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Cross-lease titles in Ākina

LINZ records 196 cross-lease titles in Ākina, 10.9% of its 1,804 live titles: well above Hastings District as a whole (5.0%) and above New Zealand (8.7%).

Ākina: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
196
Share of live titles
10.9%
Hastings District share
5.0%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Hastings District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
2 of 10

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

By share it is 2nd highest of 10 in Hastings District, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles.

How the cross-leases in Ākina are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (3% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (4%, against 11% nationally), up to 6.

Three-flat schemes are more common here (16%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureĀkinaHastings DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)9684887,651
Two-flat schemes80.2%71.6%76.2%
Three-flat schemes15.6%16.3%12.2%
Four or more flats4.2%12.1%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,011 m²1,005 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat471 m²430 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease31.2%28.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease3.1%4.4%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area6.2%6.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)35.4%38.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199319921988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more6553554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Ākina's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 5% of all its new titles in that time, well above Hastings District (1%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Hastings District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Havelock North3685.3%
Hastings26610.3%
Parkvale18611.3%
Mayfair1668.9%
Flaxmere1584.5%
Mahora1507.7%
Raureka1388.1%
Saint Leonards1228.2%
Frimley613.7%

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