THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings in SA, QLD and Victoria, a separate item on recent listings in NSW, and a wrap-up of recently completed sales.

• SA’s Martins Well heads to auction
• Telopea Downs EOI campaign launches
• Longreach country running 2000AE
• SA’s Barn Hill offers versatile grazing

SA’s Martins Well heads to auction

South Australian cattle and sheep station Martins Well has returned to the spring selling market and will be auctioned in late November with significant tourism and conservation opportunities.

Held since 2017 by the MF Jebsen Group, a European family headquartered in Hong Kong, the 105,000ha asset is located on the edge of the Flinders Ranges, 90km north-east of Hawker and a six-hour drive from Adelaide.

Martins Well features mostly open, undulating plains interspersed with ranges and creek systems growing a vast array of grasses and bush feed supporting 12,900 sheep.

Colliers Agribusiness has been appointed to handle the sale, with the property appealing to those seeking to expand their breeder base in either sheep or cattle.

When Martins Well was offered to the market in October last year, agent Jesse Manuel described it as benefiting from significant recent investment.

“The property has undergone extensive improvements since it changed hands in 2017, including extensive renovations to the main five-bedroom homestead and historic outbuildings that now offer multiple, luxurious accommodation options,” he said.

Other infrastructure includes a seven-stand shearing shed, five sheep yards and a set of cattle yards.

The long-term average annual rainfall is around 250mm, with the station abundantly watered by 17 equipped bores, multiple dams and semi-permanent and permanent waterholes.

In addition, the Artipena permanent spring is an extensive watercourse with a chain of large waterholes extending for several kilometres.

Martins Well is also known in tourism and conservation circles as Martins Well Rangeland Reserve.

General manager Wendy O’Neill said combining agriculture, tourism and conservation on such an amazing property has been very rewarding.

“Martins Well operates as productive a livestock enterprise while conserving and celebrating its diverse and significant cultural, ecological and geological features.”

Telopea Downs EOI campaign launches

This week, Colliers Agribusiness launched the international expressions of interest campaign for Telopea Downs closing on November 21.

Last month, the agency announced it would bring to market the largest grazing and cropping property in Victoria.

Listed by sixth generation family-owned company AJ & PA McBride, Telopea Downs spans 47,660ha across 11 adjoining properties – ten in Victoria and one in South Australia – midway between the towns of Bordertown and Kaniva.

According to the McBrides’ website, the family has been running a Merino sheep flock with some crossbred influence, a beef herd and a large fodder and commercial cropping enterprise growing wheat, barley, lupins, beans and canola.

Telopea Downs boasts substantial water entitlements totalling 2325ML for irrigation, and more than 300ha of centre pivot development for fodder production to support the livestock enterprise or alternative income streams through seed or horticultural crop production.

Telopea Downs is watered by 50 bores.

Telopea Downs

Longreach country running 2000AE

Interest from across Queensland is being fielded by agents selling prime grazing country in the state’s central west.

Suited to cattle and sheep, the 17,389ha Glenthomson is 20km south of Longreach and offered with a 2000AE carrying capacity.

Owned by the Purvis family from Charleville for nine years, the sweet country is exclusion fenced on three sides and can be used for breeding, backgrounding and finishing.

“With its heavy Mitchell pastures, Flinders and buffel grasses and reliable water, Glenthomson represents an exceptional opportunity to secure a large-scale grazing enterprise in a renowned Queensland district at an affordable price,” Nutrien Harcourts agent Boyd Curran said.

Glenthomson is watered by multiple artesian bores and dams.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a cottage, shearers’ quarters, steel cattle yards, a six-stand shearing shed, sheep yards and numerous sheds.

Glenthomson will be auctioned on October 29. Nutrien Harcourts agents Boyd Curren, William Beirne and Jeremy Barron are handling the sale.

Glenthomson

SA’s Barn Hill offers versatile grazing

Matt and Bec Henke are hoping to raise around $7 million from the sale of their versatile livestock breeding and finishing opportunity in the Upper South East region of South Australia.

The 1210ha Barn Hill is located 30km west of Coonalpyn and 34km east of Meningie.

The gently undulating country is suited to a range of agricultural pursuits, in particular cattle, sheep and supporting fodder production.

Conservatively running up to 160 cows and calves plus bulls, and 250 ewes and lambs, Barn Hill can carry up to 200 cows, with containment areas available for supplementary feeding or finishing livestock.

LAWD agent Nigel Gosse said inquiry was coming from locals and from Victorians.

Barn Hill has red to brown loam over clay and loose limestone, and grey sandy loam over clay. Around 760ha (63pc) is arable and can support cereal and lucerne crops, together with pastures comprising veldt grass, rye grass, phalaris and clover.

Situated in a 450mm average annual rainfall region, Barn Hill has underground water resources, including a fenced ‘spring hole’ supported by an electric submersible pump which reticulates water to troughs and tanks.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, steel cattle yards and two sheds.

Barn Hill is offered for sale by expressions of interest closing on October 30.

Around 760ha (63pc) of Barn Hill is arable and can support cereal and lucerne crops, together with pastures comprising veldt grass, rye grass, phalaris and clover.