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Cross-lease titles in Bellevue

LINZ records 363 cross-lease titles in Bellevue, 23.6% of its 1,539 live titles: well above Tauranga City as a whole (13.5%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Bellevue: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
363
Share of live titles
23.6%
Tauranga City share
13.5%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Tauranga City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
4 of 18

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

By share it is in the highest quarter of 18 in Tauranga City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the top quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Bellevue are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (2%, against 11% nationally), up to 6.

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

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (9% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structureBellevueTauranga CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)1764,11987,651
Two-flat schemes94.3%82.8%76.2%
Three-flat schemes3.4%11.1%12.2%
Four or more flats2.3%6.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)842 m²850 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat420 m²410 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease19.3%19.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease11.9%7.9%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area9.1%4.6%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)47.2%48.8%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198619871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more1533,06254,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

13 of Bellevue's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 22% of all its new titles in that time, well above Tauranga City (3%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Tauranga City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Mount Maunganui2,45217.4%
Otūmoetai91024.0%
Papamoa Beach8967.1%
Tauranga South68525.7%
Gate Pa58622.9%
Greerton44927.1%
Matua42519.0%
Welcome Bay3969.8%
Judea38423.5%
Brookfield37817.9%

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