THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent sales and listings in Queensland, and two separate articles on recently listed properties in New South Wales, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia.

• CQ’s Gemini Downs makes $18.5m
• West family offers quality country near Roma
• Spellary Creek relisted after wet season
• Backgrounding & finishing depot in Qld’s Central Highlands
• Dalby’s Four Bar heads to auction
• Private sale for Gin Gin’s Rosehill

Cultivation on Gemini Downs

CQ’s Gemini Downs makes $18.5m

The Mifsud family has paid $18.15 million at auction for the neighbouring Gemini Downs near Clermont in Central Queensland, ending 34 years of ownership by the Walker family.

The 2876ha mixed grazing and farming property located 57km north of Clermont and 76km south-west of Moranbah, was sold with 156 breeders and calves, plus bulls.

Jake Kennedy from Kennedy Livestock & Property said Gemini Downs generated strong inquiry from locals and central western Queensland producers looking for diversity, with both cropping and cattle on offer.

“The property presented extremely well and sold slightly above expectations after bidding between two neighbours,” he said.

Gemini Downs has productive black soil downs and decomposing basalt and brigalow ridges with brigalow, coolibah, bauhinia and bottle trees.

Around 1195ha is developed to grazing, mostly buffel grass with butterfly pea along creeks, as well as 92ha of leucaena. The balance includes 1681ha of cultivation country featuring fertile black soil flats planted to forage sorghum/sugar graze and sorghum.

Water is supplied by two bores, a semi-permanent dam at the base of the Gemini Mountains and the Twelve Mile Creek with wet-season waterholes, supported by around 610mm of annual average rainfall.

Infrastructure includes two four-bedroom homes, a two-bedroom cottage, cattle yards, two sheds and four silos.

West family offers quality country near Roma

Consolidation has led Gordon and Sally West to list their picturesque breeding and backgrounding operation in south-west Queensland after 11 years of ownership.

The 4040ha Woonoona is located 75km north of Roma, on the doorstep of Australia’s largest saleyards, and is boasting abundant buffel, improved pastures and native grasses.

Agent Carl Warren described Woonoona as an outstanding offering, combining natural beauty with high quality country.

“This is a rare opportunity to acquire a property with incredible potential at the headwaters of the Maranoa.”

Mr Warren described the land as diverse.

“There is a mix of brigalow, belah and bottle tree country, along with areas of softwood scrub areas. Valleys are lined with box, weeping myall and pine,” he said.

More than 160ha has been previously farmed, with large areas recently cleared and suitable for cultivation.

Situated in a 635mm rainfall district, Woonoona has recently received between 75mm and 100mm of rain, which has delayed inspections.

The property is watered by 28 dams, a bore and numerous gullies providing seasonal water.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, steel cattle yards, two sheds, with extensive internal fencing upgrades completed in recent years.

Woonoona will be auctioned on April 23.

The 4040ha Woonoona is located 75km north of Roma

Spellary Creek relisted after wet season

After being listed in June last year and subsequently withdrawn, Marcus and Shelley Curr of Yelvertoft Station near Mount Isa have relisted their north‑west Queensland grazing property Spellary Creek, carrying a $7 million price tag.

The 6123ha property is located on the Flinders Highway, 25km east of Julia Creek, and offers breeding, backgrounding and finishing country, with additional potential for farming. The Curr family, who have owned Spellary Creek for 21 years, are selling as part of a broader asset restructure.

According to Dowling Livestock and Property agent Peter Dowling, exceptional seasonal conditions across much of north‑western Queensland could drive renewed buyer interest.

“In a region that typically averages around 450mm annually, many areas have received more than 1000mm of rain and as a result, interest is anticipated from producers seeking grass, particularly from south‑western Queensland and northern New South Wales, where rainfall has been more variable.”

Prospective buyers are advised property photos were taken in 2025, with ongoing wet conditions preventing inspections and updated photography.

“Unfortunately, it has been too wet to access the property and take new images,” Mr Dowling said.

Spellary Creek is offered on a bare basis and can run 500 to 600 cows and calves or up to 1000 weaners through to the end of the year. The guide price equates to around $1143/ha.

The gently undulating downs country features black self‑mulching soils, predominantly growing Mitchell and Flinders grasses along with natural herbages and includes some scattered areas of prickly acacia.

Water is well secured, with a flowing bore centrally located on the property, supported by a dam and the permanent Spellary Creek watercourse.

Infrastructure is limited to a set of cattle yards equipped with a five‑way overhead draft.

Downs country on Spellary, near Julia Creek – image taken last year before more recent rain

Backgrounding & finishing depot in Qld’s Central Highlands

Offers are invited for a Central Highlands backgrounding and finishing depot with cultivation potential.

The 3740ha Amatunga is located 30km east of Clermont and 49km from Capella, with four export abattoirs, saleyards, feedlots and grain handling facilities within a 400km radius.

Offered last year by Mick Duckett and Emma Robinson after 13 years of ownership, it passed in at auction at $13.5 million.

Prior to 2012, Amatunga operated as a mixed farming enterprise growing wheat, chickpeas and sorghum across a mix of heavy self-mulching red brown soils and black soils flats, and could easily be taken back to that.

The vendors have developed around 240ha to leucaena, with an opportunity to convert more than 800ha of legumes and improved pastures back to cultivation.

The couple runs 1500 Adult Equivalents across well grassed coolibah and brigalow country that runs down to Ti Tree waterways and up to fertile volcanic ridges.

Ray White Rural agent Richard Brosnan said Amatunga was well developed for grazing efficiency with central watering points installed across a cell grazing system.

“The property was originally subdivided into nine main paddocks. Recent development has expanded the layout to 52 paddocks, enhancing pasture management and carrying capacity.”

Situated in a 573mm annual rainfall area, Amatunga is watered by nine bores supplying a water reticulation system servicing 17 tanks and 30 troughs, complemented by Huntly Creek frontage.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a two-bedroom cottage, two sheds and steel cattle yards.

The 3740ha Amatunga is located 30km east of Clermont and 49km from Capella

Dalby’s Four Bar heads to auction

Dalby’s Four Bar heads to auction on April 16 with Nutrien Harcourts GDL handling the sale.

The 807ha boasts highway frontage and is located 39km from Dalby – close to major selling centres, feedlots and grain handling facilities.

Agent Andrew McCallum said Four Bar was suited as a trading depot for producers looking to add extra kilos to weaners, while also offering strong potential as a cow and calf operation.

Around 90 percent of country has been stick-raked and cutter-barred, resulting in thick cover of Rhodes grass across the property, in addition to natural grasses and herbages in season.

Four Bar also benefits from passive income generated from gas.

Water is sourced from a bore and several dams, while infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, steel cattle yards, numerous sheds and 5km of new fencing along the southern boundary.

Dalby’s Four Bar heads to auction on April 16

Private sale for Gin Gin’s Rosehill

The Shields family has offered for private sale its extensively improved and well-maintained coastal beef enterprise suitable for breeding, backgrounding or finishing.

The 3933ha Rosehill is 46km north-west of Gin Gin and 94km west of Bundaberg in the Takilberan area of lower Central Queensland, renowned for its abundant natural waters.

The country ranges from open valleys to rolling open and timbered hills with ironbark, blue gum and spotted gum supporting 2000 breeders or adult equivalents.

Productive, free-draining soil types support improved pastures sown to Rhodes grass, bluegrass, signal grass, wynn cassia, siratro, fine stem stylo, lotononis, as well as native spear grass.

Rosehill is watered by 30 dams, four bores, as well as permanent creeks and springs, supported by 1009mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, steel cattle yards with a new undercover hydraulic crush and double decker loading facilities and two sheds.

Hourn & Bishop Qld’s Brad Hanson is handling the sale.

The 3933ha Rosehill is 46km north-west of Gin Gin and 94km west of Bundaberg in the Takilberan area of lower Central Queensland