This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
SCENIC prime lamb breeding and cattle enterprise Wykeham, in Victoria’s Western District, has sold to local farmers for $22.5 million.
John and Sally Robertson listed the 1,013-hectare Dunkeld property in the Southern Grampians in April after 40 years of ownership. Wykeham offers a panoramic backdrop of Mt Abrupt and Mt Sturgeon.
The new owners are Michael and Anna Coughlan, holistic farmers who run both the 4,400 hectares Tarabah at Morundah and their 17,000 hectare home farm, Mt Narra Narra Station at Holbrook, in NSW’s Riverina district.
Set in productive red gum country, Wykeham runs 17,500 dry sheep equivalents in a region that receives reliable annual rainfall of 700 mm reliable annual rainfall region. It also has extensive frontage to the Wannon River. The secure water supply also features multiple dams and a bore
Wykeham was offered as a whole or in three separate lots – Wykeham, Lot 2 and Prinpinyah – via expressions of interests campaign through Ken McDonald and Matt Poustie of HF Richardson Property.
Improvements include a three-bedroom home and a two-bedroom cottage, as well as a four stand wool shed with 900 sheep capacity, sheep yards, steel cattle yards, three machinery sheds and workshop.
Earlier this year in the Western District, grazing and cropping property Tuloona sold for around $30 million to a local buyer.