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Cross-lease titles in Cashmere

LINZ records 382 cross-lease titles in Cashmere, 12.8% of its 2,982 live titles: slightly below Christchurch City as a whole (15.6%) and above New Zealand (8.7%).

Cashmere: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
382
Share of live titles
12.8%
Christchurch City share
15.6%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
53 of 68

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

By share it is in the lowest quarter of 68 in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles.

How the cross-leases in Cashmere are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (2%, against 11% nationally), up to 7.

Three-flat schemes are less common here (3%, against 12% nationally).

Carports appear in fewer leases (4% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Scheme structureCashmereChristchurch CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)18612,52587,651
Two-flat schemes94.6%79.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes3.2%7.8%12.2%
Four or more flats2.2%12.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)788 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat386 m²369 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease32.3%52.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease3.8%5.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area5.4%2.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)25.8%25.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198919891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1206,56454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Cashmere's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 6% of all its new titles in that time, well above 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%
Avonhead98224.2%
Sydenham98220.5%
Ilam96427.4%
Edgeware87036.8%
Woolston86215.2%
Spreydon85219.6%
Hornby83723.3%

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