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Cross-lease titles in Hornby

LINZ records 837 cross-lease titles in Hornby, 23.3% of its 3,595 live titles: above Christchurch City as a whole (15.6%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Hornby: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
837
Share of live titles
23.3%
Christchurch City share
15.6%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
13 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 Hornby are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (5% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (2% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More leases include a garage (65% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureHornbyChristchurch CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)32712,52587,651
Two-flat schemes71.6%79.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes13.5%7.8%12.2%
Four or more flats14.7%12.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)875 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat404 m²369 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease65.4%52.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease5.2%5.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area1.8%2.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)30.9%25.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more2016,56454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

10 of Hornby'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%
Edgeware87036.8%
Woolston86215.2%
Spreydon85219.6%
Merivale81828.6%

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