Skip to content
Ask Matty
Menu

Cross-lease titles in Waikanae Beach

LINZ records 103 cross-lease titles in Waikanae Beach, 4.8% of its 2,159 live titles: well below Kapiti Coast District as a whole (10.5%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Waikanae Beach: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
103
Share of live titles
4.8%
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
8 of 8

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

By share it is the lowest of 8 in Kapiti Coast District, 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 Waikanae Beach are set up

Three-flat schemes are less common here (2%, against 12% nationally).

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

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (9% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structureWaikanae BeachKapiti Coast DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)471,44687,651
Two-flat schemes93.6%92.4%76.2%
Three-flat schemes2.1%3.6%12.2%
Four or more flats4.3%3.8%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)847 m²852 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat418 m²420 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease40.4%38.2%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease19.1%9.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area8.5%4.4%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)25.5%40.3%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198619881988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more411,27454,978

Kapiti Coast District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Paraparaumu Beach71517.5%
Waikanae62712.6%
Paraparaumu54011.2%
Raumati Beach43918.3%
Ōtaki2096.2%
Raumati South19711.8%
Ōtaki Beach745.8%

Sources and limits