
CityNews speaks to some of the Housing Industry Association’s 2024 award winners on how they built their prize homes.
Each year the Housing Industry Association (HIA) awards bring together the top builders and designers in new-home construction.
The Housing Industry Association ACT & Southern NSW has recently announced this year’s winning homes, kitchens and bathrooms.
The HIA Awards identify, highlight and reward excellence throughout the housing industry, representing some of the finest tradespeople and their businesses across the country.
The awards are split into regions throughout Australia. Participants enter at their relevant regional level, selecting their preferred category, and are judged by a highly experienced team of building experts. Regional winners go on to compete in the national awards.
HIA has been representing the Australian residential building industry for more than 74 years.

Two awards are just the ‘fruit at the end’
Taking home two HIA awards, builder Sunny Malhotra says winning was just the “fruit at the end”.
“We are always trying to do the right thing by our clients and the community,” he says. “Winning won’t change our ethics.”
Winning the Display Home up to $500,000 Award and Custom Build Home $400,000-$600,000 Award, Sunny says they are already looking forward to what next year will bring.
“Our commitment is to be transparent and reliable for our clients,” he says.
“We are proud to be servicing the Canberra community.
“As locals ourselves, it brings us great pride to keep doing the right thing for the company, community and beyond.”
Utilising in-house professional consultants, Sunny says the family business has been operating since 2012 and has successfully completed more than 250 houses.
“We aren’t a cookie-cutter business,” he says.
“We customise the whole process from A-to-Z for our clients.”
The winning display home featured high ceilings, skylights, a firepit outside and an indoor fireplace.
“We have created a multi-generational house,” he says.
Sunny works alongside his wife Sara to create beautiful homes for their clients.
“We’re a great team,” he says. “We work on everything together.”
Sunny Homes. Call 0493 030306, visit sunnyhomes.com.au or email sales@sunnyhomes.com.au

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Status Living has won two categories in the 2024 Housing and Kitchen & Bathroom Awards for Renovation/Addition Project of the Year and the Renovation/Addition Project $700,000 to $1million.