Interactive: See how many properties your MP owns – and their other financial interests

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Australia’s 226 federal MPs own 459 properties across the country – an average of two per person – and more than half are property investors as the country prepares to go to the poll in a campaign that will focus on the growing inequity in the property market.

An analysis conducted by this masthead of the register of members’ interests found that more than half the MPs representing the major parties, the Greens and independents own at least two properties each – and the largest property holders in the 47th parliament own between five and seven.

Our interactive, which brings the contents of the register into one searchable engine, shows more than half of MPs are property investors, making them potential beneficiaries of negative gearing and capital gains tax breaks – which remain controversial policies because some people believe they have contributed to Australia’s high housing prices.

The register of MPs’ and senators’ interests is publicly available on the Australian Parliament’s website. It is a collection of documents – sometimes running to several pages – submitted by individual politicians, which can be updated at any time.

Search for your MP in the interactive below by electorate or name. It will show their registered interests including real estate, trusts, share holdings, company directorships and more.

Our analysis of members’ interests declarations shows 137 politicians own at least two properties, 68 own one property and 21 own no property.

The total property holdings of the entire parliament would be much higher because only lower house MPs are required to declare the assets and wealth of their family members. Senators’ spouses do not have to declare their holdings, which could include a family home or investment properties.

NSW Greens senator David Shoebridge, for example, has voluntarily included his partner’s financial interests which show she has three mortgages on investment properties. Shoebridge does not have to declare this information.

MPs can update the register at any time, but the data gathered by this masthead is accurate as of April 9, 2025.

In February, the full extent of Peter Dutton’s property investing career was revealed by this masthead, as a study of the opposition leader’s declarations revealed he had bought and sold 26 properties over 35 years.

Dutton now owns just one property, a $2.1 million farm and family home he bought in 2020, having slimmed down his considerable holdings from a peak of five properties. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese owns a home in Sydney and a $4.3 million rental property at Copacabana on the NSW Central Coast.

Seventy of the 103 Labor Party MPs – 68 per cent – own at least two properties, more than any other political party. As the party of government, Labor has the greatest number of MPs in parliament, but even allowing for that, its MPs are more likely to be property investors than in any other party.

Forty-seven of the 83 Coalition MPs own multiple properties, or 56.6 per cent of the joint party room.

Six out of 15 Greens MPs – 40 per cent, the lowest of any party – own multiple properties, and four of their MPs do not own their own home. The party has vowed to wind back property investment tax breaks as a way of lowering housing costs.

On the crossbench, including the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party, teal independents and others, 14 of 25 MPs (56 per cent) had more than one property.

The two biggest property owners in the federal parliament are Coalition MPs Karen Andrews and Nola Marino. They each own seven properties and both are retiring at the election.

Next on the list is Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who owns six properties. A further seven MPs own five properties each – Labor’s Andrew Charlton, Louise Miller-Frost, Deb O’Neill and Catryna Bilyk and Coalition MPs Colin Boyce, Terry Young and Gavin Pearce.

The Greens’ Nick McKim owns four properties, the most of any MP in that party, while on the crossbench, independent Sophie Scamps, who represents Sydney’s northern beaches, has four.

The most propertied MPs from each party were contacted for comment. Spokespeople for the MPs said Scamps was selling one of hers, McKim’s properties included a vacant lot and a home for a family member with a disability, and Marino’s properties included farming land. Burke and Andrews both declined to comment.

The analysis also shows how popular owning property in Canberra is, with 54 of 221 politicians from outside the ACT owning a bolthole in the national capital. Thirty-one Labor MPs, 22 Coalition MPs and crossbencher Fatima Payman all own Canberra properties.

MPs are paid a $310 per night travel allowance when they are in Canberra, regardless of whether they own a home in the city, and the taxpayer-funded allowance can be used to pay off the mortgage on a second property.

In future articles, this masthead will also examine the MPs who own the most shares – and who is most forthcoming about shares they own – and which MPs are making use of family and other discretionary trusts in the management of their tax affairs.

The base salary for a backbench MP was $233,660 as of July 1, 2024, with another $48,790 paid in super and a base rate of electorate allowance of $39,700.

The highest-paid member of parliament is the prime minister, who earns $607,516 per year, while the leader of opposition earns $432,271. Cabinet ministers, senior shadow ministers, the House of Representatives speaker and Senate president also have salaries significantly higher than a backbencher’s base salary.

MPs receive further benefits including office expenses, car and phone allowances and loading for chairing committees.

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