Important Dates:

  • Awards Website Opened for Entries: April 28, 2025
  • Submissions Deadline: July 25, 2025
  • Criteria Validation: July 25 - August 6, 2025
  • Judging: August 7 - 21, 2025
  • Finalists Announced: September 8, 2025
  • PCA Voting: September 9 - October 5, 2025
  • Fall Home Show: October 2 - 5, 2025
  • 42nd Housing Design Awards Gala: Saturday, November 1, 2025 at the Rogers Centre

Entry Fees:

Main Submitter - $175.00 (plus HST) per submission.

Co-Submitter - $125.00 (plus HST) per submission.

Design Fee - This year, we are adopting a new display format using monitors. To ensure consistent and professional graphics across all displays, there will be a design fee of $50.00 (plus HST).

To streamline the process, the main submitter, co-submitter, and design fee will be completed online at the time you submit your entry.

Finalist Fee - $150 (plus HST) - charged to both the main submitter and any co-submitter. Once finalists are announced, a payment link will be sent to collect fees online through Awardify.

This year, GOHBA has adopted a new payment process to streamline collections and eliminate the time-intensive invoicing of previous years.  All payments will be conducted on this platform.