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Cross-lease titles in Plimmerton

LINZ records 62 cross-lease titles in Plimmerton, 5.4% of its 1,140 live titles: above Porirua City as a whole (4.2%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Plimmerton: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
62
Share of live titles
5.4%
Porirua City share
4.2%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Porirua 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 Porirua 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 Plimmerton are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (4% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (12% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (19%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structurePlimmertonPorirua CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)2635887,651
Two-flat schemes69.2%74.0%76.2%
Three-flat schemes19.2%9.8%12.2%
Four or more flats11.5%15.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)788 m²916 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat336 m²404 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease19.2%15.9%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease3.8%12.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area11.5%5.0%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)26.9%25.4%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198019871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1020654,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Plimmerton's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 5% of all its new titles in that time, well above Porirua City (1%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Porirua City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Tītahi Bay2237.3%
Whitby1433.1%
Rānui13410.5%
Camborne8111.8%
Paremata797.0%
Papakōwhai668.1%
Takapūwāhia5811.7%

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