Cross-lease titles in Napier South

LINZ records 156 cross-lease titles in Napier South, 5.1% of its 3,065 live titles: below Napier City as a whole (7.0%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Napier South: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 156
Share of live titles: 5.1%
Napier City share: 7.0%
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Rank by share in Napier City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles: 8 of 8

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

By share it is the lowest of 8 in Napier 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 Napier South are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (28%, against 11% nationally), up to 8.

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

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (20%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structure	Napier South	Napier City	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	60	899	87,651
Two-flat schemes	53.3%	69.3%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	18.3%	18.9%	12.2%
Four or more flats	28.3%	11.3%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	1,011 m²	888 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	316 m²	402 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	23.3%	34.0%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	6.7%	5.3%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	5.0%	6.1%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	20.0%	37.4%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1996	1994	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	17	526	54,978

Napier City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Share
Taradale	553	9.7%
Marewa	348	14.6%
Greenmeadows	282	10.5%
Onekawa	222	7.4%
Tamatea	138	6.1%
Pirimai	117	7.3%
Westshore	75	10.6%

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