NT Government acquires $1.85 million rural property as cash, land quietly swap hands SunSunday 20 updated MonMonday 21 The NT Government says it intends to sell the site in about 12 months' time. ( Share Print text only with money and land in an attempt to resolve a "particularly tricky" zoning issue. Key points: It also gave a business-owner a five-year lease over some undeveloped land, rent-free A former politician has questioned the secrecy surrounding the deal Land title records show the Government paid $1.85 million for a 2.5-hectare, four-bedroom property in Knuckey Lagoon, an upmarket rural suburb on Darwin's outer fringes. The sale was one of three linked transactions on the same day in April this year, with a business called City Homes NT concurrently buying a new parcel of land in a different suburb and the Government gifting the business an adjoining one, rent-free.