SM Aura Premier received two of the top awards during the recently held Philippines Property Awards 2014 held at the Fairmont Hotel in Makati City.

The Taguig-based SM mall was awarded as Best Commercial Development (retail category), Best Commercial Architectural Design (retail category), and Highly Commended for Best Landscape Architecture Design. SM Development Corp. (SMDC) won the Special Recognition for CSR and was also cited for its condominium property development: Highly Commended Best Mid-Range Condo Development (Jazz Residences), and highly Commended Best Residential Interior Design. Both companies are under SM Prime Holdings. All winners were shortlisted from a host of the Philippines’s competitive industry players, automatically giving them the distinction of being among the year’s best properties in the country’s vibrant real-estate market.

The Philippines Property Awards is one of the most prestigious events in the real-estate industry, attended by the Philippines’s top developers, architects, interior designers and construction professionals. Its counterpart, the Asia Property Awards, is also an annual affair where the best industry players from Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore and Manila gather in an exclusive gala dinner. It is organized by Ensign Media, which is the publisher of Asia’s leading real estate magazine called Property Report.

Photo shows (from left) Steven T. Tan, SVP, SM Supermalls; Annie S. Garcia, president, SM Supermalls; Architect Fides Hsu, VP, SM Engineering Design and Development; and Chico Sy, VP, SM Engineering Design and Development.