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Cross-lease titles in New Plymouth

LINZ records 333 cross-lease titles in New Plymouth, 10.9% of its 3,048 live titles: well above New Plymouth District as a whole (6.6%) and above New Zealand (8.7%).

New Plymouth: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
333
Share of live titles
10.9%
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
joint 8 of 16

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

How the cross-leases in New Plymouth are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (25%, against 11% nationally), up to 8.

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (10% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More leases include a garage (52% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureNew PlymouthNew Plymouth DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)1351,09487,651
Two-flat schemes54.1%66.6%76.2%
Three-flat schemes20.7%17.6%12.2%
Four or more flats25.2%15.8%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)691 m²809 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat262 m²337 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease51.9%38.9%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease11.1%15.5%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area9.6%7.8%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)21.5%27.6%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title199019901988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1843054,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

15 of New Plymouth's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 6% 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%
Strandon23118.5%
Waitara1955.5%
Merrilands18110.3%
Fitzroy16317.1%
Moturoa15715.0%
Lower Vogeltown14222.6%
Vogeltown13316.6%
Spotswood12710.9%
Bell Block1234.0%

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