17 Cuscaden Crescent, Florey ACT 2615, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Dec 2016 | $510,000 | $715 |
| Sold | Apr 1995 | $140,000 | $196 |
Price per m² based on land size of 713 m².
It is a standalone house offering three bedrooms and one bathroom. The property sits on a 713 m² block and includes two allocated parking spaces.
Florey is one of the closest suburbs to Belconnen Town Centre, roughly 0.5 km away. This makes shopping, dining and services easily accessible from the property.
A local Florey shopping centre sits on the corner of Kesteven Street and Ratcliffe Crescent, about 0.3 km from the house. The Hindu Temple and Cultural Centre is also on Ratcliffe Crescent, and parks such as Hillview Park (≈1.7 km) and Lake Ginninderra (≈1.8 km) are within short driving distance.
ACTION operates three bus routes through Florey – routes 2, 3 and 40 – providing regular connections to surrounding suburbs and the Belconnen hub.
In 2018 the ACT Healthy Waterways Project restored the waterway along Tattersall Crescent, converting a concrete drainage channel back to a more natural creek‑like state to improve storm‑water quality flowing into Ginninderra Creek.
Florey is named after Howard Florey, Baron Florey, who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in extracting penicillin. The suburb’s streets also honour Australian scientists.
The suburb sits on Silurian‑age rocks, including green‑grey dacite and quartz‑andesite of the Hawkins Volcanics, calcareous shale from the Yass Subgroup, as well as various rhyodacite and rhyolite types.
