THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across the country, and three separate articles on sales in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia and Tasmania.
- EOIs for NT’s Douglas West close on December 22
- CQ’s Acacia passes in at $11.5m
- Quilpie calf factory attracts widespread inquiry
- Chinese family offloads Victorian grazing aggregation
- Gunn Agri’s New England portfolio lists for $18.1m
- Federal Government seeking 39 million hectares
Aerials of Douglas West station in the Douglas Daly region of the Top End, NT
EOIs for NT’s Douglas West close on December 22
LAWD has taken over the marketing of Douglas West, part of the Tipperary Group’s Northern Territory holdings which is expected to attract bids above $20 million.
The 42,710ha property is located 166km south of Darwin and once formed part Douglas Station which was subdivided by the Tipperary Group into Douglas, Douglas South (both since sold) and Douglas West.
Currently run as a cattle breeding and backgrounding operation, it is offered with an estimated carrying capacity of 7500 Adult Equivalents or 1AE per 5.7/ha. The holding is being offered bare.
While its highest and best use is cattle production, the reasonably undeveloped block offers potential for further development into dryland and irrigated cropping, cotton and carbon.
Divided into four fenced paddocks, the country features a diverse mix of alluvial channels, sandstone plains and rises and lateric plains and rises, underpinned by red sandy loam soil types growing native and improved pastures.
During its ownership, the Tipperary Group applied for and was granted a 3764ha clearing permit for Douglas West. Since 1990, 10,420ha have been cleared offering a blank canvas for an incoming buyer to produce cotton, corn and sorghum crops.
In addition, the property’s Pastoral Term Lease tenure has been converted to Perpetual Pastoral Lease tenure.
Situated within the high-rainfall Douglas Daly region, water is supplied by five bores, permanent and semi-permanent creeks and waterholes and 17km of Douglas River frontage.
With the property now surplus to business requirements, Tipperary chief financial officer Darryn Kamp said the offering would suit a range of buyers.
“We expect to see interest from local pastoral businesses looking to expand, southern cropping operators wanting to step into the northern market, as well as domestic or international investors seeking large-scale mixed farming opportunities,” he said.
LAWD’s Danny Thomas said the property will suit a diverse pool of buyers due to its appeal for both livestock pursuits and cropping opportunities.
“Parties who are interested in investing fresh capital to create their own enterprise will be able to tap into this infrastructure. Essentially, they would be purchasing a clean slate of land already cleared and prepped for a higher use and not limited by existing infrastructure in their development.”
“With excellent access to natural water flows and bores, the offering is very attractive for multi-use buyers,” Mr Thomas said.
Carbon opportunity could be another area of interest.
Expressions of interest for Douglas West close on December 22.
CQ’s Acacia passes in at $11.5m
Negotiations with interested parties are continuing for the Wagner family’s integrated beef production and irrigation farming enterprise on the Dawson River in Central Queensland which passed in at auction at $11.5 million.
The 1076ha Acacia (including an 89ha special lease) is located 15km south of Theodore and 180km north-east of Rockhampton.
It consists of 204ha of flood irrigation (currently planted to sorghum but has historically grown cotton), 216ha of irrigated leucaena, 161ha of dryland leucaena and 427ha of improved pastures for grazing.
According to selling agent JLL Agribusiness, Acacia boasts impressive cotton production.
The property has had two exceptional growing years in a row, with 2024 averaging 14.18 bales per hectare and 13.99 bales per hectare in 2025.
JLL suggested if the property was entirely used for grazing, it could support up to 1500 Adult Equivalents.
By district standards, Acacia is benefited by substantial water licences which underpin irrigation areas and ensure consistent annual production. In total, there are 1699ML of high flow allocation, as well as 2263ML per annum from three unregulated bores.
JLL Agribusiness director Geoff Warriner said Acacia was an extensively developed operation.
“As demand grows for properties with reliable water access, it offers investors either a turnkey standalone business or strategic integration opportunity for existing supply chains, delivering valuable protection against seasonal volatility.”
Mr Warriner said the property’s water security provides a significant competitive advantage.
“Substantial water allocations, well above district averages, ensure consistent production capacity regardless of seasonal variations.”
Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a two-bedroom quarters, cattle yards, three feed pens, two sheds, two silos with 132-tonnes of capacity and two 1200-tonne silage pits.
The 1076ha Acacia is located 15km south of Theodore and 180km north-east of Rockhampton.
Quilpie calf factory attracts widespread inquiry
After four years of ownership, Darren Haylock and Yolanda Pelling are selling their low-cost calf factory in Queensland’s south-west.
The 23,898ha Beechal is located 115 km south-east of Quilpie and 220km west of Charleville with good access to the Blackall and Roma saleyards.
Offered with a carrying capacity of 600 breeders, Beechal is renowned for its productivity and turning off quality weaners.
Nutrien Harcourts GDL agent Tony Lilburne said there has been widespread inquiry from locals, and from Goondiwindi, Toowoomba, Brisbane and Dubbo, with inspections underway this week.
“Beechal is coming out of winter with some dry winter herbage and abundant low mulga. It has been consistently kind to its current and previous owners, year in and year out, and given its ability to produce progeny, represents good buying value,” he said.
The property is well-watered by a flowing bore and 11 dams.
Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom homestead, a six-stand shearing shed, shearers quarters, steel cattle yards and two sheds. The fences are well maintained and some of the boundary is exclusion fenced.
Beechal will be auctioned on December 16 by Nutrien Harcourts GDL agents Tony Lilburne and Jack Biddle, and Sam Bartlett from Bartlett & Co.
The 23,898ha Beechal is located 115 km south-east of Quilpie and 220km west of Charleville with good access to the Blackall and Roma saleyards.
Chinese family offloads Victorian grazing aggregation
Around $25 million is anticipated for a Victorian aggregation offering beef breeding and finishing, prime lamb production or stud operations.
The 1156ha Illalangi and Exford Park are near Moorngag, 14km south-east of Benalla in north-east Victoria – providing access to livestock markets, processing facilities and transport networks at Benalla, Wangaratta and Euroa.
Described as one of the region’s most productive and fully developed grazing enterprises, it is being offered for sale by its Chinese owners, the Zhao family (trading as Vienna Holdings) after ten years of ownership.
The deep red, brown and grey loam soils grow highly improved phalaris, ryegrass and clover pastures that support a carrying capacity of 17.8 DSE per hectare or around 19,500DSE at full potential.
The property is subdivided into more than 40 paddocks, each connected by a central laneway network with 35km of near new fencing, allowing rotational grazing and streamlined livestock movement.
Elders agents Dave Colvin and Michael Everard said Illalangi and Exford Park offered scale, infrastructure and climatic reliability rarely available in Victoria’s north-east.
“For family-scale or institutional investors, the aggregation provides a turnkey opportunity to operate an efficient, high-capacity livestock enterprise,” they said.
Illalangi and Exford Park are watered by two bores, extensive tank storage and multiple dams, reticulated through a comprehensive trough network servicing every paddock.
Blind Creek traverses part of the property, providing additional natural catchment and reliability, supported by 816mm of average annual rainfall.
Infrastructure includes a renovated four-bedroom home, a four-bedroom manager’s home, numerous sheds, a three-stand shearing shed, two sheep yards, steel cattle yards and a 500-head feedlot with concrete silage storage.
The expressions of interest campaign closes on December 4.
Gunn Agri’s New England portfolio lists for $18.1m
Gunn Agri’s Rocky Creek Aggregation in northern New South Wales has been listed for $18.1 million after failing to sell via expressions of interest.
The 4246ha New England mixed farming and grazing platform with potential value-add opportunities is located 21km north-east of Ashford and 61km north-west of Glen Innes.
The listing is attracting interest from natural capital project developers, locals, Wagyu producers and other premium supply chain operators from New South Wales and Queensland seeking safe country to run either Fullblood, Purebred F1 Wagyu or Angus cattle.
Rocky Creek Aggregation is being sold after four years of ownership by the Australian agriculture and natural capital asset manager after undertaking a significant CAPEX program.
The undulating and open timbered grazing land has a combination of self-mulching red and black basalt, granite and New England trap soils.
Under current stewardship, Rocky Creek has been operated as a breeding and backgrounding platform through a long-term grazing partnership focusing on the production of high-quality beef cattle. It is estimated to run 17,527 Dry Sheep Equivalents or 2337 Adult Equivalents.
During the marketing campaign Gunn Agri co-founder and managing director Brad Wheaton told Beef Central that over the past 12 months, the company had made substantial improvements and identified other potential land uses.
“An extensive capital expenditure program has now been completed which has seen the arable area expand from 25 percent to 38 percent, with 843ha currently sown to oats and 30ha to premier digit grass,” he said.
In addition, an independent feasibility study was undertaken to assess the potential for environmental planting carbon projects, Mr Wheaton said.
Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a three-bedroom cottage, a two-bedroom workers quarters, two steel cattle yards, a shearing shed, sheep yards, numerous sheds and silos with 160 tonnes of grain storage.
Water is sourced from a bore, two wells, 49 dams and numerous creek and river systems.
JLL Agribusiness agents Chris Holgar, Clayton Smith and Bart Norris are handling the sale.
Gunn Agri’s Rocky Creek Aggregation in northern NSW has been listed for $18.1 million after failing to sell via expressions of interest.
Federal Government seeking 39 million hectares
The Federal Government is seeking 39 million hectares of land to meet its target to ‘protect and conserve’ 30 percent of land by 2030.
Earlier this year, the Albanese Government announced the Australian Bushland Program, investing $250 million to boost conservation and protect more land.
While close to 25 percent of Australia’s total landmass is now protected, it is looking for additional land in areas that support significant biodiversity outcomes.
To determine how to do this most effectively, Environment and Water Minister Murray Watt is seeking feedback from potential partners interested in working together to voluntarily purchase and protect properties with high biodiversity value.
“We particularly want to hear from government and non-government organisations with experience in purchasing, protecting and managing land to deliver biodiversity and conservation outcomes,” Minister Watt said.
The Request for Information, through AusTender, closes on December 12.