Yopa CEO Verona Frankish and Paramount Properties managing director Spencer Lawrence were among the biggest winners at this year’s EA Masters, each receiving an Outstanding Contribution Award.
The pair were recognised at the Best Estate Agent Guide Awards 2026/27 in London yesterday evening, where Location Location, Leapfrog Lettings & Sales and Rampton Baseley claimed the three top agency honours.
Stoke Newington-based Location Location was named Sales Agency of the Year, North Yorkshire’s Leapfrog Lettings & Sales took Lettings Agency of the Year, while south-west London firm Rampton Baseley secured Estate & Letting Agency of the Year.
Frankish, who heads hybrid estate agency Yopa, also chairs the Women in Estate Agency Board.
Lawrence has helped build West Hampstead-based Paramount Properties into an established independent agency since the late 1990s.
Peter Knight, founder of EA Masters, said: “Frankish and Lawrence’s impressive CVs speak for themselves, and both reflect the World Class theme of this year’s EA Masters Conference as they continue to lead and shape the property industry in their fields.”
The awards assess agency performance using sales and lettings data, alongside industry peer review.
Data specialists TwentyEA analyse property listings, transaction outcomes, selling times, fall-throughs and achieved prices.
Organisers say the assessment covers the entire UK agency market, with the top 10% receiving recognition. Around 5% achieve an ‘exceptional’ gold rating, while a further 5% receive an ‘excellent’ classification.
Joanna Knight OBE, CEO of Leaders.inc, said the judging process sets the awards apart from other industry competitions.
She commented: “Unlike other property awards, these awards are underpinned by independent market performance data, with an additional layer of expert assessment, rather than being simply based on who enters or receives the most votes.”
EA Masters 2026: Key winners
Overall agency awards
- Sales Agency of the Year – Location Location
- Lettings Agency of the Year – Leapfrog Lettings & Sales
- Estate & Letting Agency of the Year – Rampton Baseley
Outstanding Contribution Awards
- Verona Frankish – Yopa
- Spencer Lawrence – Paramount Properties
Best agency winners by size
- Single Branch Sales – Whitman & Co
- Single Branch Lettings – Leapfrog Lettings & Sales
- Single Branch Sales & Lettings – Leapfrog Lettings & Sales
- Small Agency Sales – Location Location
- Small Agency Lettings – Martin Flashman & Co
- Small Agency Sales & Lettings – Rampton Baseley
- Medium Agency Sales – Ocean
- Medium Agency Lettings – Bond Oxborough Phillips
- Medium Agency Sales & Lettings – Bond Oxborough Phillips and Jones Robinson
- Large Agency Sales – Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward
- Large Agency Lettings – Newton Fallowell and Peter Alan
- Large Agency Sales & Lettings – Seymours
- National Sales – Nested
Individual and supplier awards
Jordan Holmes of Allday & Miller won Gold for Best Lettings Negotiator.
Melitsa Economou of Wilmott & Lake and Adam Sambell of Hayman-Joyce shared Gold in the Best Sales Negotiator category.
Steph Hillier of Austin Hawk and Katie Hatfield of X1 Sales & Lettings jointly won Gold for Best Lettings Manager.
Jo-Anne Blow of Stones Young secured Gold for Best Sales Manager, while Toni Halliday of Leslie & Co took Gold for Best Property Manager.
Among suppliers, Dawsons Training won Best Small Supplier, Kotini secured Best Medium Supplier and iamproperty took Best Large Supplier.
Kotini also claimed the Overall Best Estate Agency Supplier Award 2027 and Gold in the Innovation & Improvement category.
Ward Hadaway secured the overall Best Conveyancer title.
The awards form part of the annual EA Masters event, which brings together estate agents, letting agents and industry suppliers.
