Suburbs in Kapiti Coast District: rents, census and property titles

LINZ recorded 28,273 live titles in Kapiti Coast District on 30 September 2026: 84% freehold, then cross-lease at 10.5%. Its 2,979 cross-lease titles (10.5%) are above the national share of 8.7% (in the highest quarter of 54 in New Zealand, among councils with at least 100 cross-lease titles).

Kapiti Coast District cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 2,979
Share of live titles: 10.5%
Live titles in total: 28,273
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles: 9

2026-09-30 https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/50804-nz-property-titles/

Title mix in Kapiti Coast District

Title type	Live titles	Share
Freehold	23,739	84.0%
Cross lease	2,979	10.5%
Unit title	812	2.9%
Leasehold	471	1.7%
Other record types	272	1.0%
Total	28,273	100%

Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits

How cross-leases in Kapiti Coast District are set up

Three-flat schemes are less common here (4%, against 12% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (4%, against 11% nationally), up to 20.

Carports appear in fewer leases (9% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Scheme structure	Kapiti Coast District	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	1,446	87,651
Two-flat schemes	92.4%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	3.6%	12.2%
Four or more flats	3.8%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	852 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	420 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	38.2%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	9.3%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	4.4%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	40.3%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1988	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	1,274	54,978

Sources and limits

Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Kapiti Coast District are in Raumati Beach (18.3%), Paraparaumu Beach (17.5%), Waikanae (12.6%), Raumati South (11.8%), Paraparaumu (11.2%).

Suburbs in Kapiti Coast District by cross-lease share

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Live titles	Share
Raumati Beach	439	2,400	18.3%
Paraparaumu Beach	715	4,096	17.5%
Waikanae	627	4,971	12.6%
Raumati South	197	1,672	11.8%
Paraparaumu	540	4,813	11.2%
Ōtaki	209	3,380	6.2%
Ōtaki Beach	74	1,269	5.8%
Paekākāriki	49	862	5.7%
Waikanae Beach	103	2,159	4.8%

Kapiti Coast District at a glance

8% of titles in Kapiti Coast District's suburbs were first issued since 2020, well below New Zealand (12%). 77% of titles are within 400 m of a public transport stop with a scheduled weekday service, and 9% within 400 m of a frequent one. 41% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is a little drier than the national average for homes (910 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (12.6°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.

A dash means the figure is not available for that suburb.
Suburb	Cross-lease share of titles	Median weekly rent, new tenancies	Titles first issued since 2020	Median age	Homes with a heat pump	Median slope under buildings	Titles within 400 m of a public transport stop	Typical distance to the coast
Raumati Beach	18.3%	$655	4.5%	45.6	63.0%	2.3°	93.9%	0.6 km
Paraparaumu Beach	17.5%	$600	3.6%	44.1	60.8%	1.4°	95.1%	0.5 km
Waikanae	12.6%	$670	12.9%	59.9	70.2%	1°	84.5%	3.1 km
Raumati South	11.8%	$600	5.0%	44.7	59.6%	5.1°	87.0%	0.4 km
Paraparaumu	11.2%	$620	12.5%	44.5	63.7%	1.4°	82.6%	2.4 km
Ōtaki	6.2%	$525	13.9%	42.1	62.6%	1°	73.3%	3.5 km
Ōtaki Beach	5.8%	$533	3.3%	46	55.2%	1.5°	96.8%	0.4 km
Paekākāriki	5.7%	No data	1.9%	47.1	46.5%	4.7°	26.0%	0.2 km
Waikanae Beach	4.8%	$685	2.3%	52.6	61.8%	2°	93.4%	0.3 km

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New titles by year in Kapiti Coast District

2025 brought 322 titles still live, fewer than the 5-year average before it (371), against a peak of 523 in 2024.

Year issued	All new titles	Freehold	Unit titles	Cross-lease	Leasehold	Other
2020	315	289	6	7	1	12
2021	281	257	2	7	0	15
2022	327	292	10	9	3	13
2023	409	327	61	9	3	9
2024	523	459	49	7	3	5
2025	322	249	41	12	3	17
2026 (Jan–Sep)	213	190	5	3	0	15

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Cross-lease titles in Kapiti Coast District, by suburb

Unit titles in Kapiti Coast District, by suburb

Leasehold titles in Kapiti Coast District, by suburb

Kapiti Coast District at the 2023 Census

Measure	Kapiti Coast District 2023 Census
Usual residents	55,914
Change since 2018	+4.2%
Change since 2013	+13.9%
Median age	48.8
Households	22,845
Own or part-own their home (including family trusts)	77.7%
Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting)	22.3%
Median household income	$85,200
Median weekly rent, renting households	$474
Dwellings unoccupied on census night	11.8%
Ages
Under 15	16.2%
15 to 29	13.7%
30 to 64	43.4%
65 and over	26.7%
Where people came from
Born overseas	23.7%
Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years	14.1%
Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since)	40.8%
Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents)	3.4%
Moved here in the last year (of all residents)	15.1%
Work and study (people 15 and over)
Bachelor degree or higher	27.8%
Employed full-time	44.5%
Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate)	2.3%
Managers and professionals (of those employed)	49.0%
Median personal income	$39,100
Getting to work (of those employed)
Work from home	23.5%
Car, truck or van	62.5%
Bus, train or ferry	8.8%
Walk or cycle	4.4%
Households and families
One-person households	28.9%
Average people per household	2.3
Households with no motor vehicle	5.9%
Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms)	3.1%
Couples with children (of families)	35.3%
Couples without children	49.9%
One-parent families	14.8%
Homes
Separate (stand-alone) houses	83.9%
Average bedrooms	3
Heated with a heat pump	61.2%
Damp, always or sometimes	10.8%
Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes	8.2%

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