Nguyen Xuan Quang takes the Vietnam Real Estate Personality of the Year award

The ‘Southern Dragon’ soars with the PropertyGuru Vietnam Property Awards’ highest honour for individual achievement

In glittering ceremonies held Friday, Nguyen Xuan Quang, founder and chairman of Nam Long Group, was awarded the title of Vietnam Real Estate Personality of the Year at the 11th PropertyGuru Vietnam Property Awards.

Selected by editors of official magazine Property Report by PropertyGuru, Chairman Quang was awarded for decades of fiery ambition, held together by a consistent commitment to affordable housing and urban communities.

“It is a great honour and a pleasant surprise to be recognised at such a prestigious award ceremony,” says Chairman Quang in a statement.

In 1992, he pioneered Vietnam’s modern private real estate enterprise by founding Nam Long Group, taking advantage of liberalising market reforms at the time.

Committed to creating genuine, lasting value for communities, he initiated the Nam Long Housing Program, introducing around a dozen townships over three decades. Providing homes for over 30,000 families, these master-planned, climate-conscious communities are built for Vietnam’s next generations.

“We hope that with the PropertyGuru award, more and more reputable developers, professionals, and architects will continue to build liveable and sustainable townships for Vietnam,” he says.

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Before founding Nam Long Group, Chairman Quang put his design expertise—first honed at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture—to projects under the city’s Urban Planning Institute.

Named after the legend of the “Southern Dragon,” Nam Long Group came from humble origins as a contractor before it transformed into today’s leading, fully integrated real estate corporation. Operating across a full ecosystem, the developer spans affordable and mid-end housing as well as premium residences and commercial developments, including the award-winning An Zen Residences.

Over the years, the company has garnered the support of developers and investors from Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and beyond. It has partnered and collaborated with diverse real estate consultants, designers, planners, and infrastructure and building contractors.

The company boasts its own set of standards and SOPs for design, construction, and operations management, in line with benchmarks at home and abroad.

“⁠This has been a proud journey: more than 30 years of quietly building a trustworthy organisation, achieving sustainable growth through the market’s many ups and downs, together with the strong support from both domestic and international partners,” the awardee says.

From a young architect with a vision, Chairman Quang is now living his dream and making those of others come true, simply by lifting Vietnamese families up the property ladder.