Park View

THE Springsure property Park View was auction on Thursday at the Mayfair Tavern Emerald.

Park View has been in the Kavanagh family for over 100 years the property sold to Mick and Karen Nobbs, Mount Vexation, Springsure for $4.5 million the losing bidder was James Speed of Goodliffe Station.

Agent Russell Lindley, Ray White Rural, Emerald, said four of the six parties that had registered were active at the auction.

Russell Lindley
0427 071 820
(07) 4980 7204

PARK VIEW 

TITLE AND AREA
2,075ha* (5,127ac*) 6 x Freehold Titles
LOCATION
Located 15 Klms* west of Springsure and 81 Klms* south of Emerald with double frontage to the Springsure/Tambo road.
SERVICES
Bitumen Road frontage and serviced with Rural Power, telephone, mobile reception, TV reception, school bus and twice weekly mail service.
Springsure has all the normal amenities of a small country town including Primary and Secondary Schools, Sporting Clubs, Rural Supplies, Motels, Hotels and other shops including grocery store.
Emerald is the major Regional hub for the Central Highlands has the full range services expected for such a town including Primary and Secondary schooling, TAFE and Agricultural Colleges, several Shopping Centres, Medical Centre, Hospital, Dentists, seven banks, multiple daily Brisbane flights, accountants along with a broad range recreational and sporting clubs. Emerald holds weekly cattle sales as well as having a grain terminal and a cotton gin.

COUNTRY TYPE
The property consists of 2972* acres of cultivated country of which 2760* acres is dryland framing with a further 212* acres set up for irrigation and or dryland. Currently 475* acres is planted to Sorghum on a full moisture profile and a further 265*acres planted to Forage Sorghum
The irrigation country can be watered by a 400* Ml dam that feeds water into a pick-up sump with a diesel motor driven12 china pump to the head ditch. All water is returned to a sump where it can be lifted back by a 200 ml Centrifugal with a 20hp diesel Motor
This quality farming country is principally black basalt downs running onto deep alluvial creek flats. Soil range from 60cm* (2'6) to 375+cm* (15')
The 2153ac* of balance country is primarily lightly timbered Ironbark, Mountain Coolabah and Bloodwood basalt ridges and running out onto black soil downs country then onto creek flats. This heavy carrying country grows a big body of Buffel, Blue Grass, Forest Mitchell and Black Spear. Generally, the along the Northern and Southern Creeks there is a good body of Green Panic in the shaded creek banks.

WATER
Safely watered by 2 bores equipped with diesel motors, 1 house bore equipped with an electric submersible pump. Pipelines, the majority of which are 63ml supply 6 x 6000 gallon tanks plus troughs.
1 x stock dam located on a good sharp catch has not gone dry in recent dry years.
There are numerous semi-permanent and 1 permanent springs in the creeks.

FENCING
Park View is fenced into 15 grazing/farming paddocks and 6 holding paddocks with all paddocks serviced by a laneway to the cattle Yards. The fencing a lot of which is relatively new consists of predominately 4 barb with timber and steel posts and is in very good well maintained condition. Most gateways have steel sets. The property is efficiently fenced with minimal grass country in the farming paddocks. A large portion of the Boundary a larger again is relatively new is in good sound and stock proof condition.
BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES
The extensive and very well maintained structural improvements are a feature of Park View and consist of:
• Lowset 10 year old homestead, 4br, ensuite and airconditioned set in attractive gardens with views to the north east. Separate 2 car garage located at the house
• Old timber lowset 4 br homestead in good condition, Airconditioned and rented out.
• 1br self-contained worker's cottage with garage
• 100' x 70' machinery shed
• Large Workshop with enclosed storage area with mezzanine floor with fully concreted floor
• 4 bay car shed
• 4 bay car shed with attached airconditioned office
• 2 bay fully enclosed car shed with cold room in attached awning
• 2 x 18 tonne seed silos and 4 x 30 tonne storage silos
• 4 x 125 tonne grain silos
• Steel Cattle yards include, vet crush, calf marking facilities, 5 way drafting pound and cattle yards.
• Hay Shed

Agents Comments
Parkview has been in the Kavanagh family for more than 100 years and now the current vendors are ready retire. The number of structures and quality of the other improvements is testament to this properties ability to generate income. Being located on the southern side of the Central Highlands the Springsure area it has a more reliable and percentage chance of getting winter rain. The property has a good start to the season with a good body of green feed (Early march) and a high profile of moisture in the farming country.