Bouchier families $10 million purchase of Tarramia
- By: "Farm Tender" News
- Agri Political News
- Apr 24, 2018
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The Bourchier family, which has extensive farming enterprises in the NSW southern Riverina, has bought the McPherson family's renowned Tarramia estate on Lake Mulwala for more than $10 million.
The 1994-hectare grazing and cropping property with its 150-year-old homestead and rich history was the final disposal in the estate of the late Marion Page, the daughter of the famed banker and pastoralist Sir Clive McPherson and Lady Sidney Orme.
Put up for sale last month for the first time in 60 years by the executors of Ms Page's estate, it was acquired by Andrew Bourchier and his wife Ann Marie.
It is understood the Bourchiers will use Tarramia, which has four kilometres of Lake Mulwala frontage, to expand their farming operations.
Mr Bourchier's late father Harry was reportedly one of the largest private landowners in Victoria, running a mixed-farming operation including cropping and beef.
Ms Page, who played a key role in running Tarramia after her mother's death in 1945, died in August 2015 at the age of 97.
Tarramia was sold by Nick Myer and Xavier Leslie from Elders Real Estate. Both declined to comment. Matt Childs of Pat Rice & Hawkins was co-agent.
The price was not disclosed but its understood Tarramia sold in line with market expectations of more than $10 million.
Sir Clive, who died in 1958, is one of Victoria's most revered agricultural and business figures.
A stock and station agent and then a Yarrawonga auctioneer in the early 1900s, he later joined auction house McPherson, Thom, Kettle & Co as managing partner.
The business prospered and Sir Clive began to acquire property in the 1920s including the family's rural homestead, Boomanoomana Station and Tarramia.
He was later managing director of pastoral house Younghusband Limited, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board and a director of both the National and Commonwealth banks. He was knighted in 1941.
The offering of Tarramia followed the 2016 sale of the family's three-property Botanica holding in South Yarra, which sold for $33 million to the founder of retail surfwear chain Surf Dive 'n' Ski, Fadil Sadikay.
Also in 2016, the family's extensive collection of art, silver, furniture, books and memorabilia were sold at auction.
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