THIS week’s property review includes a wrap up of recently completed sales across New South Wales.

 Langenhovens expand NSW holdings

 $9.5m for NSW Western Plains country

 NPWS secures Pulgamutie Station

NT’s Langenhovens expand NSW holdings

THE NORTHERN Territory-based Langenhoven family has expanded its northern New South Wales holdings in a matter of months with the purchase of prime New England grazing country north-east of Armidale.

The 1686ha Alora-Mia is a beef, lamb and wool production platform with a carrying capacity of 16,800 Dry Sheep Equivalents.

LAWD agent Michael Corcoran confirmed the property had changed hands but was unable to disclose the buyer or the price. However, during the 2025 marketing campaign, Alora-Mia was listed for $14.8m.

Well known for its vast Northern Territory landholdings, the Langenhoven family, trading as Rallen Australia, ventured into NSW in May with the purchase of the nearby premium, high rainfall grazing property Doughboy Mountain.

It paid between $26m to $28m for the 1891ha red meat production factory, located 56km east of Guyra and 68km north-east of Armidale, in the prestigious Wongwibinda/Ebor region of northern New South Wales.

Alora-Mia is located roughly 3.5km away from Doughboy Mountain. It features creek flats rising to undulating arable open grazing land and hills, lightly timbered with apple box, peppermint gum and stringy bark.

Around 74 percent of the New England trap and granite soils are arable, with 515ha (31pc) sown to improved pastures and the balance growing a mix of temperate and native perennial grasses.

Alora-Mia is watered by the Wollomombi River, the Boundary and Lambs Valley Creeks and 19 dams.

Improvements include an eight-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards and timber and steel cattle yards. There are 17km of new or upgraded internal fences and 11km of new exclusion fencing.

$9.5m for NSW Western Plains country

A dryland cropping, sheep and cattle breeding enterprise with established containment-feeding infrastructure has sold for around its $9.5 million asking price.

The 7385ha Warrawing is located 22km from Carinda and 61km from Walgett in the Western Plains region of New South Wales.

LAWD agent Michael Corcoran was unable to disclose the sale price or buyer, but Sheep Central understands the purchaser is a group with interests in biodiversity.

The property’s beneficial flood-out opportunities, supported by 9km of Macquarie River frontage, are understood to have been the main drawcard, with the balance of the holding expected to remain in livestock and cropping production.

Warrawing was owned by Graham and Pauline Swain and operated by their sons Michael and Peter. It was listed in October last year after 25 years of family ownership.

The Swains are now focusing on their 5000-head Kia Ora Feedlot business near Brewarrina.

Around 1144ha of Warrawing is arable, with grey, brown and red clays and red-brown earths suited to winter crops for fodder or cash cropping, depending on seasonal conditions.

Last year, the Swains grew 1144ha of wheat. The balance of the country comprises 5415ha of native pasture and herbage and 826ha of saltbush country capable of running 1200 ewes and lambs and 250 cows and calves.

The property includes a drought lot used for containment feeding, with capacity for up to 1500 cattle and 4000 sheep and lambs. Established at the end of 2016 to take advantage of soft commodity prices, it operated until the end of 2023.

Water is also supplied by an 11km bore drain, a bore, seven dams and the Ginghet Creek, in an annual average rainfall region of 447mm.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, staff quarters, a cottage, cattle and sheep yards, a shearing shed, numerous sheds and grain storage. Over the past five years, 25km of new fencing has been erected.

NPWS secures Pulgamurtie Station

The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service is believed to have purchased Pulgamurtie Station, a far western grazing property roughly the size of Singapore.

The 74,663ha enterprise is located near Packsaddle, 26km east of the Silver City Highway and 235km north-east of Broken Hill.

Pulgamurtie Station passed in at auction for $8.2 million, but is understood to have sold shortly afterwards.

When approached for comment, NPWS said, “As any discussions relating to potential land transactions are commercial-in-confidence, NPWS is unable to provide further comment at this time.”

The breeding and backgrounding property was owned by Grant Roberts, and was sold after more than 75 years of family ownership.

Over the years, Pulgamurtie Station transitioned from a mixed cattle and sheep enterprise to a cattle-only operation. It was offered with a long-term carrying capacity of 17,000DSE to 20,000DSE.

The country is diverse, ranging from stony undulating land and tableland plains with heavier loam soils to vegetated sandhills and expansive lake and creek systems.

The station is home to the largest lake in the bioregion, while extensive wetlands and creek systems occupy a significant portion of the property.

Pulgamurtie Station is situated in a 220mm average annual rainfall region, and is watered by dams and a bore.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, workers’ accommodation, numerous sheds and five livestock yards.

Elders agents Adam Chilcott and Richard Gemmell handled the sale.