Recently in Focus receptions Category

Early last week I was told that the sun always shines in Southampton. "We'll see" was my reply. But it must be true because it was glorious weather for our annual reception at the Royal Southampton Yacht Club on Friday with guests (and EG) making the most of the terrace.

Sometimes work is a grind. Sometimes, just sometimes it looks like this.

The EG autumn reception season kicked off today and the view from the balcony of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club over the marina was quite something.

If you're looking for the EG boat then we decided to park it around the corner.

Check back here next week when we'll have pictures, a report and news from the event looking at how the local market is faring and what agents make of Cumberland Commercial's The Bond scheme launched this week (£). Will they find a prelet? won't they, hear what everyone has to say on the blog next week.

It was a tale of two guest types at the EG Leeds Focus reception. There were those who were feeling a little subdued the morning after a big night out and those who were ready and raring to start the weekend early (that'll be Tim Catterall and the Sanderson Weatherall team then).

A bumper crowd of more than 65 of Bristol's property professionals turned up for our annual lunch reception at the Hotel du Vin last Friday. 

It was a smashing night at the Epernay Champagne bar in Manchester yesterday as more than 100 of the city's property professional's converged to catch up and network. Beer bottles and a wine glass went flying but fortunately it was down to clumsiness (maybe a little alcohol was involved, certainly in one case) rather than a ruckus.

The Focus reception tour bus rocked up in Glasgow on Friday for its final stop of 2011. Despite gloomy news about the economy, the worsening debt crisis in Europe and tough market conditions in Glasgow people were in a cheery mood. Perhaps it was the mild sunny weather and a cold beer or two.

Yesterday the Focus team headed to Liverpool for the annual reception held once again at the Racquet Club. It was great arriving in the city to see Lime Street Station finally restored to its former glory with the tatty retail that blighted its frontage removed and the public realm work finished.

But it was even better to see so many of the city's property professionals out for a midweek lunchtime drink and some of the Racquet club's delicious chips.

There were three certificates to hand out as our EGi data team have created a new category for the person to whom the most deals can be attributed. Taking the inaugural award for Merseyside dealmaker with 52 deals to his name was Roy Backhouse of Roy Backhouse & Co.

The collective active agent awards went to CBRE and Sutton Kersh for the national and regional categories respectively.

Below you will find pics from the event and the synopsis for our Merseyside feature can be found by clicking here. EG's intrepid multimedia reporter Helen Roxburgh was on hand with the video camera to get reactions from the market about the Government's Enterprise Zone proposals. Keep an eye out on the blog later today to see what people had to say.

There were one or two sore heads among the 70 or so guests at our annual Leeds Focus reception on Friday. Apparently the success of the inaugral Unfold Leeds event the day before had spilled over into the evening... and beyond. Early hours and clubs that make a feature of brass poles were mentioned but naturally we were glad to assist with a medicinal hair of the dog.

Sore heads aside a combination of nice weather, end of the financial year and recent pay day made for a lively and packed lunch time gathering at the Living Room as agents and developers looked on the bright side of the tough market conditions.

There was good news for King Sturge and Carter Towler who took the EGi deals competition most active agents awards for National firm and Regional firm respectively.

Below you will find a selection of photo's from the event and you can view the synopses for our North and West Yorkshire Focus and South Yorkshire Focus by clicking on the links.