Gainesville, FL – December 5, 2025 – The Collier Companies is proud to announce the remarkable achievements of its Team Members and Communities at the 2025 North Central Florida Apartment Association ACE (Apartment Community Excellence) Awards. This year, The Collier Companies earned two top awards and multiple nominations, reflecting the organization’s commitment to excellence in multifamily housing and its dedication to developing industry-leading talent.
The ACE Awards honor exceptional performance, professionalism, and service across the apartment industry. The Collier Companies is thrilled to celebrate its Team Members whose hard work and leadership continue to elevate our communities and strengthen our mission. Congratulations to the following:
2025 NCFAA ACE Award Winners:
We also proudly recognize our outstanding nominees:
NCFAA ACE Award Nominations:
These awards and nominations reflect the exceptional dedication, leadership, and service our Team Members bring to their communities every day. Each nominee and award recipient embodies our shared mission of proudly making your home the heart of our business while supporting our Team Members in becoming the very best version of themselves.
About The Collier Companies:
Headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, The Collier Companies is a 50+ year old multifamily owner/manager with communities in Florida and Georgia that develops exclusively for its own account. The Collier Companies’ portfolio is comprised of over 13,000 apartment homes. Founded by Nathan S. Collier in 1972, The Collier Companies is unique in its dedication to its Communities, Residents and Team Members as evidenced by its distinctive long term hold period and its Mission Statement: Proudly making your home the heart of our business while proudly supporting Team Members to become their best selves.
Nathan S. Collier is best known for endowing the University of Florida’s Nathan S. Collier Master of Science in Real Estate Program, consistently ranked #1 for public universities. Nathan also founded the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability through the UF’s College of Journalism & Communication, making the largest gift ever received to the College to fund investigative journalism. The Collier Prize is awarded annually at the White House Correspondent Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. He also founded The Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism, administered by the NYU Carter Journalism Institute’s Ethics and Journalism Initiative (EJI). In addition to being a CPA and a Building Contractor, Nathan S. Collier is a proud triple Gator, with a bachelor’s in finance, an MBA, and a JD. A devout believer in continuous education, Nathan S. Collier is a graduate of HBS’s OPM25 as well as having attended Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and continues to annually take a week of ExecEd at HBS through CEO. Nathan S. Collier currently teaches both Leadership as well as Real Estate Finance, Development, and Investment at the University of Florida’s Levin School of Law and at the Warrington College of Business.
The Collier Companies continues its 2X journey to double in size in the coming decade with exciting developments in progress, each project designed to reflect our commitment to quality, innovation, and community. As part of this momentum, we are actively progressing toward the completion of 4,345 apartment homes. Of these, 2,232 homes have been completed, 1,504 are currently under construction, and 1,213 are in development. Upcoming communities include Monarch in Fort Myers, FL, Verve in Wesley Chapel, FL, Elora in Vero Beach, FL, Azure in Pompano Beach, FL, Nova at One Nexton in Summerville, SC, and a community in Naples, FL.
For more information about The Collier Companies, please visit colliercompanies.com. Nathan Collier has blogged on personal and professional leadership twice a week for over 15 years at NSCBlog.com
