Cross-lease titles in Somerville

LINZ records 416 cross-lease titles in Somerville, 27.8% of its 1,496 live titles: well above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Somerville: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 416
Share of live titles: 27.8%
Auckland share: 14.4%
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles: joint 31 of 152

2026-09-30 https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/50804-nz-property-titles/

By share it is in the highest quarter of 152 in Auckland, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the top tenth of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Somerville are set up

Fewer leases include a garage (2% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (1% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structure	Somerville	Auckland	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	179	39,589	87,651
Two-flat schemes	80.4%	73.7%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	10.1%	14.0%	12.2%
Four or more flats	9.5%	12.0%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	886 m²	961 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	428 m²	418 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	1.7%	23.0%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	0.0%	19.2%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	0.6%	5.5%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	41.9%	42.1%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1992	1989	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	144	26,275	54,978

Auckland suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Share
Papatoetoe	3,998	25.8%
Remuera	3,046	26.7%
Mount Roskill	2,891	28.3%
Mount Wellington	2,700	24.1%
Glenfield	2,347	36.6%
Epsom	2,335	29.8%
New Lynn	2,016	24.4%
Mount Eden	2,005	20.7%
Onehunga	1,985	22.3%
Papakura	1,902	16.8%

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