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Cross-lease titles in Woburn

LINZ records 334 cross-lease titles in Woburn, 23.5% of its 1,423 live titles: well above Lower Hutt City as a whole (10.5%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Woburn: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
334
Share of live titles
23.5%
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
1 of 19

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

By share it is the highest of 19 in Lower Hutt City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the top quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Woburn are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (4% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (4%, against 11% nationally), up to 8.

Fewer leases include a garage (15% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureWoburnLower Hutt CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)1632,18587,651
Two-flat schemes82.8%82.9%76.2%
Three-flat schemes12.9%9.4%12.2%
Four or more flats3.7%7.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)775 m²791 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat365 m²364 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease14.7%15.7%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease4.3%7.6%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area3.1%3.8%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)37.4%29.2%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199119891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more851,12454,978

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%
Naenae3339.6%
Avalon30013.2%
Petone2476.3%
Taitā2259.4%
Boulcott19314.6%

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