Negatively-geared growth belt
67% of homes here are owner-occupied and 31% rented, with 57% of landlords negatively geared.
57% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.
Property data for ACT. Rent signals, largest suburbs, lower-price entries, the macro coverage picture, and a desk for ranking, comparing, and modelling without leaving the state.
ACT sits inside the Australian section of QuickProperty, but its data does not behave uniformly. Price and rent coverage are stronger in metro markets, thinner in regional ones, and the state's median is only ever as honest as that coverage. This bulletin opens with the suburbs that anchor most decisions — the largest by population and the most affordable with real scale — before handing off to the full state browse view below.
Treat the medians as starting reads. Treat the suburb pages as where the work actually happens. Treat compare and the calculator as the stages where the shortlist gets stress-tested before listings.
Median house price, median weekly rent, and median gross yield across QuickProperty's eight state datasets. Coverage differs by state, so treat these as screening positions, not valuations.
67% of homes here are owner-occupied and 31% rented, with 57% of landlords negatively geared.
57% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.
ABS Census 2021 tenure aggregated across the state's suburbs and ATO postcode rental statistics summed to state level. No state-level new-lending split is published; see the national page for lending flows.
ABS SA2-level projections rolled up to ACT, sum of 125 SA2 areas (male + female across all age brackets, base year 2022).
Projected total population, ACT
+8.1% vs base
+16.0% vs base
Top postcodes ranked by Clean Energy Regulator small-scale installs per 1,000 residents. ACT cumulative: 68,417 installs across 28 postcodes, 0.54GW capacity, 4,997 added in the last 12 months.
1 local government areas in ACT. Open an LGA for area-level rent, prices, and suburb roll-up.
116 ACT suburbs indexed. Jump to a letter, then open a suburb for prices, rent, schools, demographics, and investment signals.
QuickProperty indexes 116 ACT suburb pages, with 98 suburbs carrying house price coverage and 112 suburbs carrying rent coverage in the current processed dataset.
Across ACT suburbs with available house price data, the median house price shown on this hub is $1.02M. Treat it as a suburb-screening benchmark, not a property valuation.
Across ACT suburbs with available rent data, the median weekly rent shown on this hub is $447/wk. Individual suburb pages may differ materially from the state-level benchmark.
Open a large suburb for context, use rankings if the state still feels too broad, or move two to three candidates into compare once you have a realistic shortlist.