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37 Salsola Street, Rivett

RZ1: SUBURBAN · 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.

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This is the other end of the schedule from Red Hill, and the contrast is the whole point. Same zone, a similar block size, the same statutory move — and the charge is $37,750 payable rather than $132,500. Codified, it is $75,500 against Red Hill's $265,000.

1,014 m² with a little under twenty metres of frontage. The frontage is the thing to look at rather than the area: twenty metres is workable for a pair of dwellings side by side, but it constrains the design, and it is usually the constraint that decides whether a dual occupancy is worth doing or whether you end up with two mediocre houses.

Unimproved value is $669,000 and rising — $650,000 last year.

Where Rivett is genuinely interesting is that the charge is small enough to stop being the deciding factor. In Red Hill the charge is the story. Here the story is build cost and what a finished dwelling in Rivett sells for, which is a question about your own numbers rather than about the schedule.

The numbers

as at 1 September 2026
Zone
RZ1: SUBURBAN
Block
1,014 m²
Frontage
19.8 m
Unimproved value
$669,000 2026

Lease Variation Charge DI2026-142

Dwellings LVC payable Per added dwelling
2 the scheme reviewed $37,750 $37,750
3 $64,000 $32,000
4 $84,750 $28,250

Missing Middle 50% remission applied. Eligibility turns on facts about the applicant as well as the block and must be confirmed with the ACT Revenue Office.

No view on the asking price here. What a block is worth depends on what you would build and what it costs you to build it — run it with your own numbers and the answer is yours rather than ours.

What has not been checked

These were not assessed. Their absence from the list above is not evidence of their absence from the site.

  • Contaminated land register
  • Airport noise contours
  • Registered easements and rights of way can end a project
  • Sewer and water mains — build-over
  • Crown lease purpose clause can end a project
  • Concessional lease status can end a project
  • Registered and regulated trees can end a project
  • Ground conditions and geotechnical risk
  • Solar access and overshadowing
  • Third-party objection and ACAT appeal

Read from the block on 1 September 2026 and not changed since. Indicative screening, not a valuation or a feasibility study.

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