Cross-lease properties in Horowhenua District
LINZ recorded 20,666 live titles in Horowhenua District on 30 September 2026: 96% freehold, then cross-lease at 2.1%. Its 430 cross-lease titles (2.1%) are well below the national share of 8.7%.
Horowhenua District cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 430
- Share of live titles
- 2.1%
- Live titles in total
- 20,666
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles
- 3
Title mix in Horowhenua District
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 19,913 | 96.4% |
| Cross lease | 430 | 2.1% |
| Unit title | 194 | 0.9% |
| Leasehold | 47 | 0.2% |
| Other record types | 82 | 0.4% |
| Total | 20,666 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits
How cross-leases in Horowhenua District are set up
Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (2% of schemes, against 5% nationally).
Carports appear in fewer leases (6% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (17%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
| Scheme structure | Horowhenua District | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 174 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 75.3% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 8.6% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 15.5% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 844 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 371 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 25.9% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 6.3% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 1.7% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 17.2% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1986 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 99 | 54,978 |
Suburbs in Horowhenua District by cross-lease share
| Suburb | Cross-lease titles | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Levin | 319 | 10,112 | 3.2% |
| Foxton | 55 | 2,178 | 2.5% |
| Foxton Beach | 42 | 1,811 | 2.3% |
Horowhenua District at a glance
11% of titles in Horowhenua District's suburbs were first issued since 2020, slightly below New Zealand (12%). 10% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is about as wet as the national average for homes (990 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (13.4°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.
New titles by year in Horowhenua District
2025 brought 379 titles still live, more than the 5-year average before it (334), against a peak of 429 in 2023.
| Year issued | All new titles | Freehold | Unit titles | Cross-lease | Leasehold | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 267 | 266 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 280 | 280 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 419 | 411 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 429 | 424 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 277 | 274 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 379 | 360 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 161 | 157 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Unit titles in Horowhenua District, by suburb
Horowhenua District at the 2023 Census
| Measure | Horowhenua District 2023 Census |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 36,693 |
| Change since 2018 | +10.3% |
| Change since 2013 | +21.9% |
| Median age | 45.5 |
| Households | 14,250 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 71.4% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 28.6% |
| Median household income | $63,700 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $375 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 15.5% |
| Ages | |
| Under 15 | 18.1% |
| 15 to 29 | 15.9% |
| 30 to 64 | 41.1% |
| 65 and over | 24.9% |
| Where people came from | |
| Born overseas | 15.1% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 14.8% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 47.1% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 2.6% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 16.4% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |
| Bachelor degree or higher | 13.0% |
| Employed full-time | 42.5% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 3.3% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 36.4% |
| Median personal income | $31,700 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |
| Work from home | 16.3% |
| Car, truck or van | 77.0% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 0.9% |
| Walk or cycle | 4.4% |
| Households and families | |
| One-person households | 30.0% |
| Average people per household | 2.4 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 6.6% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 5.2% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 32.9% |
| Couples without children | 48.0% |
| One-parent families | 19.0% |
| Homes | |
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 85.7% |
| Average bedrooms | 3 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 58.3% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 15.8% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 12.1% |