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Cross-lease titles in Paraparaumu Beach

LINZ records 715 cross-lease titles in Paraparaumu Beach, 17.5% of its 4,096 live titles: well above Kapiti Coast District as a whole (10.5%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Paraparaumu Beach: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
715
Share of live titles
17.5%
Kapiti Coast District share
10.5%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Kapiti Coast District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
2 of 8

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

By share it is 2nd highest of 8 in Kapiti Coast District, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles.

How the cross-leases in Paraparaumu Beach are set up

Three-flat schemes are less common here (3%, against 12% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (5%, against 11% nationally), up to 20.

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

Scheme structureParaparaumu BeachKapiti Coast DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)3361,44687,651
Two-flat schemes92.6%92.4%76.2%
Three-flat schemes3.0%3.6%12.2%
Four or more flats4.5%3.8%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)839 m²852 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat415 m²420 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease32.1%38.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease8.9%9.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area4.2%4.4%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)47.6%40.3%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198819881988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more2911,27454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

15 of Paraparaumu Beach's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 10% of all its new titles in that time, well above Kapiti Coast District (2%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Kapiti Coast District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Waikanae62712.6%
Paraparaumu54011.2%
Raumati Beach43918.3%
Ōtaki2096.2%
Raumati South19711.8%
Waikanae Beach1034.8%
Ōtaki Beach745.8%

Sources and limits