Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2005 - June 2006

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 2004/05 and 2005/06

	2004/05	2005/06	% Change
Transfers	266,361	250,807	-5.84%
Mortgages	226,161	222,720	-1.52%
Discharged Mortgages	219,317	220,947	-0.74%
Others	179,939	183,341	1.89%
Total for Period	891,778	877,815	-1.57%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2004/05 and 2005/06

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - March periods 2004/05 and 2005/06

	2004/05	2005/06	% Change
Title Plans lodged	12,809	13,072	2.1%
New Titles issued	54,510	59,548	9.2%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2004/05 and 2005/06

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Table 3 - Survey plan volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
April - June 2006

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
April	464	45.0%	568	55.0%	1,032
May	664	47.5%	734	52.5%	1,398
June	609	48.2%	654	51.8%	1,263
Total for Quarter	1,737	47.0%	1,956	53.0%	3,693

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 2006

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
April	8,866	14.0%	54,273	86.0%	63,139
May	12,496	14.5%	73,776	85.5%	86,272
June	12,738	16.3%	65,479	83.7%	78,217
Total for Quarter	34,100	15.0%	193,528	85.0%	227,628

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 2004/05 and 2005/06

	2004/05	2005/06	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	2,066,238	2,511,502	21.5%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	260,609	295,660	13.4%
Title Document Records supplied	351,197	453,019	29.0%
Total for Period	2,678,044	3,260,181	21.7%

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 2004/05 and 2005/06

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Table 6 - Land title document processing performance
April - June 2006

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
April	94%
May	91%
June	96%
Quarter	94%

Performance for April and May reflects the larger than expected lodgements and a reduction in staff availability due to active staff training programmes in the lead up to 100% e-lodgement.

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
April - June periods 2005 and 2006

	2005	2006	% Change
April	1,232	1,032	-16.2%
May	1,410	1,398	-0.9%
June	1,309	1,263	-3.5%
Total for Quarter	3,951	3,693	-6.5%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2005 and 2006

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
April - June 2006

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
April	92%
May	80%
June	93%
Quarter	87%

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
April	96%
May	93%
June	99%
Quarter	96%

Performance for paper lodged in May reflects the larger than expected lodgements and a reduction in staff availability due to active staff training programmes in the lead up to 100% e-lodgement.

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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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