PPM National Awards | Judging & The Rules

The PPM National Property Management Awards Best of the Best is an independent awards process, overviewed by a panel of industry leaders, collectively known as The PM Influencers, who have achieved the necessary qualifications to be an experienced and knowledgeable judge of each respective award category.

The necessary qualifications to be an invited judge is based on:

  1. The PPM Group’s review of an influencer
  2. The industry’s recognition of an influencer
  3. The number of property management service years
  4. The contribution of the influencer to the industry
  5. The achivements of the influencer in the industry
  6. The feedback from the industry

By participating in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards, it is agreed:

  1. If the ongoing uncertainty of Covid-19 does not subside, it could impact on the social cell group gatherings and the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards event as whole.
  2. If for any reason that the annoucement of the award winners is unable to take place in accordance with the published program, then the winners will be announced in the same manner as the finalists across our social media platforms.
  3. The PPM National Property Management Industry Awards are open to all residential property management team members and agencies of Australia.
  4. There is no entry cost associated with the submission.  However, associated costs with preparing the submission and participating in the awards annoucment may incur a cost.
  5. Industry leaders, collectively known as The PM Influencers, will judge each award category.
  6. PPM will not take part in the judging process unless it is disclosed in writing.
  7. Judges may include current PPM | System members, property management team members, industry service providers, or Award sponsors.
  8. Judges and any of their associates can participate in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards as there are multiple judges in each category, providing transparency and a fairness in the scoring process.
  9. Judges will assess the submissions based on the responses to questions and the Award statistics & information (where applicable).
  10. If the Award statistics and information are not provided (where requested), the submission will not be accepted or judged.
  11. Judges will be assessing the submissions independently from other judges.
  12. Judgements will not be made based on the agency's associations, alignments, affiliations, size, number of properties managed, number of team members employed, the location of the agency or any other matter.
  13. PPM will collate the judges' points for each question, and the highest collective points will determine the winner.
  14. PPM's decision is final based on the judges' point-scoring, and no correspondence or discussions will be considered.
  15. You may be required to make yourself available for a telephone interview (if requested).
  16. Nominee entrants should not contact any judge to discuss the process.  Contacting a judge to discuss the submission, will result in an immediate removal and exclusion from any association to PPM National Property Management Industry Awards.
  17. No changes to the submission of additional documents will be accepted after the closing date, unless agreed to in writing by PPM and the judges of the relevant category.
  18. All submitted entries will become the property of PPM and will not be returned to the entrant.
  19. If any submission in a category does not meet the criteria or there are insufficient nominations, there will be no award made at the discretion of PPM and the judges of the relevant category.
  20. All photos submitted may be used for marketing, advertising, and promotional purposes across any platform.
  21. That any nominee entrant to the PPM National Property Management Awards must not have any prior criminal convictions or have been engaged in any activity that would jeopardise the Award's professionalism.
  22. That at the time of being announced as a finalist up until the winner announcement, the nominee/finalist must be working within the property management industry.
  23. Nominee entrants must abide by the submission rules and guidelines of each category.
  24. Any questionable inconsistencies, complaints, feedback, outcome quetions or related issues to any nominee or submission will be referred in writing to the category judges at the discretion of PPM.
  25. The contact information collected by the PPM for the Awards will be used for administrative and judging purposes.  Personal information will not be used or disclosed to any third parties (without your written consent) for any other purposes outside of the Awards. 
  26. PPM shall not be liable to anyone, an associate, a stakeholder, companies acting, or refraining from acting, or third parties involved in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards for anything, general, special, indirect, or consequential resulting in damage, delay, any loss, injury, failure, malfunction, breakdown that may be suffered due to the event. 
  27. While PPM has full confidence in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards and judging documents, information and processes, no warranty, guarantee or holding out, either expressed or implied, is given, to anyone, an associate, a stakeholder, companies acting, or refraining from acting, or third parties, based on anything, and you willingly participate in the awards and any associated event at your own responsibility.
  28. PPM shall be released from all liability in respect of any claim from anyone, an associate, a stakeholder, companies acting, or refraining from acting, or third parties involved in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards.
  29. That anyone, an associate, a stakeholder, companies acting, or refraining from acting, or third parties involved in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards submit to the jurisdiction of Queensland.  
  30. This agreement ‘The Rules’ shall be governed by and construed by the laws of the State of Queensland.
  31. That anyone, an associate, a stakeholder, companies acting, or refraining from acting, or third parties involved in the PPM National Property Management Industry Awards agrees that if any term or condition is held to be void, illegal or unenforceable then that term or condition shall be severed, and all other terms and conditions shall be binding.