86 Blacket Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Aug 2015 | $710,000 | $388 |
| Sold | May 2014 | $800,000 | $438 |
| Sold | Feb 2004 | $410,000 | $224 |
| Sold | May 1998 | $166,000 | $90 |
| Sold | Jan 1992 | $135,000 | $73 |
Price per m² based on land size of 1826 m².
The house is situated on a 1,826 m² block, providing ample space for garden, recreation or future development.
The property is in Downer, an inner‑north Canberra suburb bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Antill Street and Philip Avenue.
Within 0.3 km is the Dickson Library, 0.5 km each to the Downer suburb centre and the Dickson Centre precinct, and 0.6 km to the Quality Hotel Dickson. The bronze kangaroo sculpture and local shops are also nearby.
Downer grew around a former CSIRO agricultural research facility that, during 1939‑1945, cultivated opium poppies for medication. Large pine and gum trees planted then still frame parts of the neighbourhood, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in 2019.
The site sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone that gave Canberra its original name ‘Limestone Plains’.
Swinden Street metro station is about 0.7 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro stop, is roughly 0.8 km from the house.
Federally, Downer is in the Canberra electorate, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. In the ACT Legislative Assembly it falls within the Kurrajong electorate.
