O'Malley has been listed as the fifth-most-expensive suburb in which to rent a house in the country.
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The embassy-heavy area has recorded a median weekly advertised rent of $1800 for this year.
End-of-year figures from RP Data show O'Malley had a higher advertised rent than any other ACT suburb by almost $1000.
Leafy Forrest was ranked second on the Canberra-specific list with a rent of $850. Red Hill followed with a rent of $790.
The highest median advertised rent in the country was in Newman, in Western Australia's East Pilbara region, at $2165
Forrest topped the list of ACT suburbs for rental units, recording a median weekly rent of $590, followed by Ainslie with $585 and Forde with $555.
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Homes being advertised for rent in O'Malley include a palatial property at 8 Pindari Crescent with seven bedrooms, a formal entrance, a spa bath and a bar.
Or there's 33 Culgoa Circuit, a six-bedroom, five-bathroom executive home with an enormous spa and sauna and two kitchens.
Both are available for a weekly rent of at least $2000.
At the other end of the scale Charnwood was the most affordable suburb in which to rent a house with the advertised rates of $408 being less than a quarter of the O'Malley figure.
Belconnen's Scullin ($430) and Page ($435) were the second- and third-cheapest suburbs in which to rent houses.
Hughes, the most affordable ACT suburb in which to rent a unit, has a median asking weekly rent just $315. Next comes Curtin at $330 and Downer at $335.
According to the RP Data findings, Canberra is the second-most-expensive capital in Australia, behind Darwin.
It costs at least $100 more to rent a house in the ACT's cheapest suburb of Charnwood than in the most affordable suburb of any other city.
Darwin's cheapest median rent of $500 was for the suburb of Moulden.
Charnwood has also been listed as the suburb with the highest indicative gross rental yield - calculated by dividing the yearly median rental rate by the current median selling price.
The figure shows the indicative total amount of rental return for the year.
The suburb recorded a gross rental yield of 5.7 per cent with a median sale price of $375,000 and a median rent of $408.
RP Data's report showed that Canberra's suburbs, along with those of Melbourne, recorded the lowest indicative gross rental yield figures of the nation's capitals.
