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Cross-lease titles in Marewa

LINZ records 348 cross-lease titles in Marewa, 14.6% of its 2,384 live titles: well above Napier City as a whole (7.0%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Marewa: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
348
Share of live titles
14.6%
Napier City share
7.0%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Napier City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
1 of 8

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

By share it is the highest of 8 in Napier City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles.

How the cross-leases in Marewa are set up

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

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (6%, against 11% nationally), up to 7.

More leases include a garage (47% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureMarewaNapier CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)15689987,651
Two-flat schemes77.6%69.3%76.2%
Three-flat schemes16.7%18.9%12.2%
Four or more flats5.8%11.3%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)860 m²888 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat407 m²402 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease46.8%34.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease4.5%5.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area3.8%6.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)32.7%37.4%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199719941988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more11752654,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

10 of Marewa's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 5% of all its new titles in that time, well above Napier City (2%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Napier City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Taradale5539.7%
Greenmeadows28210.5%
Onekawa2227.4%
Napier South1565.1%
Tamatea1386.1%
Pirimai1177.3%
Westshore7510.6%

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