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Cross-lease titles in Papakura

LINZ records 1,902 cross-lease titles in Papakura, 16.8% of its 11,327 live titles: slightly above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Papakura: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
1,902
Share of live titles
16.8%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
83 of 152

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

How the cross-leases in Papakura are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More leases include a garage (43% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (18%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structurePapakuraAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)80039,58987,651
Two-flat schemes74.5%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes17.6%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats7.9%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,012 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat482 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease42.8%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease12.9%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area3.2%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)49.1%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198719891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more58626,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

7 of Papakura's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 0% 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%
Saint Heliers1,80933.6%

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