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Cross-lease titles in Whitby

LINZ records 143 cross-lease titles in Whitby, 3.1% of its 4,550 live titles: below Porirua City as a whole (4.2%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Whitby: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
143
Share of live titles
3.1%
Porirua City share
4.2%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Porirua City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
8 of 8

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

By share it is the lowest of 8 in Porirua City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the bottom tenth of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Whitby are set up

Three-flat schemes are less common here (3%, against 12% nationally).

Fewer leases include a garage (12% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Carports appear in more leases (30% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Scheme structureWhitbyPorirua CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)6135887,651
Two-flat schemes85.2%74.0%76.2%
Three-flat schemes3.3%9.8%12.2%
Four or more flats9.8%15.6%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)963 m²916 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat438 m²404 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease11.5%15.9%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease29.5%12.3%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area8.2%5.0%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)21.3%25.4%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198019871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4020654,978

Porirua City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Tītahi Bay2237.3%
Rānui13410.5%
Camborne8111.8%
Paremata797.0%
Papakōwhai668.1%
Plimmerton625.4%
Takapūwāhia5811.7%

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