This spacious apartment in the popular "Carrington" development, has a pleasant garden outlook and rarely offered ground floor location and is located for lifestyle and convenience. You are only a short distance away from the vibrant café, restaurant and retail precincts of Kingston itself, the Kingston Foreshore and Manuka. In addition, you are a short walk to Telopea Park and Lake Burley Griffin where you can enjoy the walking, cycling, and running tracks around the Lake.
You have the best of both worlds by strolling to the Kingston shops with its cafes, restaurants, retail shops and well-equipped Supabarn supermarket or take a short walk to the Kingston Foreshore development. Fyshwick Markets for your fresh fruit, vegetables and fish and the Old Bus Depot Markets, where you can enjoy the handcrafted goods and food stuff available from local suppliers, are available close by.
Offering a light filled home with its ideal northerly aspect and an open plan living and dining area which leads out onto a paved courtyard surrounded by well-maintained gardens. The kitchen has an electric cook top and wall oven, dishwasher, and pantry.
The main bedroom features a built-in robe and ensuite with a vanity, shower over the bath and toilet. The second bedroom again with a built-in robe also has an ensuite with a vanity, toilet, and shower.
Some additional features of this unique apartment include recently painted, new window treatments and light fittings installed last year, (note: the property photographs do not show the new fittings), a dedicated laundry room with clothes dryer, wall mounted reverse cycle air conditioner and a basement allocated single car space with an adjacent storage cage.
The Carrington development features a tennis court, visitor parking and a roof top residents' Common Room with stunning views to Manuka Oval, the Lake and Parliament House from the wrap around balcony.
The suburb of Kingston is the oldest suburb in Canberra. The suburb is named after Charles Cameron Kingston, the former Premier of South Australia and minister in the first Australian Commonwealth Government. It is adjacent to the suburbs of Barton, Fyshwick, Griffith and Manuka. Kingston is situated about 4 km from the centre of Canberra and Kingston's streets are named after Australia's early European explorers.
Features:
• Light filled (northerly aspect) and rarely offered ground floor apartment
• Open plan lounge and dining area with access onto paved courtyard
• Kitchen with electric cook top and oven, dishwasher, and plenty of storage cupboards
• Built in robes to both bedrooms
• Ensuite bathrooms to each of the bedrooms
• Minimal maintenance floating timber floors
• Separate laundry room with clothes dryer
• Storage cupboard in dining area
• Wall mounted reverse cycle air conditioner
• Recently painted with new window treatments and light fittings
• Outlook into established and well-maintained gardens
• Residents' roof top Common Room with large wrap around balcony and views towards the Lake and surrounds
• Residents' tennis court
• Basement single allocated car space with adjacent storage cage
• Easy access to the Kingston shopping precinct, Kingston Foreshore, Fyshwick Markets and Sunday Old Bus Depot markets
• Close to Telopea Park and Lake Burley Griffin for walking, cycling, and running tracks
• NBN connectivity – fibre to the building
• Currently leased unfurnished until 18 August 2023 at $580 per week
Note: virtual styling has been used in some of the property photographs
Statistics (all measures/figures are approximate):
Block 12 Section 25
Land value $15,000,000 (entire block)
Block size 4,681 sqm (entire block)
Rates $724.45 per quarter
Land tax $898.81 per quarter (if purchased as an investment property)
Body corporate levies: $1,011.27 per quarter
Living area: 87 sqm
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