April 30, 2005 7:08am by David Farrar

MPs Assets

The NZ Herald has done a search of public registers, to find out what assets are owned by MPs.

The house values are always interesting. I’ll summarise below the top few and bottom few:

Under $200,000 in property

Parekura Horomia $114,000 for two houses in Gisborne plus land in Wairoa!
Nanaia Mahuta $126,000 for a property in Waikato
Darren Hughes $141,000 for a house in Howowhenua
Dave Heroera $160,000 for a house in Manukau
Keith Locke $193,000 for a house in Auckland

Over $1,000,000 in property

Lockwood Smith $1,005,000 for four farms
Wayne Mapp $1,035,000 for houses in North Shore and Wellington
Phil Goff $1,045,000 in Manukau
Tariana Turia $1,140,000 for a house in Wanganui and farm in Rangitikei
Pansy Wong $1,154,750 for two houses and a plot.
Ann Hartley $1,233,000 for five houses in North Shore and Auckland
Richard Worth $1,330,000 for a house in Auckland
Maurice Williamson $1,450,000 for a house in Auckland and a house in Manukau
Sandra Goudie $1,450,000 for property in Hauraki District
Sue Kedgley $1,450,000 for a house in Wellington
Judith Tizard $1,530,000 for homes in Auckland and Coromandel
Dover Samuels $1,900,000 for motel and dwelling in Matauri Bay
Murray McCully $2,110,000 for three houses
Jim Sutton $2,120,000 farm in Waimate and flat in Wellington
Dail Jones $2,129,000 for five properites
David Carter $2,141,100 for four farms and a unit in Canterbury
Pita Paraone $2,260,000 for three orchards and a house
Muriel Newman $2,826,000 for three farms and a house
Brian Connell $2,940,000 for a farm in Ashburton and two properties in Christchurch
Shane Ardern $3,125,000 for two farms in South Taranaki
John Key $8,395,000 for four properties