Angus Taylor has been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, succeeding Sussan Ley in a ballot held Friday, February 13, 2026. The transition from his former electorate of Woollahra to Goulburn is mirrored by a substantial real estate portfolio, revealing significant wealth backing the newly appointed opposition leader.
Mr. Taylor’s financial interests extend to an estimated nine properties across New South Wales, largely held through a network of private companies and family trusts, according to a review of parliamentary disclosures and property records. His publicly declared real estate holdings include a farm in Goulburn and an investment property in Sydney, alongside shareholdings in entities such as Gufee Pty Ltd and various Maclaughlin River companies.
Prior to representing the rural electorate of Hume, Mr. Taylor and his wife, Louise Clegg, resided in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs. In November 2016, they sold a five-bedroom mansion in Woollahra for $6.77 million to Jeremy Bond, the grandson of the late business magnate Alan Bond. The sale generated a capital gain of $2.47 million over the decade they owned the property, coinciding with a 57 percent increase in property values in the suburb. This transaction occurred three years after Mr. Taylor’s election to parliament in 2013.
Parliamentary disclosures from August 2025 detail Mr. Taylor’s shareholdings in Gufee Pty Ltd, identified as the family’s primary holding company. He also declared interests in several entities named Maclaughlin River, referencing a river in the Monaro region of southern New South Wales. These disclosures further reveal beneficial interests in the AJ & L Taylor Family Trust and the Maclaughlin River Land Trust No.1.
Company and property records indicate that a property associated with the Taylor family’s interests, located in Gundary near Goulburn, spans over 140 hectares. The property is jointly held by Gufee Pty Ltd and other trustees associated with the AJ & L Taylor Family Trust. Another property, held under Maclaughlin River Pastoral, encompasses 140 hectares on Snowy Mountains Highway in Bemboka, NSW, purchased in September 2021 for $860,000. The listing described the land as having seven paddocks with gravity-fed water troughs.
Further investigation revealed four properties under Maclaughlin River Holdings No. 2, owned through Gufee Pty, encompassing over 2,500 hectares of land. These properties were transferred between May 2023 and June 2025, with no publicly listed sale prices. Two properties in Mount Cooper alone cover 2,000 hectares, whereas two in Holts Flat span over 500 hectares.
Mr. Taylor’s business background includes co-founding agricultural enterprises, including Growth Farms, though his interests in that company appear to have been divested, appearing in his 2022 declarations but not in 2025. The use of corporate structures and family trusts for property holdings is a common practice among Australian parliamentarians and high-net-worth individuals, offering potential tax and asset protection benefits.
