<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/broadbeach-qld-4218">Broadbeach</a> offers plenty of reasons to live vertically, but moving from a substantial family home into an apartment can expose the compromises of high-density living. Privacy, room for guests and usable living space tend to matter more when an apartment is intended as a permanent home rather than an occasional coastal base.

A typical residential floor at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/the-eveleigh-broadbeach-7-9-surf-parade-broadbeach-qld-4218">The Eveleigh</a>, on Surf Parade,&nbsp;contains just four apartments. The 94-residence development by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/hirsch-faigen">Hirsch &amp; Faigen</a> is predominantly made up of expansive three-bedroom homes, with a limited collection of half-floor penthouses above.

Across the apartment floors, <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/rothelowman">Rothelowman</a> has used the relatively limited number of residences to give each home greater access to natural light and outlook. Living spaces extend towards full-height glazing, while a series of bay windows frame selected views across the Pacific Ocean, city and hinterland rather than treating the building edge as a continuous wall of glass.

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“The apartment floors deliver a collection of homes that embrace controlled outlook via a series of bay windows deliberately framing moments of view,” Rothelowman Director Kim Lowman said.

From outside, those projecting forms contribute to the tower’s faceted profile. Strong horizontal and vertical elements establish its proportions, while the changing position of the sun alters the light, shadow and reflection across the façade throughout the day.

The same attention moves inside the apartments, where the material palette combines warm timber, natural stone, metallic detailing and softer curved forms. Kitchens sit within the main living zone, with stone island benches, integrated joinery and European appliances, before the living areas extend towards the glazing and the outlook.

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Three genuine bedrooms provide room to accommodate family and guests, while two secure car spaces and storage address some of the practical considerations that can become more noticeable when moving from a larger home. Feedback from the display suite has centred on the warmth and restraint of the interiors, with buyers commenting that the residences feel like homes rather than conventional coastal apartments.

A limited collection of half-floor penthouses occupies the upper levels, increasing the scale of the living spaces and adding private balconies and elevated finishes. From this position, the outlook extends between the ocean and hinterland.

Outside the private residences, The Eveleigh separates its shared spaces between the podium and rooftop. The podium is centred on wellness, with subtropical landscaping surrounding a swimming pool and pool terrace, yoga garden, private gymnasium, sauna and hot and cold plunge facilities. Landscaped retreats and pavilions provide additional places to sit away from the main recreation areas.

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Higher in the building, a rooftop pavilion and private dining suite sit alongside resident lounge, barbecue and outdoor dining areas, opening towards panoramic views across the ocean, city and hinterland.

“Buyers are no longer just looking for an apartment, but a lifestyle where they can relax, reset, and enjoy a balanced way of living,” Hirsch &amp; Faigen Director of Sales Matt George said.

Interest to date has come from established owner-occupiers and interstate lifestyle purchasers, including buyers planning a future move to the Gold Coast. Many are coming from larger homes and want to reduce ongoing maintenance without giving up space for family and guests, privacy, two car spaces or the ability to entertain at home.

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Much of that daily life can also take place beyond the building without requiring a drive. Kurrawa Beach and Pratten Park are an easy walk from Surf Parade, while Pacific Fair, Oracle Boulevard, The Oasis, restaurants, cafés, entertainment and public transport are also within walking distance.

The Eveleigh is Hirsch &amp; Faigen's fourth Gold Coast development since entering the market in 2021, following The Hemingway at Palm Beach, The Emerson at Kirra and Yves at Mermaid Beach. Each of the preceding projects sold out before completion.

“Broadbeach had been on our radar throughout our time operating on the Gold Coast,” the developer said. “Following our projects in Palm Beach, Kirra and Mermaid Beach, Broadbeach represented the natural next step for the business.”

The Surf Parade site brought together proximity to the beach, protected coastal outlooks and walkability to dining, shopping and recreation. Hirsch &amp; Faigen also identified the street as an emerging premium residential address, with enough separation from Broadbeach's busier destinations to retain a quieter environment at home.

The Eveleigh is now under construction by Maxcon, with completion forecast for mid-2028. Three-bedroom residences are currently available from $2.87 million.

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The Eveleigh brings house-like apartments to Broadbeach

A long-stalled Campbelltown development site is back in play, with new plans for 139 apartments set to supersede a mixed-use scheme approved almost a decade ago but never built.

The new proposal for 28 Cordeaux Street would deliver 116 market and 23 affordable apartments in a part 14-storey building, bringing a substantial new project into a Campbelltown market where new apartment supply remains limited.

Plans have been filed over the 3,092 sqm corner site at Moore-Oxley Street, around 600 metres from Campbelltown Railway Station and the city-centre retail core.

The site already carries a mixed-use residential approval dating to 2016. Doroch Architects has now been engaged on a larger replacement scheme, which is progressing as a State Significant Development Application following a Housing Delivery Authority determination in August 2025.

The apartment mix comprises 39 one-bedroom, 72 two-bedroom and 28 three-bedroom residences. Two-bedroom apartments make up just over half of the project, while three-bedroom homes account for 20 per cent.

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Of the 139 apartments, 23 will be delivered as affordable housing under the in-fill affordable housing provisions of the Housing SEPP. The affordable component represents 15 per cent of the residential gross floor area and will be managed by a registered Community Housing Provider.

Doroch has sought to break the scale of the building into two distinct elements, with a masonry podium of around four storeys establishing the street edge before the residential tower steps back above.

The corner position has shaped that approach. Cordeaux Street faces toward the commercial and civic centre, while Moore-Oxley Street leads into the lower-scale residential neighbourhood to the south, and the design verification report describes the site as "bridging the commercial core to the north and established residential areas to the south."

The podium will be expressed predominantly in face brick, while the upper levels shift to brushed and grooved concrete cladding with darker metal detailing. Recessed sections, deep balcony edges and landscaping break down the upper form, with an approximately 11.8-metre setback to the northern boundary addressing the adjoining St Peters Anglican School.

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Campbelltown has been starved of new residential developments in the last decade.

The only other notable development set to come to market this year is ALAND's Queen Square, a mixed-use precinct on over two hectares that will comprise apartments above a vibrant ground-level retail and hospitality dining precinct.

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First Look: Sherlock Construction pitches apartments for low-rise Deception Bay

Queensland builder-developer MAYD has revealed the first look at its major North Kirra beachfront development, lodging amended plans that reduce the number of apartments and increase the proportion of larger residences.

The project is planned across a substantial 4,742 sqm amalgamated site spanning seven lots at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/2-6-pacific-parade-bilinga-qld-4225">2-6 Pacific Parade</a> and 27-33 Golden Four Drive in Bilin​ga, directly opposite Nor​th Kirra Beach.

<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/mayd-group">MAYD</a> secured the site for $32.5 million in 2025, in what was one of the Gold Coast's largest property transactions of the year.

The development will be delivered across two stages, with the first stage carrying an estimated gross realisation value of around $360 million.

The latest amendments seek to reduce the overall apartment count and shift the project further toward the owner-occupier market, with larger residences designed for buyers wanting considerably more space than traditionally offered in a beachfront apartment.

The residential mix will include townhomes, oversized two-bedroom apartments, substantial three-bedroom residences and four-bedroom homes.

MAYD has appointed Cera Stribley to lead the architecture and interiors, with the Melbourne-based design practice drawing on the beachfront setting through a series of ocean-facing terraces and heavily landscaped balconies.

Strong horizontal forms and curved balconies will define the exterior, with subtropical landscaping integrated throughout the building to soften the built form and increase the connection between the residences and the beachfront.

The project will also include an extensive collection of resident wellness and lifestyle facilities, continuing the broader shift across the Gold Coast's luxury apartment market toward larger homes supported by resort-style amenity.

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MAYD Founder Todd Mould said North Kirra was increasingly appealing to buyers attracted to the more established, lower-density character of the southern Gold Coast.

"North Kirra presents one of the most compelling luxury residential opportunities currently emerging in Australia, combining absolute beachfront with the character and authenticity that buyers are increasingly seeking, and the same sense of tight-knit community that defined Burleigh and Currumbin perhaps 10 or 15 years ago," Mould said.

"With Gold Coast Airport on its doorstep, it also offers a level of accessibility that broadens its appeal across almost every market demographic."

The project comes as the southern Gold Coast continues to attract an increasing share of high-end apartment development and buyer activity.

Kirra in particular has emerged as one of the region's more tightly held beachfront markets, with its relatively low-density character, established surf and hospitality scene and proximity to Gold Coast Airport differentiating it from the higher-density markets further north.

Mould said those characteristics had informed the approach MAYD and Cera Stribley had taken to the project.

"We've worked closely with Cera Stribley to create a vision that is deeply connected to its surroundings," he said.

"Inspired by the coastline itself, the architecture has been shaped around space, privacy and resort-style living, creating a collection of homes that reflects the next generation of luxury on the southern Gold Coast."

MOTIV Managing Director Carly Cottam, who has been appointed to market the project, said buyer attention had continued to move south along the Gold Coast.

"Purchasers who may once have defaulted to Broadbeach, Main Beach or Surfers Paradise are increasingly recognising the value of a genuine beachfront location that offers lower density, strong amenity and a more established sense of community," Cottam said.

"Kirra has a powerful combination of growing demand and genuine scarcity. Beachfront supply is inherently constrained, the area remains relatively low density, and buyers are increasingly placing a premium on locations that feel established, uncrowded and authentic rather than heavily developed."

Cottam said the proximity to Gold Coast Airport was also proving increasingly important for interstate and second-home buyers.

"Being minutes from Gold Coast Airport makes it particularly compelling for interstate buyers, frequent travellers and second-home purchasers who can access an authentic coastal lifestyle almost immediately after stepping off a flight."

The acquisition takes MAYD's active development portfolio to more than $500 million, with the North Kirra project representing one of its largest undertakings to date.

MAYD is targeting an early 2027 launch.

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Castle Hill, the longtime hub of the Hills District, has been one of the major beneficiaries of Sydney's Metro expansion, with improved connectivity helping drive continued population growth, development and buyer demand across the Hills District.

But despite that growth, the suburb has seen relatively few major new apartment projects brought to market over the past 18 months.

Hills District developer Reve Group is looking to fill that gap with <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/nova-r-ve-castle-hill-2-garthowen-crescent-castle-hill-nsw-2154">Nova Rêve</a>, a major new mixed-use precinct on the corner of Garthowen Crescent and Old Castle Hill Road, a short walk from Castle Hill Metro Station and Castle Towers.

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The project will comprise three residential towers alongside a hotel, restaurants, cafes and a skybar, more than 1,600 sqm of ground-floor retail and almost an acre of landscaped gardens.

It represents the largest project undertaken by Reve Group, the development arm of the Kassis family, which has been building across the Hills District for more than 30 years through Kassis Homes.

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Nova Rêve also represents a significant step up from the family's first apartment development, Grand Rêve, which was delivered nearby on Garthowen Crescent.

Grand Rêve introduced larger, house-like apartment layouts and premium inclusions including Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances to the Castle Hill market.

Nova Rêve takes that approach to a precinct scale, combining the residential component with hospitality, retail and substantial public and resident landscaping.

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Reve Group Managing Director Sam Kassis said the project reflected the family's three decades of building in the Hills, which has evolved from trophy homes on quarter-acre blocks to larger-scale apartment development.

"Grand Rêve was our first apartment project here and it showed us what this pocket of Castle Hill could be. Nova Rêve is the refinement of that idea: not just apartments, but a place the whole suburb can use," Kassis said.

A key part of that approach is the hotel, which has been designed to operate as an amenity for the wider Castle Hill community rather than solely hotel guests.

It will include restaurants, cafes, skybars and all-day dining, alongside conference and event facilities catering to business functions, community groups and private events.

At ground level, more than 1,600 sqm of shops and cafes will open onto the surrounding streets and landscaped areas.

Almost an acre of gardens designed by Land and Form Studios will run through the precinct, incorporating pathways, seating, barbecue areas and children's play spaces.

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Reve Group's Romio Georges said creating an active ground plane had been central to the planning of Nova Rêve.

"There are gardens with pathways, barbecues, seating and play areas, shops and cafes opening onto the street, and a hotel with restaurants and a skybar that anyone in Castle Hill can walk into," Georges said.

The project's elevated position on one of Sydney's highest ridgelines will also provide apartments with outlooks toward the Sydney skyline, surrounding parkland and the Blue Mountains.

More than 80 per cent of the apartments will occupy corner positions, with Turner responsible for both the architecture and interiors.

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A number of Northern Territory stations remain under sale negotiation according to Herron Todd White following a number of sales mid May.
HTW said in the Kimberley the Yougawalla Pastoral Company properties including Bulka (2,745 square kilometres), Margaret River (1,771 square kilometres ) and Yougawalla (3,395 square kilometres) have reportedly contracted for sale to Chinese interests.
"The properties had been on the market since around late 2015 on the basis of either an outright sale or for a new partner to buy in and replace some existing stakeholders," HTW said.
"The sale in mid May (reportedly still to be FIRB approved) was reportedly an outright sale of the three properties for around $70 million WIWO with an unconfirmed number of cattle (however reportedly over 40,000 head).
"Yougawalla was originally acquired back in April 2008 for $3 million WIWO (or around $1.94 million assessed bare), then Baulka in March 2011 for $9 million WIWO ($5.15 million assessed bare) and lastly Margaret River July 2013 for $4.3 million WIWO ($2.2 million assessed bare).
"The properties were owned by a partnership (which included media identity Harold Mitchell) that undertook signi cant pastoral infrastructure development to lift carrying capacity.
"Yougawalla is principally red sand plain desert country, Bulka is predominantly red-yellow sand plains, extensive dune elds and a small proportion of alluvial plains, while Margaret River comprises cracking clays on the oodplains (only around 9 percent of total area), red loamy and red sandy/ gravelly soils to more inferior skeletal soils.
"If the deal is finally consummated at the reported sale price, further analysis will be required to reveal the true dollar per adult equivalent. However at this stage it looks like reflecting continued strong demand for cattle country in the Kimberley, particularly from Chinese interests who also acquired the 10,373 SAWA aggregation for $100 million (WIWO) around ten months ago. "
Bidgemia Station in <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-other-wa-gascoyne+junction-7891302" target="_blank">Gascoyne Junction, WA</a> (above) is currently on the market. It has 15 sets of established yards, the main with 2,000 head capacity including feedlot as well as extensive double frontage to the Lyons River (68 km) &amp; Gascoyne Rivers (125 km). 
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Sunnyside Farm, <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-other-wa-derby-7876570" target="_blank">Lot 555 Derby Highway Derby</a>, (below) sits on approximately 221.3 acres and is on the market for around $1,500,000.
 
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Continued strong demand for Kimberley cattle country: HTW

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Advertising industry veteran Harold Mitchell has sold his cattle station empire in Australia's Kimberley region in Western Australia for more than $70 million, at a time when pastoral property values have been rising sharply. 
The sale of Yougawalla Pastoral Company includes APN Outdoor chairman Doug Flynn's stake as well. A Chinese businessman is understood to have bought the cattle stations, the Australian Financial Review reported.
Yougawalla Pastoral Company includes three main cattle stations spanning more than 850,000 hectares with about 45,000 head of cattle.
Mitchell declined to comment on the deal to the AFR, but the paper said he has already received approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board. 
The Pastoral Lands Board of Western Australia is still to approve the transaction.
KPMG and ANZ had been appointed in 2015 by Mitchell to sell the pastoral station.
It was reported earlier that Mitchell intended to sell up to 49 percent of his cattle station empire in Western Australia.
Yougawalla Pastoral also leases the 161,000-hectare Louisa Downs, the 141,000 ha Bohemia Downs, the 80,000 ha Carranya Station and the 182,000 ha Lamboo Station, but none of these properties are part of the deal. 
The timing to sell couldn’t be better with pastoral property values rising sharply in the last few years. 
The latest index shows values have risen 9.3 per cent in the last year. Major cattle station operator Australian Agricultural Company reported a 7 per cent rise in the value of its vast rural property portfolio in full-year results released on Wednesday.
Mitchell started buying during the financial crisis, picking up the main Yougawalla station for about $10 million. In 2011, he snapped up the 274,000 ha Bulka Station adjoining Yougawalla for about $9 million.
Then in 2013 when the live export cattle trade had been smashed and the drought and prices were squeezing the cattle industry, Mitchell shelled out $4.3 mil­­lion for another massive cattle station – the 177,100ha Mar­garet River Station with 6,000 head of cattle.
Mitchell, who played a vital role in negotiations with Indonesia on the live export trade, decided to sell after splitting with his wife of 50 years.
 
 
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Harold Mitchell sells WA cattle station for $70 million

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Three central Queensland cattle stations are up for sale by US coal mining giant Peabody Energy.
They are tipped to fetch around $60 million.
The properties known as Iffley, Deverill and Twenty Mile near Moranbah have a combined 41,500 hectares, currently leased to Australian Cattle and Beef Holdings.
The three cattle stations are being marketed by CBRE's Geoff Warriner and Chris Holgar.
Geoff Warriner said the property sizes, value and strength of current management match investment mandates of both major industry participants and institutional investors.
“The opportunity to secure an aggregation of this scale within such a renowned and highly productive livestock region that offers direct access to transport routes and close to end markets, is both unique and strongly sought after," he said.
Mr Holgar said the opportunity was also positioned to capitalise on the strength of Australia’s beef sector.
“Given the strong interest in large scale grazing land, the sale of these properties comes at an opportune time for the industry,” he said.
The properties are located approximately 38 kilometres south east of Moranbah, 130 kilometres south west of Mackay and 240 kilometres north west of Rockhampton.
The properties are offered in one line or as separate assets via a forthcoming expressions of interest campaign.
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Peabody Energy lists three central Queensland cattle stations

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Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has further expanded her beef cattle empire in northern Australia.
She has bought Aroona Station near Katherine in the Northern Territory, a 147,510 hectare property with 15,000 head of cattle.
Aroona Station sold for $13.5 million having previously sold for $6.4 million in 2006. The $13.5 million figure is for the land only and excludes cattle and plant.
It was bought from beef producers, John and Kate McLoughlin.
Rinehart says Aroona will complement her existing investments in the North.
"It is near to the Phoenix park export depot and it will assist part of the wet season growing program for Riveren and Inverway as well as help to provide better market timing options for some of Hancock Beef's Kimberley cattle stations," she said.
Colliers International's national director of rural and agribusiness, Rawdon Briggs was the listing agent for Aroona Station.
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Gina Rinehart buys NT cattle station Aroona

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Some 400,000 hectares of pastoral land in Western Australia's Goldfields region has been sold to the Chinese real estate conglomerate Shanghai CRED.
Shanghai CRED is also part of a $365 million joint bid with Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting to purchase the Kidman cattle empire.
Shanghai CRED has paid about $2 million to purchase Melita, Jeedamya and Kookynie stations, sold by WA cattle identity Jack Burton, from the Yeeda Pastoral Company.
The Chinese company has also sought FIRB approval for several other Goldfields stations including Yakka Munga, located 100 kilometres north of Derby.
"Although the property is a fair quality cattle station, it has good access and proximity to Broome and the ability for further development," HTW valuer Terry Roth said.
"If this sale does proceed, this will be the fourth sale to occur in the Kimberley for 2016," he said noting sales of Napier Downs, Mount House and Glenroy and Carlton Hill.
"There is continued momentum in the NT pastoral market, with Mount McMinn now offered for sale.
"This 809 square kilometre pastoral lease reportedly has a carrying capacity of about 5,000 head," Terry Roth said.
Mount House and Glenroy Stations, located 270 kilometres east of Derby have sold. The adjoining leases have sold to prominent businessman Kerry Stokes.
"This is the second holding in the Kimberley that Kerry Stokes has purchased this year with the purchase of Napier Downs at the start of the year.
"One of the main attractions of the two leases is the access to natural waters.
Roth noted the northern section forms part of the Isdell River catchment and drains into the Walcott Inlet and the southern section is formed by the Adcock and Hahn Rivers.
"At the time of the sale, the property was relatively undeveloped, however since settlement, the purchaser has embarked on a development program of pastoral infrastructure."
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Shanghai CRED expand their Northern Territory reach

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Barrister Allan Myers QC has sold a half share in his cattle station operation the Tipperary Group of Stations in the Northern Territory for $49 million.
The stake was sold to Booloomani Pty Ltd, led by Melbourne lawyer Jason Yeap who is a fellow board member of the National Gallery of Australia Council with Mr Myers.
The offering included the pastoral leases of the main Tipperary Station along with Litchfield and Douglas West stations.
Barrister Allan Myers has been attempting to offload the original group of five stations for many years, selling Fish River in 2011, Elizabeth Downs in 2014, along with Douglas and Douglas South in 2015.
Mr Myers bought the Tipperary Group from property developer Warren Anderson in 2003.
When previously owned by Warren Anderson, the station was also used for a zoo of exotic animals. 
The latest deal with Booloomani was a direct deal which received Foreign Investment Review Board approval.
The other investors who have joined Mr Yeap in partnership with Mr Myers come from Australia and Hong Kong.
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A Chinese company has purchased a historic cattle station featured in the Baz Lurhmann film, Australia, in a deal worth about $60 million.
Spanning 476,000 hectares across the Western Australian Ord River District, the deal was almost two years in the making.
Shanghai Zhongfu-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investments is the new owner of Carlton Hill and Ivanhoe, which operate as one station on the doorstep of Kununurra.
The properties, settled by the pioneering Durack family in 1893, are split by a 35km stretch of the Ord River.
Consolidated Pastoral Company will lease back the properties, which cover 662,900ha, and continue to use them to run about 50,000 cattle.
KAI gains 15,000ha of freehold land which it plans to develop for irrigated cropping after the sale was ticked off by Foreign Investment Review Board before the Federal election and approved by the State Government this week.
KAI general manager Jim Engelke said about half of the 15,000ha parcel of freehold land was suitable for farming.
Consolidated Pastoral Company is owned by the Britain-based investment firm Terra Firma.
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Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has expanded her cattle business.
She has bought two more cattle properties located south-west of the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory.
They were bought from one of Indonesia's largest importers of cattle, Japfa.
The Rinehart-controlled Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd made the announcement.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"I am very excited about the acquisition of these two cattle properties and to be investing in Australia, particularly in the Northern Territory," Mrs Rinehart said in a statement.
"I am passionate about our agricultural industry and developing northern Australia."
The combined purchase of 550,000 hectares (1.36 million acres) and 40,000 head of cattle marks the latest agricultural acquisition from the mining magnate after Mrs Rinehart bought a West Australian cattle station last year.
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Gina Rinehart buys another northern cattle farm

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Billionaire Kerry Stokes has bought another big cattle station in the WA Kimberley.
The Australian suggested Stokes, chairman of the Seven Network, bought the Mount House pastoral station near Halls Creek for $20 million plus.
The station was sold by the McAlary family, owners since the 1980s.
It was once a station with 30,000 head of cattle.
Stokes bought the nearby 400,000ha Napier Downs station for about $25 million last year.
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Kerry Stokes buys Mount House station from the McAlary clan

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Indicative bids for the S. Kidman &amp; Co sale are due on May 26. 
The highly politicised sale process for Australia's largest landholder S. Kidman &amp; Co has been officially reopened.
Already the crowdfunder DomaCom has joined forces with Lloyds Business Brokers to launch a fresh $370 million bid. 
DomaCom and Lloyds have entered discussions with Ernst and Young, which is handling the sale process for the Kidman shareholders, and has been given access to the sale documents.
Their plan is to buy S. Kidman &amp; Co in a matching bid to the bid from Chinese-backed consortium Dakang Australia which was rebuffed by Treasurer Scott Morrison last month.
DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis told the Australian Financial Review the fresh offer from DomaCom and Lloyds would see the land valued at $210 million and the operating businesses at $160 million.
"In a renewed effort to keep this massive pastoral estate in Australian hands, DomaCom will continue to crowdfund the acquisition of the land and Lloyds will find a buyer for the operating businesses."
"When you consider we have $75 million from 5500 investors pledged already, our target is now only $210 million, and as the Federal Government is clearly concerned about Kidman slipping into foreign ownership, then we firmly believe there is a realistic opportunity to buy this massive pastoral station locally.
“At a price of $210 million, it would give investors a gross rent of 3.9% in addition to capital growth, low volatility and the opportunity to keep an Australian agricultural icon in local hands.”
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