One of Brisbane’s landmark properties – the Balmoral Reservoir – is up for sale.

But potential buyers looking to dip their toes into the property market shouldn’t expect wet feet.

Gail Babbage converted the unused reservoir on Apex Street, built in 1939, into a four-bedroom home after she bought it from Brisbane City Council in 1994.

Ms Babbage said she first eyed off the reservoir from her back deck in Balmoral and jumped at the chance when she saw a newspaper report that it was going up for sale.

‘‘There was some big headline about it making a great swimming pool, or something like that, and I thought ‘actually, that’d make a really fabulous house,’’ she said.