Your Best Place - Entrepreneur of the Year

Company: Your Best Place, United Kingdom
Company Description: Your Best Place was born from a dream to provide houses for people where people would be proud to live in and bring friends around. Our mission is to create luxury co-living boutique-style living spaces. Where each and every room is different
Nomination Category: Entrepreneur Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Entrepreneur of the Year - Real Estate

Nomination Title: Valter Pontes

Valter Pontes is a rising star in the Real Estate industry.

Originally from Portugal, this young entrepreneur moved to England to get into university, where he was renting a room and noticed the poor standards of accommodation and went on a gap year to make his vision to change the standards of rental accommodation a reality.

He founded Your Best Place to make luxury the new norm for rental accommodation.

He joined a Mastermind competition, where 60 investors compete. Valter won the Mastermind and has since won multiple awards and Forbes wrote an article on how he changed his life and on his mission in the property industry.

Judge Andrew Walsh commented on his achievements when his company Your Best Place won the Real Estate Company of the Year 2020 and again in 2021 as the only company with the title 2 years in a row in the North of England:

“ With the vision of a future where all accommodation is of a higher standard and quality of life is significantly improved, Valter and the team at Your Best Place are truly cementing their reputation within the industry as providers of tasteful and artistic living spaces.

According to a recent report by VeriSmart, tenants renting privately are expected to outnumber homeowners by 2039 in the UK, and make up 55% of the housing market by 2045 if current trends continue.

However, the standards of the rental properties in the UK and abroad in Europe do not cater to that need

Valter is passionate about providing something that the end-user is proud to live in whereas most accommodation providers focus on the returns and forget about the customer experience.

He has received many Nationwide and International nominations and has won multiple Awards in 2019, 2020, 2021.

He was the Winner of the Property Mastermind 2019:
The UK’s one of the Biggest Investor network competition Nationwide where he was the winner out of 60 other investors.

He was nominated as the New Property Investor of the Year by the Property Investors Awards: https://propertyinvestorsawards.co.uk/2019-finalists/ One of the UK’s Biggest nominations nationwide competing with the top industry leaders who are disrupting the UK property industry.

The Most Successful Mentee of the Year:
Every Year only one candidate gets to win this title granted by the WD network, one of the leading educational platforms in the UK with speakers like Grant Cardone.

His Company Your Best Place won the Company of the Year by the Prestige Awards in 2020 and 2021

He won the CEO of the Year - Rising Star Award - CEO World Awards https://globeeawards.com/ceo-world-awards/winners/

Entrepreneur of the Year - Growing Business Awards - Finalist
https://growingbusinessawards.co.uk/finalists

HMO of the Year - Valter Pontes - Property Investors Awards https://propertyinvestorsawards.co.uk/2020-winners/
One of the hardest categories of the awards where property investors compete nationwide for the title of Best Accommodation

Disruptor Company of the Year - Globee Awards 2021 https://globeeawards.com/disruptor/winners/

“Having a home is so much more than just having a roof on top of your head - to have an environment where you feel valued is crucial to people’s well-being and mental health.

During COVID it became more important

We introduced a new spa-like shower technology to create luxury experiences and hospital quality air purifier that kills any airborne viruses, I believe that to make everyone be able to feel safe again and happy spending time together as a community, safety needs to be one of our strongest focus points

When I started people told me I’m crazy, but my heart was set in stone that I was going to make this happen, and I am very blessed to say that we are doing it and it has been recognised internationally. When other investors wanted to join the mission, I knew the future of accommodation would not be same again."

-Valter Pontes, the Founder and CEO of Your Best Place is disrupting the standards of rental accommodation and making luxury the new norm for rental accommodation
-When he was in university he noticed a gap on the market for higher quality rental accommodation.
-According to a recent report by VeriSmart, tenants renting privately are expected to outnumber homeowners by 2039 in the UK, and make up 55% of the housing market by 2045 if current trends continue. However, the standards of the rental properties in the UK and abroad in Europe do not cater to that need
-Valter's company Your Best Place has changed that and provided a solution to a problem that looks at the accommodation from the renters perspective, since launching in 2018 it has expanded to multiple cities in the UK and and further a field in Europe.