2025 Key Awards Judging Day
June 24 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
NOAA members can now sign up their apartment communities for our annual Key Awards! We encourage all our members to send in their properties for our biggest event of the year!.
Big changes are coming to the Key Awards
Starting this year, the Key Awards will recognize three outstanding communities as our Properties of the Year!
Properties of the Year will be awarded to the Key Award entries with the best percentage for all property types and rent ranges within each year category. The year categories are:
- Classic (communities first occupied before 1980)
- Contemporary (communities first occupied between 1980-2000)
- Trendy (communities first occupied between 2001 to present day
What are the Key Awards?
The Key Awards is an opportunity to recognize hard work and excellence within property management across Northern Ohio, NOAA members are encouraged to submit their properties for judging.
Key Award entries are grouped into property style, price and year built. On the day of judging, key award entrants are visited by two independent judges. Properties will be notified that judges are on their way approximately 15 minutes before arrival. Judges and drivers will leave the Holiday Inn in Independence after a buffet breakfast at 9 a.m.
Based on the judges’ subjective impressions, an entrant receives scores in signage/entrance, leasing office, model unit, exterior building condition, landscaping/grounds and entire community appeal. The judges’ scores are then tallied by a third-party firm. Properties are awarded based on the scores tallied.
There are five potential awards: property of the year, top 10, platinum, gold and silver. Properties that score the highest are awarded Platinum. Properties that score above average in their categories are awarded Gold. The remaining properties that score well within each group are awarded Silver.
Starting this year, NOAA will begin recognizing three Properties of the Year. This award is earned by the properties with the highest percentage of overall property types and rent ranges in its year category. The top 10 scoring properties will also receive special recognition at the awards. Properties receiving a Key Award will be notified at the Key Award Gala on September 10.
How to sign up
Fill out the form below and return it to Jacqui Hoover (jacquib@noaamembers.com). Reach out to the NOAA office at 216-241-1635 with any questions.