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Cross-lease titles in Herne Bay

LINZ records 340 cross-lease titles in Herne Bay, 21.5% of its 1,580 live titles: above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Herne Bay: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
340
Share of live titles
21.5%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
61 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 Herne Bay are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (43%, against 11% nationally), up to 24.

Two-flat schemes are less common here (38% of schemes, against 76% nationally).

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

Scheme structureHerne BayAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)8239,58987,651
Two-flat schemes37.8%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes18.3%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats42.7%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)888 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat315 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease19.5%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease13.4%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area8.5%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)40.2%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198819891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more2226,27554,978

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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