![A handy price of $11,450 per acre has been paid for this irrigated block near Sale. Pictures: Gippsland Real Estate. A handy price of $11,450 per acre has been paid for this irrigated block near Sale. Pictures: Gippsland Real Estate.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/39XqhrgY6riNnQBs6VEtc8R/1796bdd4-22db-41af-b235-34328b1521a1.jpg/r89_0_1916_1029_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
There has been a handy reward for the owner of a little irrigated farm block west of Sale in Victoria's Gippsland.
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A buyer has paid $1.5 million for a lush 53 hectare (131 acre) block - a $11,450 per acre payday.
Although there was no home on the Sale-Heyfield Road block, it was attractive as handy additional land for neighbouring farmers.
It comes with good pastures and a solid farming history.
Sale's annual average rainfall is around 600mm.
Its water was a key selling point - 132 megalitres of high reliable Macalister Irrigation District water plus 62 megalitres of low reliability water.
About 12km from Sale, the block was also marketed as a possible lifestyle opportunity with several possible home sites on the block plus two road frontages.
The "improvements" feature were the well-built stockyards and machinery shed.
Its lure as an add-on irrigation block was its quality fencing, central laneway and shelter belts.
The little block at Fulham was sold by Gippsland Real Estate.