Shania Twain linked to deal

A company linked to country singer Shania Twain has bought a prime 8579 hectare Crown lease near Queenstown, adding to its already considerable high-country holdings in the area.

An Overseas Investment Office report released this week, shows Soho Property Ltd bought the Glencoe Station Crown lease last month from Queenstown property developer John Darby.

In 2004, Twain and her then husband, record producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, bought 33-year leases for Motatapu and Mt Soho stations, acquiring 25,000ha of scenic high-country land.

The couple split in 2008 and it is unknown how the ownership of their New Zealand property was divided.

Soho Property has now acquired Glencoe Station, expanding on the massive high-country holdings between Arrowtown and Wanaka.

The report says the acquisition would make Soho Property's existing farming operations more economically viable, and replace cattle with less environmentally destructive merino sheep.

In 2004, the couple gifted a 29 kilometre easement of track across Motatapu, and huts, to New Zealand's 2100km Te Araroa walking trail.

- © Fairfax NZ News

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