Montney Panorama
Sold on August 24, 2021
from 6:00 PM to 6:00 PM UTC
Location
Fort St. John, BC
Sale Size
2 Parcels
Final
$330K - $350K
2 quarters selling just 9 miles northwest of Fort St. John, BC. Unique landscape, amazing views and great road access. The perfect location to build your dream home.
2 quarters selling just 9 miles northwest of Fort St. John, BC. Unique landscape, amazing views and great road access. The perfect location to build your dream home.
Available Parcels
Parcel Name Parcel 1 | Parcel Size 97 ± Acres | Final $330,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 2 | Parcel Size 63 ± Acres | Final $350,000 | View Details & Offer |
Sale Description
The drive heading north out of Fort St. John, BC, down Montney Road, bar none rivals other scenic rural drives in Canada with much more celebrated names. Montney Road heads north, through the spectacular countryside with stunning views out over the valley below. A mere eight minutes out, you arrive at ‘Montney Panorama’, a half section as unique and diverse as the countryside itself. A creek meanders through the heart of the half section providing a natural divide to the two quarters making up the half. Both quarters come with a breathtaking vista to the north and east, looking out over the signature rolling landscape of the Montney region.
[https://clhbidstorage.blob.core.windows.net/documents/Auctions/4df5052e-5cf2-46bc-603a-08d925dabca4/TinyMCEPictures/13a93edf-dcdb-4ed2-9869-33bed09346c2.jpg]‘Montney Panorama’ is surrounded by pavement on three sides, with Montney Road on the east and north and Beaton Park Road on the west. The short drive from Fort St. John is seamless even in winter, with no bridges or steep hills to navigate. Always a plus if you have family on the road.
Parcel 1, which is the east quarter, has power to a former building site. The driveway winds up the hill to that former building site off Montney Road on the north. The easterly portion of the quarter has been left in a pristine state, preserving a future idyllic building spot. A spring can be found near the top of this virgin area. Parcel 1 needs boots on the ground to truly appreciate what it has to offer. One can only imagine that dream residence with a walkout facing southeast sitting atop the highpoint on the east side. Go for a walk before dinner in late July and pick from the abundance of saskatoons that flourish. Parcel 1 has an abandoned well site which is expected to be reclaimed in the near future. The quarter has natural gas along the east perimeter with approximately ninety-seven acres under cultivation.
[https://clhbidstorage.blob.core.windows.net/documents/Auctions/4df5052e-5cf2-46bc-603a-08d925dabca4/TinyMCEPictures/ce7d2df5-1c15-4f69-a157-2713cb6a8bf8.jpg]Parcel 2, the westerly quarter off ‘Montney Panorama’, has the Beaton Park Road bordering it on the west and Montney Road on the north. The quarter is a mere eight miles to Highway 97 and only minutes more to downtown Fort St. John. Great country living just minutes from all the amenities of a large urban centre. This king of the hill quarter slopes down to the northeast and is essentially a blank canvas for the new owner. Pick your building site coming in off the Beaton Park Road or the Montney Road and proceed to carve it out of the mature aspen. You will undoubtedly want to open up a view, given the vantage point high above the Montney valley below. With today's lumber prices, a buyer will no doubt look at the mature aspen trees and investigate the value of the same. Volume of merchantable aspen has been estimated at over 3,000 tonnes. Whether the buyer views the aspen as a commodity likely to increase in value over time or a commodity to monetize now to cover part of the cost of opening up the land, the merchantable aspen stand will be seen as a bonus on day one. Much of the area, currently treed, could be brought under cultivation once the timber is removed. The ease of getting areas such as this under cultivation has changed significantly in recent years using tillers, eliminating raking and picking roots.
Located along a high visibility corridor, no one has to tell local farmers what ‘Montney Panorama’ can produce year after year. Farmers also know paying a bit more for good land pays back in spades. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to buy a half section with stunning views, easily accessible year round and only minutes from downtown Fort St. John. If you’re interested in making family memories in the country, no better place awaits than ‘Montney Panorama’.
Please review the updated Purchase Agreements in the Parcel Details section to see the specifics of the offer.
‘Montney Panorama’ will be offered for sale by way of online electronic tender by CLHbid.com. Check the website for updates from time to time.
SLR Details: Parcel 1
Montney Panorama is being offered for sale via online escalating tender by CLHbid.com. Check the website for updates from time to time. The property may be viewed by interested registered bidders. Please contact us by email at info@clhbid.com for an appointment. As a law firm, CLHbid never discloses bidder's names to any party, including the Seller. Only the successful buyer's name is ever disclosed to the Seller as part of the closing process.
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Frequently Asked Questions
There are existing auction platforms out there such as the ‘Iowa Auction’ that stop bidding after all individual parcels have received high bids. Then for round #2 of the auction they allow past as well as new bidders to ‘up the ante’ by bidding on the entire farm or ranch with a reserve bid set at the aggregate price just bid on all individual parcels in round #1.
After seeking input from many farmers and ranchers, most told us they didn’t feel a platform such as this was fair to bidders on individual parcels who in many cases have went to a lot of work to get pre-approved for financing etc. Farmers and ranchers also indicated they didn’t think it is fair for a large player to ‘lay in the weeds’ and not bid until after the initial round of bidding. They also told us that it would not be fair to allow a larger player to acquire the entire farm or ranch for only a few dollars more than the aggregate of the prior individual bids. Hence the rationale for the ‘premium bid’ amount for the ‘en bloc’ parcel at the conclusion of the auction.
At CLHbid.com, you as bidder only need to be high on a certain number (generally less than 50%) of parcels in order to have a chance to acquire the entire farm or ranch, whereas at national Auction firms you generally have to be high on 100% of the parcels in order acquire the entire ranch or farm.
Bidders have no knowledge of the identity of other bidders. Likewise, the Seller during the sale is not privy to who may be bidding or how many parcels someone may be ‘high on’. At CLHbid.com we set out to create a platform for the selling or leasing of agricultural land that was honest, fully transparent and offered no opportunity for bids to be shopped by the Seller. This is especially important wherein the Seller has final approval.
At CLHbid.com we have put safeguards in place in our CLHbid.com contract with our Seller to ensure the Seller deals only with the high bidder at the conclusion of bidding. During the timed auction itself, all back-end information is locked down including who is bidding or who is registered to bid. At the conclusion of the bidding, the Seller is privy only to the name of the high bidder on each parcel.
The minimum increment for bidding is set prior to each specific sale in consultation with the Seller. The increments are set having regard to the FMV of the parcel being sold with more expensive parcels generally having larger increments.
We have all been to live auctions where a quarter of land worth $500,000.00 starts at $100,000.00. The parcel is then bid up in large increments initially with the increments gradually decreasing in size as the bidding approaches the end. At CLHbid.com, given our predetermined minimum increments, we try and speed up the process by starting the bidding at what we see as a reasonable number to start serious bidding at, yet a number still below FMV.
In addition, given the ‘en bloc’ final parcel bidding option offered at CLHbid.com, we require a floor number for each individual parcel in the unlikely event a specific parcel doesn’t receive a bid, yet at the conclusion an eligible bidder wishes to bid on the entire farm or ranch. In such a case, the Starting Bid becomes the value to be used for that Parcel not receiving a bid when determining aggregate bids. It is important to note the Starting Bid is not a Reserve Bid.
PLEASE NOTE: Not all CLHbid.com sales have an ‘en bloc’. Please review the particulars of each sale for clarity.
No. The Seller waives their right to approve the sale if there is a bid on the ‘en bloc’.
This is really no different than in the tendering process wherein Tenders stipulate “any and all tenders will not necessarily be accepted”. One issue with tendering is the cost to put a tender in the paper is nominal and there is always a risk of the Seller perhaps just feeling out the market or wanting to know the names of the parties interested.
At CLHbid.com one of the paramount reasons for allowing the Seller final say is to alleviate the need for an expensive Guarantee to the auction house – expensive and seldom called upon yet often required by the Sellers bank. The Seller’s bank doesn’t require the Seller to purchase a Guarantee when using the CLHbid.com platform wherein the sale is at the Seller’s discretion.
CLHbid.com incurs significant marketing costs in the event the Seller fails to accept the high bid(s). The Seller is under contract with CLHbid.com and the contract references trigger values indicating when the right of the Seller to refuse a sale is taken away.
At CLHbid.com, our Sellers are fully invested in the process meaning the likelihood of a high bid not being accepted is extremely remote.
No. At CLHbid.com there is no advantage to waiting to bid. Our platform has a ‘refresh’ function on the clock such that any bid placed near the expiration of the timed sale will automatically re-set the clock adding additional minutes to the clock giving all parties (including the bidder that was just outbid) another opportunity to bid.
At CLHbid.com we take the human element out of the process. During the bidding process if you are high, you will receive an online notice saying you are High Bid. If you get outbid you will receive an online notice saying you were Outbid. Immediately upon expiration of the timed sale, the high bidder will receive an email indicating they were the HIGHEST BIDDER.
All emails are auto generated. The question cannot arise as to whether you were high or not or “was it shopped to someone they liked better” such as when tendering land.
No. The Starting Bid is just that. The first bid required for a Parcel is the Starting Bid and not some number above it. If you are the initial bidder and just bid the basic minimum increment your Current Bid will be the Starting Bid number.
CLHbid.com doesn’t publish the name of the high bidder. We do, however, disclose the name of the high bidder to the Seller as they are then in a contractual agreement to buy and sell. We leave it up to the high bidder and Seller to tell whomever they wish.
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