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Cross-lease titles in Mahora

LINZ records 150 cross-lease titles in Mahora, 7.7% of its 1,948 live titles: well above Hastings District as a whole (5.0%) and slightly below New Zealand (8.7%).

Mahora: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
150
Share of live titles
7.7%
Hastings District share
5.0%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Hastings District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
7 of 10

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

How the cross-leases in Mahora are set up

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

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (9% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More leases include a garage (35% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureMahoraHastings DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)6884887,651
Two-flat schemes76.5%71.6%76.2%
Three-flat schemes13.2%16.3%12.2%
Four or more flats10.3%12.1%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,008 m²1,005 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat460 m²430 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease35.3%28.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease7.4%4.4%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area8.8%6.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)44.1%38.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199319921988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4953554,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

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

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