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Cross-lease titles in Point Chevalier

LINZ records 837 cross-lease titles in Point Chevalier, 23.2% of its 3,607 live titles: well above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Point Chevalier: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
837
Share of live titles
23.2%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
56 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 Point Chevalier are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (12% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Carports appear in more leases (19% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (8%, against 11% nationally), up to 7.

Scheme structurePoint ChevalierAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)37239,58987,651
Two-flat schemes79.6%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes12.4%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats8.1%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)756 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat360 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease24.2%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease19.4%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area12.4%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)47.3%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more17226,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

45 of Point Chevalier's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 6% 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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