Solaire Properties & ARP Building have won the Master Builders QLD Brisbane Housing and Construction award for Excellence in Sustainable Living for their recently developed home, La Fleur, in the Brisbane suburb of Auchenflower.

All eight capital cities saw an improvement in the Housing Industry Association Affordability Index for the June 2019 quarter, with Darwin showing the greatest improvement, its index up by 4.8 per cent. 

Phillip Lee, together with his colleague Trevor Booth, opened Booth and Lee in 1989. It was 2011 when Mr Lee and Mr Booth realised that with changing times, their business had hit the limit of what it was able to achieve as a real estate agency.

CoreLogic's March 2019 data shows Sydney and Melbourne are responsible for nearly half of the $14.3 billion in gross resale profits, every capital city increased in the share of loss-making resales over the March 2019 quarter, and units continue to be much more likely to resell at a loss than houses.