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Cross-lease titles in Trentham

LINZ records 655 cross-lease titles in Trentham, 17.9% of its 3,650 live titles: well above Upper Hutt City as a whole (11.7%) and well above New Zealand (8.7%).

Trentham: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
655
Share of live titles
17.9%
Upper Hutt City share
11.7%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Upper Hutt City, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
2 of 11

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

By share it is 2nd highest of 11 in Upper Hutt City, among suburbs with 50 or more cross-lease titles.

How the cross-leases in Trentham are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (2% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Three-flat schemes are more common here (20%, against 12% nationally).

Carports appear in more leases (19% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Scheme structureTrenthamUpper Hutt CityNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)24592187,651
Two-flat schemes64.1%73.2%76.2%
Three-flat schemes19.6%14.7%12.2%
Four or more flats16.3%11.9%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)868 m²804 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat354 m²328 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease22.4%16.8%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease19.2%19.5%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area2.0%3.1%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)24.5%18.0%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198619831988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more11936754,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

5 of Trentham's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 1% of all its new titles in that time, against Upper Hutt City (2%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Upper Hutt City suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Wallaceville28214.8%
Ebdentown28124.0%
Silverstream19010.8%
Birchville16616.8%
Clouston Park15214.3%
Tōtara Park13211.2%
Elderslea12410.5%
Brown Owl8112.4%
Heretaunga7910.1%
Maoribank6914.0%

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