Property managers in Turner, ACT

Northbourne Avenue and Haig Park border Turner, an inner north suburb of Canberra, ACT, within walking distance of the city centre and the Australian National University. Most rentals are apartments in medium-density blocks, with some townhouses and older houses. Distinct Properties manages rental homes in Turner, combining leasing, inspections and maintenance with owners corporation liaison in one property management service. Distinct Properties has arranged at least 63 leases in Turner, 56 of them since January 2020, when its records became complete.

Turner honours Sir George Turner, a Federation figure who later served as federal treasurer, and its streets mostly recall writers, legislators and pioneers. Although gazetted in 1928, it was largely built in the middle of the last century as a garden city suburb with wide nature strips. Half of Haig Park, the long belt of trees planted in the 1920s as a windbreak for the early city, lies within it, along with parkland beside Sullivans Creek. Northbourne Avenue and its light rail form one edge, and several rapid bus routes pass through.

Original blocks in Turner were large, and many of the small postwar houses on them have given way to medium-density unit buildings, especially in the south-east near Northbourne Avenue. The western streets still hold mostly detached homes, and the north mixes houses, townhouses and flats. Apartment owners here work within an owners corporation, so levies, shared repairs and building rules come into play. The remaining older houses can need heating and insulation attention, since many were built with small windows and little thought for winter sun.

Turner suits renters who want to walk or ride to the city centre and the Australian National University, with light rail and rapid buses on Northbourne Avenue and parkland at Haig Park.

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