Smoky River Ranch
Sold on October 26, 2023
from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM UTC
Location
Little Smoky, AB
Sale Size
7 Parcels, 1 En Bloc
Final
$160K - $440K
3,582 contiguous acres selling as 7 Parcels less than 6 miles NW of Little Smoky, Alberta. With deeded and leased acres, excellent access from Hwy 43, good fences, and a mix of crops and pasture, this fertile land is ready to go to work for any grain farmer or rancher.
3,582 contiguous acres selling as 7 Parcels less than 6 miles NW of Little Smoky, Alberta. With deeded and leased acres, excellent access from Hwy 43, good fences, and a mix of crops and pasture, this fertile land is ready to go to work for any grain farmer or rancher.
Available Parcels
En Bloc Name En Bloc | En Bloc Size 3,582 +/- Acres | Final $130,000 | View En Bloc |
Parcel Name Parcel 1 | Parcel Size 161 +/- Acres | Final $230,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 2 | Parcel Size 257 +/- Acres | Final $320,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 3 | Parcel Size 159 +/- Acres | Final $310,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 4 | Parcel Size 161 +/- Acres | Final $160,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 5 | Parcel Size 295 +/- Acres | Final $440,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 6 | Parcel Size 322 +/- Acres | Final $440,000 | View Details & Offer |
Parcel Name Parcel 7 | Parcel Size 2,227 +/- Acres | Final $160,000 | View Details & Offer |
Sale Description
Whether you are a farmer, a rancher, or a business owner looking for a new home base, ‘Smoky River Ranch’ will provide you with the large assemblage of land that you have been searching for. With 1,354 deeded acres and a 2,227-acre Grazing Lease selling as 7 Parcels, ‘Smoky River Ranch’ provides the perfect opportunity to grow your existing operation or start fresh. Connect with your banker and agronomist and they will agree that this rare find offers endless opportunities.
Smoky River Ranch Parcel 7
These 7 Parcels offer an incredible mix of pasture and cultivated acres. Between the dugouts and creeks, there are ample sources of water for watering the herd, and good fences in place on the grazing acres. Highway 43, the famous gateway to the Peace Country, runs through Parcels 2 and 5, providing excellent access in addition to beneficial advertising options.
The 10-acre yard site in the SE corner of Parcel 2 has an existing water well and power in place and would be an ideal location to set up a business. Parcel 5 boasts an older yard site on the east side of the highway, with an existing water well, power, and natural gas. This is the ultimate location to build a private getaway or your secluded dream home at the end of this dead-end road.
Smoky River Ranch Parcel 5
The 2,227-acre Grazing Lease that makes up Parcel 7 offers an exceptional prospect for rotational grazing as well as incomparable big game hunting. With a total of 3,582 acres being offered for sale as 7 individual Parcels, and an opportunity to purchase all the Parcels ‘en bloc,’ ‘Smoky River Ranch’ is the perfect assemblage that will accommodate any new owner.
By utilizing CLHbid’s unique ‘en bloc’ system, bidders will have an opportunity to keep the rich, prime farmland and grazing acres together and either get all of Parcels 1 – 7, or none. Purchasing all Parcels ‘en bloc’ alleviates the risk of owning a half section twenty miles from your home base. These are highly fertile acres that are deep in organic matter and ready to go to work for any grain farmer or rancher, given today's commodity prices.
Smoky River Ranch 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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