Property search for missing Qld man halted

A two-day search of north Queensland acreage owned by the family of a man missing since New Year's Eve has turned up no new evidence about his disappearance.

Detectives, specialist land search officers and SES staff began scouring two 50-acre blocks owned by 62-year-old Laurence Sim's family, west of Townsville, on Tuesday.

Detective Acting Superintendent Cheryl Scanlon said crews stopped searching the area, where Mr Sim is thought to have lived before he went missing, on Wednesday afternoon.