Arabian Property Awards ceremony was held at Madinat Jumeirah where Bayut.com won the award for Best Arabian Property Portal, the website was also nominated as the contender for “Best Property Portal” award.

London, UK -- (SBWire) -- 11/26/2009 -- After being voted as the best Dubai property portal back in September, Bayut came into limelight once again when it was nominated the “Best Arabian Property portal” (rated five stars) in a high profile gala presentation dinner at Madinat Jumeirah. Not only that but Bayut.com was short listed by the honorable judges as a contender for world’s best property portal award, which will be held at The US Grant Hotel in San Diego on November 12th. Going by the manner, in which it has been clean sweeping the competition in past, Bayut.com is likely to emerge victorious in this decisive clash, as well.

Presently, Dubai real estate market may not be all good-news, but the news coming out for Bayut team is as good as it can get. Just into their second year and Bayut has already taken hold of the most privileged titles like “Best Dubai Property Portal” and “Best Arabia Property Portal”. Along with the awards, has come the endorsement of real estate professionals, buyers and sellers in UAE. Qutaybah bin Yahya who is one of the brokers, shared his experience. “I’ve been working with Bayut.com for about one and a half year. For me, it is undoubtedly the best place to market your Dubai properties for sale or rent. Usually, I get immediate response, for example a couple of properties I listed in the featured section were sold within a week. I think that’s pretty impressive, given the current situation of the market”

CNBC Arabiya put the award ceremony on air on November 1st (along with a repeat telecast on Nov 4th). Recorded TV program featured the interviews and general coverage of Arabian Property awards. Hundreds of real estate professionals were present at the Gala dinner, while the panel of judges was graced by the presence of Ben Wood, industry head property markets of Google UK; Peter Bolton King, group chief executive of the National Federation of Property Professionals; Imtiaz Farookhi, chief executive of the National House Building Council; Christopher Hall, president elect of FIABCI; Wilhelm Harnish, Master Builders of Australia (MBA); Thijs Stoffer, International Consortium of Real Estate Agents Association (ICREA); Helen Shield, editor-in-chief of International Homes magazine and Gillian Farr, head of design of Laura Ashley Home.

About Bayut (The winner):
Primarily designed for real estate buyers, sellers and agents in Dubai, the website has grown into an all embracing property portal with the introduction of features like Dubai real estate community and some extremely useful directories featuring schools, cinemas, parks and shopping malls in all parts of UAE.