Rural Properties for Sale Wangaratta: Farmbuy.com Buyers' Guide

Rural Properties For Sale Wangaratta: Farmbuy Buyers' Guide

Offering a charming country lifestyle with a dash of city sophistication, the Rural City of Wangaratta is the perfect place to look for a rural property for sale Wangaratta to call home. This thriving regional centre and its quaint nearby townships offer a relaxed and peaceful lifestyle, with everything you need right at your fingertips.

Major Industry Hub

Home to a range of industries from healthcare to agriculture, the region’s economy is as diverse as it is strong.

With a historical background in manufacturing, Wangaratta is home to major textile production factories, including the Wangaratta Wool Mills. Affectionately known to locals as ‘Textile Avenue’, the region produces wool from sheep, alpacas and llamas and is now a major source of some of the finest merino wool in the country.

Wangaratta has a benign climate that boasts high rainfall and quality soils. The region offers prime conditions for agriculture, and is a major source of agricultural commodities such as beef, sheep, dairy and horticulture.

Rich Wangaratta farmland

The region is known for its strong background in timber manufacturing and is home to one of Australia’s largest pine providers, Alpine MDF Industries. There are also a number of manufacturers, such as Frasca’s Steel, who is your one stop shop for steel, and Burder Industries, who offer machinery products for the agricultural market.

Wangaratta also offers quality healthcare from emergency care, occupational therapy, mental health counselling and much more. The city’s major hospital, North East Health Wangaratta, has over 140 years of experience, catering for all your health needs.

Location, Location, Location

With high rainfall, and subsequently high quality soil, the region boasts conditions perfect for agriculture. The Ovens and Kings River also gift the region with an abundance of groundwater storage and quality water sources.

Canola fields in Wangaratta

Wangaratta also offers a prime central location, with convenient access to major transportation corridors, including the Hume Freeway and rail services. This gives locally based industries easy access to Melbourne, Sydney and other large regional hubs.

Food & Wine

The Rural City of Wangaratta is home to one of Australia’s most renowned gourmet regions, the King Valley. The area houses some of Australia’s largest and most celebrated producers, who specialise in food, wine and produce. A visit to the King Valley will leave you impressed by its rich Italian heritage, cool climate wines and celebrated cellar doors, including Brown Brothers, Pizzini Wines and Dal Zotto Wines.

The iconic Brown Brothers Winery, producing quality wine in the Wangaratta region since 1889

When it comes to locally-sourced produce, Wangaratta leads the way with the likes of Milawa Cheese company. The large allotments of farmland mean the region is always filled with fresh, seasonal produce including fruit and vegetables. Many of the region’s most iconic restaurants and cafés choose to use this local produce to ensure they have the freshest, best-quality ingredients for avid foodies.

Adventure

You are spoiled for choice when it comes to the great outdoors in the Wangaratta region. For those who want to go chasing waterfalls, the Warby Ovens National Park has a number of picturesque cascades that will take your breath away, including Salisbury Falls and Briens Gorge Falls. The Alpine National Park offers a great range of tracks and trails for all abilities and ages – be sure to check out the Paradise Falls!

The beautiful Warby Ovens National Park

Entertainment

Far from being a sleepy hollow, the Rural City of Wangaratta plays hosts to a range of exciting events, including the La Dolce Vita Festival (which celebrates the many wonderful wines of the King Valley), the annual Wangaratta Jazz Festival and the King Valley Balloon Festival. From masterclasses, live music and kids activities, Wangaratta’s vibrant events calendar has plenty to keep you entertained all year round.

With plenty on offer when it comes to infrastructural development, entertainment and food, Wangaratta is sure to meet your expectations. Whether you’re after spacious farmland or something a little more urban, this region has everything you need when looking for your new home.

Fast facts

Population: 28,600

Area: 2,639km² 

Average max temp: 21.9°C

Average min temp: 8.7°C

Mean rainfall: 635.3mm

Conveniently located between Melbourne and Sydney

For further information:

If you're considering a move to Wangaratta or just want to learn more about the region, consider having a browse of the city's website https://www.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/.

You can also contact Wangaratta's Economic Development Team either by phone at 03 5722 0888 or by email at economicdevelopment@wangaratta.vic.gov.au.

Check out some of our favourite rural properties for sale Wangaratta below, too!  For more listings of rural properties for sale Wangaratta click here.

Rural Properties For Sale Wangaratta: 554 Mills Road, Naring

Endless opportunity in Naring

Originally set up as a dairy farm, this multi-purpose property offers the modern family the perfect scenario. An excellent opportunity for the horse enthusiast, cropping or farming portfolio. Situated in a well held area with a land size of approximately 311 aces and strong water supply by channel and bore, it is prime and ready for its next venture. 

The property features a 14-a-side double up low line dairy, with cup removers and washers, which is ready to be brought back to life. A well designed holding yard with a capacity of 300 cows, this dairy was very efficient in its day. Along with several holding pens for cattle handling and a drenching race, the clever design and central location of the dairy makes for easy grazing rotation.

The farm itself is divided into 45 paddocks for easy grazing rotation with extensive tree belts and many more trees have been planted by the current owners. All paddocks have troughs that are supplied by the stock and domestic bore. Three recycle dams with a prominent channel running through the middle of the farm allows for future development with a deep lead bore site licenced to S&D, it could be re-cased and water license purchased back (will need a new pump).

Add to this an extensive horse infrastructure, including two horse arenas (20x60m dressage sand a wood chip base) and a jumps arena (sand based with water trough and tap). Large truck shed separate to main shedding which includes float bay, feed (hard feed and hay) bay, large tack room with laundry facilities included, and three bays to assemble stables in. Paddocks for horses consist of yards, day paddocks (post and rail), small and large 'herd' paddocks. There is also a wash bay.

To accommodate the family there's a ranch-style five-bedroom home, with a modern open style kitchen and dining and lounge are, surrounded by established deciduous trees, with landscaped water features and extensive lawns surround the home.

Located only 15 minutes from Cobram and Numurkah, this rural property for sale is well worth a look.

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Rural Properties For Sale Wangaratta: 165 Phillips Road, Castle Creek

The complete unit

“Rosari” is a complete unit small farm (129 hectares / 320 acres) in the Wodonga district a mere 10 minutes drive to Wodonga CBD. The elevated home site provides for the most breathtaking views and the property boasts all the features of a top-level lifestyle property and the productivity that comes with the medium acreage.

The residence is of brick veneer construction and has all the creature comforts expected: four bedrooms all with built in robes and ensuite to the master, comfortable living spaces, formal lounge and open plan kitchen/living/dining, an outstanding kitchen with quality cabinetry, stone benches and quality features like double oven and dishwasher. The central bathroom is generous in size and modern in looks, air conditioning is provided by split system and evaporative cooling and the heating is via gas, split system, and wood combustion. Water for the house is considered reliable. And there's a substantial solar system.

The land at “Rosari” can be described as strong hill grazing country, currently utilised as a sheep grazing property with large areas of undulated pasture country and some areas of hill country. The pastures throughout are predominately native with some areas of improved pasture throughout and a good history of fertiliser.

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Rural Properties For Sale Wangaratta: 5950 Great Alpine Road, Eurobin 

Extremely rare Ovens River frontage

Not often do properties like this come available: eight acres located between Great Alpine Road and the Ovens River in Eurobin.

Set out with most of the land at the rear of the property, there's a two-storey, three-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling in good condition, however in need of some finishing touches.

The property includes three split systems in total, and a well which provides the water. Outside there is good shedding and workable yards for the animals.

There's also a great view of Mt Buffalo from the house, while the rear of the block provides great frontage to the Ovens River.

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Rural Properties For Sale Wangaratta: 36 Fernhills Road, Sheans Creek

Unparalleled lifestyle farm

Located within the coveted Sheans Creek Valley is this idyllic parcel of productive farmland with striking district views, soaring native trees and close proximity to town.

Just eight minutes from the township of Euroa and two hours from Melbourne, this farm of 101.81 acres is the quintessential lifestyle offering and blank canvas to build a high-quality home with power traversing the block.

With a blend of primarily productive grazing flats rising to a granite boulder shrouded hill, the landscape is perfectly balanced. Boasting frontage to both Fernhills Road and Sheans Creek Road, the property is well fenced and has a high capacity dam, two large tanks and a building which could become a temporary dwelling (STCA).

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Rural Properties For Sale Wangaratta: Barooga 

Amazing investment opportunity -

This 22.45-hectare rurak property for sale features 225 metres of absolute Murray River frontage. A magnificent location only three kilometres from the Barooga township with sealed road frontage and surrouded by prestige frontage homes, some with river frontage.

The property is ripe for residential redevelopment (STCA) and is surrounded by developed residential subdivision. Features a renovated cottage and lockup workshop, an ideal weekender. Beautiful sandy loam soils, Murray River bush views and a short walk to the beautiful Quicks Beach. A once in a lifetime opportunity.

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