Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2005 - December 2005

Contents

1. Land title document lodgements - volume comparisons
2. Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
3. Survey plan volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
4. Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
5. Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
6. Land title document processing performance
7. Survey plan lodgements
8. Survey plan processing performance

These are the operational statistics reporting performance on a LINZ national basis.

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Table 1 - Land title document lodgements - volume comparisons
July - December periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
Transfers	141,271	130,795	-7.42%
Mortgages	119,711	115,594	-3.44%
Discharged Mortgages	120,299	115,401	-4.07%
Others	95,045	93,209	-1.93%
Total for Period	476,326	454,999	-4.48%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2004 and 2005

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - December periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
Title Plans lodged	6,480	7,049	8.8%
New Titles issued	29,313	30,088	2.6%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2004 and 2005

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Table 3 - Survey plan volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
October - December 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
October	340	26.8%	929	73.2%	1,269
November	478	33.4%	955	66.6%	1,433
December	452	37.0%	768	63.0%	1,220
Total for Quarter	1,270	32.4%	2,652	67.6%	3,922

Electronic lodgements using Landonline are less than expected but are gaining momentum as an increasing number of Customers are adopting the new technology.

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Table 4 - Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
October - December 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
October	6,675	9.3%	65,111	90.7%	71,786
November	7,846	9.9%	71,449	90.1%	79,295
December	8,752	11.4%	67,934	88.6%	76,686
Total for Quarter	23,273	10.2%	204,494	89.8%	227,767

Electronic lodgements using Landonline are less than expected but are gaining momentum as an increasing number of Customers are adopting the new technology.

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Table 5 - Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
July - December periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	897,028	1,252,259	39.6%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	116,685	150,209	28.7%
Title Document Records supplied	152,070	220,006	44.7%
Total for Period	1,165,783	1,622,474	39.2%

There are strong indications that some of the increases in search volumes are attributable to the ease and increasing use of Landonline searching compared to paper records searching and the high volume of property sales.

See Graph 3 for monthly national certificate of title search volumes,
Graph 4 for monthly national guaranteed title, and
Graph 5 for document search volumes during 2004 and 2005

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Table 6 - Land title document processing performance
October - September 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
October	99%
November	98%
December	98%
Quarter	98%

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
October- December periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
October	1,189	1,269	6.7%
November	1,291	1,433	11.0%
December	1,225	1,220	-0.4%
Total for Quarter	3,705	3,922	5.9%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2004 and 2005

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
October - December 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
October	100%
November	100%
December	100%
Quarter	100%

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
October	98%
November	98%
December	99%
Quarter	98%

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Graph 1

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Graph 2

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Graph 3

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Graph 4

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Graph 5

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Graph 6

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