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Cross-lease titles in Epuni

LINZ records 141 cross-lease titles in Epuni, 12.5% of its 1,128 live titles: slightly above Lower Hutt City as a whole (10.5%) and above New Zealand (8.7%).

Epuni: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
141
Share of live titles
12.5%
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
joint 9 of 19

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

How the cross-leases in Epuni are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (3% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (3%, against 11% nationally), up to 8.

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structureEpuniLower Hutt CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)632,18587,651
Two-flat schemes87.3%82.9%76.2%
Three-flat schemes9.5%9.4%12.2%
Four or more flats3.2%7.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)736 m²791 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat350 m²364 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease19.0%15.7%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease3.2%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)28.6%29.2%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more291,12454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

9 of Epuni's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 8% of all its new titles in that time, well above Lower Hutt City (1%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

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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