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Cross-lease titles in Westmere, Auckland

LINZ records 212 cross-lease titles in Westmere, 11.6% of its 1,826 live titles: slightly below Auckland as a whole (14.4%) and above New Zealand (8.7%).

Westmere, Auckland: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
212
Share of live titles
11.6%
Auckland share
14.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Auckland, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
joint 107 of 152

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

How the cross-leases in Westmere are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (16% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Fewer leases include a garage (15% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

More schemes refer to more than one flats plan (64%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structureWestmereAucklandNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)8939,58987,651
Two-flat schemes74.2%73.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes12.4%14.0%12.2%
Four or more flats13.5%12.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)905 m²961 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat386 m²418 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease14.6%23.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease16.9%19.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area15.7%5.5%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)64.0%42.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199119891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4626,27554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

7 of Westmere's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 7% 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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