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Jindalee’s First Home

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Here’s some local trivia!  This is apparently the first house to be built in Jindalee in 1962.  It was built as a display home for the developers of Centenary Estates which was at the time the largest and most ambitious suburban development undertaken by private enterprise in Australia.

The architects (Hayes and Scott) were asked to showcase modern housing and landscaping and the design was quite unconventional for the time with it’s flat roof in particular seen to be quite daring.

The house apparently still exists and is located in Jindalee Street.

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(Source: Hayes & Scott: Post War Houses by Andrew Charles Wilson).

What makes a good rental property?

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Rental Properties

Today I spoke to our property management team Antony Laing and Jude Naylor to ask what makes a good investment  property for rentals in the Centenary Suburbs and what local tenants are looking for.  As it turns out there is a lot of overlap.

NOTE: The Centenary Suburbs are typically thought to include Middle Park,  Jindalee, Mount Ommaney, Jamboree Heights, Westlake, Riverhills and Sumner but more recently Seventeen Mile Rocks and Sinnamon park have also been added. Continue reading →