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The auction of <a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/41-rachel-makinson-street-strathnairn-act-2615-76240/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strathnairn Charity House</a> was never going to be any ordinary event — but with lightning, torrential rain, the auction crowd huddled in the home’s double garage and two hours of bidding, it’s an event that will be unforgettable for those lucky enough to attend.At the end of Saturday’s marathon two-hour auction, Strathnairn Charity Home sold for $1,596,600: the second highest sale in the suburb to date. The lucky new owners are a family already living in Strathnairn: Naresh, Chamari and their two sons. In a truly special plot twist, Naresh used to work for one the charities benefiting from the proceeds of the sale.<img alt="SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px2" class="richtext-image full-width" height="531" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px2.width-800.png" width="800">“They loved the quality of the fit-out, the multigenerational living option, as well as the extra space they needed for their older children,” sales agent Natalie Kokic Schmidt says.“They could see the home was built with love.“Their neighbours are so happy they’re staying in the suburb so they’ll all be celebrating together once they move in.”<img alt="SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px3" class="richtext-image full-width" height="531" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px3.width-800.png" width="800">It was a truly special day for the designers, builders and marketers of the home — who all volunteered their time to the project — and cheers erupted when the gavel fell. Strathnairn Charity House is a joint venture of Ginninderry and Master Builders ACT, and proceeds from the sale of the home will benefit Hands Across Canberra, Canberra City Care, Pegasus Riding for the Disabled and Karinya House. More than 60 subcontractors and trade suppliers donated time and materials to build the home.As the exclusive property portal for the sale of the home, we’re incredibly proud to announce that Canberrans were just as obsessed with Strathnairn Charity House as we were.<img alt="SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px9" class="richtext-image full-width" height="531" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px9.width-800.png" width="800">More than 98,000 people visited the listing on Zango, generating 363 enquiries. More than 100 groups inspected the home during the 23-day sales and marketing period, and the home now has a spot in Zango’s Top 10 Most Viewed Properties of All Time.Sales agent Lisa Silberberg says enquiries about the ultra-modern four-bedroom, three-bathroom property were strong from the onset.“Early in the campaign, it became very clear that more opportunities to view the home would need to be facilitated,” she says.“We had a phenomenal number of inspections in the current climate. “There was high engagement in the property, and this exponentially exceeded the average engagements achieved across similar homes offered for sale.”For sales agent and auctioneer Sandra Masters, the auction was “the longest single auction I have called”.<img alt="SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px7" class="richtext-image full-width" height="531" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px7.width-800.png" width="800">“It seems like a long auction in hindsight but it didn’t feel that way at the time,” she says.“It’s longer than you’d expect on a standard residential home, but this was no standard sale. “I love auctions so the excitement, the adrenaline, the crowd, it all kept me going. Rain is only a bit of water after all.“I think it was right to give the buyers a bit longer to discuss and decide, we ended up with almost an extra $45,000 in $500 and $1,000 bids, so the extra time was worth it, this is all just money direct to charity.”<img alt="SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px" class="richtext-image full-width" height="531" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/SCH_Body_Image_800px_532px.width-800.png" width="800">For sales agent Cris O’Brien, it&#x27;s an experience she’ll never forget.“It was amazing to work in collaboration with all the wonderful, generous people involved in the initiative to ultimately achieve the best possible result for the local charities,” Cris says.“This was Canberra at its absolute best.”Ginninderry’s Head of Community, Marketing and Communications, Marcus Mills-Smith says the sales campaign for the home finished up a phenomenal two years on the project.&quot;I particularly want to thank our Zango dream team of five female sales agents drawn from a range of Canberra’s leading agencies,&quot; Marcus says.&quot;They became incredible advocates for the home and their commitment to getting the best outcome for our charity partners was obvious.”<h2 data-block-key="e8hi5">Strathnairn Charity House: The numbers</h2>Listing views: 98,725Photo, video and floorplan views: 172,456Enquiries: 363 (includes alerts) Days on market: 23 Sold for: $1,596,600

1,596,600 reasons to celebrate as Strathnairn Charity House sells at ‘unforgettable’ auction

<h2 data-block-key="4wxbk">An unlikely hero during the 2003 bushfires.</h2><img alt="JonStanhope-600x450.jpeg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="450" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/JonStanhope-600x450.width-800.jpg" width="600">During the bushfires of 2003, which destroyed 500 homes and killed four people, then Chief Minister Jon Stanhope stripped to his underwear and swam to the rescue of a pilot whose helicopter had crashed into Bendora Dam, in Namadgi National Park.<h2 data-block-key="841l2">Yass could have been the nation’s capital.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_1250441644.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="529" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_1250441644.width-800.jpg" width="800">Yass was initially recommended as the site of the capital, with a proposed boundary extending from Lake George to Queanbeyan and incorporating the “sleepy Parish of Canberra”. Initial plans for the capital stated that it had to be in NSW, at least 100 miles from Sydney and at least 100 square miles in size.<h2 data-block-key="213cf">Tuggeranong means ‘cold valley’.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_1422958913.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_1422958913.width-800.jpg" width="800">The Ngambri people called Tuggeranong the Cold Valley. Not surprising given its proximity to the base of the Brindabellas, often snow-capped during the Canberra winter.<h2 data-block-key="pfq9">And it then became ‘nappy valley’.</h2>The name Nappy Valley was given to Tuggeranong by people living in Canberra’s inner north and south in the 1970s. Those living in established homes in Forrest, Griffith, Red Hill, Narrabundah, Ainslie, Reid, Braddon and Turner, decided it was time for some serious renovations to their homes, and the builders and other tradesmen they employed settled in Tuggeranong.<h2 data-block-key="a30en">Acton was once home to a convict prison.</h2>In 1823, retired Lieutentant Joshua John Moore set up rudimentary huts for his family and workers on the banks of the Molonglo River at Acton, about where the National Museum of Australia now stands. A convict prison was built on Moore’s land in the 1840s, where convicts were housed, flogged and put in the stocks. While the last convict lashing occurred in 1870, the prison stood standing at Acton until the 1920s, when the first buildings of the capital were erected.<h2 data-block-key="fsdej">Edward Crace drowned about where Belconnen stands today.</h2>Ignoring the advice of many men around him, Edward Crace (the namesake of the northern Canberra suburb) forced his driver to attempt to cross a flooded Ginninderra Creek in 1892. The horse and carriage capsized, killing Crace and his driver, George Kemp. The fate of the poor horses is unknown.<h2 data-block-key="3s9ps">Food ordered for the grand opening of Parliament House ended up at Queanbeyan tip.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_101618710.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="472" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_101618710.width-800.jpg" width="800">Thousands were expected to gather in Barton on 9 May 1927, when the provisional Parliament House opened. But few turned up. Enormous platters of meat pies and seafood - made in Sydney and transported down to Canberra by horse and carriage - ended up at the tip in Queanbeyan. (There was no tip in Canberra at the time.)<h2 data-block-key="73s62">New Parliament House cost more than the Snowy Hydro Scheme.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_398035732.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="533" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_398035732.width-800.jpg" width="800">In 1988, when New Parliament House opened on Capital Hill, it was the most expensive infrastructure project Australia had ever seen. It was a long overdue project though - the original Parliament House (or “wedding cake”) was meant to house Parliament for 10 years but ended up doing so for 61.<h2 data-block-key="j0fs">The first attempt to dam Lake Burley Griffin failed.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_2055740258.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="533" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_2055740258.width-800.jpg" width="800">By all accounts 1963 was one very hot year. An attempt was made to dam our lake but the unrelenting heat saw the water dry up (just imagine the smell down by the water’s edge at Yarralumla). More than 12 months later the rains finally came and Lake Burley Griffin was officially opened in 1964.<h2 data-block-key="3j6ad">The reason we&#x27;re now the ‘bush capital’.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_1416278759.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="621" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_1416278759.width-800.jpg" width="800">Over 13 years between 1913 and 1926, almost two million trees and shrubs were planted across the capital, under the guidance of Charles Weston. Weston was the officer in charge of the first Afforestation Branch and when he died in 1935, his ashes were scattered, at his request, among the trees he planted in front of Old Parliament House.<h2 data-block-key="3ot6b">Bushrangers once roamed the land we live on.</h2>In the 1830s, the Limestone Plains were described as “infested with bushrangers”. Two decades later The Jingera Mob - a loose group of cattle thieves, escaped convicts, hardened bushrangers and other assorted misfits and drunks - terrorised the farming families of the Canberra region.<h2 data-block-key="2n1fh">The oldest building in Canberra is …</h2><img alt="Church_of_St_John_Canberra-1_(39648211152).jpeg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="533" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Church_of_St_John_Canberra-1_39648211152.width-800.jpg" width="800">St John’s Anglican Church at Reid. Land for the church was donated by Robert Campbell, owner of the property ‘Duntroon’. The church was built of sandstone from Black Mountain and the quarry at Yarralumla.<h2 data-block-key="bd09c">The vision for Kingston foreshore was always residential.</h2><img alt="shutterstock_1851786499.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="533" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/shutterstock_1851786499.width-800.jpg" width="800">Walter Burley-Griffin’s original plans for Canberra included a bustling residential precinct along the south side of the lake at Kingston. But the first administrator of the Federal Capital Territory, David Miller, didn’t care for Griffin’s plan - and promptly built a huge power station in the area instead.All facts derived from Paul Daley’s book, Canberra, published in 2012 by NewSouth. Paul is an author, columnist and Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist who has worked for the Age, the Bulletin and the Sunday Age.

Why Tuggeranong was dubbed 'Nappy Valley', and other Canberra facts you didn't know

It seems apt that Canberra’s newest suburb, named after one of Australia’s most prolific paediatricians, will one day be home to thousands of children.The suburb of Macnamara, named in tribute to Dame Jean Macnamara, a medical doctor and scientist, will be a suburb with playgrounds, tree-lined streets, sporting fields and its own swimming pool. Mcnamara is located to the west of new suburb Strathnairn, and bordered by a conservation corridor.<img alt="Ginninderry_Aerial.jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Ginninderry_Aerial.width-800.jpg" width="800">Dame Jean Macnamara was one of the first female doctors to work at Royal Melbourne’s Children Hospital, becoming a resident there in 1923. During her career she played a critical role in the development of the Salk vaccine, a treatment for polio. Dame Jean had an affinity for the land and passion for Australia&#x27;s environment.“Macnamara is the second suburb in the Ginninderry community - a joint venture between the ACT Government, through the Suburban Land Agency, and Riverview Developments,” Project Director Steve Harding says.“Ginninderry stretches from the northwestern suburbs of Canberra - Holt and Macgregor - across the ACT/NSW border into the Yass Valley and will eventually be a community of 30,000 people.“Macnamara itself will be home to 1650 dwellings and 4,100 people - about the same size as the long-established suburb of Griffith.”<img alt="Ginninderry_GX-Display-Village_Aerial.png" class="richtext-image full-width" height="533" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Ginninderry_GX-Display-Village_Aerial.width-800.png" width="800">According to Steve, interest in living in the new suburb has been “significant”.More than 8,700 people registered for a ballot draw in February for the suburb’s first 71 blocks. Most of the 55 house and land packages, available via the Ginninderry Display Village builders, are under contract.Once complete, Macnamara will be home to a neighbourhood park (similar to Paddy’s Park in Strathnairn) and a market centre, featuring a major supermarket and a mix of retail stores and cafes.Children who live in Macnamara can access the neighbouring school in Strathnairn, from preschool to Year 6, with the school due for completion in 2024.<img alt="Ginninderry_Macnamara_Hero[8].jpg" class="richtext-image full-width" height="450" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/Ginninderry_Macnamara_Hero8.width-800.jpg" width="800">According to Steve, Macnamara will build on the world-leading sustainability credentials forged in the earlier stages of the Ginninderry community by mandating a minimum 7-Star Energy Rating for all homes.“In addition to its focus on sustainability, Macnamara also takes advantage of an enviable position overlooking the Brindabellas,” he said.“Macnamara is well-positioned to provide for future easy access to new recreation and picnic areas proposed in the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor.”The next Macnamara release is earmarked for mid-2022. Further information at <a href="https://ginninderry.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ginninderry.com</a>

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(Opens to be held at 96B Spofforth Street, Holt)

This modern, four-bedroom home would be perfect for a first home buyer, small family, or the astute investor. This is on a streetscape block, which means the entrance faces the street and garage comes from the back lane. 

The new modern kitchen features an island bench, new appliances, and plenty of cupboard space. The living room is spacious with ample room for your favourite furnishings. The bathroom consists of white crisp tiling, vanity with timber trimmings, large freestanding bath, toilet, and shower.

The bedrooms are reasonably portioned with ample natural lighting.
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Population in Holt is 4619, with a median age of 38. This is below the Canberra average of 40.5 and below the national 41.6

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Compared to other areas, singles (17%) and single parents (14%) are over represented than national average

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A majority of 58% live in a house. Households are 2.2 people on average, seems like Holt is the place to go for spacious living!

Distance	School	Address
2.42 km	Kingsford Smith School	Cnr Hardwick Cres and Starke St, Holt
2.55 km	Macgregor Primary	Hirschfeld Crescent, MacGregor
3.19 km	Cranleigh School	Starke Street, Holt
3.79 km	Latham Primary	O'Loghlen Street, Latham
3.87 km	Hawker College	Murranji Street, Hawker
3.97 km	Southern Cross Early Childhood School	Wirraway Crescent, Scullin
4.21 km	Hawker Primary	Erldunda Cicuit, Hawker
4.24 km	St Francis Xavier College	Barnard Circuit, Florey
4.28 km	St Thomas Aquinas Primary	Lhotsky Street, Charnwood
4.31 km	St John the Apostle Primary	Pawsey Circuit, Florey

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