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Cross-lease titles in Tītahi Bay

LINZ records 223 cross-lease titles in Tītahi Bay, 7.3% of its 3,057 live titles: well above Porirua City as a whole (4.2%) and slightly below New Zealand (8.7%).

Tītahi Bay: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
223
Share of live titles
7.3%
Porirua City share
4.2%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Porirua City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
5 of 8

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

How the cross-leases in Tītahi Bay are set up

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (34%, against 11% nationally), up to 10.

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

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structureTītahi BayPorirua CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)7135887,651
Two-flat schemes53.5%74.0%76.2%
Three-flat schemes12.7%9.8%12.2%
Four or more flats33.8%15.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)1,011 m²916 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat394 m²404 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease19.7%15.9%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease7.0%12.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area2.8%5.0%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)33.8%25.4%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198919871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more3320654,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

11 of Tītahi Bay'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
Whitby1433.1%
Rānui13410.5%
Camborne8111.8%
Paremata797.0%
Papakōwhai668.1%
Plimmerton625.4%
Takapūwāhia5811.7%

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