Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2008 – June 2009

Contents

1. Land title document lodgements - volume comparisons
2. Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
3. Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
4. Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
5. Land title document processing performance
6. Survey plan lodgements
7. 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 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

Transaction types	2007/2008	2008/2009	% Change
Transfers	197,341	151,236	-23.4%
Mortgages	169,626	130,562	-23.0%
Discharged Mortgages	170,963	134,119	-21.6%
Others	119,850	129,283	7.9%
Total for Period	695,243	545,200	-21.6%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - June periods 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

	2007/2008	2008/2009	% Change
Title Plans lodged	13,680	10,091	-26.2%
New Titles issued	57,307	45,432	-20.7%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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Table 3 - Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
April – June 2009

Month	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
April	41,318	94.7%	2,299	5.3%	43,617
May	44,402	96.0%	1,861	4.0%	46,263
June	41,608	95.5%	1,939	4.5%	43,547
Total for Quarter	127,328	95.4%	6,099	4.6%	133,427

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Table 4 - Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
July - June periods 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

Record types	2007/2008	2008/2009	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	2,602,268	2,233,582	-14.2%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	190,751	222,007	16.4%
Title Document Records supplied	602,523	550,223	-8.7%
Total for Period	3,395,542	3,005,812	-11.5%

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 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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Table 5 - Land title document processing performance
April - June 2009

Month	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
April	96%
May	97%
June	98%
Quarter	97%

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Table 6 - Cadastral Survey plan lodgements
April – June periods 2008 and 2009

Month	2008	2009	% Change
April	1,134	882	-22.2%
May	1,312	972	-25.9%
June	1,220	878	-28.0%
Total for Quarter	3,666	2,732	-25.5%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2007 and 2008

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Table 7 - Cadastral Survey plan processing performance
January – June 2009

Month	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
April	96%
May	99%
June	99%
Quarter	98%

Note: As all lodgements are now electronic, paper lodgements are no longer reported

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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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