News Release

The finalist letters for the 27th annual Home Builder Awards are in the mail and the excitement is building in anticipation of the April 27th celebration of the best of the best builders, community developments, projects, product and promotion, not to mention the inaugural green builder of the year. From a builder standpoint, more than 50 different companies have at least one nomination. Great Gulf Homes leads the way with an unheard of 16 nominations, followed by Freed Developments with 14, TAS Design Build with 12, Baywood Homes, Berkley Developments and Mattamy Homes with 10 each and Intracorp with nine. Finalists for the coveted home builder of the year award are Arista Homes, Brookfield, Great Gulf Homes, Mattamy Homes and Tribute Communities. We received more consumer surveys (by far) than ever before, which is a great testament to the credibility of the award as well as the association. Upon review of the submissions, a decision has been made to split the inaugural green builder of the year award into low-rise and high-rise. Low-rise finalists are The Daniels Corporation, Mason Homes and Mattamy Homes. High-rise finalists are Liberty Development Corporation, TAS Design Build and Tridel. From a project standpoint, TAS’ M5V project garnered a whopping 12 nominations followed closely by Great Gulf’s X – The Condominium with 11, The Bohemian Embassy by Baywood Homes with 10, Rivertowne by Intracorp Brownstone Lane by Berkley with eight each. Among the more than 25 advertising agencies with at least one nomination, LA Inc. is tops with 23, followed very closely by Montana Steele with 22, Guidelines with 14, Partnership Marketing with 13 and 52 Pick-up with 11. On the design side, RN Design has 12 nominations, Architects Alliance, 10, Cassidy & Company, 9, and Hunt Design with eight.