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Cross-lease titles in Moturoa

LINZ records 157 cross-lease titles in Moturoa, 15.0% of its 1,046 live titles: well above New Plymouth District as a whole (6.6%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Moturoa: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
157
Share of live titles
15.0%
New Plymouth District share
6.6%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in New Plymouth District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
5 of 16

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

How the cross-leases in Moturoa are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (11% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (23%, against 12% nationally).

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (20%, against 11% nationally), up to 8.

Scheme structureMoturoaNew Plymouth DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)561,09487,651
Two-flat schemes57.1%66.6%76.2%
Three-flat schemes23.2%17.6%12.2%
Four or more flats19.6%15.8%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)856 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat316 m²337 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease30.4%38.9%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease17.9%15.5%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area10.7%7.8%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)26.8%27.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199219901988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1943054,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

12 of Moturoa's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 12% of all its new titles in that time, well above New Plymouth District (2%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

New Plymouth District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Westown38614.5%
New Plymouth33310.9%
Strandon23118.5%
Waitara1955.5%
Merrilands18110.3%
Fitzroy16317.1%
Lower Vogeltown14222.6%
Vogeltown13316.6%
Spotswood12710.9%
Bell Block1234.0%

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