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Leasehold titles in Christchurch Central

LINZ records 55 leasehold titles in Christchurch Central, 0.6% of its 9,277 live titles: against Christchurch City as a whole (0.5%) and well below New Zealand (1.2%).

Christchurch Central: leasehold titles

Leasehold titles
55
Share of live titles
0.6%
Christchurch City share
0.5%
New Zealand share
1.2%
Rank by share in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50+ leasehold titles
6 of 6

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

By share it is the lowest of 6 in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50 or more leasehold titles; across New Zealand it is in the bottom tenth of the 137 such suburbs.

Lease terms in Christchurch Central

43 of 55 are ground leases and 12 leasehold units; the largest group, 31%, comprises leases with 10 to 50 years of stated term left.

Stated lease termTitles
Stated term has ended4
Under 10 years left6
10 to 50 years left17
More than 50 years left1
Term mentions renewal13
Term not stated or not readable14

New leasehold titles since 2020

7 of Christchurch Central's leasehold titles were first issued since 2020: 0% of all its new titles in that time, against Christchurch City (1%).

Christchurch City suburbs with the most leasehold titles

SuburbLeasehold titlesShare
Northwood1084.9%
Riccarton761.6%
Shirley722.8%
Addington511.5%
Burnside511.4%

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