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Cross-lease titles in Avondale, Auckland

LINZ records 1,454 cross-lease titles in Avondale, 17.2% of its 8,430 live titles: slightly above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Avondale, Auckland: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
1,454
Share of live titles
17.2%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
joint 78 of 152

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

How the cross-leases in Avondale are set up

Carports appear in more leases (26% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (20%, against 11% nationally), up to 17.

Three-flat schemes are more common here (19%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureAvondaleAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)53039,58987,651
Two-flat schemes60.4%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes19.2%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats20.0%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,012 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat427 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease27.2%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease26.0%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area5.5%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)49.4%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more28326,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

22 of Avondale's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 1% of all its new titles in that time, close to Auckland (1%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

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%

Sources and limits