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Cross-lease titles in Eastbourne

LINZ records 74 cross-lease titles in Eastbourne, 5.9% of its 1,248 live titles: well below Lower Hutt City as a whole (10.5%) and below New Zealand (8.7%).

Eastbourne: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
74
Share of live titles
5.9%
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
17 of 19

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

By share it is 3rd 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 Eastbourne are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (26%, against 11% nationally), up to 30.

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (10% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (19%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structureEastbourneLower Hutt CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)312,18587,651
Two-flat schemes64.5%82.9%76.2%
Three-flat schemes9.7%9.4%12.2%
Four or more flats25.8%7.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)570 m²791 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat270 m²364 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease29.0%15.7%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease6.5%7.6%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area9.7%3.8%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)19.4%29.2%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199119891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more41,12454,978

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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