6 Guest Place, Macquarie ACT 2614, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Aug 2019 | $765,000 | $1,700 |
| Sold | Jun 1991 | $138,500 | $307 |
Price per m² based on land size of 450 m².
6 Guest Place is a detached house featuring four bedrooms and two bathrooms. It offers ample living space for a family or group of occupants.
The property sits on a 450 m² block. This size provides room for a garden, outdoor entertaining, or future extensions.
The home is near the Jamison Centre (about 0.5 km), which offers a range of shops and services, and the Big Splash waterpark (approximately 0.3 km) with a pool and water slide. A small shopping centre on Lachlan Street, featuring a medical centre, chemist, coffee shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is also close by.
ACTION bus route 32 runs through Macquarie, linking the suburb with Belconnen Town Centre and Civic. This provides convenient access to the wider Canberra region.
Macquarie was gazetted on 22 June 1967 in honour of Major‑General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales. The suburb’s streets are named after contemporaries of Governor Macquarie.
The area includes Greywacke from the Ordovician Pittman Formation uplifted along the east side of the Deakin Fault, and a porphyry of green‑grey dacitic intrusive rock beneath the Jamison Centre. Green‑grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics underlies the centre and western parts of Macquarie.
At the 2016 census, Macquarie had about 2,700 residents with an average age of 36, slightly older than the Canberra average. The population is predominantly Australian‑born (65.7 %) with the next most common birthplace being China (4 %).
