Pictured: Kevin Marriott and Ian Stringer collecting the award

GVA's Birmingham office scooped the title of 'Best Commercial Property Adviser West Midlands' at the International Property Awards, in association with Google and Bloomberg Television. 

Held in London, the Awards have been running for 17 years and are open to commercial and residential property companies from around the globe. The judging panel included over 50 high profile property personalities such as Peter Bolton King, Group Chief Executive of the National Federation of Property Professionals. The panel was chaired by Lord Bates of Langbauragh, the immediate past Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. 

GVA took the regional accolade from the 2010 winner CBRE. GVA was also this year's winner of the national prize of 'Best Commercial Property Adviser UK'. 

Ian Stringer, Regional Senior Director of GVA's Birmingham office comments: "Despite another challenging year, GVA's Birmingham office has been able to maintain its position due to the exceptional results of a number of departments. However, winning awards of this prominence is a really great achievement and is down to the sheer hand work and dedication of the entire office. 

"There are now over 370 people working in our Brindleyplace office, which is our largest office in the UK aside from GVA's West End headquarters. Our Property Management, Property Management Accounts, Valuation Services and Corporate Recovery teams have demonstrated very strong growth over the past year and certainly helped to put forward a formidable case in very testing market conditions to the International Property Awards judging team." 

Having won the national award, GVA will now be put forward into the overall International Property Awards to compete against other winning companies from Asia Pacific, Africa, Arabia, the Americas and Europe.