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Cross-lease titles in Havelock North

LINZ records 368 cross-lease titles in Havelock North, 5.3% of its 6,963 live titles: close to Hastings District as a whole (5.0%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Havelock North: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
368
Share of live titles
5.3%
Hastings District share
5.0%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Hastings District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
8 of 10

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

By share it is 3rd lowest of 10 in Hastings District, 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 Havelock North are set up

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

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (8% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (18%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureHavelock NorthHastings DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)16684887,651
Two-flat schemes66.9%71.6%76.2%
Three-flat schemes17.5%16.3%12.2%
Four or more flats15.7%12.1%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,064 m²1,005 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat480 m²430 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease25.3%28.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease3.0%4.4%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area8.4%6.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)44.0%38.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199419921988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more10853554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

7 of Havelock North's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 1% of all its new titles in that time, close to 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
Hastings26610.3%
Ākina19610.9%
Parkvale18611.3%
Mayfair1668.9%
Flaxmere1584.5%
Mahora1507.7%
Raureka1388.1%
Saint Leonards1228.2%
Frimley613.7%

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