The Urban Developer has today announced the finalists for The Urban Developer Awards for Industry Excellence, presented in partnership with Trilogy Funds.

The awards program has again drawn an exceptional response from across Australia and New Zealand — this year attracting the highest number of submissions to date and resulting in more than 200 finalists across 28 categories.

Winners will be announced at a black-tie gala event on July 30 at The Star Gold Coast, as part of Urbanity-25.

Details on ticketing for finalists and partners will be released soon.

2025 Finalists

Excellence in Sustainability

• Wyvern Private Hospital – Australian Unity

• First Building, Bradfield City Centre – Bradfield Development Authority

• ECHO.1 – C Street Projects and Ratio Consultants

• Scape Living Student Accommodation Project, 130 Leicester Street, Melbourne – Kapitol Group

• Harbour Shores – Lewis Land

• Local: Kensington – Local: Residential

• Sydney Metro Martin Place Integrated Station Development (SMMPISD) – Macquarie Group

• Nature Based Cities – Nature Based Cities

• Mattone by Cadre – Tycorp

• Festival Tower – Walker Corporation

• Growing Home, Avalon Beach – Zagga Investments

Excellence in Industry Leadership

• Coronation Cares – Coronation Property

• Funding the Future – Decode Group and Resilience Insurance

• Figurehead’s—Men React to Women’s Stories IWD Campaign – Figurehead

• GV Property Group – GV Property Group

• Omnii’s Work-Life Balance Policies – Omnii

• GPT ‘Let’s Sort it Out!’ – The GPT Group

• Climate and Biodiversity Committee – Tract

• CADRE Development - The Lumber Yard – Tycorp

• Maroochydore City Centre – Walker Corporation

Excellence in Design Innovation

• Wyvern Private Hospital – Australian Unity

• Brunswick Established – Beulah

• Neue Grand – Growland Group

• ANZAC Apartments – KA Design Studio

• Sydney Metro Martin Place Integrated Station Development (SMMPISD) – Macquarie Group

• Kirra Gardens – Samssons Projects, C. Kairouz Architects and Emery Group

• Glasshouse – Spyre

• GPT Space&Co – The GPT Group

• SOL – Walker Corporation and Plus Architecture

• West Residences – Willing Property

Excellence in Community Engagement

• Ausbuild – Ausbuild

• 41 McLaren Street Redevelopment – Built Capital

• Coronation Cares – Coronation Property

• Deicorp Community Attitudes and Engagement Program – Deicorp 

• Ed.Square – Frasers Property Australia

• Sydney Metro Martin Place Integrated Station Development (SMMPISD) – Macquarie Group

• Maroochydore City Centre – Walker Corporation

• Riverlea – Walker Corporation

Excellence in Commercial Innovation

• Parc – Sammut Group

• Found Huntingdale – Spectre Property

• GPT Space&Co 181 William Street – The GPT Group

Excellence in Construction Innovation

1. AltForm – AltForm

2. Australian Pile Croppers – Australian Pile Croppers

3. MacArthur Stage 1 - Comprehensive Cancer Care & Health Centre – Erilyan

4. Zinc Bokarina – Gardner Vaughan Group

5. The Urban Arbour – Plant Based Building Solutions

6. Glasshouse – Spyre

7. 50 First Avenue – Walker Corporation

Best New PropTech

• The first and only Australian bank to specialise in bank guarantees – Avenue Bank

• Caruso Software – Caruso

• GemLife 5G Wireless Network – GemLife and Prospecta Utilities

• 0% Deposit Shared Equity Home Loans – Mondus Capital 

• net360 – optimised property technology – net360

• OPEX – OPEX Contracts 

• Rapid Planning Report – PropCode

• Salto and Erin Living Technologies Integrated Resident Management Platform – Salto & Erin Living Technologies

• Vision RECap – The Heart of Commercial Real Estate – Vision RECap

• WE Wumbo – WE Wumbo

Excellence in Marketing Innovation

• Lovedale Farm – Capital Corporation

• Liven Communities Brand Launch – Liven Communities

• 33 Queens Pde – Studio Caviar & Prime Edition

• GPT ‘Let’s Sort it Out!’ – The GPT Group

• Ageless – Theola and Gemlife

• La Strata, Potts Point – Zagga Investments

Excellence in Project Marketing

• The Residences at Wahroonga Estate – Capital Corporation

• AVRA, Bondi Beach – Clutch, RareID, CBRE Residential Projects

• Central Park – Earl.St

• Fernhurst – Earl.St

• Wembley Hill – Golden Age Group

• Trackside House – Hamton Property Group / Savi Communications

• Highforest – Mirvac

• Moray House – Salvo

• PALM – Sammut Group

• The Windermere – Theola and Silverstone

• Elevate Hume Place – Third.i Group and Metropolis Agency

The Urban Developer & Urban Land Institute (ULI) Award for Decarbonisation in Real Estate

• 500 Bourke Street – ISPT, Aurecon

• Harbour Shores – Lewis Land

• Sydney Metro Martin Place Integrated Station Development (SMMPISD) – Macquarie Group

• GPT Space&Co 530 Collins Street – The GPT Group

Development of the Year - Social Infrastructure

• First Peoples Health and Wellbeing Clinic and Aboriginal Early Parenting Centre, Frankston – Armitage Jones and Buildcorp

• Wyvern Private Hospital – Australian Unity

• Adeney Private Hospital – Centuria Capital Group

• MacArthur Stage 1 - Comprehensive Cancer Care & Health Centre – Erilyan

• Habilis Housing – Habilis Housing

• Murdoch Square – Hesperia & Aegis Health

• Austral Childcare – Jeckra

• Angela Wright Bennett Centre (formerly the Ruah Centre for Women and Children) – Sirona Urban & Ruah Community Services

• Make Room – Unison Housing and City of Melbourne

• YWCA Australia Adelaide Affordable Housing – YWCA Australia

Development of the Year - Retirement, Aged Care and Seniors Living

• Callisto Place – Bolton Clarke

• RSL Lifecare, Narrabeen – Labuan Stage 3 – Decode Group

• GemLife Pacific Paradise – GemLife

• Woolooware Shores – Growthbuilt and Anglicare

• Regis Camberwell – HSPC Health Architects

• The Verge at Burleigh G.C. Retirement Village – RetireAustralia

• Uniting Leichhardt – Uniting NSW.ACT

• The Ace Residences, Bowral NSW – Zagga Investments

Development of the Year - Mixed-Use

• AURA – Aqualand

• Rhodes Central Stage 2 – Billbergia

• Mason & Main – Coronation Property

• Murdoch Square – Hesperia & Aegis Health

• Sydney Metro Martin Place Integrated Station Development (SMMPISD) – Macquarie Group

• 180 George Street – Meriton

• The Eighth – Projects by Crema

• Bay Central – Turner

Development of the Year - Commercial

• Cheltenham Quarter – Brix Property Group

• Sixty-five Dover, Cremorne – Fortis

• 24 Bay St, Double Bay – Fortis

• Gate 8 – H.CO Property, Rothelowman, COBILD

• Bourke & Bowden – Hickory, Time & Place and Qualitas

• Parc – Sammut Group

• Runaway the Label – Shore Projects

• Claredon – Tycorp Constructions

• Festival Tower – Walker Corporation

• Flinders Lane – Zagga Investments

Development of the Year - Industrial

• Astina Space – Astina Group

• Equinix SY5 Phase 3 – Erilyan

• Cade Park – Forte Group

• Martin Brower – Salta

• Found Huntingdale – Spectre Property

• Altona Circuit – Urban Logistics Co. 

• 24 Helles – Zonie Property Group

Development of the Year - Urban Regeneration

• 41 McLaren Street Redevelopment – Built Capital

• Younghusband Stage 1 – CDPQ, Irongate, and Built

• Naldham House, Waterfront Brisbane – Dexus

• Nicholas Street Precinct – Ipswich City Council

• Maison Batard – Kapitol Group

• "MYTHIC" on Brunswick – RYCON Constructions

Development of the Year - New Communities

• The Gladstone Village – Quartz (Stage 1) – ALAND Developments

• The Retreat – Meriton

• Vantage – Rayjon Group

• Norman Estates – Sekisui House Australia

• Olio Officer – Tract and Development Victoria

• Riverlea – Walker Corporation

Development of the Year - Retail

• Post Office Square – DMA Partners, LaSalle

• Woolworths Leppington Village – Fabcot 

• Silverdale Shopping Centre – Zagga Investments

Development of the Year - Hotels and Accommodation

• Melbourne Airport Hotel – Novotel & Ibis Styles – Australia Pacific Airport Melbourne (APAM)

• Veriu Macquarie Park – Holdmark Property Group

• Melbourne Place – Kennedy Nolan

• 21 Cooyou Close – Plus Architecture

Development of the Year - Build-to-Rent and PBSA

• Oaks Canopy – Amalgamated Property Group and Base Developments

• The Switch, Kensington – Decode

• Home Docklands – GFM

• Indi Sydney – Investa

• Scape Living Student Accommodation Project, 130 Leicester Street, Melbourne – Kapitol Group

• LIV Aston – Mirvac

• Novus on Sturt – Novus

• Stockdale Student Housing – Parallel Workshop Architects

• Fitzroy & Co. by Est – Salta

• Scape Victoria Street – Scape Australia

Development of the Year - Small-Scale Residential (1-3)

• DUNE – Graya Developments

• Pembroke Place – Makespark

• LYNCH – Mancini Made

• OSBORNE – Mancini Made

• Palmera, Noosa – Molti

• Genesis – Oviss Group

• Sea – Sammut Group

• Lime – Shore Projects

• Glasshouse – Spyre

• Ripple House – Zane Carter Architects

Development of the Year - Small-Scale Residential (4-10)

• ECHO.1 – C Street Projects and Ratio Consultants

• CHALK – Graya Developments

• Honu – Holm Developments

• Armytage – Kincrest

• Florence – Mosaic Property Group

• Cooper Townhouses – R Architecture + Velvel Homes

• 844 Brunswick Street, New Farm – RYCON Constructions

• 58 Beach – Wickton

Development of the Year - Small-Scale Residential (11- 20+)

• Glenholm – BHC Property

• Boxshall – Cera Stribley

• Callista – Fiducia and D.velop.R

• Atlas – Fortis

• The Greens, Katoomba – Glenstone Group

• Neue Grand – Growland Group

• Ascot Row – Holm Developments

• 82 Westgarth – Jarrah

• Larnook – Lowe Living

• Esplanade Palm Beach – Plus Architecture

Development of the Year - Medium-Density Residential (Under 40)

• Tallow Residences – Cape Bouvard Developments

• Como Terraces – CBUS Property & Sterling Global

• Nature – Cube Developments

• Early 3191 – DM Property & Occasio

• Monument – K2LD Architects, The SHC Group, Chapter Group

• Hampton Hill – Lowe Living

• Otter Place – Milieu

• Augusta – Mosaic Property Group

• Reunion Place – Noetic Places 

• The Curl, Bokarina – Stockland

Development of the Year - Medium-Density Residential (40+)

• Freeman Residences – ADC

• PAMA – Holm Developments and DeMartini Fletcher

• Arena, Lane Cove – Landmark Group

• SOL Kirra Beach – Marquee

• Mayrin Group – Mayrin Group

• The Mowbray – Mosaic Property Group

• Kirra Gardens – Samssons Projects, C. Kairouz Architects and Emery Group

• Dwell Bondi Beach – Stargate Property

Development of the Year - High-Density Residential (under 200)

• Rumbalara Residences – Alceon

• Solis – Astina Group

• Hampton Quarter – EPC Pacific and Pace Developments

• Eve Residences – Homecorp

• The Monaco – Ignite Projects

• Victoria & George – Landmark Group

• One Cannes – Marquee

• The Witton – Mosaic Property Group

• Marella – Mosaic Property Group

• Grand Reve – Reve Group

Development of the Year - High-Density Residential (200+)

• Paramount on Parkes – ALAND Developments

• AURA – Aqualand

• Mason & Main, Stage Two – Coronation Property

• Tallawong Village – Deicorp 

• MAC Residences at Midtown MacPark – Frasers Property Australia

• Uccello – Meriton

• Green Square – Mirvac

• NINE – Mirvac

• Wicks Place – TOGA

To view all of the finalists, visit our dedicated The Urban Developer Awards Website here.

Thank you to our award sponsors

Major Partner: Trilogy Funds
Trophy Partner: UAP
Centrepiece Partner: ASKO

Award Sponsors: Fienza | Trilogy | Clutch | Get Parked | Grifco | DEMEX | MOTIV | Opticomm | Patona | Kapitol | MA Financial | Gallery Group | CVS Lane | Furn-niche | Salto | Zagga | Coposit | UAP | ASKO | Urban Land Institute (ULI)