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Cross-lease titles in North East Valley

LINZ records 96 cross-lease titles in North East Valley, 5.4% of its 1,768 live titles: slightly above Dunedin City as a whole (4.9%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

North East Valley: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
96
Share of live titles
5.4%
Dunedin City share
4.9%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Dunedin City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
11 of 13

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

By share it is 3rd lowest of 13 in Dunedin City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the bottom quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in North East Valley are set up

Fewer leases include a garage (6% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (11%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Carports appear in more leases (25% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Scheme structureNorth East ValleyDunedin CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)361,21087,651
Two-flat schemes72.2%70.9%76.2%
Three-flat schemes8.3%10.7%12.2%
Four or more flats19.4%18.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)617 m²632 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat250 m²270 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease5.6%32.4%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease25.0%17.5%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area0.0%3.6%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)11.1%10.2%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198819801988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more423954,978

Dunedin City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Mosgiel6268.9%
Saint Kilda57325.3%
South Dunedin35616.9%
Caversham16512.2%
Dunedin Central1233.4%
Maori Hill988.2%
Roslyn859.8%
Saint Clair855.5%
Forbury Corner6716.7%
North Dunedin673.0%

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