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The Apartment Adviser Awards

– Incorporating The ERMAs!

26 Jun 2025 05:00 pm
InterContinental Park Lane, London
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About The Awards

The 2025 Apartment Adviser Awards – Winners Announced!

The 2025 Apartment Adviser Awards – Incorporating the ERMAs – took place last night, 26 June 2025, at the stunning InterContinental Hotel Park Lane, where this year’s Triple A Rated winners were officially announced.

🎉 A huge congratulations to all of our 2025 winners, highly commended & finalists! 🎉

You can now view the full list of winners, categories, and judging criteria below.

About the Awards
Formerly known as the Enfranchisement & Right to Manage Awards (ERMAs), this prestigious event has evolved to reflect the latest developments in the leasehold property sector. Now in its 16th year, the awards continue to celebrate excellence, innovation, and outstanding contributions within enfranchisement, right to manage, and beyond.

With a fresh new brand, expanded categories, and updated criteria, the Apartment Adviser Awards offer an even greater platform for professionals and organisations to showcase their achievements. This evolution is shaped by valuable industry feedback to ensure the awards remain relevant, inclusive, and representative of the ever-changing leasehold landscape.

Details for the 2026 awards will be announced in due course! If you are interested in entering, attending or sponsoring please feel free to get in touch to discuss or be added to our mailing list for further updates.

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Judges
Mairead Carroll
Mairead Carroll
Associate Director, Residential Standards
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Mairéad is a Senior Specialist at RICS where she leads on work relating to property agency and management. With a long career in residential real estate.

Mairéad has previously worked in the housing association sector in policy and external affairs and on the Board at Innisfree Housing Association. Currently reviewing the framework of the RICS property standards.
Mairéad also represents RICS on a number of groups including the Technical Support Group to the Commonhold Council, the steering group for Homebuying and Selling Group, the Construction Industry Council’s Housing Panel and the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team Material Information Steering Group.

Jonathan Channing
Jonathan Channing
Director
JC Property Consultancy

Jonathan is a property management consultant specialising in all matters ‘block management’. He works with RMCs and RTMs, managing agents, and talented suppliers to the industry. And to ensure he can consider issues from all angles, he is an RMC director twice over in London and Herts respectively. A fellow of the TPI and pro-bono Honorary Consultant to the FPRA, Jonathan enjoys a helicopter view of the sector and is in a strong position to assist and guide all stakeholders in making sustainably good decisions.

Yashmin Mistry
Yashmin Mistry
Managing Partner
JPC

Yashmin Mistry is a Partner and leads JPC Law’s Property Practice Group. Yashmin is a leading expert in leasehold enfranchisement and landlord & tenant matters and is widely acknowledged as a thought leader in her field. She is influential not only as a practitioner and commentator, but increasingly as someone asked to play an active role in shaping how the law works.  Yashmin is a “Recognised Expert” in the prestigious Legal 500 guide as well as receiving recognition in the 2014 to 2018 “Top 100 Most Influential People in the Residential Sector” property guide.

Bob Smytherman
Bob Smytherman
Hon Chairman
FPRA
Natasha Rees
Natasha Rees
Senior Partner
Forsters LLP

A Lawyer Hot 100, described as ‘standout’ and ‘very high profile’ in Chambers 2024, and at the ‘forefront of Forsters’ success’ in Legal 500 2024, Natasha was elected to be Senior Partner in September 2022.
 
Natasha is well known for working with leaseholders, protecting their interests through the Courts and Tribunals. Most notably, she acted for the leaseholders in their successful nuisance action against the Tate Gallery in the Supreme Court, known as Fearn and others (Appellants) v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery (Respondent). As an enfranchisement specialist, she also acts for leaseholders in leading enfranchisement cases. She succeeded in the House of Lords in the leading cases Aggio and Sportelli and created the test enfranchisement structure for the Ministry of Defence, going on to lead on the successful proceedings relating to their UK property portfolio, known as Annington Property Ltd v Secretary of State for Defence 2023. As a result of this claim, the MOD was able to re-acquire their UK property portfolio at a fraction of its market value. he is recognised in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame and as a Band 1 Ranked Lawyer in the Chambers UK Guide 2025.

Damian Greenish
Damian Greenish
Consultant Solicitor
ALEP Honorary President

Damian Greenish has been a solicitor for over 40 years. Until his retirement as a partner in 2016, he was senior partner and then chairman of Pemberton Greenish LLP. He is now a senior consultant to the leading Mayfair firm Forsters LLP.  Throughout his career, he has taken a close interest in the subject of leasehold reform, advising both landlords and tenants on all aspects of residential leasehold law, with particular interest in enfranchisement. He has been involved in many of the landmark leasehold reform cases in the Supreme Court, House of Lords, Court of Appeal, High Court and the valuation tribunals. He has been the joint editor of Hague on Leasehold Enfranchisement since 1998, the 7th Edition being published in 2020. He is a speaker at and acts as a regular chairman of the leading conferences and seminars in this specialised sector of the law.  He is chairman of the Trustees of the Sloane Stanley Estate (a mixed-use Estate in west Chelsea, London); a Vice-President (and former Chairman of the Council) of the Chelsea Society; a member of The Law Society; a member of the British Property Federation’s Residential Property Management Committee, Honourary President of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) and a member of the Commonhold Council.

Henrietta Hammonds
Henrietta Hammonds
ALEP Valuer Committee Member & Partner
Beckett & Kay

Henrietta is a partner at Beckett and Kay, a firm founded in 2002 specialising in landlord and tenant matters. She is the youngest ever woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (“RICS”) and is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the Institute of Residential Property Management.
She specialises particularly in enfranchisement and diminution cases, and has an interest in alternative dispute resolution. She is a qualified arbitrator and an RICS-accredited mediator.
In enfranchisement cases, Henrietta acts for landlords, intermediate landlords, and tenants. She has appeared at the First-tier Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and assisted in cases in the Upper Tribunal and beyond. She is a member of the advisory committee of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (“ALEP”). Henrietta regularly lectures on valuation topics, including at the RICS Dilapidations Conference, RICS Valuation Conference, ALEP lectures and conferences, and other professionally organised seminars.

John  Midgley
John Midgley
ALEP Director & Solicitor
Seddons

John is a partner in the Property Disputes team and heads up the specialist Leasehold Enfranchisement team at Seddons.  He is a leading practitioner in the field of collective enfranchisement, lease extensions and right to manage claims, having been involved in numerous highly contentious cases. John writes regularly for specialist publications on a variety of enfranchisement and landlord and tenant issues. He has been identified as one of the top 100 influential people in the leasehold property sector, appearing for several years in the 'News on The Block' "Hot 100" list which includes a mix of professionals, politicians, property owners and investors. John was instrumental in pioneering the Leasehold Reform Amendment Act 2014 and continues to work with parliamentarians on issues within the leasehold sector.

Eleanor Murray
Eleanor Murray
Counsel and ALEP Advisory Committee member
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP

Eleanor heads up the Enfranchisement and Residential Disputes team at CMS.  She is an expert in her field advising on all aspects of residential disputes with a particular specialism in enfranchisement where her clients include Prime Central London landed estates, investors and developers. She also regularly deals with and right to manage instructions as well as 1987 Act rights of first refusal, residential service charge disputes and Estate Management Schemes.

She currently sits on the ALEP Advisory Committee and is a member of the Residential BPF Board Committee.

Clare Grove
Clare Grove
Head of Communications & Strategic Implementation
ALEP

Clare Grove is ALEP’s Head of Communications & Strategic Implementation and is well known to the ALEP membership, having worked with the Association and in the leasehold sector for over 12 years.
Clare has worked in marketing and events in a range of industries including housebuilding, automotive and healthcare for over 25 years and is a chartered marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
As an external Marketing Director, Clare supports legal, financial and healthcare clients with their marketing strategy and implementation.

Previous Winners
2025 Winners
Commonhold and Leasehold Experts Limited
Conveyancer of the Year
Commonhold and Leasehold Experts Limited
Marie Joyce - Marr-Johnson & Egerton LLP
Valuer of the Year
Marie Joyce - Marr-Johnson & Egerton LLP
Jimmy Griffin - Thackray Williams Solicitors
Rising Star Award
Jimmy Griffin - Thackray Williams Solicitors
The Property People
Project Manager of the Year
The Property People
Commonhold and Leasehold Experts Limited
Solicitors Firm of the Year
Commonhold and Leasehold Experts Limited
Tanfield
Chambers of the Year
Tanfield
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