THIS week’s property review includes a wrap-up of interesting recent listings across Queensland, a separate story on recent listings in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania and an article of recently completed sales of note.

• NQ’s Helen Downs lists after 36 years
• $8m+ for southern Qld’s Brooklyn Aggregation

NQ’s Helen Downs lists after 36 years

Locals seeking expansion are showing good interest in the Davison family’s productive cattle and sheep holding in Queensland’s north-west.

Offered to the market for the first time in 36 years, the 10,062ha Helen Downs is a freehold block south of the tick line, 72km south-east of Julia Creek in the McKinlay Shire.

The open black soil Mitchell grass downs country is carrying a strong body of Mitchell and Flinders grasses and is capable of running 1400 adult equivalents, subject to seasonal conditions.

Prickly acacia grows on around a third of the property, mainly along the bore drains, offering shade during summer and a high-protein feed source for livestock.

Stockplace agent James Coates said Helen Downs has been managed with a focus on sustainable land practices.

“The well-established grazing system is an opportunity for operators seeking potential for further development.”

The property is extensively watered by a flowing artesian bore via 35km of open bore drains and a dam, supported by 450mm of rainfall a year.

The infrastructure is described as high quality and includes a four-bedroom home, a two-bedroom cottage, a six-stand shearing shed, a shearers quarters, steel sheep and cattle yards, a butcher’s shop, numerous sheds and 9km of new boundary fencing.

Stockplace Marketing agent James Coates is handling the sale.

$8m+ for southern Qld’s Brooklyn Aggregation

Offers above $8 million are being sought for Sandy and Brendan Frith’s picturesque, cluster exclusion fenced, grazing country in southern Queensland.

The 6092ha Brooklyn Aggregation is located near Terrica, 50 minutes west of Warwick and 1.4 hours from Toowoomba and is suited to cattle, sheep and/or goats.

During their 10-year ownership, the Friths have aggregated three properties – the 2071ha Oakey Creek, the 2850ha Cooinoo and the 1178ha Brooklyn.

The Friths are selling to relocate to North Queensland and are offering the holding as a whole, on a walk-in walk-out basis, or as three separate properties.

Ray White Rural agent Jez McNamara said with large parcels of land in the Southern Downs becoming extremely rare, the vendors have done an excellent job amalgamating the three properties.

“Diverse interest is coming from western Queensland producers, southern buyers, as well as an investor from the Gold Coast.”

The open grassed creek flats that run up to large open undulating soft trap rock and timbered areas can carry 11,000DSE or 700 breeders.

There are 81ha of ex-cultivation and 90 percent of the internal fences, including exclusion fencing, have been renewed.

The Brooklyn Aggregation offers additional income from four wind turbines being constructed this year.

Water is a feature. There are 45 dams, two bores and permanent and semi-permanent waterholes in the Macintyre Brook, Oakey, Branch and several small creeks supported by 620mm of average rainfall.

Infrastructure includes numerous homes and cottages, three shearing sheds, sheep yards, two cattle yards and a shed, with Mr McNamara citing potential for development and expansion.