Property managers in Barton, ACT

Several Commonwealth departments call Barton home: this inner south suburb of Canberra, ACT, lies between Capital Hill and Lake Burley Griffin's East Basin. Its homes are mostly apartments, with a small heritage housing precinct. Distinct Properties manages rental homes in Barton, combining leasing and inspections with the owners corporation liaison that apartment property management needs. Distinct Properties has arranged at least 46 leases in Barton, 42 of them since January 2020, when its records became complete.

Settlement in Barton began in 1922, and the suburb was named in 1928 after Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first Prime Minister, with streets named after governors. Its edges follow State Circle on the Capital Hill side, Kings Avenue, Telopea Park and the lake's East Basin. The Attorney-General's Department and the departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet and of Foreign Affairs and Trade all have offices here. The suburb also holds the Australian Federal Police College, Bowen Park on the lakeshore and Barton Interchange.

Apartments make up the great majority of Barton's homes, while a heritage-listed precinct near Telopea Park preserves a cluster of early cottages built for public servants. For an apartment owner, the owners corporation shapes much of the job: levies, building rules, common property repairs and access for trades. Parking spaces, storage cages and intercoms are the details tenants ask about first, so we record them carefully at the start of every lease and check them again at the end.

Barton suits people working in the departments around Parliament House, with the R2 and R6 rapid buses at Barton Interchange and the lake and parks a short walk away.

Most of the homes we have leased in Barton are apartments.