A producer from Riverina region in New South Wales has forked out $5.14 million for Kondoolka Station in the heart of the Gawler Ranges.
The sale of the 105,000-hectare breeding and fattening enterprise, which has 200 kilometres of boundary fencing, and includes 4,500 Dorpers. It is rated to carry 8,200 sheep equivalents and has been running a Dorper breeding program since 2004.
Simon McIntyre from Nutrien Harcourts managed the sale.
Improvements include a four-bedroom homestead and four-bedroom stone cottage, and machinery and workshop storage all located at the foot of a picturesque granite range. It features a standalone solar power system, excellent rainwater storage connected to all the station buildings.
Kondoolka is well-watered through four pipeline systems from five main dams, four bores and two wells, with natural water catchments from 13 rock walls throughout the property.