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Cross-lease titles in Mount Maunganui

LINZ records 2,452 cross-lease titles in Mount Maunganui, 17.4% of its 14,089 live titles: above Tauranga City as a whole (13.5%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Mount Maunganui: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
2,452
Share of live titles
17.4%
Tauranga City share
13.5%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Tauranga City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
11 of 18

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

How the cross-leases in Mount Maunganui are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (5% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (6%, against 11% nationally), up to 12.

Fewer leases include a garage (17% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Scheme structureMount MaunganuiTauranga CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)1,0924,11987,651
Two-flat schemes79.3%82.8%76.2%
Three-flat schemes14.7%11.1%12.2%
Four or more flats5.8%6.0%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)827 m²850 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat404 m²410 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease17.0%19.0%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease4.9%7.9%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area6.1%4.6%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)42.9%48.8%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198719871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more7113,06254,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

40 of Mount Maunganui's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 6% 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
Otūmoetai91024.0%
Papamoa Beach8967.1%
Tauranga South68525.7%
Gate Pa58622.9%
Greerton44927.1%
Matua42519.0%
Welcome Bay3969.8%
Judea38423.5%
Brookfield37817.9%
Bellevue36323.6%

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