Overview

• An Associated Press review found that Paxton and his wife listed three properties—one in suburban Dallas and two in Austin—as their primary residences on mortgage applications.
• Those designations allowed the couple to secure lower interest rates and save tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the loans.
• Property records reveal they simultaneously claimed homestead exemptions on two of the homes in 2018, which violates Texas law.
• Legal experts say knowingly misstating occupancy on mortgage documents and collecting multiple homestead breaks constitute potential state and federal crimes.
• Paxton’s office declined to comment and faces no federal investigation even as Republicans eye the allegations in his 2026 Senate primary challenge to John Cornyn.