\n NZ Herald
\n data journalist Chris Knox has crunched the numbers.\n <\/p>\n
He told The Front Page<\/a> it is important to understand how such property ownership might impact MPs\u2019 decision-making.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s something Parliament recognises as being important by making MPs declare what they have, but they don\u2019t actually ask them to declare what it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we decided to take it that step further and find out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The National Party MP for Rangit\u012bkei, Suze Redmayne, tops the list with a property portfolio worth about $24m, most of which is a large farm valued at about $18m.<\/p>\n \u201cInterestingly enough, she took office after Ian McKelvie retired, and he was the previous top.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, obviously, farms in that area are clearly worth quite a bit of money,\u201d Knox said.<\/p>\n Luxon had the most significant residential property assets.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you take out farms, he would have been at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen to the full episode<\/a> to hear more about:<\/p>\n The use of trusts for property ownershipTransparency and disclosure regimes Potential for conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n The Front Page is a daily news podcast from the New Zealand Herald, available to listen to every weekday from 5am. The podcast is presented by Chelsea Daniels, an Auckland-based journalist with a background in world news and crime\/justice reporting who joined NZME in 2016.<\/p>\n You can follow the podcast at iHeartRadio<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald data journalist Chris Knox has crunched the numbers. He told The Front Page it is important…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[100342,100679,2840,56717,1668,305,28162,78,1132,17318,117,111,43,139,69,28630,814,2960,223,80],"class_list":["post-150619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-100342","tag-379m","tag-across","tag-combined","tag-front","tag-have","tag-hold","tag-in","tag-million","tag-mps","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-page","tag-property","tag-stakes","tag-the","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}