The pockets that matter
The CBD is an apartment market and nothing else, so the building matters more than the street. Towers at the Botanic Gardens end hold their tenants longest and lease at the top of the range, while the Roma Street and North Quay edges compete harder on price. Height, aspect and outlook do most of the pricing work: the same floor plan can differ by two hundred dollars a week between levels five and twenty-five. The riverside edge and the low ground toward Eagle Street felt the 2022 flood, which for tower stock mostly means basement parking and building services rather than apartments themselves - still worth understanding before an owner is surprised by a levy.
