THIS week’s property review includes this wrap up of recently completed sales and a holfing that failed to sell at auction and is now listed for sale.

 CPC secures neighbouring Isaac River cattle country

 SA’s Wilkatana Station makes $7.4m

 Coddington country fails to sell

SA’s Wilkatana Station makes $7.4m

The Doman brothers have expanded their South Australian pastoral portfolio, paying $7.4 million for the neighbouring Wilkatana Station at the foot of the Flinders Ranges.

The 44,696ha historic sheep and cattle station is located 45km north of Port Augusta and 157km from Jamestown, and was sold by the Melbourne-based Sawers family after 123 years of ownership.

UK-based doctor and entrepreneur Andrew Doman and Adelaide-based lawyer and barrister Tom Doman own the adjoining Yadlamalka Station, as well as the 154,100ha Beltana Station that they purchased in 2017 for $8.4m.

In August this year, the pair paid $5.4m for the 43,300ha Lake Torrens Station, 57km north-west of Hawker and 162km from Port Augusta.

Ray White Rural agent Sam Krieg said the purchaser opened the bidding at $4m and the property sold under the hammer at $7.4m.

The country on Wilkatana Station is mostly semi open myall shrubland with an understory of bluebush, saltbush, native clovers and grasses and is looking healthy despite the season.

Historically and conservatively, Wilkatana Station it has run 5000 ewes and 150 cows plus replacements.

Wilkatana boasts excellent fencing and underground water and has been conservative managed, with country looking healthy despite the season.

Water is supplied from three bores, springs and numerous dams in a 225mm average annual rainfall region.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a three-bedroom manager’s residence, shearers’ quarters, an eight-stand shearing shed, multiple sheep and cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Historic sites on Wilkatana Station include the Eyre Depot where explorer Edward John Eyre established camp on his journey north in 1839 and a weir constructed in 1912 to capture and store water for the Commonwealth Railways. The water was then transported via wooden pipes into Port Augusta for the steam trains.

Coddington country fails to sell

The home of the Coddington Uardry Poll Merino and Sheepmaster operation in central western New South Wales has been listed for $7.45 million after failing to sell at auction.

The 860ha Gilgai and Comobella were offered by retiring vendors Graham and Susan Coddington,

The properties are 8km from Geurie, 9km from Wongarbon and 25km from Dubbo.

The slightly undulating open mixed farming country is renowned in the Geurie district for its production ability. It has rich, fertile basalt and red loam soils that are equally suited to farming, finishing and grazing.

The property regularly runs up to 2500 ewes and 150 cows. About 80 percent of the land is arable and produces 200ha of cereal and fodder crops. In the past, it grew wheat and barley.

Elders agent Brian McAneney described Gilgai and Comobella as a standout performer in a highly sought after and reliable area.

“The Coddingtons have capitalised on their production ability, regularly bringing in stock from their western holdings and finishing them for the nearby Dubbo market.

“The country responds well with impressive pastures of lucernes, ryegrass, phalaris, clovers and medics, as well as native pastures including major stands of Warrego summer grass,” Mr McAneney said.

Gilgai and Comobella are well watered with 30 dams and a solar-powered equipped bore.

Infrastructure includes a renovated four-bedroom home, a self-contained unit, a four-stand steel shearing shed, steel cattle and sheep yards and four silos totalling 220 tonnes of grain storage.