Beaudesert's Joanna Baillieu sells Bromelton House

Beaudesert's Joanna Baillieu sells Bromelton House
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

Joanna Baillieu has sold her historic Bromelton House homestead at Beaudesert in south-east Queensland.

The buyer, Stewart Murray, and his wife Kathy Lau, secured the ­135-hectare property with the Australian Financial Review speculating the price was $4 million plus.

The couple will turn the farm into a cattle genetics operation with Mr Murray, who is a veterinarian, planing to breed the Canadian pure breed, the Hays Converter. 

Bromelton House sits within two hectares of landscaped gardens, formed around a native bean tree that is well over 100 years old.

Baillieu purchased the property in 2001 at $2.1 million.

Raine & Horne Rural agent Danny Bukowski secured the sale some three years after its initial listing.

Joanna Baillieu, a member of the Melbourne establishment family, had initial expectations of more than $5 million.

The Beaudesert property has a four-bedroom home with two bathrooms and all bedrooms have French doors leading onto verandas with views over a 150-megalitre lagoon which has a water harvesting licence from the Logan River.

The farming property currently earns income from a 2,880 plantation of pecan trees, turf production, lucerne hay production and horse agistment centre.

The property also includes a six-hectare irrigated polo field.

The property includes 28 horse paddocks, 28 day yards, a sand arena, a breaking yard, an eight-horse walker and a barn with eight stables.

The Bromelton House Road property also includes a three-bedroom manager’s house and a two-bedroom worker’s cottage.

 

 

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.
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