The IPE Real Estate Global Awards 2026 entry process will open in December 2025.

The IPE Real Estate Global Awards recognise excellence and innovation in institutional real estate investment. They provide a meaningful annual benchmark, enabling institutional real estate investors to measure their portfolios against peers at national, regional, and global levels, as well as against institutions of similar size, remit, and resources.

The typical review period covers 12–18 months. However, we acknowledge that real estate developments often take longer to show results. Entrants are therefore encouraged to submit longer-term projects, provided they can give an updated account in any year they enter.

The IPE Real Estate Global Awards are arranged on four levels:

• Platinum awards
• Gold awards
• Silver regional awards
• Silver themed awards

For the gold Large, Medium and Small and platinum Global Real Estate Investor of the Year awards, IPE Real Assets builds the categories based on their real estate assets under management and global reach. You do not prepare entries for these categories.

Each entrant must enter their respective country or regional award and may then enter as many of the themed awards as they like, making use of our online entry form.

Once the entries are submitted, we invite the judges to review them using the same online system. This involves a 20-point score matrix and follow-up debates, if need be, to declare the winner in each category.

• Pension funds
• Group retirement savings plans
• Life insurance companies
• Insurance groups running property portfolios for group companies only
• Charities
• Foundations
• Sovereign wealth funds
• Pensions or institutionally-owned asset management companies that invest on behalf of their stakeholders only with no third party interests
• Investment consultants

The IPE Real Estate Global Awards are not open to asset or investment managers or property developers. Moreover, the IPE Real Estate Global Awards cannot and does not accept entries from pensions-owned investment vehicles or funds. In addition, the IPE Real Estate Global Awards reserves the right to restrict entries from pension-owned asset managers to themed awards only in support of specific areas of the investment strategy they pursue for the pension fund that owns them.

We make use of an online entry form that is divided into 5 parts:

1. For the category and name of the entrant.
    
2. To collect fundamental data such as the size of your assets, performance figures and fund structure.
    
3. The Overview and Investment Strategy section. This 450–500 word text area requires a detailed summary of your fund’s history, objectives, and investment strategy. This information helps the judges understand your pension fund or similar institution. Bullet points are allowed, but they should be detailed enough to give judges a clear and comprehensive view of your organization.
    
4. A longer text based area with an optimum range of 900-1,000 words for your country/regional entry and any themed awards you wish to take part in.
    
5. To upload your logo and any other supporting attachments such as graphs and performance tables.

For further guidance or information, please contact: 

Alice O'Brien 
Awards & Events Manager 
alice.obrien@ipe.com
+44 7827 157336