The Riverina's Tuppal Station has sold
The Riverina's Tuppal Station has been sold some four months after it was passed in on a $6.25 million auction bid.
Its been bought by the Bozzo family through Elders Finley agent John Dalton.
The price has been undisclosed, but understood to be substantially higher than the passed-in price.
It was the setting of Slim Dusty's song Twisted Tuppal Gums.
The 5,568-hectare irrigation and pastoral property at Tocumwal attracted a number of interested buyers.
The property was listed by Frank and Maria Vodusek, who purchased the holding in 1994.
In its past it had been part of the FS Falkiner and Sons’ Riverina pastoral empire following their purchase of the station, then totalling 64,000 hectare at £392,000 in 1891.
The station has 24 kilometres of double frontage to the Tuppal Creek. There is some 800 hectares under irrigation, with a total water entitlement of 1,962 megalitres.
John Dalton advised buyers this year's sown crops was included in the sale.
It was listed for June auction with $8.5 million hopes.
