mcgregorproperty

·        Approximately 700 olive trees (all oil olives i.e. Frantoio and Leccino) planted on traditional wide spacing of either 8m or 10 metres apart. About 5 years’ old.  Most of the olives were purchased from Jean Hanna in Wellington.  You can prune and resuscitate.

·        A weekend get-away-from-it-all rustic cottage (no electricity, no Playstation, no TV, just glorious evenings and night skies, chats around the fire in the boma)

·        Peace and quiet

·        Increasingly rare renosterveld

·        On the foothills of the envisaged Sonderend reserve

·        We ran the borehole at 5000 litres an hour -  Geo survey for new borehole done and report will be provided to purchaser

·        On the foothills of the Riviersonderend mountains with the Langeberg to the north

·        2 ¼ hours to Cape Town 1

·        1½ hours to Arniston

·        30 minutes to N2 (Stormsvlei)

·        15 km to McGregor

·        The farm has been dormant for about five years due to the owner relocating to Gauteng.

More details:

1. Purchase price: Offers over R2.5m to cash buyer. The buyer responsible for usual transfer costs.

2. Deposit: 10% non-refundable

3. Erf No.: 178/00003

4. Size: 2509639m² (two hundred and fifty comma nine six three nine hectares)

5. Situation address: Portion 3 of the farm Annex Oliphants Doorn River No. 178

6. Farm boundary co-ordinates: Attached to the first deed of transfer No. T10897/1905; thereafter T40599/85 and then held by Deed of Transfer No. T24435/1992.

    

7. Conveyancer: A Heiberg

8. Offer to purchase form: Obtainable from Seller. Seller’s e-mail address: ebmonitorcoza@gmail.com32 (Remove 32 when emailing – this “32” was inserted here as an anti-spamming device)

9. Map reference: Most of the farm is on the Department of Surveys and Mapping’s maps 3419 BB 4 Olifantsdoorn with the eastern side on 3419 BB 5 Boesmansrivier. Note that the contour intervals differ on the two maps. Maps can be purchased at the Department’s office in Mowbray, Cape Town.

10. Google Earth: Go to “The Orange Bag” farm and Google will take you to the cottage. Very roughly, the south western corner of the farm is from the south western corner 34 01 32 20S /19 55 49 11E. You can clearly see the western boundary fence running to about 34 00 46 81S/19 56 20 23E. Then you go along the northern boundary fence to about 34 01 17 30S/19 57 07 18E. Then run an imaginary line from there to about 34 01 52 51S/19 56 43 10E and then back to where you started.  [Note: The actual co-ordinates will differ - see file below for co-ordinates as per deeds office]].

11. Soil testing was performed by Bemlab in 2006. See Documents page of this website.