Vinhomes Riverside named World’s Best Property in London
Vinhomes Riverside, a high-end ecological riverside urban complex, developed by VinGroup’s Vinhomes, has been named the World’s Best Property at the 2018 International Property Awards (IPA).
A corner of Vinhomes Riverside. (Photo: vinhomesland.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vinhomes Riverside, a high-end ecologicalriverside urban complex developed by VinGroup’s Vinhomes, has been named the World’s Best Property at the 2018International Property Awards (IPA).
It is the first Vietnamese real estate project to grab the title, thehighest among the IPAs.
The high-end project also won the Best International ResidentialDevelopment and the Best Residential Development Asia Pacific at the 2018 IPAwhich took place in London earlier this week.
The World’s Best Property award reflects not only an achievement ofVinGroup but also the competence of Vietnam’s real estate developers, saidVinhomes CEO Nguyen Dieu Linh.
It showed that Vietnamese developers have risen to the level of, evenoutweighed, many international players in creating the most livable spaces,she said.
Vinhomes, asubsidiary of Vingroup, is responsible for real estate development of thegroup, with a charter capital of nearly 26.38 trillion VND (1.13 billion USD).
Since 2012, arange of the firm’s projects have been continuously awarded in differentcategories of the IPA, such as the Best Mixed-Used Development and the BestRetail Development.
The 183-hectare Vinhomes Riverside is located in Long Bien district, justover 6km from downtown Hanoi. It offers a total of more than 1,400 luxuryvillas, surrounded by lakes and natural green areas of about 60 hectares tocreate a balance between people and nature.
The International Property Awards, givenaway annually by the UK-based International Property Media Ltd., areopen to residential and commercial property professionals from around theglobe.
The awards celebrate the highest levels of achievement by companies operatingin all sectors of the property and real estate industry, and an IPA is thus aworld-renowned mark of excellence.
The awards are split into regions covering Africa, Asia Pacific,Arabia, Canada, Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, the UK, and the USA.The highest-scoring winners from each region are automatically entered into theoverall International Awards, which ultimately determine the world’s finestproperty companies. –VNA
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A corner of Vinhomes Riverside. (Photo: vinhomesland.vn) 
