Ken Paxton owns 15 properties on a $153,000 salary.

Public property records point to about 15 properties worth roughly $9 million: 5 in Texas (McKinney, two in Austin, College Station and the Frisco house reporters place him living in), four luxury condominiums plus an acreage property in Utah, three homes in Florida, a resort cabin in Oklahoma and an ocean-view lot in Hawaii. His 2026 opponent, James Talarico, said Paxton owns 11 homes; a fact-check largely confirmed that count, and later reporting from The New York Times found the true figure is higher. Many of the properties sit inside the Esther Blind Trust Paxton created in 2015.

Three. AP's July 2025 review of public records found mortgages on a suburban Dallas house and two Austin houses that each contained statements declaring that property the Paxtons' primary residence — a designation that lowers the interest rate. AP also reported homestead tax breaks on two homes at once in 2018, then corrected that account: Travis Central Appraisal District officials said the Austin home's 2018 break transferred from its previous owner, and The Dallas Morning News reported Paxton did not claim the break on two properties. Paxton has not been charged in connection with these filings.