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Cross-lease titles in Waiake

LINZ records 236 cross-lease titles in Waiake, 38.9% of its 607 live titles: well above Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Waiake: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
236
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 Waiake are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (1%, against 11% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are less common here (2%, against 12% nationally).

Fewer leases include a garage (9% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureWaiakeAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)11939,58987,651
Two-flat schemes97.5%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes1.7%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats0.8%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,024 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat511 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease9.2%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease6.7%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area11.8%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)64.7%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198819891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more11626,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

6 of Waiake's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 11% 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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