Property managers in Reid, ACT

Reid, ACT, sits right beside Civic in Canberra's inner north, with Anzac Parade along one edge. Its rental homes are mostly apartments, alongside heritage-listed houses from the city's early planned streets. Distinct Properties manages rental homes in Reid, giving owners property management that covers leasing, inspections, repairs and clear reporting on how each home is going.

Reid took its name in 1928 from George Reid, Australia's fourth prime minister, and had earlier been counted as part of Ainslie. Most of the suburb went up just before the provisional Parliament House opened, laid out on garden city lines, and that housing precinct is now heritage listed. The colonial-era St John the Baptist Church stands here, as does the Canberra Institute of Technology. Anzac Parade, the ceremonial boulevard running from the lake to the Australian War Memorial, forms one edge of Reid, and the R3 rapid bus passes through.

Rental housing falls into two broad groups. The heritage precinct holds early cottages on tree-lined streets, and those homes carry the upkeep of any house close to a century old: roofs, timber, drainage and heating. Elsewhere, apartment buildings put renters a short walk from the city centre. For an apartment owner, the owners corporation, building insurance and shared repairs shape much of the work, so we keep in close contact with the strata manager as well as the renter.

Renters pick Reid for walking access to Civic and green space along Anzac Parade.

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