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Cross-lease titles in Grasmere

LINZ records 80 cross-lease titles in Grasmere, 6.1% of its 1,302 live titles: slightly below Invercargill City as a whole (7.3%) and below New Zealand (8.7%).

Grasmere: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
80
Share of live titles
6.1%
Invercargill City share
7.3%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Invercargill City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
10 of 11

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

By share it is 2nd lowest of 11 in Invercargill City, 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 Grasmere are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (3%, against 11% nationally).

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (12%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Three-flat schemes are more common here (36%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureGrasmereInvercargill CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)3371487,651
Two-flat schemes60.6%53.8%76.2%
Three-flat schemes36.4%22.8%12.2%
Four or more flats3.0%22.7%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,012 m²994 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat370 m²362 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease33.3%33.6%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease15.2%16.1%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area3.0%1.7%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)12.1%23.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198119821988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1732654,978

Invercargill City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Windsor40022.5%
Appleby33519.5%
Richmond23019.2%
Strathern19111.2%
Gladstone12911.3%
Waikiwi1288.3%
Invercargill8910.7%
Avenal7410.8%
Glengarry634.3%
Georgetown576.5%

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