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Cross-lease titles in Gate Pa

LINZ records 586 cross-lease titles in Gate Pa, 22.9% of its 2,563 live titles: well above Tauranga City as a whole (13.5%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Gate Pa: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
586
Share of live titles
22.9%
Tauranga City share
13.5%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Tauranga City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
6 of 18

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

Across New Zealand its share is in the top quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Gate Pa are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (5%, against 11% nationally), up to 10.

Three-flat schemes are less common here (7%, against 12% nationally).

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

Scheme structureGate PaTauranga CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)2774,11987,651
Two-flat schemes88.1%82.8%76.2%
Three-flat schemes6.9%11.1%12.2%
Four or more flats5.1%6.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)830 m²850 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat410 m²410 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease22.4%19.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease13.7%7.9%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area2.5%4.6%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)46.9%48.8%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198719871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more2283,06254,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

8 of Gate Pa's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 4% of all its new titles in that time, against 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%
Greerton44927.1%
Matua42519.0%
Welcome Bay3969.8%
Judea38423.5%
Brookfield37817.9%
Bellevue36323.6%

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