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How this tracker works
About this project
Ken Paxton's Homes is an independent accountability tracker published by the High Caliber AI network. It is built to demonstrate how a small public-records dossier can be maintained transparently, cited to source, and kept current with a lightweight daily feed.
Sourcing
Every property entry and timeline milestone here traces to published reporting or a public record, and carries a link to it. Where reporting describes something in aggregate — “other properties,” for example — the entry stays aggregate. This site does not estimate values, infer addresses, or fill gaps with plausible guesses.
What is not published
Street addresses of private homes are not published, even where they appear in county records. Map markers are placed at city level. The subject of this tracker is the paperwork and the public-office conflict it creates, not where anyone sleeps.
Allegation, not verdict
Ken Paxton has not been charged in connection with the mortgage or homestead filings described here. Legal experts quoted by the Associated Press noted it is possible lenders prepared the documents and the couple did not carefully review them before signing. This site presents the record and the reporting; readers draw conclusions.
The daily news feed
Once a day, a scheduled job queries public news feeds for Ken Paxton paired with property, mortgage, homestead, residence and real estate terms. Results are deduplicated by URL, stored with their publisher and publication date, and shown newest first. Nothing is rewritten — headlines and snippets stay as the publisher wrote them, and every link goes to the original.
Corrections
If an entry is wrong, incomplete, or out of date, it should be fixed. Send the specific claim, what is inaccurate about it, and a source. Corrections are applied to the record itself, not appended as a footnote.
Frequently asked
- How many homes does Ken Paxton own?
- About 15 properties worth roughly $9 million, according to county records reviewed by The New York Times and Courier Texas in July 2026: five in Texas (McKinney, two in Austin, College Station and a Frisco house), 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. Democratic opponent James Talarico put the number at 11 homes; fact-checks largely backed that count, and later record reviews found more. Many of the properties are held through the Esther Blind Trust, created in 2015.
- Which home is Ken Paxton's primary residence?
- That is precisely the issue. Mortgage documents on three of the houses — the suburban Dallas home in McKinney and two in Austin — each declared that property the primary residence. The McKinney home is where the Paxtons' family has long lived and where both are registered to vote, though reporting places Paxton at the Frisco house more recently.
- What is the homestead exemption allegation?
- Property records and tax statements show that in 2018 the Paxtons simultaneously collected homestead property tax breaks on the suburban Dallas home and on a $1.1 million Austin home. Texas law allows the break on one property only, and receiving it requires submitting a form — which one real estate attorney told AP makes it an intentional act.
- Has Ken Paxton been charged over the mortgage filings?
- No. As of the most recent reporting, no charges have been filed in connection with these mortgage or homestead filings. Paxton's own office is one of the primary agencies tasked with investigating mortgage fraud allegations in Texas.
- Why does this matter in 2026?
- Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on May 26, 2026, defeating four-term incumbent John Cornyn with 63.8% of the runoff vote, and faces Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November.