<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.

First look: New 139-apartment plans revive long-stalled Campbelltown city centre site

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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NSW North Coast macadamia farms on the flood free red basalt plateaus have mostly been sold in the broad range of $40,000 to $80,000 per macadamia tree planted hectare, according to a recent report by Herron Todd White.
The valuation firm advised flood plain sugar cane farms have mostly sold in the broad range of $5,000 to $20,000 per sugar cane cultivated hectare.
"This flood plain land is attracting interest from macadamia farmers seeking to expand.
"This is a serious concern for the sugar mills as throughput is needed for viability."
<a href="https://www.century21.com.au/property/77108/">Century 21 Alstonville</a> (above) have a 72 acre macadamia property listing with 5,600 trees of mixed varieties ranging from 10 years to mature.
Agent Noel Outerbridge recently marketed a <a href="https://www.century21.com.au/property/360309/" target="_blank">220 acre Tuckurimba farm</a> currently growing soya beans and sugar cane as suitable for macadamia. 
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The Qatar Investment Authority is tipped to sell its rural holding Kaladbro in Victoria, east of Mt Gambier near the South Australian boarder.
It is understood that the property, owned by QIA’s subsidiary Hassad, will have expectations around $25 million.
The cattle property no longer fits with Hassad’s sheep breeding strategy.
Qatar-based company Hassad Food bought the 2630-hectare Kaladbro Estate at Strathdownie in 2010.
Hassad's property company has purchased 300,000 hectares of rural farmland across Australia since 2010.
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The 40 hectare Bowral estate, Carinya, home to horse breeders Luke and Sally Kean, who was a former dressage champion, has been sold to the Chiba family for $4.8 million.
The stables have since been expended significantly to create a base for their European Dressage Horses business, including a stable complex designed by architect Ken Latona.
An Olympic-size covered dressage arena, fencing, vet and quarantine facilities and separate accommodation have also been added.
The main residence has also been extended and now comes with a heated swimming pool and tennis court.
The couple have five children decided to scale down locally to something more manageable.
The listing came on at $5.5 million.
Luke Kean, general manager at YourShare Financial Services, and Sally Latona, a former state dressage champion, bought Carinya, in 2008 for $4.4 million from liquor store owners John and Penny Lawless.
The Keans were the buyers of Ripley, the six-bedroom French farmhouse at Burradoo.
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Carinya, the rural Bowral estate sells at $4.8 million

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One of the Upper Hunter’s landmark properties, Cullingral at Merriwa, has been listed with offers expected in a range from $3.5 million to $4 million.
The vendors, Brice and Bronwyn Stokes have it listed with MacCallum Inglis.
The 208 hectare holding on the Merriwa River dates back to a land grant in 1839 to Charles Blaxland, a grandson of the explorer/pastoralist Gregory Blaxland, of Blue Mountains crossing fame. 
It was Gregory Blaxland who built the origins of the present homestead in the same year, using local sandstone. 
The cattle enterprise also comes with a three-shed poultry facility for hatching and growing of quail, operated under a five-year lease arrangement (recently renewed) to Game Farms Australia, which generates annual lease income of $125,400. 
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Paraway Pastoral has purchased the Inverell property, Newstead which is where the Australian artist Tom Roberts painted, The Golden Fleece Shearing at Newstead while staying at the farm then owned by the Anderson family in 1894. 
Travelling around eastern Australia, Roberts first came to Inverell in the summer of 1893, staying for five months at Newstead, the property of his friend Duncan Anderson, and later returned to the area several times.
To view the work, <a href="https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/648/" target="_blank">click here</a>.
Involving himself in the lifestyle of the northern NSW sheep property and of the Inverell township, he produced 13 of his most acclaimed paintings there.
Roberts's final visit to Inverell was in 1900; three years later, he left for England where he spent the next 16 years.
He returned to Australia in 1923 and died in 1931.
It was in 1857, the manager of Newstead wrote to Mary Anderson, the property's absent owner, that a new shearing shed was nearing completion, "62 feet by 18 feet with skillions on either side, large enough to hold from seven to eight hundred sheep".
Shearing at Newstead - better known as The Golden Fleece, and destined to become one of Australia's great iconic pictures - was painted there by Tom Roberts. In 1895 The Sydney Morning Herald named it "the great picture of the year" and the Art Gallery of NSW bought it for 275 guineas. It was shown around the world. Critic R.A.M. Stevenson's commenting on Shearing at Newstead when he saw it in London in 1898 that it was "tight, hard and inartistic". 
Roberts was a leading founder of the Heidelberg School, the group of late 19th-century painters who set out to develop a distinctly Australian style, responding to colour and light, and who became renowned for their blue-gold landscapes.
First settled by Europeans in 1841, Newstead is one of the oldest homesteads in the state's north. For most of its years, it was home to two family dynasties, including the ancestors of the former deputy prime minister, John Anderson.
In 2001 it became a religious retreat for a controversial American order, the Bruderhof Communities, before being sold in 2005 to the Sundown Pastoral Company.
The Paraway company has also purchase another Inverell property from Sundown Pastoral Company, Paradise. 
The Land says Paraway will use the properties, which are described by local agents as “signature properties”, to boost its cattle finishing capacity.
Newstead totals 4,848 hectares and consists of improved pastures for beef production as well as growing crops. Neighbouring property Paradise totals 6,500 ha.
Sundown was founded by Neil Statham in 1964 and is still owned and operated by the Statham family with Neil’s son David at the helm. 
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Calmyle, a 966-hectare cropping property in Queensland's Darling Downs has been sold for $5.6 million to One Tree Agriculture, the subsidiary of the US agribusiness and food giant Cargill.
It is their second farming acquisition in Southern Queensland.
It previously bought Kinbeachie, a 6000-hectare Goondiwindi property in April.
Cargill Australia's investments include Billabong Station in the NSW Eurongilly Valley, a sugar cane farm, Marwood, near Mackay in north Queensland and the $20 million Vaucluse, a 2654-hectare cropping and grazing property near Launceston.
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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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Kingston Estate Wines has snapped up the New Residence vineyard in South Australia's famous Riverland region.
They've acquired the 252 hectare commercial vineyard for an undisclosed amount through Colliers International’s Tim Altschwager and Nick Dean on behalf of Seven Fields.
Located just outside Loxton, the vineyard is planted with around 36.4 percent red varieties and 63.6 percent planted to white.
It was developed in 2001 and planted to 233 hectares with the balance of the land comprising headlands, formed internal roads and shed curtilage.
Tim said they received significant interest from both domestic and international investors and existing wine industry participants.
New Residence vineyard was one of three large commercial vineyard investment properties managed by Seven Fields that were put to market through Colliers International. 
“The portfolio also included the Conundrum vineyard in the Riverland region and the Howcroft Estate vineyards in the Bordertown wine region,” Tim said.
“The Conundrum vineyard is currently under contract and the Howcroft vineyard was sold to Casella Wines in December 2015."
Nick said the Riverland region was Australia’s largest producer of wine grapes, responsible for approximately 30% of the national grape crush annually.  
“The economic benefit to the Riverland is substantial and in turn sustains the development of the region."
“The Riverland is developing as an entrenched tourist destination, combining proximity to Adelaide with obvious physical charms of the Murray River and its wine and food culture.”
 
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Kingston Estate Wines expands vineyard holdings

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There was much interest when much of the main street of an outback rural Queensland town went to auction without a reserve price, grossing $156,000 on Saturday.
The deceased estate in the south-central Queensland town of Yelarbon saw about <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/https://www.truecountryrealty.com.au/61568090" target="_blank">three quarters of the town sold</a>.
The three auction offerings included shops on the town’s main street.
"Out of the five shops currently Australia Post is the only remaining tenant and are happy to stay on as long as the new owner would like," True Country Realty selling agent, Mr Jodi Bynon said.
He said there had never had so much attention on Yelarbon which is more than 300 kilometres south-west of Brisbane on the New South Wales border.
It has a population of around 450 woke up to crowds of up to 200 people who had flocked to the south-central Queensland town in hopes of scoring a bargain.
The three auctions attracted 60 registered bidders and sold to three different buyers.
The first auction of five shops sold for $60,000; the two freestanding shops sold for $26,000; and the house sold for $70,000.
“The number of people who came to the town was about half of the population here,” he said.
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The property developer/hotelier Sam Arnaout has bought the prized Sweetwater, Hunter Valley vineyard estate.
His Mediterranean-style weekender had been listed at around $12 million by Duncan and Lyn Hardie through Alan Jurd, of Jurd’s Real Estate.
The 48 hectare Pokolbin property came with initial hopes of $30 million, but it was halved earlier this year to $15 million, and then reduced again to $12 million after April auction.
Arnaout, who heads up Iris Capital which entered the hotel industry in 1995, has a whole-floor penthouse in the Bennelong apartment complex which was bought from Margaret Maloney, the widow of the hotelier Cyril Maloney.
Sweetwater was more than a decade under construction.
Sweetwater, a world class winery located in the rolling hills of the Hunter Valley, was marketed as the most significant country vineyard estate in Australia.
Producing Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz on 16 hectares, there is also a cellar door and an olive grove.
The vineyard is one of the state’s oldest, having been first planted in 1829 by the pastoralist Richard Jones.
Winemaker Brian McGuigan advised on the layout of its more recent vines. 
The district’s highest previous vineyard sale was the $9.2 million paid in 2006 for the Rothbury Estate by vintner Michael Hope.
Loggerheads, the trophy Pokolbin vineyard estate last sold in 2008, remains listed with wonderful provenance being the former home of the late Len Evans and before that the Tyrrell family.
Robin and Judy Crawford secured the village-like residential homestead with three adjoining pavilions from Len Evan's widow, Trish Evans.. 
The seven bedroom, six bathroom homestead is Australian country-style in design, with European influences, extensively refurbished by the architect Michael Suttor.
It is now surrounded by Paul Bangay garden, with orchard and vegetable garden.
The 87 hectare is listed through Alan Jurd from Jurd's Real Estate who secured its 2008 sale.
Evans planted Shiraz and Gammay in the vineyard.
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