About
our company
At Viem Ventures, we bring over 15 years of deep expertise in agribusiness, natural capital, carbon markets, renewable energy, and water assets. With careers spanning valuation, advisory, and capital markets, we are uniquely positioned to guide clients through the evolving landscape of land-based investment and sustainability.
From large-scale pastoral holdings to biodiversity offsets, carbon abatement projects, and renewable infrastructure, we deliver strategic insights and tailored solutions that unlock value and drive long-term outcomes.
Whether you're acquiring, divesting, or repositioning assets, we ensure a seamless, informed, and forward-thinking experience — built on trust, transparency, and results.
Who we are
Andrew Loughnan
Principal | Valuations & Advisory Services
FAPI · CPV · SWV · Qld Licence No. 4556707
Andrew leads Viem Ventures. He has more than 15 years’ experience in rural and agribusiness real estate across Australia and New Zealand, spanning land, natural capital, carbon, water and renewable energy.
His work covers independent valuation, compensation and acquisition assessments, portfolio advice and the sale and leasing of specialised rural assets.
Andrew’s family has grazing roots in Queensland’s Maranoa. The Loughnan name has been tied to the country around Mitchell since the early 1900s, and family holdings in the district have included “Rutland”, “Arlington” and “Wongamere”.
Valuation
Fellow of the Australian Property Institute (FAPI)
Certified Practising Valuer, Queensland (No. 3642)
Licensed Valuer, Western Australia (Licence No. 44934)
Accredited Specialist Water Valuer (SWV), Australian Property Institute
Agency
Real Estate Agent, Office of Fair Trading Queensland (Licence No. 4556707)
Real Estate and Stock and Station Agent, NSW Fair Trading (Licence No. 20447645)
Real Estate Agent, Agents Licensing Board of the Northern Territory (Licence No. REL1630)
James Milson
Rural Property Consultant | Agency Services
Qld Licence No. 4843335
Both sides of James’ family arrived in the Channel Country of western Queensland in the 1870s. He has spent the last five decades working on the land and trading agricultural property.
He has operated across Queensland and northern New South Wales: Longreach in the Central West, Quilpie in the South West, Mitchell in the Maranoa, Theodore in the Dawson Valley, and Condamine, Drillham and Brookstead on the Western and Darling Downs. In New South Wales, he has owned and operated within the Golden Triangle around North Star and at Gunnedah on the Liverpool Plains.
His enterprises have covered irrigation, dryland cropping and grazing: cattle, Merinos, prime lambs and goats. That range of country, rainfall and enterprise gives him a working knowledge of how a property actually performs. He understands its water, soils, infrastructure and carrying capacity, and what it takes to run it well through the good as well as below-average seasons.
James has bought and sold rural property throughout his career, so he knows the market from both sides. He understands what serious buyers look for in each sector, what concerns them, and why one property sells well while another sits. He now brings that experience to Viem Ventures’ agency work as a registered Queensland real estate salesperson, acting for vendors and purchasers of rural and agricultural property.
James and his wife Susie run “Mundibulanga”, near Drillham on the Western Downs. The property includes the on-farm bull selling complex built by its former owners, the Raff family. Each year it hosts the Hazeldean Northern Performance Angus Bull Sale and the Raff Angus “Bulls with a Difference” sale. These sales keep James in regular contact with stud breeders, commercial producers and corporate buyers across the eastern states.