Renowned Hungarian Real Estate Developer Passes Away

Attila Kovács, founding owner and managing partner of DVM Group and Horizon Development real estate firms, has passed away at the age of 51.

Attila Kovács graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Budapest University of Technology in 1994, followed by an internship in international architecture and project management in the United States, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom. Professionally up-to-date and progressive knowledge has always been important to him, so he consciously sought to have his vision nurtured by beautiful impulses from all over the world, which he could also see as inspiration in shaping his own projects, his obituary says.

In 1995, he founded DVM Group, an internationally recognized group of companies providing the most complex architectural and construction services in Hungary, and in 2006, he launched his premium real estate development company, the multi-award winning Horizon Development.

In addition to representing his own company groups and projects, Attila Kovács also considered the urban architecture of Budapest as a professional mission. In recognition of his work in the field of progressive development of Hungarian architectural culture and promotion of the quality of real estate development, he received the Audience Award for Real Estate Player of the Year in 2011 and 2018, the CIJ Leadership Award in 2016 and the ‘For the City of the Future’ award by Budapest’s downtown District V in 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, he was the vice-president of the IFK (Real Estate Development Roundtable Association), where he took part in the advocacy as well as in the international professional appearances of real estate development companies active in Hungary, the obituary adds.