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Cross-lease titles in Tōtara Vale

LINZ records 868 cross-lease titles in Tōtara Vale, 38.9% of its 2,234 live titles: well above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Tōtara Vale: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
868
Share of live titles
38.9%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
joint 6 of 152

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 Tōtara Vale are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (3%, against 11% nationally), up to 14.

Three-flat schemes are less common here (4%, against 12% nationally).

Fewer leases include a garage (14% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureTōtara ValeAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)40339,58987,651
Two-flat schemes94.0%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes3.5%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats2.5%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)884 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat436 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease13.9%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease15.9%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area4.0%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)40.4%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more30626,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

6 of Tōtara Vale'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%
Mount Eden2,00520.7%
Onehunga1,98522.3%
Papakura1,90216.8%

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