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Cross-lease titles in Glendowie

LINZ records 457 cross-lease titles in Glendowie, 17.0% of its 2,681 live titles: slightly above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Glendowie: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
457
Share of live titles
17.0%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
joint 80 of 152

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

How the cross-leases in Glendowie are set up

Fewer leases include a garage (12% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (9% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More schemes refer to more than one flats plan (54%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structureGlendowieAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)19439,58987,651
Two-flat schemes73.7%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes14.9%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats10.8%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)865 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat404 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease12.4%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease18.0%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area8.8%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)54.1%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199119891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more13526,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

12 of Glendowie's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 5% of all its new titles in that time, well above 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%

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