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Cross-lease titles in Half Moon Bay, Auckland

LINZ records 696 cross-lease titles in Half Moon Bay, 23.9% of its 2,915 live titles: well above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Half Moon Bay, Auckland: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
696
Share of live titles
23.9%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
55 of 152

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

Across New Zealand its share is in the top quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Half Moon Bay are set up

Three-flat schemes are less common here (3%, against 12% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (4%, against 11% nationally), up to 28.

Fewer leases include a garage (16% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureHalf Moon BayAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)32639,58987,651
Two-flat schemes92.9%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes2.8%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats4.3%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)826 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat406 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease15.6%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease12.6%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area4.3%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)25.8%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198119891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more24826,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

6 of Half Moon Bay's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 2% of all its new titles in that time, against 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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