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Phuket Property.

PRESTIGIOUS ASIA PACIFIC AND GLOBAL PROPERTY Award win.

The OPP (Overseas Property Professional) Awards for Excellence 2012 for the real estate industry, now in the 5th year, held their Annual Presentation Award Ceremony in the City in London last night (11/10/12).

The awards were judged by a 50 strong panel of industry leaders from around the world and celebrate the best developers, estate agents and associated companies working in the global cross border residential property industry.

But it was a homegrown, Thailand based agency that took on the rest of the world and swept the Awards in London at the agency level and in doing so proved that you do not have to the biggest to be amongst the best.

Phuket Property

Phuket Property and The PHILLIPS Group, you know them as PHILLIPS Property (www.Phillips-Property.com), took to the podium twice with top place of Gold for Best Estate Agency Asia and then Bronze for Best Global Estate Agency.
This follows on from 2011 when the company also won two spots in the Asia Pacific Property Awards in association with Bloomberg in Shanghai. The Awards then were for Real Estate Agency and Real Estate Agency Website, Thailand.

Scratch the surface and you will see that there is more to PHILLIPS Property than meets the eye. From a local agency, they have spent considerable time innovating and investing in and launching other branded services within Thailand and to the broader Asia Pacific market. They are the name that sits behind a number of potentially high-octane real estate related service innovations.

For example, they have developed the new international rentals portal, www.Rentals-Worldwide.com, where landlords can now advertise their properties for rent and deal
directly with enquiries without paying agent fees.

“We developed Rentals-Worldwide to provide property owners with the opportunity to go direct to market with their rental property and in doing so, save on agent fees. Of
course, owners can still appoint an agent together with Rentals-Worldwide. It widens the net, increases the possibility of rental revenue and improves profit as bookings
through Rentals Worldwide are commission free” says Martin Phillips, Group MD.

Hotel & Resort sales

Phillips also quietly entered the Hotel & Resort sales segment in 2011 through a new service and brand, www.AsiaHotelInvest.com, and are quickly establishing a reputation for facilitating sizeable hotel and resort deals in Thailand and the region “Valuations aside, resort and hotel deals are very much about confidentiality and trust as they are about negotiation. The market and general public doesn’t need to know what is happening until the deal is completed and we like to keep it that way, nice and quiet”, comments Phillips.

NPL/Distressed Asset

And more recently, they identified an opportunity in the NPL/Distressed Asset market in Europe and launched www.DistressedAssets.com. The company, under a cooperation
agreement, now represents a joint portfolio of over Euro 1 Billion in offmarket and real estate asset backed NPL’s in Europe. These portfolios are now starting to be marketed in Asia by the group.
“When, not if, the global crisis worsens, this channel will become a major part of our business”, states Phillips, “We just need to grow the service and establish a strong reputation in this sector. I expect it to explode in the future”.

Asked if the Distressed Asset business could potentially launch a private equity fund, allowing for general participation in the sector, Phillips, say that they have already
started to put in place a framework for investors through partners in London and that more details would be announced when the timing was closer.

Said of the award, “We have been consistently innovating and establishing the reputation of our local brand, starting with PHILLIPS Property and subsequently with our new brands and services, both in Thailand and the Asia Pacific region. The OPP Awards are a testament to our innovated approach, our strong sales & marketing success and the core values of honesty and integrity across all of our dealings”

Further Information
Contact: Martin Phillips, Group Managing Director.
Tel: +66815398118 Email: martin.phillips@phillips-property.com

 

New Ironman 70.3 World Champion

New Ironman 70.3 World Champion

to Race Laguna Phuket

 Welsh Superstar Cave’s entry sets up Thrilling Title Duel

Leanda Cave

In a major coup for Ironman 70.3 Laguna Phuket, recently-crowned 2012 Ironman 70.3 World Champion Leanda Cave has joined the ranks of top professional athletes set to appear at this year’s event.

Cave signed up for Laguna Phuket less than 24 hours after completing her epic World Championship victory in Las Vegas on 9 October – and before resuming training for her next title bid at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii on 13 October.

Her Laguna confirmation has set up a thrilling duel with 2011 Ironman 70.3 World Champion and defending Laguna Phuket 70.3 Champion Melissa Hauschildt of Australia – beaten into fourth place in Las Vegas by Cave – who will be eager not to lose another title to the Welsh superstar.

“To have the brand new Ironman 70.3 World Champion immediately accept our invitation to race at Laguna Phuket is a testament to the drawing power and popularity which characterises our race on the pro circuit,” said Debbie Dionysius, Assistant Vice President of Destination Marketing, Laguna Phuket.

“Attracting such top talent is an indication of the international stature we’ve achieved and we’re looking forward to a fantastic display of world-class competition.”

The Laguna Phuket 2012 competitive mix is also fuelled by Czech Olympian Radka Vodickova and Australian veteran Belinda Granger – both vying to become the first women’s Triple Champion of Laguna Phuket Triathlon (LPT), a week earlier on 25 November – and also with points to prove in the 70.3.

Cave, an ITU World Long Distance Champion, is hitting peak form in the run-up to Kona and Laguna, despite an indifferent start to the year that followed a spectacular end to her 2011 season when she recorded a third-place finish at the Ironman World Championship, a win at Ironman 70.3 Miami, runner-up finish at the ITU World Long Distance Championship in Las Vegas and her first Ironman title in Arizona.

Born in the UK, Cave emigrated as a child to Australia, before moving back to the UK with her Welsh mother. She now lives and trains in Tucson, Arizona and races for both Wales and Great Britain.

Cave is no stranger to Phuket, having raced LPT in 2006 when she was second-placed behind Canadian Samantha McGlone, who then went on to become 2007 Ironman 70.3 World Champion.

Hauschildt, currently battling back from an injury-hit season, made a determined defence of her World 70.3 title in Las Vegas, but her fourth place was more than seven minutes behind Cave’s winning time of 4:28:05.

At Laguna Phuket she’ll be aiming to hold off the challenges of Cave, Rodickova, Granger and a field of other top pros to hold onto her 2011title, which she won with a course record of 4:17:01.

In the men’s field, American Ironman Chris Lieto, with three top 10 finishes in the Ironman World Championships, will race both LPT and the 70.3, while confirmations are awaited from more big names, such as two-time 70.3 World Champion and 2011 Laguna 70.3 Champion Michael Raelert of Germany, and Australian legend Craig Alexander, 2011 Ironman World Champion and Ironman 70.3 World Champion.

Lights out Phuket 2012

Lights out Phuket 2012.

lights out phuket 2012Earth hour is a good way of reminding people that we need to conserve energy in order to save the earth because of the busy life that we have today we often forget that we still need to preserve our planet and environment.

The biggest environmental problem that we have today is Global warming.Just switching something off if only one light for 60 minutes can help a lot to save the earth.

We all need to help preserve this planet to be with us long time for our children and our children. At present our world changes so fast Which is caused by human activities including most people failing to save energy.

That is the reason that people do not care to pay attention.To continue to use electricity and waste energy consumption are the main causes of global warming.Because of the electricity we waste every day in the burning with coal, oil and natural gas. The energy production process contributes to greenhouse gases and air pollution.

We need and should save energy.That will help reduce global warming. The world economy will get better and most of all sustainable world growth for our future.

Do something positive this Saturday the 31st March 2012, swish something off if only for one hour, Save our planet and GET INVOLVED in Earth Hour or Lights out Phuket 2012.

 

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