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Cross-lease titles in Nawton

LINZ records 1,058 cross-lease titles in Nawton, 26.3% of its 4,019 live titles: well above Hamilton City as a whole (11.2%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Nawton: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
1,058
Share of live titles
26.3%
Hamilton City share
11.2%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Hamilton City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
1 of 26

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

By share it is the highest of 26 in Hamilton 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 Nawton are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (7% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are less common here (8%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureNawtonHamilton CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)4693,52887,651
Two-flat schemes83.6%81.5%76.2%
Three-flat schemes7.9%9.5%12.2%
Four or more flats8.5%8.7%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)943 m²1,006 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat448 m²465 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease31.3%31.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease6.6%11.9%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area2.6%2.9%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)43.7%39.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198719871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more3922,83154,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

7 of Nawton's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 2% of all its new titles in that time, against Hamilton City (1%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Hamilton City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Hamilton East1,02715.9%
Frankton67513.7%
Dinsdale64317.9%
Fairfield47317.8%
St Andrews41117.4%
Hillcrest34512.2%
Claudelands33325.2%
Melville32613.3%
Chartwell2836.6%
Enderley27517.0%

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