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Five properties you could buy for $5m right now

PUBLISHED Tue, 22 March 2022

What does $5million buy you in farmland today? It could be hectares of vines in the Hunter, or nearly 4000 in Queensland’s central highlands, or coastline cattle fattening in Tasmania or almonds, grapes and citrus production on the Murray.image8 hectares of wine country | Pokolbin, Hunter Valley, NSW
A Hunter Valley icon and landmark, Peacock Hill, in the heart of Hunter Valley Wine Country is being offered for sale for the first time in more than 25 years. Sitting among the Hunter's most prized vineyards, this boutique parcel of 20 acres offers a substantial home, two bedroom guest accommodation, cellar door, restaurant (which is being used residentially) and a massive underground storage cellar. Park-like grounds with huge shady Jacarandas and Peppercorn trees shade old gardens and a central tennis court. Predominantly planted in 1968, the vineyard on the property spans a manageable 12 acres with some of the Hunter's best examples of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Shiraz and Chardonnay. The profitable wine business, wine stock and equipment are all included in the sale. Cain Beckett at Jurd's Real Estate - Cessnock

image681 hectares at cropping and livestock | Grenfell, Central West, NSW
An award-winning fodder, cropping and livestock property, Wilga Park is a top class sheep, wool, cattle, water and fattening country, with 1,682 acres improved red loams and 1,500* acres sown to improved mixed pastures .The property is a fodder factory, and the hay and grain will be included in the sale. It has ten dams, 11 troughs, and piped Triganow Water Scheme to all paddocks. The sheep yards are all steel and undercover, with a three-stand raised board shearing shed. There are steel cattle yards, a feedlot yard, and good fencing into 17 paddocks. Wilga Park has a workshop, machinery shed, and hay shed, two cone silos, a 300 tonne grain shed storage, and a four bedroom brick homestead. “Any buyer will appreciate the hard work gone into the property and will know that once receiving the keys all you'll have to do is pull your boots on and get farming,” the agent said. - Ian Simpson - Elders Forbes & Parkes

2017662952_4_1_220315_031352-w1024-h76860 hectares of coastal cattle and tomatoes| Penguin, North West Coast, TAS
The farm sits on one of the most spectacular holdings on Tasmania's North West Coast and is on two titles with a 41 megalitre water licence. Currently, around 93 acres is leased out to a local cropping company and the remainder is used for fattening beef cattle. It has a 100-panel shed roof, cattle yards with crush and scales and approximately 120 sprinkler irrigation system. There is also a 439sqm Faber New Zealand Glasshouse with fully automated hanging gutters, currently growing 1,200 tomato plants. But, the jewel in the crown apart from the majestic coastal views is the four bedroom brick home. -
Tony Maguie - Nutrien Harcourts

image-1254 hectares of horticulture on the Murray | Cadell, Riverland, SA
Oxford Landing produces wine grapes, almonds and citrus as a diversified horticultural aggregation with direct River Murray access. There are three parcels which are offered for sale as a whole or separately. Oxford Landing (135 hectares); Hogwash West (70 hectares); Hogwash East (Riverside) on two titles (48 hectares). The combined plantings are: wine grapes (66 hectares), almonds (54 hectares) and citrus (21 hectares). Significant areas of arable land are ready for planting.
Tim Altschwager - Colliers

image-13,935 hectares bare block| Springsure, Central Highlands, Qld
South of Springsure, about 50 kilometres is this bare block for grazing and cropping on buffel country suitable for breeders, backgrounding and fattening. There’s good water with four bores; two of them on solar, seven dams and frontage to Vandyke Creek. A mixture of softwood scrub, Poplar Box flats, Ironbark and Cypress Pine are present leading into a mountain range. Previously cleared country has regrowth and is densely covered with mostly Buffel grass. Rob Wildermuth - Ray White Rural Queensland

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