Property managers in Braddon, ACT

Braddon borders Canberra's city centre to the north, in the ACT, with light rail running along Northbourne Avenue and shops and dining around Lonsdale and Mort streets. Its rental homes are mostly apartments, plus some older houses. For owners in Braddon, Distinct Properties manages rental homes and, as property manager, handles leasing, inspections, repairs and building matters. Distinct Properties has arranged at least 172 leases in Braddon, 156 of them since January 2020, when its records became complete.

Sir Edward Braddon, a framer of the Constitution and a former head of Tasmania's government, gave this suburb its name when it was gazetted in 1928, six years after settlement began. Its streets carry Aboriginal words and the names of legislators and pioneers. Canberra's first light-industrial area grew up here, and the old workshops around Mort and Lonsdale streets now hold shops, galleries and places to eat. Haig Park and the Gorman House Arts Centre are local landmarks, and light rail serves Ipima Street and Elouera Street on Northbourne Avenue.

Most of Braddon's older houses have given way to apartment buildings, some with shops at street level, while the heritage-listed Braddon Garden City precinct keeps an early cluster of cottages, the only residential area in Canberra completed to a design by Walter Burley Griffin. Houses also remain where Braddon borders Ainslie and Dickson. Apartment owners deal with owners corporations, shared lifts and parking, and a mixed-use building can bring commercial neighbours downstairs, which is worth knowing before a lease is signed.

With the city centre a short walk south and light rail along Northbourne Avenue, Braddon suits renters who would rather not drive, and Lonsdale Street adds shops and places to eat close to home.

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