THE growing confidence of the rural property market has been reflected in the sale of the Roma property Kintilloch which has sold prior to auction.
Although the sale price has not been disclosed, marketing agent Rob Wildermuth from Ray White Rural said vendors Gordon and Jenny Fawckner had accepted an “attractive pre-auction offer” and decided not to proceed with the auction. The buyer is understood to be another cattle producer from the region.
The 7249-hectares (17,913 acres) cattle property was scheduled to be auctioned by Ray White Rural in Brisbane on March 23.
Kintilloch is in three freehold titles and is located 71km south west of Roma or 54km south of Muckadilla. It has a bitumen road to within 11km of the homestead.
The property has a diverse mix of country. There is about 2400ha of open black soil myall country which is predominately grassed with Mitchell, blue grass and natural pastures.
About 800ha has been previously cultivated. The balance of the country is redish soils originally timbered with belah, brigalow, and box in the hollows and flats with harder bendee ridges. This country has mostly sandalwood regrowth and is heavily grassed with buffel grass in the improved areas.
Kintilloch is watered by dams, holes in the Muckadilla Creek and two bores.
There is a highset four-bedroom timber home, machinery shed, workshop, stables and cattle yards. The property
Kintilloch is fenced into 16 main paddocks and is run as a large scale cattle grazing operation which the vendors estimate to run 1500 backgrounder cattle or equivalent breeders. Further development would increase the carrying capacity.
