Brand Vaughan was awarded the title of Best small Estate Agency in the UK and also retained the award for Best Small Estate Agent in the South East at last month’s Estate Agent of the Year awards, in association with the Sunday Times and The Times and sponsored by Zoopla Property Group.

The category Small (2-7 offices) received the highest number of entries in the event, and with the majority of estate agents in the UK having this number of offices competition is extremely fierce.

Over 5,000 estate agents entered and more than 600 leading agents from across the country attended the glittering ceremony at the Lancaster London Hotel. The awards were presented by the inspirational Michelle Mone OBE of Ultimo Brands International as well as TV Newsreader Penny Smith, Alex Lowe of Google, James Micklethwaite of Rightmove.

The awards ceremony was the culminating event of a an extremely thorough judging process by a panel of 20 industry experts who assessed initial entry submissions before conducting an extensive review of the entrants, which included over 150 hours of telephone interviews and mystery shopping exercises. The whole of the judging process was overseen by The Property Ombudsman Christopher Hamer and Martin Baum, Vice President of the NAEA as Arbiter.

Director David Vaughan who was handed the award by Michelle Mone OBE commented: “We are extremely proud to be named as best Small Estate Agent in the UK and also retain our title for the best estate agents in the South East.

“Last year we had moved into this category after opening our second office and in all honesty we were not sure if we would come out on top as it had such strong entrants.

“We had previously won the award for Best Single Office and then last year we were over the moon to have won Best Small agency in South East, so now to have won Best Small Estate Agent in the UK is incredible.

“It recognises the hard work and combined effort of everyone at Brand Vaughan and clearly demonstrates to our buying and selling customers that we are one of the UK’s leading estate agents.”