Property managers in Kingston, ACT

Kingston, in the ACT's inner south, reaches from the Kingston shops to the lakeside Kingston Foreshore. Most rental homes are apartments, with some older flats and houses. From the foreshore to the older streets, Distinct Properties manages rental homes in Kingston, and our property management covers waterfront apartment buildings and the suburb's heritage-era homes alike. Distinct Properties has arranged at least 132 leases in Kingston, 116 of them since January 2020, when its records became complete.

Named after Charles Cameron Kingston, a South Australian politician who served as a minister in the first Commonwealth government, Kingston began life as Eastlake, the workers' quarter of early Canberra, and its streets honour early European explorers. Landmarks include the weekly markets inside the heritage-listed Old Bus Depot, the Kingston Powerhouse (Canberra's earliest permanent public building), the railway station and the Kingston shops built around Green Square. Wentworth Avenue carries traffic through the suburb.

Kingston has been largely rebuilt with medium-density townhouses and units, and the Kingston Foreshore on the lake added a large number of apartments on former industrial land. The Causeway, once a separate pocket of workers' cottages, and a heritage-listed Garden City precinct keep older houses in the mix. Apartment owners deal with owners corporations, waterfront buildings and shared facilities, while the heritage houses call for careful, sympathetic maintenance that respects their age and character.

Kingston attracts renters with the foreshore and boat harbour, the Sunday markets at the Old Bus Depot, the Kingston and Manuka shops, and the R2 and R6 rapid buses.

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