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Cross-lease titles in Thames

LINZ records 220 cross-lease titles in Thames, 5.7% of its 3,856 live titles: slightly above Thames-Coromandel District as a whole (4.8%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Thames: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
220
Share of live titles
5.7%
Thames-Coromandel District share
4.8%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Thames-Coromandel District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
2 of 4

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

By share it is 2nd highest of 4 in Thames-Coromandel District, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles; across New Zealand it is in the bottom quarter of the 559 such suburbs.

How the cross-leases in Thames are set up

Fewer leases include a garage (13% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

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

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (25%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structureThamesThames-Coromandel DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)9671787,651
Two-flat schemes76.0%90.7%76.2%
Three-flat schemes15.6%6.0%12.2%
Four or more flats8.3%3.1%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)828 m²822 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat378 m²406 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease12.5%23.8%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease7.3%2.9%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area4.2%12.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)25.0%35.1%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198419901988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4555154,978

Thames-Coromandel District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Whangamatā80015.3%
Whitianga1703.8%
Pauanui1254.5%

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