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<h3 data-block-key="ezci9">Free parking.</h3><p data-block-key="6564e">You don’t have to pay for parking anywhere in Queanbeyan. <i>Anywhere</i>. Let that sink in.</p><h3 data-block-key="1l1ql">A carwash named Guns-n-Hoses.</h3><img alt="guns n hoses" class="richtext-image full-width" height="168" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/guns_n_hoses.width-800.jpg" width="300"><p data-block-key="2c0l8">Genius. Who wouldn’t want to wash their lowered canary yellow VL Commodore there?</p><h3 data-block-key="bp1ea">An actual stake in the State of Origin.</h3><img alt="state of origin" class="richtext-image full-width" height="533" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/state_of_origin.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="a3mic">Imagine sitting down to watch the greatest game on earth and actually caring who won. Imagine wearing your NSW Blues jersey all week ahead of the big game, and cooking a BBQ out the back in the bitter cold for all your Blues-supporting mates who’d shown up for The Decider. We bleed Blue over here in Queanbeyan (and Canberra Raiders green too, admittedly) and it ramps the rivalry up five notches.</p><h3 data-block-key="7808h">A main street.</h3><img alt="monaro street" class="richtext-image full-width" height="512" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/monaro_street.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="alt7a">Yes, you have a nominal main street in Canberra, but you can’t walk from shop to shop, cafe to cafe and run into 18,000 people you know in the space of 20 minutes, can you?</p><p data-block-key="62knb">Monaro Street, Queanbeyan, is a beautiful strip of heritage retail buildings dating back to the late 1800s, a few more modern spaces, and several pubs and cafes. It takes about seven minutes to walk end-to-end, and it’s country NSW at its finest.</p><h3 data-block-key="cleuc">More than one decent pub.</h3><img alt="hotel queanbeyan" class="richtext-image full-width" height="506" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/hotel_queanbeyan.width-800.png" width="756"><p data-block-key="cqqit">Within a single kilometre we have the Hotel Queanbeyan, Walsh’s Hotel, Royal Hotel and the Tourist Hotel. They’ve all had glamorous makeovers and offer a ripper pub feed. Talk about spoilt.</p><h3 data-block-key="eeaqd">One postcode.</h3><p data-block-key="af67k">2620 for life.</p><h3 data-block-key="8ni1k">A mayor and an unofficial mayor.</h3><img alt="PHOTO-2024-07-09-15-46-03" class="richtext-image full-width" height="1066" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/PHOTO-2024-07-09-15-46-03.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="ehkpm">In Queanbeyan, the mayor is a young dad-of-three named Kenrick Winchester. He’s been in the role for almost three years now, attended local primary and high schools and loves the region so much he used to be the head of the Canberra Raiders Army (disclaimer: he’s my younger brother).</p><p data-block-key="amcfn">But every NSW country town has an ‘unofficial mayor’, generally a bloke who can drink everyone under the table and who’s on a first name basis with just about everyone and their 10 kids. In Queanbeyan, that man is Rocky Burnell, a former rugby league star who, now retired, sits on several local fundraising committees and never turns down a party invite.</p><h3 data-block-key="4o0i1">Freehold property.</h3><p data-block-key="7gvne">There’s no paying to borrow land from the government in New South Wales. When you buy land over here in God’s country, you actually own it. Which makes it easier to pass on to the generations after you, and means less administrative overhead.</p><h3 data-block-key="6ha66">Green P plates.</h3><img alt="r0_0_4032_3024_w1200_h678_fmax" class="richtext-image full-width" height="600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/r0_0_4032_3024_w1200_h678_fmax.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="7ov7j">While we’ve simplified the postcode situation, we’ve gone and made the provisional licence situation way more complex than it needs to be. After passing your driving test in Queanbeyan, you’re on your red Ps for a year, and then your green Ps for the following two years. In a nutshell, you can drive at a maximum of 100km/h on your green Ps and you have seven demerit points (as opposed to 90km/h and four demerit points on your red Ps).</p><h3 data-block-key="9nael">Homes older than Canberra itself.</h3><img alt="hibernia lodge" class="richtext-image full-width" height="600" src="https://d2t3vhau9g43uy.cloudfront.net/media/images/hibernia_lodge.width-800.jpg" width="800"><p data-block-key="1164b">The rich history of Queanbeyan is woven throughout the entire city, and is a beautiful reminder of where we’ve been. Smaller heritage homes near Queanbeyan’s town park – like <a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/6-meredith-street-queanbeyan-nsw-2620-99727/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this one</a> – are always in huge demand, while icons like Hibernia Lodge, built in 1865 for the Clerk of Petty Sessions, Obadiah Williams, and pictured above, stand like rare gems among our shopping district along the Queanbeyan River.</p><p data-block-key="15vff"><a href="https://zango.com.au/sale/search/?listing_type=buy&amp;address_suburb=Queanbeyan,%202620,%20NSW&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=-price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View all homes for sale in Queanbeyan.</a></p><p data-block-key="e8p27"><a href="https://zango.com.au/rent/search/?property_class=rental&amp;listing_type=lease&amp;address_suburb=Queanbeyan,%202620,%20NSW&amp;surrounding=true&amp;order_by=price&amp;property_status_groups=current,underOffer,includePrivate&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View all homes for rent in Queanbeyan.</a></p><p data-block-key="420ld"><i>This tongue-in-cheek article was written by Zango editor Bree Element, a born and bred Queanbeyan girl.</i></p>

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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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RWCC is proud to present 34 Yass Road in Queanbeyan to those who seek a large scale property with the lot. One of the most enviable locations in the country/town but still only a hop, jump and skip away from the hustle of Canberra. Queanbeyan is rapidly becoming a hot location to establish in. Yass Road caters to a wide range of trades, services, locals businesses and business professionals. With so much to offer, this opportunity is one not to be passed by.

Key Property Features:
• Available for sale or for lease
• Multi-use site; offices, warehouse and retail/showroom
• 3x  roller doors 
• Prime location on Yass Road
• Suited to owner/occupiers or investors
• 3-phase power
• Well-presented building with enormous potential


Property Dimensions:
• Unit 1 Size: 522m²
• Unit 2 Size: 323m²
• Unit 3 Size: 180m²

Estimated Outgoings:
• QPRC Rates = *$7,214.36 + GST pa


QUALITY IN QUEANBEYAN

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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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