New Liberal leader Angus Taylor has transitioned from Woollahra to Goulburn during his political career.
New Liberal leader Angus Taylor’s property portfolio includes farming interests spanning close to 3,000 hectares and a $6.77m mansion sale.
Newly elected Friday to lead the Liberal Party of Australia, Mr Taylor holds interests in an estimated nine properties across New South Wales, the majority structured through a network of private companies and family trusts rather than in his personal name.
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Member for Hume and now Liberal leader Angus Taylor in the House of Representatives. Picture: Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images
One of the properties owned under corporate or trust structures.
Parliamentary disclosure rules require MPs to list real estate holdings and shareholdings in separate sections, with Mr Taylor’s register showing two properties under real estate – a farm in Goulburn and a Sydney investment property – and shareholdings in several companies including Gufee Pty Ltd and Maclaughlin River entities.
Further company and property searches revealed properties with close to 3,000 hectares contained within those shareholdings.
Before relocating to his Goulburn electorate, Mr Taylor and his wife Louise Clegg lived in Sydney’s exclusive eastern suburbs, selling a five-bedroom mansion in blue-chip Woollahra in November 2016 for $6.77 million to the grandson of late business tycoon Alan Bond.
The property, held in Ms Clegg’s name, saw a capital gain of $2.47 million over the decade they owned it – during which time prices in the suburb had jumped 57 per cent.
It was sold three years after Mr Taylor entered parliament in 2013 as the Member for Hume – with the family then moving into the electorate which Mr Taylor represents in regional New South Wales.
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They sold their Woollahra home for $6.77m in 2016.
It was bought by Alan Bond’s grandson Jeremy who renovated it and then resold last year.
His declaration to parliament in August last year, which has been updated since to add in gifts, travel and hospitality – showed him having shareholdings in Gufee Pty Ltd – the family’s primary holding company.
Also declared were several entities bearing the Maclaughlin River name, a reference to a perennial river in the Monaro region of southern New South Wales.
The disclosures further revealed that the couple hold beneficial interests in two family trusts: the AJ & L Taylor Family Trust and the Maclaughlin River Land Trust No.1.
A search of company and property records showed at least one property associated with the Taylor family interests – located in Gundary, near Goulburn – spans more than 140 hectares.
The property is held jointly by Gufee Pty Ltd and two other individuals listed as trustees or co-owners, and serves as the registered address for the AJ & L Taylor Family Trust.
His other shareholdings include Maclaughlin River Pastoral – a firm which has real estate interests including a 140 hectare property on Snowy Mountains Highway in Bemboka, NSW, bought for $860,000 in September 2021.
It was described as “a good size parcel of land, divided into 7 paddocks each with gravity feed water troughs” in its latest listing.
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Mr Taylor’s corporate or trust structures hold interests in over 2,500 hectares of land.
All the properties under corporate or trust structures are in NSW.
Four properties were under Maclaughlin River Holdings No. 2 – which he owns via his interest in Gufee Pty – that have over 2,500 hectares of land.
All were transferred between May 2023 to June 2025, with no price listed, with two in Mount Cooper alone covering 2,000 hectares and the other two in Holts Flat spanning more than 500 hectares.
Mr Taylor’s business background prior to entering parliament in 2013 included co-founding several agricultural enterprises, including Growth Farms – though he has reportedly divested his interests there – with it no longer in his declarations in 2025.
The use of corporate structures and family trusts for property holdings is not uncommon among parliamentarians and wealthy Australians, offering potential tax planning benefits and asset protection.
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