Pictured above: Back (l-r) - ehB's Scott Blake, Simon Hain and Nick Evans with (front) - Victoria Mawer

The commercial property market may be facing some of the toughest conditions of recent times - but one Midlands firm of commercial agents is leading by example.

Leamington-based property experts ehB Commercial has just been named as the most active agent in the county by a leading industry publication - Estates Gazette.

Over 60 agents in the area were automatically entered for the award and the Clarendon Place agent came out on top after completing more deals than any other outfit in the county with a total of 75 transactions over a 12 month period.

The Most Active Agent Award 2010 comes on the back of host of recent successes at the Cygnet Court development, in Stratford-upon-Avon.

EHB has completed deals at the Timothys Bridge Road site with Wayleaves, Zinc, Warwickshire Primary Care Trust, BCW, The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Big Red Recruitment Limited.

Retail activity in Leamington has also been buoyant with 10 retail premises let in the town centre during the last nine months and a further six under offer. Major deals have included a letting on Regent Street to European shoe supplier Soloro and long-established Blaze hairdressing relocating to premises in Park Street.

In addition, deals have also been completed at Tournament Court in Edgehill Drive, Warwick including the letting of a 3,600sq ft building to construction experts Rok.

Simon Hain, from ehB Commercial, said the recent success was due to hard work rather than any recent upturn in the fortunes of the commercial property sector.

"It is still tough out there and this success has come as a result of hard work rather than any obvious change in market conditions," he said.

"We are delighted to have received this award, especially when you consider some of the competition we faced from national names in the industry, so we are very proud to have received this sort of recognition.

"We have a great team here at ehB Commercial and the award really underlines this fact.

"To complete this number of deals in a relatively short time frame shows we have an effective and efficient system in place and we hope to continue to develop this as we strive to provide the best possible service to our clients."