THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of recently completed sales, and a separate article on interesting recent listings across the country.

• Roma’s Amby Hills sells prior to auction for around $24m
• $12.4m for Teelba Valley’s Glen Elgin
• Dawson Valley quality grazing asset sells
• CQ’s Amatunga passes in

Cattle on Amby Hills near Roma

Roma’s Amby Hills sells prior to auction for around $24m

An Augathella producer is believed to have paid around $24 million to secure a breeding and finishing block near Roma, capable of growing fodder crops.

The 9841ha Amby Hills, 10km south of Amby and 75km south-west of Roma, was offered by Colin Maunder after more than 40 years of ownership.

Nutrien Harcourts GDL agents Rick Benham was unable to disclose the buyer or the price paid, however during the marketing campaign, the property was anticipated to make around $20,000 a breeder area.

“Amby Hills was secured prior to auction after attracting good interest from producers from south, south-west Queensland and the Northern Territory,” Mr Benham said.

Mostly surrounded by an exclusion fence, Amby Hills, pictured above, lends itself to a depot, feeder or finishing operation comfortably running 1200 breeders.

Prolific buffel pastures are growing on brigalow, belah and myall scrub soil types running to heavier creek flats, together with open Mitchell grass plains.

Much of Amby Hills could be farmed with around 300ha previously growing fodder crops.

The property is watered by two bores, 15 dams and a lake, supported by a 558mm average annual rainfall. There are permanent and semi-permanent lagoons and waterholes in the Amby Creek which traverses the property.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a two-bedroom staff quarters, numerous sheds and two steel cattle yards.

$12.4m for Teelba Valley’s Glen Elgin

Queensland Western Downs country conducive to finishing, backgrounding and breeding has sold under the hammer for $12.4 million ($4300/ha) to the neighbouring Warby family from Wagganba.

The 2880ha Glen Elgin is situated in the Teelba Valley, 84km from Meandarra and 182km from Roma, and was offered for sale by Jeremy and Brenda MacMillan after 23 years.

During the marketing campaign, Nutrien Harcourts GDL agent Russell Jorgensen said Glen Elgin was one of the standout opportunities offered to the market in 2025.

The gently undulating brigalow and belah country is exclusion-fenced (apart from the creek) and capable of running 1200 dry cattle equivalents.

The quick-responding, soft, deep red soils intersperse into sweet pebbly grazing country, with more than 1200ha previously cultivated.

Glen Elgin is watered by a bore, two dams and the Teelba Creek.

Subdivided into seven main paddocks, the incoming purchaser can rotationally graze, with electric fencing infrastructure dissecting the property into 40 by 40ha average size cells.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home and steel cattle yards.

Dawson Valley grazing asset sells

A family north of Charters Towers will relocate to the heart of Queensland’s Dawson Valley after purchasing the quality grazing asset, Shingle Hut.

The 1368ha holding, located 19km north of Moura and 68km west of Biloela, is suited to breeding, backgrounding and finishing.

In March, Shingle Hut was passed in at auction on a vendor’s bid of $8.5 million but is understood to have sold well above that – in line with where other properties have sold locally. Contacts were exchanged within four days of the auction, with settlement happening next month.

The sale ends a 27-year partnership between Peter, Charles, John and Michael Attard who will now retire.

Described as prolific, heavy carrying softwood scrub and melon hole country, the property has been conservatively stocked with 450 cows and calves and grazed on a rotational basis for the past 25 years.

During the marketing campaign, Hourn & Bishop Qld agent Brad Hanson said properties of this calibre and substance are rarely offered in the heart of the Dawson Valley.

“Shingle Hut offers unrivalled grazing capacity for its size, with the vendors breeding a quality Angus herd, which in Central Queensland is unique. The quality of stock is second to none and are highly sought after.”

“It is one of those places that never runs out of feed. It boasts outstanding soil health and highly improved pastures and legumes including 627ha of leucaena with dense interrow pastures,” Mr Hanson said. (see last week’s property review article on the property value attached to leucaena development.)

Watered by five dams and supported by 627mm of annual rainfall, the infrastructure includes a fully furnished, three-bedroom home, sheds and cattle yards.

Described as prolific, heavy carrying softwood scrub and melon hole country, Shingle Hut has been conservatively stocked with 450 cows and calves and grazed on a rotational basis for the past 25 years.

CQ’s Amatunga passes in

A Central Highlands backgrounding and finishing depot with cultivation potential has been passed in at auction for $13.5 million.

Offered by Mick Duckett and Emma Robinson after 13 years of ownership, 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.

RBV Rural agent Matt Beard who is now negotiating with interested parties, said the versatile property attracted good interest from producers across Central and North Queensland.

“Prior to 2012, Amatunga was run as a mixed farming operation growing wheat, chickpeas and sorghum on a mix of heavy self-mulching black soils. The property could very easily be taken back to that,” he said.

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

Currently, the vendors are running 1500 Adult Equivalents on well grassed coolibah and brigalow country that runs down to Ti Tree waterways and up to fertile volcanic ridges.

Amatunga is watered by nine bores that feed into a water reticulation system that disperses to 17 tanks and 30 troughs across the property, along with the Huntly Creek.

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

The versatile Amatunga attracted good interest from producers across Central and North Queensland.