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Cross-lease titles in Belmont, Lower Hutt City

LINZ records 65 cross-lease titles in Belmont, 5.8% of its 1,125 live titles: well below Lower Hutt City as a whole (10.5%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Belmont, Lower Hutt City: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
65
Share of live titles
5.8%
Lower Hutt City share
10.5%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Lower Hutt City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
18 of 19

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

By share it is 2nd lowest of 19 in Lower Hutt 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 Belmont are set up

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

Carports appear in fewer leases (7% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer leases include a garage (16% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureBelmontLower Hutt CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)312,18587,651
Two-flat schemes96.8%82.9%76.2%
Three-flat schemes0.0%9.4%12.2%
Four or more flats3.2%7.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)771 m²791 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat373 m²364 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease16.1%15.7%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease6.5%7.6%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area3.2%3.8%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)29.0%29.2%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198919891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more201,12454,978

Lower Hutt City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Stokes Valley49212.5%
Waterloo42621.3%
Wainuiomata4065.3%
Waiwhetū36220.3%
Hutt Central34315.1%
Woburn33423.5%
Naenae3339.6%
Avalon30013.2%
Petone2476.3%
Taitā2259.4%

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