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Cross-lease titles in Albany

LINZ records 95 cross-lease titles in Albany, 2.1% of its 4,440 live titles: well below Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Albany: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
95
Share of live titles
2.1%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
149 of 152

https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/50804-nz-property-titles/

By share it is in the lowest quarter of 152 in Auckland, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the bottom tenth of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Albany are set up

Two-flat schemes are less common here (7% of schemes, against 76% nationally).

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (93%, against 11% nationally), up to 12.

Carports appear in fewer leases (7% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Scheme structureAlbanyAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)1539,58987,651
Two-flat schemes6.7%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes0.0%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats93.3%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)2,252 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat388 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease0.0%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease6.7%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area0.0%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)26.7%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title200019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more126,27554,978

Auckland suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Papatoetoe3,99825.8%
Remuera3,04626.7%
Mount Roskill2,89128.3%
Mount Wellington2,70024.1%
Glenfield2,34736.6%
Epsom2,33529.8%
New Lynn2,01624.4%
Mount Eden2,00520.7%
Onehunga1,98522.3%
Papakura1,90216.8%

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