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Cross-lease titles in Avonhead

LINZ records 982 cross-lease titles in Avonhead, 24.2% of its 4,054 live titles: well above Christchurch City as a whole (15.6%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Avonhead: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
982
Share of live titles
24.2%
Christchurch City share
15.6%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
9 of 68

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

By share it is in the highest quarter of 68 in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the top quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Avonhead are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (1%, against 11% nationally), up to 8.

Carports appear in fewer leases (3% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

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

Scheme structureAvonheadChristchurch CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)47312,52587,651
Two-flat schemes94.3%79.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes4.2%7.8%12.2%
Four or more flats1.3%12.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)809 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat404 m²369 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease46.5%52.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease3.0%5.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area1.5%2.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)29.6%25.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more3266,56454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Avonhead's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 4% of all its new titles in that time, against Christchurch City (1%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Christchurch City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
St Albans1,67424.5%
Riccarton1,33127.2%
Linwood1,16523.6%
Sydenham98220.5%
Ilam96427.4%
Edgeware87036.8%
Woolston86215.2%
Spreydon85219.6%
Hornby83723.3%
Merivale81828.6%

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