Skip to content
Ask Matty
Menu

Cross-lease titles in Mount Eden

LINZ records 2,005 cross-lease titles in Mount Eden, 20.7% of its 9,679 live titles: above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Mount Eden: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
2,005
Share of live titles
20.7%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
64 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 Mount Eden are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (33%, against 11% nationally), up to 42.

Carports appear in more leases (30% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (20%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureMount EdenAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)57639,58987,651
Two-flat schemes47.6%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes20.0%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats32.5%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)958 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat361 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease30.4%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease30.4%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area5.2%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)37.7%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198819891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more22826,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

11 of Mount Eden'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%
Onehunga1,98522.3%
Papakura1,90216.8%
Saint Heliers1,80933.6%

Sources and limits