Property

The Shaw family of Wanditta Station has bought the neighbouring Mitchell Park property for $8.4 million. The 1,240 hectare Central Queensland property consists of buffel grass country and 2,040 megalitres of water entitlements, while there is irrigation water over three licences, and 1,350ML capacity from the Retro and Sandy Creek dams in the Fitzroy River Basin and potential to build further dam storage infrastructure.

Gabrielle Duykers. Tatiara District Council has been praised for its “proactive” efforts to mitigate the region’s housing crisis, which includes zero rental vacancies in Bordertown ... In a submission by the Local Government Association of South Australia to a federal inquiry into housing affordability,Tatiara council was used as a case study for how the worsening situation was impacting the local economy, but was hailed for the initiatives it had undertaken to address the issue.

Armidale's Railway Hotel has sold for around $8 million, becoming the latest venue in the New South Wales regional town to change hands amid a bubbling period for the sector.

An 800MW wind farm is headed to Victoria’s south-west, as WestWind Energy was given the green light to go ahead with the Golden Plains project that is set to become one of the country’s largest.

The Queensland government will transform a newly acquired 148-hectares on the southern Gold Coast into one of the nation’s most expansive eco-parklands. The Currumbin Eco-Parkland, will see local native flora and fauna protected from encroaching development, including the preservation of koala habitat at the site.

Chinese-owned investor Rifa Salutary has completed the two-year divestment program of its Australian grazing assets, offloading the large-scale cattle breeding property Cooplacurripa Station on the eastern fall of the Great Dividing Range for $35 million bare.

A Queensland-based buyer has bought highly productive New England grazing property The Springs for $5.9 million. The buyer was looking to complement their existing holdings, and the 1,515-hectare property is suited to breeding or finishing cattle, with the option of fodder production.

A New South Wales producer has bought the 21,238-hectare Cunnamulla grazing enterprise Nooralaba for $2,670,000, attracted to the additional carbon income.

A grazing family from south-eastern NSW has picked up diversified grazing and farming aggregation Bulgoo for a district record for $13 million, at a rate of $621 per hectare bare.

Andrew and Andree Rowntree are have paid a figure reported to be between $15 million and $16 million for neighbouring south west slopes mixed farms Bowness and Willowmere.

A producer expanding their operations has snapped up the 81,000-hectare property Kutchera, including over 4,500 cattle, for more than $12 million prior to auction. Located in the Savannah Gulf region, between the Ethridge and Gilbert Rivers, Kutchera has an average annual rainfall of 800 millimetres and multiple stock watering points, 30 dams, 17 bores and five permanent lagoons, and boasts 5247 hectares of creek frontage, with five systems running through the property.

Five separate Queensland-based buyers have splashed out over $100 million combined for the THF cattle and irrigated fodder portfolio in the Fitzroy Basin. Spanning 21,900 hectares west of Rockhampton, include the 9,212 hectare Lucie Station at Bluff, as well as Mostowie (3,859 hectares), Karamea (3,744 hectares), Bindaree (3,168 hectares) and the 1,917 hectare The Pocket.