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Cross-lease titles in Richmond, Invercargill City

LINZ records 230 cross-lease titles in Richmond, 19.2% of its 1,195 live titles: well above Invercargill City as a whole (7.3%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Richmond, Invercargill City: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
230
Share of live titles
19.2%
Invercargill City share
7.3%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Invercargill City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
3 of 11

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

By share it is 3rd highest of 11 in Invercargill City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the top quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Richmond are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (1% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (22%, against 11% nationally), up to 6.

Three-flat schemes are more common here (17%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureRichmondInvercargill CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)8871487,651
Two-flat schemes61.4%53.8%76.2%
Three-flat schemes17.0%22.8%12.2%
Four or more flats21.6%22.7%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)927 m²994 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat363 m²362 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease31.8%33.6%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease18.2%16.1%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area1.1%1.7%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)28.4%23.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198119821988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4232654,978

Invercargill City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Windsor40022.5%
Appleby33519.5%
Strathern19111.2%
Gladstone12911.3%
Waikiwi1288.3%
Invercargill8910.7%
Grasmere806.1%
Avenal7410.8%
Glengarry634.3%
Georgetown576.5%

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