LIVE WHERE THE CITY IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

Some people want quiet and a commute. Others want to walk out their front door and already be there.

Manchester Square sits inside Christchurch's East Frame, the stretch of the CBD that's been rebuilt from the ground up over the last decade. New Regent Street's cafes and bars are a few minutes on foot. Cathedral Square and Te Pae are close enough to make people wonder why you'd bother owning a car. This isn't a suburb with a bus route into town. It's the town.

102/176 Manchester Street is a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment at 59m², built by Williams Corporation with the same quality of fit-out you'd expect from a team that's shaped a good part of this precinct. Enough room to actually live in, not just crash in between commitments. The apartment is also short-term rental consented, giving an owner the option to run it as a high-demand STR in one of Christchurch's busiest tourism and events pockets.

This suits someone who wants the city itself to be part of their day, not something they drive into for work and drive out of at 5pm. Coffee downstairs, dinner two streets over, home again in the time it takes most people to find a car park.

THE PRACTICAL CASE FOR 102/176 MANCHESTER STREET

• A short walk to New Regent Street, Cathedral Square and Te Pae Convention Centre
• Set within Manchester Square, a Williams Corporation development on the East Frame
• 59m² one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, genuinely lock-and-leave
• Short-term rental consented, appealing to investors chasing tourism and events-driven demand
• Suits an owner-occupier after a true CBD base, or an investor drawn to proven rental demand in the precinct