The Southeast Asia Real Estate Awards is one of the region's most established property recognition programmes, operating across five markets and now entering its tenth year. For developers considering entry into the 2026 programme, the process, criteria, and timeline are set out in full below.
Entry to the Southeast Asia Real Estate Awards is open to all developers operating across the programme's five markets: Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia. There is no entry fee.
Understanding how to enter real estate awards at the regional level begins with a straightforward online submission; no prior experience with the programme is required.
Entrants are required to provide company details, project information, and category selections. Multiple categories may be entered within a single submission, and entries may be submitted independently across different market editions.
For example, a developer active in both Thailand and the Philippines may submit for both the Thailand edition in August and the Philippines edition in September without restriction.
The entry deadline for the Thailand 2026 edition is 31 July 2026. The awards ceremony follows on 27 August 2026 at Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River.
The Southeast Asia Real Estate Awards operates a structured evaluation methodology backed by real-time market data from Dot Property Group's regional property portal network. The Southeast Asia property awards judging process is supported by the programme's appointed Awards Consultants (Savills Thailand, Colliers Thailand, and FazWaz), whose involvement brings recognised industry expertise and professional accountability to the selection process
The evaluation criteria are published in advance of each edition. Developers submitting entries are assessed against a defined and transparent set of standards, with two distinct frameworks depending on the nature of the submission.
Development entries are assessed across eleven criteria:
Developer entries are assessed across five criteria:
The dual-framework approach ensures that both the project and the organisation behind it are evaluated on their own merits, against standards that reflect the commercial realities of the regional market.
The programme encompasses a broad range of real estate awards categories. Thai developers and those across all five markets may enter across four distinct tiers.
The Premier categories represent the programme's highest level of recognition: Developer of the Year, Project of the Year, and Luxury Residential Leadership Award.
The Best Development categories span the full spectrum of residential and commercial real estate — luxury and affordable condominiums, villas, mixed-use developments, wellness residential, branded residences, boutique resorts, hospitality developments, sustainability-focused projects, and more.
The category structure is designed to ensure that developments of all scales are assessed within an appropriate competitive set.
The Best Developer categories recognise organisations rather than individual projects, with recognition available both by geography — covering Phuket, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Chiang Mai, and Koh Samui — and by developer classification, including luxury, boutique, sustainable, lifestyle, and specialist categories.
The Best Design categories recognise excellence in architectural design, interior design, and landscape design across residential and commercial typologies.
A full list of categories is available on our awards page
Entries are currently open. Site inspections take place between 1 June and 31 July 2026, during which submitted projects are assessed on the ground by the awards team and consultants. The entry form deadline is 31 July 2026. The gala ceremony follows on 27 August 2026 at Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River.
Developers recognised at the Thailand edition are eligible to progress to the Southeast Asia Real Estate Awards regional finale in December 2026, the pan-regional culmination of the awards calendar, where winners from Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia compete at the regional level.
Following submission, entries proceed through a structured assessment process. Site inspections are conducted between June and July, during which projects are evaluated against the published criteria by the awards team and appointed consultants. Developers whose entries meet the programme's standards are confirmed as finalists in advance of the ceremony.
The awards gala is a formal black-tie event attended by senior figures from across the region's development, investment, architecture, and property sectors. Winners are announced on stage on the night.
The integrity of the Southeast Asia Real Estate Awards rests on the rigour and transparency of its evaluation process. Recognition that is not credibly earned carries no commercial value for the developer, the buyer, or the wider industry.
As Adam Sutcliffe, Group Head of Events, Southeast Asia Real Estate Awards, states: "We have designed the awards process to be transparent, structured and fair — because credibility is what makes the entire platform valuable to the developers, agents and sponsors who participate."
That commitment is reflected in three structural elements of the programme. The evaluation criteria are published in full prior to entry opening — entrants are assessed against defined, disclosed standards. The Awards Consultants are named publicly — the involvement of Savills Thailand, Colliers Thailand, and FazWaz provides professional accountability and recognised market expertise.
The assessment methodology is data-backed, drawing on real-time portal data and market insights from one of Southeast Asia's largest property networks to ensure that recognition reflects genuine market performance rather than subjective opinion alone.
For developers, recognition earned through this process carries weight with buyers, investors, and agents precisely because the process itself is defensible.
Entry to the 2026 programme is open now. The evaluation criteria are published, the timeline is confirmed, and submissions are accepted via the official entry form. Developers seeking to understand how to enter real estate awards at the regional level will find the full submission requirements set out on the programme website.
Ready to enter? Start your submission at searealestateawards.com — entries close 30 May 2026