The perfect work-from-home setup for sale in Kingston

Now, more than ever, we can all appreciate the specific ingredients required for work-from-home success: things like a dedicated workspace, high-speed and reliable internet, and a spot that’s distant enough from the hub of the home to separate personal and work life.

If your job requires you to provide clients with a physical service, then you’re often forced to find a dedicated commercial space, equipped with everything you require, in a centralised location to capture clients from across multiple areas of Canberra.

But what if you could have the best of all worlds, without any compromise? 

The property at 9/10 Parbery Street, Kingston, can offer exactly that – a beautifully fitted-out commercial shopfront on the ground floor and a contemporary two-bedroom apartment directly above. 

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“It is a rare combination of commercial and residential which allows for a complete segregation of both while owning them,” said agent Jayson Bush of Independent Inner North and City. 

“Currently, the commercial space is leased to a lash technician who has fitted the space out with a beautiful natural-wood-themed studio that consists of lots of curves and earthy colours. She has two operating rooms where she does her work.”

As it is technically the tenant’s fit-out, without it, the commercial space itself is a rectangular blank space with a bathroom and electricity metre which gauges the commercial section’s electricity usage. 

“The shopfront would be perfect for use as a small service-based company, similar to the current tenant, or some sort of company office due to the good location,” Bush said. 

Kingston is already incredibly appealing for businesses that seek to capture a wide demographic in an attractive setting. But it’s the properties specific to this location, in the Kingsborough Village precinct, that gives this property even greater appeal.

The development is already decked out with many commercial offerings including a pizza shop, a cafe, a vet, a pool and wellness facility, a fitness studio and a yoga studio, alongside many community activations and popups each month, drawing more people into the area. 

Plus, you have access to the residents in the surrounding 280 apartments and all the other apartment blocks across Kingston and the Kingston Foreshore. 

“It is immensely vibrant, with people constantly walking their dogs or getting coffee from the shop in the middle,” Bush says. “It was built by a top developer who imagined a community that was engaged in where they live.” 

Of course, there is also the opportunity to buy the property to utilise the retail section as a passive income, while living and managing it from the apartment above. 

“The ground floor is basically the garage on one side and the retail space on the other side,” Bush said.

“You go up the stairs in the private garage to the unit which is on level one. But the current vendor put a wall in the garage so that the commercial and residential spaces are exclusive of each other and not accessible internally.”

The apartment above is of the calibre you’d expect in the Inner South. As you make your way up the stairs, you’re greeted by a spacious and contemporary kitchen and dining area.

There are two large bedrooms, one of which is equipped with a private balcony, ideal for sipping your morning coffee, freshly made by the barista from the coffee shop downstairs.