Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2004 - June 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 - June periods 2003/04 and 2004/05

	2003/04	2004/05	% Change
Transfers	283,515	266,361	-6.1%
Mortgages	236,058	226,161	-4.2%
Discharged Mortgages	233,591	219,317	-6.1%
Others	178,570	179,939	0.8%
Total for Period	931,734	891,778	-4.3%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2003/04 and 2004/05

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - June periods 2003/04 and 2004/05

	2003/04	2004/05	% Change
Title Plans lodged	11,489	12,809	11.5%
New Titles issued	51,219	54,510	6.4%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2003/04 and 2004/05

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Table 3 - Survey plan volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
April - June 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
April	251	20.4%	981	79.6%	1,232
May	294	20.9%	1,116	79.1%	1,410
June	327	25.0%	982	75.0%	1,309
Total for Quarter	872	22.1%	3,079	77.9%	3,951

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
April - June 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
April	3,584	4.7%	72,576	95.3%	76,160
May	3,590	4.6%	74,881	95.4%	78,471
June	4,060	5.5%	70,304	94.5%	74,364
Total for Quarter	11,234	4.9%	217,761	95.1%	228,995

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 - June periods 2003/04 and 2004/05

	2003/04	2004/05	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	1,671,056	2,066,238	23.6%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	229,304	260,609	13.7%
Title Document Records supplied	312,709	351,197	12.3%
Total for Period	2,213,069	2,678,044	21.0%

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 2003/04 and 2004/05

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Table 6 - Land title document processing performance
April - June 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
April	99%
May	99%
June	99%
Quarter	99%

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
April - June periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
April	1,048	1,232	17.6%
May	1,202	1,410	17.3%
June	1,180	1,309	10.9%
Total for Quarter	3,430	3,951	15.2%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2003/04 and 2004/05

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
April - June 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
April	96%
May	99%
June	100%
Quarter	98%

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
April	98%
May	97%
June	97%
Quarter	97%

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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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