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Cross-lease titles in Picton

LINZ records 272 cross-lease titles in Picton, 13.0% of its 2,093 live titles: well above Marlborough District as a whole (7.4%) and above New Zealand (8.7%).

Picton: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
272
Share of live titles
13.0%
Marlborough District share
7.4%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Marlborough District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
4 of 6

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

By share it is 3rd lowest of 6 in Marlborough District, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles.

How the cross-leases in Picton are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (2% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

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

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (17%, against 11% nationally), up to 13.

Scheme structurePictonMarlborough DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)9998987,651
Two-flat schemes68.7%77.5%76.2%
Three-flat schemes14.1%12.2%12.2%
Four or more flats17.2%10.2%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)852 m²870 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat337 m²394 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease38.4%35.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease7.1%11.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area2.0%2.4%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)30.3%31.5%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198419891988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4159354,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

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

Marlborough District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Blenheim66418.2%
Redwoodtown49919.8%
Witherlea40014.5%
Springlands1536.5%
Mayfield11311.8%

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