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Cross-lease titles in Sockburn

LINZ records 672 cross-lease titles in Sockburn, 26.3% of its 2,556 live titles: well above Christchurch City as a whole (15.6%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Sockburn: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
672
Share of live titles
26.3%
Christchurch City share
15.6%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Christchurch City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
5 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 tenth of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Sockburn are set up

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

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

More leases include a garage (52% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureSockburnChristchurch CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)27312,52587,651
Two-flat schemes74.4%79.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes12.8%7.8%12.2%
Four or more flats12.5%12.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)834 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat380 m²369 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease51.6%52.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease4.4%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)25.3%25.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1446,56454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Sockburn'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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