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Cross-lease titles in Paihia

LINZ records 125 cross-lease titles in Paihia, 2.5% of its 5,080 live titles: against Far North District as a whole (2.2%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Paihia: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
125
Share of live titles
2.5%
Far North District share
2.2%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Far North District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
4 of 4

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

By share it is the lowest of 4 in Far North District, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the bottom tenth of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Paihia are set up

Fewer leases include a garage (8% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Carports appear in fewer leases (6% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (10% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structurePaihiaFar North DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)4842887,651
Two-flat schemes77.1%73.4%76.2%
Three-flat schemes8.3%10.7%12.2%
Four or more flats14.6%15.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,076 m²1,018 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat506 m²454 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease8.3%13.6%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease6.2%6.1%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area10.4%3.3%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)37.5%25.5%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199219911988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more3629354,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Paihia's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 7% of all its new titles in that time, against Far North District (0%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Far North District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Kaitaia2546.5%
Kerikeri2323.8%
Kaikohe1104.3%

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