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Cross-lease titles in Edgeware

LINZ records 870 cross-lease titles in Edgeware, 36.8% of its 2,367 live titles: well above Christchurch City as a whole (15.6%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Edgeware: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
870
Share of live titles
36.8%
Christchurch City share
15.6%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
1 of 68

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

By share it is the highest of 68 in Christchurch City, 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 Edgeware are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (58%, against 11% nationally), up to 12.

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (13%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Two-flat schemes are less common here (29% of schemes, against 76% nationally).

Scheme structureEdgewareChristchurch CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)23812,52587,651
Two-flat schemes29.0%79.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes12.6%7.8%12.2%
Four or more flats58.4%12.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)938 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat238 m²369 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease65.5%52.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease12.2%5.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area4.2%2.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)13.4%25.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title197919891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more336,56454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

15 of Edgeware's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 3% 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%
Avonhead98224.2%
Sydenham98220.5%
Ilam96427.4%
Woolston86215.2%
Spreydon85219.6%
Hornby83723.3%
Merivale81828.6%

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