Imagine farming cattle and carbon with your own private stretch of the trout-rich Mohaka River on your doorstep.

That’s the opportunity available with the purchase of ‘Nirvana’, 282.5 hectares in two titles of well-balanced hill country near Te Haroto, just 10km off the Napier-Taupo Highway and 60km from Napier Airport.

Bayleys Country Sales Specialist Tony Rasmussen says tenders are invited for either the 94.5ha or 188ha title, or the total area.

“This really is a piece of paradise, a special location for those who are keen to fish, hunt and farm, with scope to develop the agri-tourism side beyond its current level,” Rasmussen says.

“There is 172ha of effective grazing land which is predominantly flat to easy in contour and mostly free-draining silt loam soils. It’s fully reticulated with a mostly gravity-fed system delivering water to the more than 80 paddocks.”

Just over 65ha of the property is planted in areas of Pinus radiata, Douglas Fir and manuka. Most of the area is registered in the Emissions Trading Scheme and produces around 1430 credits each year, delivering about $80,000 of passive income at current market prices for the owners.

Rasmussen says there is good scope to further develop the fishing, hunting and accommodation income.

Private access to about 4km of the Mohaka River is a major drawcard for the property. To capture income from that interest, the current owners built the Fisherman’s Cabin, an off-grid, up-market studio unit nestled in the bush overlooking the river below.

Bookings are growing for the Fisherman’s Cabin from first-timers to return guests happy to pay $500 for the weekend to enjoy fishing in the river or hunting good numbers of Red deer in the surrounding bush areas.

The nicely renovated shearer’s quarters have their own kitchen and sleep up to 20 guests, ideal for larger groups or family events, and the adjacent woolshed is set up as a man cave with its own small shooting range below.

There is also a very tidy three-bedroom weatherboard home with two bathrooms, overlooking the farm land with its own sunny, north-facing deck area suitable for entertaining visitors. Other improvements include a large, four-bay implement shed with its own car hoist, and several outbuildings.

Rasmussen is expecting the property to draw interest from existing farmers looking for extra land for cattle grazing, through to urban investors keen on the outdoors and farming, and happy to install a manager to run day-to-day farming activities, or to someone keener to develop the agri-tourism side.

“It could be possible for someone outside of farming to co-invest in developing the accommodation and tourism side, leaving a farmer to take on the grazing area. There are lots of ways this property could go,” he says.

The current owners have been on the property for the past 15 years and adopted a regenerative farming system for their cattle operation several years ago.

“Our vendors are serious about selling and have already purchased a new property in Southern Hawke’s Bay to be closer to their children and wider family,” Rasmussen says.

Tenders close at 4pm on 27 August, 2025, at the Bayleys Havelock North office.

For more information contact Tony Rasmussen, 027 429 2253, or Chris Heenan, 027 599 3527.