Trevor Farmer keeps a low profile despite owning a property portfolio worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now in is 80s, his son, Dean, represents the family interests on the boards of investment vehicles including Viaduct Harbour Holdings, Tramco and Tappenden Holdings, whose major assets include the huge Wairakei Pastoral development in the central North Island and a $1 billion land bank in Auckland's Viaduct Harbour.
Through their 30% shareholding in Viaduct Harbour Holdings, the Farmers are behind plans for a new 165-room luxury waterfront hotel called One Market Square which is being marketed to international investors for construction on the old Simunovich Fisheries site.
Tappenden owns a small stake in 9 Spoke, the New Zealand-based cloud accounting start-up that listed on the ASX in 2016.
Keen supporters of the arts, Trevor and Jan Farmer are long time residents on Auckland's plush Paritai Drive and, along with fellow Rich Lister Sir Christopher Mace, they share in the ownership of the 180ha Paroa Bay Station overlooking the sea near Russell.