Newbury Farm a blue-chip highlands property with historic appeal

Newbury Farm, one of the most significant rural properties on NSW's prized Southern Highlands, is on the market. Comprising 407 hectares (1006 acres) across five titles, the property is a blue-chip agricultural holding with excellent long-term land banking and subdivision potential. Newbury Farm is located 2km from Moss Vale's urban boundary and about 90 minutes from Sydney. Newbury was created as a land grant to John Nicholson, the first harbourmaster of Sydney Harbour in 1822. The farm later sold to Edward Simpson, a co-founder of law firm Minter Ellison (then Minter Simpson) in 1936 and held in the Simpson family until 2024, when it sold to property investor Peter Crown for a reported $38.5 million, before being placed in the hands of receivers. Newbury Farm is described as about 82 per cent arable and comprises an attractive mix of productive creek flats and accessible grazing land well suited to livestock production and fodder cropping. The fertile, gently undulating country ...