NIGEL Farage and his partner have managed to build a property empire worth more than £4 million, it has emerged.
The Times has reported the Reform UK leader and Laure Ferrari own at least five homes across Surrey, Essex and Kent.
It comes after Farage claimed he was "skint" back in 2017.
According to Land Registry Records, all but one were bought with cash since 2020 and the other was secured in 2017 after Farage’s split from his second wife.
But Farage only declares two of the properties under the land and property section of the register of members’ interests, raising concerns about transparency.
It comes after it was reported Farage fears he will face a by-election if he is found to have broken rules over a £5m gift from a crypto-billionaire.
One of the properties is a five-bedroom home in Surrey woodland which was bought for £1.42 million in May 2024 and features a 530 sq ft living room and a cast-iron spiral staircase.
It has been described as a “unique grade II listed home with lodge-style architecture, nestled on 7.5 acres of ancient woodland”.
Farage told the paper this was his main residence but said he recently spent "half his week" at a property in Clacton which is owned by Ferrari. Farage does not have to declare it because legally it is owned by his partner.
Farare's third home is in a Kent village where he used to live with his second wife Kirsten Farage. He retained sole ownership following their split, but this property is not declared on his registers of interests.
It is currently occupied by Isabelle Farage, one of the couple's adult children.
Farage also owns two beachfront homes on the Kent coast as well as a parcel of land next to the beach. These are held through his company, Thorn in the Side Ltd.
One of the homes is unoccupied and Farage has been granted planning permission to replace it with a luxury three-storey new-build.
Holding property through a company allows Farage to utilise retained corporate revenues, such as reality TV fees and media retainers, to buy property assets directly. This avoids the top personal income tax rate that must be paid when extracting cash from a company into a personal bank account for a traditional property purchase.
Farage has said one of the beachfront homes was not on the register because it was owned by his company which is declared separately under the "shareholdings" section of the register.
However, his other beachfront home is declared and he has not explained the discrepancy.
The MPs' code of conduct makes clear the register is designed to provide information about any financial benefit MPs receive “which might reasonably be thought by others to influence his or her actions, speeches or vote".
One senior MP, who did not want to be named, told the paper Farage’s failure to declare the property was “not in the spirit of the rules”.
Nicholas Allen, a professor of politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, also said: “The standards regime has long been clear that MPs should err on the side of caution when it comes to registering their interests. When they haven’t, they have opened themselves up to potential investigation.”
