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<h3 data-block-key="0ggyk">Wanniassa</h3><img alt="China Tea House" class="richtext-image full-width" height="600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/China_Tea_House.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="h4bk">The south side just keeps on coming up trumps this year, what with being <a href="/news/the-vatican-city-of-canberra-welcome-to-the-tiny-suburb-of-oxley/">home to Canberra’s ‘Vatican city’</a> and <a href="/news/why-on-earth-do-people-who-live-in-wanniassa-love-it-so-much/">Wanniassans simply raving about how much they love living there</a>.</p><img alt="Screen Shot 2024-06-04 at 12.45.40 pm" class="richtext-image full-width" height="391" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Screen_Shot_2024-06-04_at_12.45.40_pm.width-800.png" width="261"><p data-block-key="8oqd0">Now it turns out little old Wanniassa (aka the Erindale Shops) is home to one of the best Chinese restaurants in the whole city. It’s called the China Tea House and its menu is organised by which <i>sauce</i> you prefer, not which meat. Are you a Mongolian, Beijing or Plum type of family? It’s garlic sauce for us.</p><h4 data-block-key="42m61">What to order: The Peking Chili Shredded Beef (and make sure you get a side of prawn toast, it’s delish.)</h4><p data-block-key="370g2"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=sale&amp;address_suburb=Wanniassa,%202903,%20ACT&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View homes for sale in Wanniassa.</a></p><h3 data-block-key="4rqpe">Holt</h3><img alt="chinese inn" class="richtext-image full-width" height="600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/chinese_inn.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="19e5f">We’re not sure what happened to Rebecca but Rebecca’s Chinese Inn at Kippax Fair is now just known as the Chinese Inn. The food is superb, whether you’re in-house at the restaurant or at home cheering on the Raiders from the lounge room on a Sunday night.</p><img alt="chinese inn 2" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1066" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/chinese_inn_2.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="dr167">Authentic Chinese and Malaysian food is on the menu at the Inn, and if you eat in, you’ll be able to order drinks from the cocktail bar. We also hear you can have your wedding there?!</p><h4 data-block-key="db2fm">What to order: The Shantung Chicken.</h4><p data-block-key="9eh2n"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=sale&amp;address_suburb=Holt,%202615,%20ACT&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1&amp;view_as=list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View homes for sale in Holt.</a></p><h3 data-block-key="2cdts">Queanbeyan</h3><img alt="New Cathay" class="richtext-image full-width" height="800" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/New_Cathay.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="4ur3l">New Cathay Chinese Restaurant has been an icon on Queanbeyan’s main street for around 20 years. In Queanbeyan, you’re either a New Cathay family or a Diamond Chinese family (the Diamond has been operating at Karabar Shops since the 1980s).</p><img alt="Screen Shot 2024-06-04 at 1.06.22 pm" class="richtext-image full-width" height="417" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Screen_Shot_2024-06-04_at_1.06.22_pm.width-800.png" width="423"><p data-block-key="burqh">It’s fair to say New Cathay is leading the charge at this point, with wait times for delivery on a Friday night hitting close to two hours.</p><h4 data-block-key="7sc7">What to order: Mongolian Beef or Char Kway Teow.</h4><p data-block-key="b5u1"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=sale&amp;address_suburb=Queanbeyan,%202620,%20NSW&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1&amp;view_as=list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View homes for sale in Queanbeyan.</a></p><h3 data-block-key="53sj2">Kingston</h3><img alt="portias place 2" class="richtext-image full-width" height="233" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/portias_place_2.width-800.jpg" width="216"><p data-block-key="4aghv">There’s really only one Chinese restaurant that springs to mind when it comes to secret political conversation over the lazy-su, and that’s Portia’s Place.</p><p data-block-key="6sjhv">Since 1996, Portia’s has been a restaurant of choice for out-of-towners during Sitting Week, with many a prime minister enjoying a couple of spring rolls and a san choy bow lettuce cup or two between meetings.</p><img alt="portias place" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1066" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/portias_place.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="a1gfd">I’ve always been too shy to head into Portia’s, so I now just get it delivered by an Uber driver.</p><h4 data-block-key="fdui2">What to order: Fillet Pepper Steak.</h4><p data-block-key="5emj2"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=buy&amp;address_suburb=Kingston,%202604,%20ACT&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View homes for sale in Kingston.</a></p><h3 data-block-key="edu00">Dickson</h3><img alt="ruby chinese restaurant" class="richtext-image full-width" height="478" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/ruby_chinese_restaurant.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="c0en0">Hands up if you grew up in the inner north and had family birthday parties at Ruby Chinese Restaurant? When it opened on Woolley Street in 1982, Ruby set a new standard for Chinese food in the nation’s capital and people would drive in from Belconnen for the huge array of seafood on offer.</p><img alt="Screen Shot 2024-06-04 at 1.36.00 pm" class="richtext-image full-width" height="599" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Screen_Shot_2024-06-04_at_1.36.00_pm.width-800.png" width="800"><h4 data-block-key="eo73r">What to order: At $48 a head, go for ‘Set Menu A’ which includes (among its six dishes) garlic butter king prawns, fish fillets in spiced salt and chilli, and satay beef with mixed veggies.</h4><p data-block-key="e15dm"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=buy&amp;address_suburb=Dickson,%202602,%20ACT&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View homes for sale in Dickson.</a></p>

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<p data-block-key="6t1nv">Suzi Trajkovska is one of those women who <i>loves</i> organising. Cupboards, home offices, pantries and closets: the messier the better. She has systems for her systems and has had an eye for creating beautiful rooms ever since she was little.</p><p data-block-key="7h6rn">Suzi works as a family daycarer from her home suburb of Googong, but recently started taking Fridays off to spend time completely making over the rooms of homes in surrounding suburbs. It all started when Suzi made over her own pantry, and a girlfriend demanded she come and do the same for hers.</p><img alt="pantry" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1000" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/pantry.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="9r2n6">“It was not an intentional start to a business,” Suzi laughs.</p><p data-block-key="6lbr7">“But more and more people heard about what I could do and started contacting me.”</p><p data-block-key="l59p">Today, her interior decorating business <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554290319869" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edited Living Co</a> is thriving — she gets most new clients by word of mouth — and Suzi’s Fridays are booked solid doing what she loves: researching interior trends, finding furniture for clients (recycled where possible) and shopping at Kmart.</p><p data-block-key="abafl">Her most recent project included surprising her niece, Gabriella, with a brand new look for her home business, Beauty by Gabriella.</p><img alt="before beauty room" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1000" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/before_beauty_room.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="arbae">“Gabriella has had a pretty tough couple of years, including losing her mum,” Suzi says.</p><p data-block-key="8eefs">“I wanted to do something really special for her.</p><p data-block-key="5v87u">“We agreed to meet the Saturday after Anzac Day to talk about her desires for the room but I actually snuck in while she was away on the Anzac Day long weekend and did the makeover for her.”</p><p data-block-key="50i5r">Here’s the approach Suzi took.</p><h3 data-block-key="489k2">Start with three words you want the space to feel.</h3><img alt="makeover prints" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1000" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/makeover_prints.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="2044o">“For Gabriella’s therapy room I chose modern, luxurious and relaxing. Modern is about a neutral colour palette and relaxing is about minimalism, having spots for things and reducing clutter.”</p><h3 data-block-key="bfee1">Invest in an excellent bed.</h3><img alt="makeover bed" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1000" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/makeover_bed.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="2snb4">“In a home beauty business, your clients spend most of the time laying down. The most important thing you can invest in is a comfortable place for them to do this.</p><p data-block-key="9566o">“Spend most of your budget on this, and you can decorate around it on a budget.”</p><h3 data-block-key="110v0">Curtains make the room.</h3><img alt="image000001 (1)" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/image000001_1.width-800.jpg" width="746"><p data-block-key="aifc7">“Window dressings can make or break a room so we stripped back Gabriella’s old curtains and put in a sheer curtain from Freedom. The room was instantly transformed.”</p><h3 data-block-key="etamv">Repurpose what you have.</h3><img alt="makeover details" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1000" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/makeover_details.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="5a4tt">“A lot of what you see, Gabriella already had in the room. It just needed a new set of eyes and some accessories to bring it to life.</p><p data-block-key="etno4">“The baskets, marble-look trays are from Kmart and the big banana leaf plant in the corner is from Spotlight. All sourced locally in Queanbeyan and on a budget.”</p>

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<p data-block-key="xwpvt">“It’s stupidly expensive in Canberra — I might have to buy in Queanbeyan!”</p><p data-block-key="8kufb">For years I’ve heard this quip around the office and among my friends in the market for a new home, and it’s always baffled me.</p><p data-block-key="2agkm">Where did the perception that Queanbeyan is where you go to buy if you can’t afford to live in Canberra come from? Queanbeyan has always been pitched as Canberra’s older, poorer cousin but I’ve reviewed the data and it’s much cheaper to buy in several Canberra suburbs than it is to buy in little old Queanbeyan.</p><img alt="2-yuruga-close-karabar-nsw-2620-87700-image-0-20231004054636525281-crop-c0-5__0-5-1600x750-70" class="richtext-image full-width" height="375" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/2-yuruga-close-karabar-nsw-2620-87700-image-0-.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="3f4og">The median house price in Queanbeyan in 2023 is $765,000 – so if you’re looking to live somewhere less expensive try Charnwood ($641,000), Holt ($740,000) or Banks (also $740,000). Even Ngunnawal is more affordable.</p><p data-block-key="fivio">So while they’re not strictly <i>the</i> cheapest properties on the market, homes in Queanbeyan do sit at the lower end of the median house price scale.</p><img alt="9-hirst-avenue-queanbeyan-nsw-2620-91218-image-0-20231123023135217593-crop-c0-5__0-5-1600x750-70" class="richtext-image full-width" height="375" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/9-hirst-avenue-queanbeyan-nsw-2620-91218-image.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="absfu">Add a “rural NSW town vibe” to the mix, and it’s a combination more and more Canberrans are seeking, according to Ian McNamee &amp; Partners sales agent Lucy MacGregor.</p><p data-block-key="485pm">“I would say a high percentage of our purchasers are from the ACT – we see a lot of first home buyers finding value for money in Queanbeyan,” Lucy says.</p><p data-block-key="19ec1">“We typically have larger block sizes over here, and charming designs that are harder to find – and therefore harder to buy — in Canberra.</p><img alt="153-carwoola-street-queanbeyan-nsw-2620-87858-image-0-20231129040205093982-crop-c0-5__0-5-1600x750-70" class="richtext-image full-width" height="375" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/153-carwoola-street-queanbeyan-nsw-2620-87858-.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="3gonj">“As prices rise in the ACT, people are realising just how conveniently positioned Queanbeyan is. It’s literally 15 minutes to Civic, Tuggeranong and Woden.”</p><p data-block-key="aeqtr">Ray White Queanbeyan sales agent Brad O’Mara remembers a time when it actually was a lot cheaper to buy in Queanbeyan than Canberra, but that gap has closed.</p><img alt="23-hakea-street-karabar-nsw-2620-89624-image-0-20231101223135222320-crop-c0-5__0-5-1600x750-70" class="richtext-image full-width" height="375" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/23-hakea-street-karabar-nsw-2620-89624-image-0.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="5tdbe">“We do see Canberra buyers coming out to our properties from as far as Belconnen, Weston and Tuggeranong,” Brad says.</p><p data-block-key="dm20m">“It really depends on what each client wants. What are they looking for? What lifestyle do they want? What services do they need, if any? What budget do they have? Can that be found in the Queanbeyan region for cheaper?</p><p data-block-key="2dn7r">“In most cases, the answer is yes.</p><p data-block-key="ekfoa">“Myths are usually based on a generalised market median, and the reports show that the Queanbeyan region is more affordable.</p><p data-block-key="502kj">“Combine that with the great services we have here, and you’ve got an excellent value proposition.&quot;</p><p data-block-key="3thii"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=buy&amp;address_suburb=Queanbeyan,%202620,%20NSW&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=-created&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>View our Queanbeyan region listings.</b></a></p>

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Fresh to the market is this top floor, 2 bedroom unit. Brilliantly positioned close to public transport, a short drive to Queanbeyan's CBD and with easy access into Canberra.

With timber floating floors in the living room and carpet in the bedrooms the unit has a nice homely feel. 

Features include:

&bull;	Top floor apartment 
&bull;	Timber floating floor through living
&bull;	Kitchen with electric cooking
&bull;	2 bedrooms with built-in wardrobes
&bull;	Combined bathroom/laundry
&bull;	Separate toilet
&bull;	Off street parking (garage not included) 

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Population in Queanbeyan is 6237, with a median age of 37. This is below the Canberra average of 40.5 and way below the national 41.6

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Compared to other areas, couples (23%) and singles (22%) are over represented than national average

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A majority of 40% live in a house, followed by 35% apartment dwellers. Households are 2 people on average, seems like Queanbeyan is the place to go for spacious living!

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42/85 Derrima Road QUEANBEYAN, NSW 2620

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Distance	School	Address
0.74 km	Queanbeyan West Public School	Morton St, Queanbeyan 2620
1.08 km	Queanbeyan High School	Agnes Ave, Queanbeyan 2620
2.02 km	St Gregory's Primary School	57 Lowe Street, Queanbeyan 2620
2.02 km	St Gregory's Primary School	MacQuoid St, Queanbeyan 2620
2.06 km	Queanbeyan Public School	Isabella St, Queanbeyan 2620
2.26 km	Queanbeyan East Public School	Yass St, Queanbeyan 2620
2.44 km	Karabar High School	Donald Rd, Queanbeyan 2620
2.52 km	Queanbeyan South Public School	Cameron Rd, Queanbeyan 2620

42/85 Derrima Road QUEANBEYAN, NSW 2620

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