Canberra blocks, reviewed

6 blocks currently or recently on the market in the ACT, each one screened and written up: the zone, the unimproved value, and what the Lease Variation Charge would cost at two, three or four dwellings — the largest number in an ACT infill project, and the one nobody publishes against a real address. What the block is then worth is your call, with your own build costs, in the calculator. Free, and there is nothing to sign up for.

13 Goble Street, Hughes

RZ1 · 747 m²

747 m² on RZ1 in Hughes, a second dwelling at $81,500 — and the only block here whose unimproved value went down this year.

Numbers as at 1 Sep 2026

14 Bathurst Place, Macquarie

RZ1 · 1,635 m²

The biggest block here by a wide margin, and the frontage is twelve point eight metres — which is the entire story.

Numbers as at 1 Sep 2026

3 Bernacchi Street, Mawson

RZ2 · 911 m²

911 m² on RZ2 in Mawson. Two dwellings cost $77,000; three cost $97,750 — so the third one costs a quarter of what the second did.

Numbers as at 1 Sep 2026

30 Quiros Street, Red Hill

RZ1 · 1,105 m²

1,105 m² on RZ1 in Red Hill, where the codified charge for a second dwelling is $265,000 — the remission is worth more than the build contingency.

Numbers as at 1 Sep 2026

37 Salsola Street, Rivett

RZ1 · 1,014 m²

1,014 m² on RZ1 in Rivett, where a second dwelling costs $37,750 — a seventh of what the same statutory move costs in Red Hill.

Numbers as at 1 Sep 2026

70 Longstaff Street, Lyneham

RZ1 · 580 m²

580 m² on RZ1 in Lyneham. The charge is $97,875, but the block is small enough that the charge is not what decides it.

Numbers as at 1 Sep 2026