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Cross-lease titles in Waihi Beach

LINZ records 96 cross-lease titles in Waihi Beach, 4.1% of its 2,351 live titles: above Western Bay of Plenty District as a whole (2.8%) and well below New Zealand (8.7%).

Waihi Beach: cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles
96
Share of live titles
4.1%
Western Bay of Plenty District share
2.8%
New Zealand share
8.7%
Rank by share in Western Bay of Plenty District, among suburbs with 50+ cross-lease titles
3 of 4

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

By share it is 3rd highest of 4 in Western Bay of Plenty 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 Waihi Beach are set up

Carports appear in fewer leases (2% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

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

Three-flat schemes are less common here (4%, against 12% nationally).

Scheme structureWaihi BeachWestern Bay of Plenty DistrictNew Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)4836787,651
Two-flat schemes93.8%85.6%76.2%
Three-flat schemes4.2%9.0%12.2%
Four or more flats2.1%5.4%11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)810 m²938 m²908 m²
Typical land per flat404 m²438 m²408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease20.8%22.9%28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease2.1%5.2%13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area10.4%3.3%4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)50.0%36.8%35.6%
Median year of earliest current title198719871988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more4529954,978

New cross-lease titles since 2020

6 of Waihi Beach's cross-lease titles were first issued since 2020: 3% of all its new titles in that time, against Western Bay of Plenty District (0%) (new cross-lease titles can follow a flats plan being updated, so they are not new schemes).

Western Bay of Plenty District suburbs with the most cross-lease titles

SuburbCross-lease titlesShare
Te Puke3888.4%
Katikati1365.1%
Ōmokoroa501.7%

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