Suburbs in Napier City: rents, census and property titles

LINZ recorded 29,530 live titles in Napier City on 30 September 2026: 80% freehold, then leasehold at 8.4%. Its 2,061 cross-lease titles (7.0%) are slightly below the national share of 8.7%.

Napier City cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 2,061
Share of live titles: 7.0%
Live titles in total: 29,530
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles: 12

2026-09-30 https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/50804-nz-property-titles/

Title mix in Napier City

Title type	Live titles	Share
Freehold	23,768	80.5%
Cross lease	2,061	7.0%
Unit title	1,090	3.7%
Leasehold	2,470	8.4%
Other record types	141	0.5%
Total	29,530	100%

Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits

How cross-leases in Napier City are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (5% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (19%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structure	Napier City	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	899	87,651
Two-flat schemes	69.3%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	18.9%	12.2%
Four or more flats	11.3%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	888 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	402 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	34.0%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	5.3%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	6.1%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	37.4%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1994	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	526	54,978

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Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Napier City are in Marewa (14.6%), Westshore (10.6%), Greenmeadows (10.5%), Taradale (9.7%), Onekawa (7.4%).

Suburbs in Napier City by cross-lease share

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Live titles	Share
Marewa	348	2,384	14.6%
Westshore	75	705	10.6%
Greenmeadows	282	2,675	10.5%
Taradale	553	5,692	9.7%
Onekawa	222	3,020	7.4%
Pirimai	117	1,604	7.3%
Tamatea	138	2,255	6.1%
Napier South	156	3,065	5.1%
Ahuriri	40	990	4.0%
Maraenui	38	1,118	3.4%
Hospital Hill	40	1,201	3.3%
Bluff Hill	33	1,257	2.6%

Napier City at a glance

7% of titles in Napier City's suburbs were first issued since 2020, well below New Zealand (12%). 29% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is a little drier than the national average for homes (850 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (14.1°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.

A dash means the figure is not available for that suburb.
Suburb	Cross-lease share of titles	Median weekly rent, new tenancies	Titles first issued since 2020	Median age	Homes with a heat pump	Median slope under buildings	Typical distance to the coast
Marewa	14.6%	$600	8.4%	33.2	68.4%	0.7°	1.2 km
Westshore	10.6%	No data	6.4%	52.7	70.4%	1.1°	0.1 km
Greenmeadows	10.5%	No data	3.1%	41.1	77.9%	0.7°	4.1 km
Taradale	9.7%	$638	3.9%	42.2	82.0%	0.7°	5.6 km
Onekawa	7.4%	$620	6.3%	31.3	71.5%	0.7°	2 km
Pirimai	7.3%	No data	4.9%	34	75.3%	0.7°	2.9 km
Tamatea	6.1%	$595	1.9%	37.4	73.3%	0.8°	2.8 km
Napier South	5.1%	$600	5.3%	40.9	69.6%	0.7°	0.4 km
Ahuriri	4.0%	No data	10.7%	62.8	80.3%	1°	0.1 km
Maraenui	3.4%	$580	10.6%	28.7	65.1%	0.7°	1.3 km
Hospital Hill	3.3%	$600	2.4%	47.8	69.8%	9.9°	0.9 km
Bluff Hill	2.6%	$600	2.8%	49.4	70.7%	9.9°	0.5 km

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New titles by year in Napier City

2025 brought 344 titles still live, more than the 5-year average before it (295), against a peak of 380 in 2024.

Year issued	All new titles	Freehold	Unit titles	Cross-lease	Leasehold	Other
2020	242	228	4	6	4	0
2021	268	236	10	12	9	1
2022	348	309	26	4	6	3
2023	238	197	30	3	1	7
2024	380	294	58	7	12	9
2025	344	268	61	8	5	2
2026 (Jan–Sep)	161	141	1	9	9	1

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Cross-lease titles in Napier City, by suburb

Unit titles in Napier City, by suburb

Leasehold titles in Napier City, by suburb

Napier City at the 2023 Census

Measure	Napier City 2023 Census
Usual residents	64,695
Change since 2018	+3.9%
Change since 2013	+13.0%
Median age	42
Households	24,591
Own or part-own their home (including family trusts)	69.3%
Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting)	30.7%
Median household income	$83,400
Median weekly rent, renting households	$400
Dwellings unoccupied on census night	7.0%
Ages
Under 15	18.4%
15 to 29	17.2%
30 to 64	43.3%
65 and over	21.1%
Where people came from
Born overseas	18.1%
Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years	22.6%
Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since)	42.9%
Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents)	3.4%
Moved here in the last year (of all residents)	17.2%
Work and study (people 15 and over)
Bachelor degree or higher	20.6%
Employed full-time	48.6%
Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate)	2.8%
Managers and professionals (of those employed)	40.5%
Median personal income	$39,200
Getting to work (of those employed)
Work from home	12.8%
Car, truck or van	80.3%
Bus, train or ferry	0.9%
Walk or cycle	5.1%
Households and families
One-person households	26.9%
Average people per household	2.5
Households with no motor vehicle	6.0%
Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms)	6.1%
Couples with children (of families)	36.3%
Couples without children	44.6%
One-parent families	19.1%
Homes
Separate (stand-alone) houses	79.1%
Average bedrooms	2.9
Heated with a heat pump	76.0%
Damp, always or sometimes	15.9%
Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes	11.3%

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