27 Swinden Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Dec 2011 | $300,000 | $512 |
| Sold | Jun 1992 | $125,000 | $213 |
Price per m² based on land size of 585 m².
The property is a detached house on a 585 m² block, offering three bedrooms and one bathroom.
The Canberra Metro station on Swinden Street is about 0.3 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro stop, is roughly 0.7 km from the property.
Within 0.6 km you’ll find the Dickson Centre with a variety of shops, and the refurbished Downer community centre now houses a new café and a veterinary clinic. The Quality Hotel Dickson is also about 0.7 km away.
The National Hockey Centre is just 0.8 km away, and the Dickson District Playing Fields are about 1.2 km distant. Downer also has a local oval surrounded by parkland.
Swinden Street was originally the driveway for a 1930s CSIRO research building, with large gum trees planted as a windbreak. Many of those trees were removed in the 1980s, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in the nearby shopping centre in May 2019.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone that gave Canberra its early name ‘Limestone Plains’.
Federally, the property is in the Division of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne (Labor). At the ACT level it falls within the Kurrajong electorate of the Legislative Assembly.
