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Cross-lease titles in Wainuiomata

LINZ records 406 cross-lease titles in Wainuiomata, 5.3% of its 7,664 live titles: well below Lower Hutt City as a whole (10.5%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Wainuiomata: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
406
Share of live titles
5.3%
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
19 of 19

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

By share it is the 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 Wainuiomata are set up

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

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (11%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (4%, against 11% nationally), up to 6.

Scheme structureWainuiomataLower Hutt CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)1992,18587,651
Two-flat schemes94.0%82.9%76.2%
Three-flat schemes2.0%9.4%12.2%
Four or more flats4.0%7.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)655 m²791 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat314 m²364 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease18.6%15.7%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease10.1%7.6%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area4.0%3.8%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)10.6%29.2%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title197919891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more861,12454,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

7 of Wainuiomata's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 1% of all its new titles in that time, close to 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%
Waiwhetū36220.3%
Hutt Central34315.1%
Woburn33423.5%
Naenae3339.6%
Avalon30013.2%
Petone2476.3%
Taitā2259.4%
Boulcott19314.6%

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