger once again too, with 72 categories this time around for institutional managers, investors and their advisers to contest.

In a notable difference to last year, we are introducing four categories dedicated to activity in data centers and other digital forms of physical real estate. This is an acknowledgement of exponentially growing activity from institutional investors and managers in the sector.

The first half of this year alone accounted for data center investments exceeding $24 billion in value, according to JLL, equivalent to 50 percent of all digital real estate deals concluded in 2021. The broker has witnessed the sector growing at a compound annual rate of 15 percent for the last 10 years, making it now the fifth biggest institutional-grade real estate sector, closely behind multifamily and logistics, hitherto the industry darlings of property types.

Annual spending on cloud services is expected to surpass $200 billion in 2022, as per JLL’s research, up from $178 billion in 2021 and $129.5 billion in 2020. Given that trajectory, and with supply and development constraints likely to see the data industry’s real estate remain resilient to inflationary and energy crisis pressures, PERE determined now is the right time to award those in the private real estate sector looking to capture the opportunity arising from these dynamics.

For the first time, firms can submit to be nominated in:
Data Center Firm of the Year: Global;
Data Center Firm of the Year: North America;
Data Center Firm of the Year: Europe;
Data Center Firm of the Year: Asia.

Following the introduction of ESG and Proptech Firm of the Year categories last year, the PERE Global Awards consistently aim to reflect the ever-changing conditions and trends of the private real estate capital markets.

These categories sit beside our longstanding categories including Firm, Investor, Capital Raise, Capital Advisory and those dedicated to asset classes and specific geographies.

Last year’s awards attracted approximately 20,000 votes across 71 categories, twice as  many as was collected in 2020. That is testament to the prestige and validity of private real estate’s only global awards where the winners are voted for by you, our trusted readers.

We look forward to determining the nominations for this year’s awards, a process that starts today with our call for submissions.

To apply, access the official form here.

The key dates to know

Friday, October 28 – call for submissions.
Monday, November 14 – deadline for submissions.
Monday, December 5 – revelation of nominations, launch of voting.
Monday, January 9  – voting closes.
Wednesday, March 1 – winners are announced.

The deadline for submissions is November 14. Senior team members from PERE and parent company PEI Media will then consider these alongside our field research and outreach to industry leaders to construct shortlists of nominations for each category.

Each shortlist comprises four candidates. Submissions are not a prerequisite for entry but are useful for aiding selection committees with their choices.

Once determined, voting for the awards will be launched on December 5. You will have the chance to determine which investors, managers, advisers and individuals deserve to be crowned for their efforts in the past 12-month period. Voting closes on January 9, 2023, and the winners will be announced on March 1.

For nomination application guidance, click here.

2022 PERE Global Awards:

Global categories:
Firm of the Year: Global

Industry Figure of the Year: Global

Institutional Investor of the Year: Global

Capital Raise of the Year: Global

Deal of the Year: Global

ESG Firm of the Year: Global

Indirect Firm of the Year: Global

Debt Firm of the Year: Global

Office Investor of the Year: Global

Residential Investor of the Year: Global

Retail Investor of the Year: Global

Logistics Investor of the Year: Global

Hotels & Leisure Investor of the Year: Global

Alternatives Investor of the Year: Global

Data Center Firm of the Year: Global

Proptech Firm of the Year: Global

 

North America:
Firm of the Year: North America

Industry Figure of the Year: North America

Institutional Investor of the Year: North America

Capital Raise of the Year: North America

Deal of the Year: North America

ESG Firm of the Year: North America

Debt Firm of the Year: North America

Capital Advisory Firm of the Year: North America

Office Investor of the Year: North America

Residential Investor of the Year: North America

Logistics Investor of the Year: North America

Hotels & Leisure Investor of the Year: North America

Data Center Firm of the Year: North America

Law Firm of the Year [Fund Formation]: North America

Law Firm of the Year [Transactions]: North America

 

Europe:
Firm of the Year: Europe

Industry Figure of the Year: Europe

Institutional Investor of the Year: Europe

Capital Raise of the Year: Europe

Deal of the Year: Europe

ESG Firm of the Year: Europe

Debt Firm of the Year: Europe

Capital Advisory Firm of the Year: Europe

Office Investor of the Year: Europe

Residential Investor of the Year: Europe

Logistics Investor of the Year: Europe

Hotels & Leisure Investor of the Year: Europe

Data Center Firm of the Year: Europe

Firm of the Year: UK

Firm of the Year: Germany

Firm of the Year: Nordics

Firm of the Year: France

Firm of the Year: Southern Europe

Firm of the Year: Central & Eastern Europe

Law Firm of the Year [Fund Formation]: Europe

Law Firm of the Year [Transactions]: Europe

 

Asia:
Firm of the Year: Asia

Industry Figure of the Year: Asia

Institutional Investor of the Year: Asia

Capital Raise of the Year: Asia

Deal of the Year: Asia

ESG Firm of the Year: Asia

Debt Firm of the Year: Asia

Capital Advisory Firm of the Year: Asia

Office Investor of the Year: Asia

Residential Investor of the Year: Asia

Logistics Investor of the Year: Asia

Hotels & Leisure Investor of the Year: Asia

Data Center Firm of the Year: Asia

Firm of the Year: China

Firm of the Year: Japan

Firm of the Year: India

Firm of the Year: Australia

Law Firm of the Year [Fund Formation]: Asia

Law Firm of the Year [Transactions]: Asia