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Cross-lease titles in Tamatea

LINZ records 138 cross-lease titles in Tamatea, 6.1% of its 2,255 live titles: slightly below Napier City as a whole (7.0%) and below New Zealand (8.7%).

Tamatea: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
138
Share of live titles
6.1%
Napier City share
7.0%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Napier City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
7 of 8

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

By share it is 2nd 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 Tamatea are set up

Three-flat schemes are more common here (46%, against 12% nationally).

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

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (16%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structureTamateaNapier CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)5789987,651
Two-flat schemes47.4%69.3%76.2%
Three-flat schemes45.6%18.9%12.2%
Four or more flats7.0%11.3%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)810 m²888 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat325 m²402 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease26.3%34.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease7.0%5.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area1.8%6.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)15.8%37.4%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title200319941988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more2352654,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

10 of Tamatea's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 24% 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%
Marewa34814.6%
Greenmeadows28210.5%
Onekawa2227.4%
Napier South1565.1%
Pirimai1177.3%
Westshore7510.6%

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