Quarterly Statistics

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

	2003/04	2004/05	% Change
Transfers	211,092	196,813	-6.8%
Mortgages	174,808	167,219	-4.3%
Discharged Mortgages	173,755	164,465	-5.3%
Others	132,596	134,286	1.3%
Total for Period	692,251	662,783	-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 - March periods 2003/04 and 2004/05

	2003/04	2004/05	% Change
Title Plans lodged	8,457	9,366	10.7%
New Titles issued	38,490	40,888	6.2%

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
January - March 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
January	117	14.4%	693	85.6%	810
February	184	16.2%	955	83.8%	1,139
March	253	19.2%	1,067	80.8%	1,320
Total for Quarter	554	16.9%	2,715	83.1%	3,269

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
January - March 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
January	1,863	3.8%	47,543	96.2%	49,406
February	2,790	4.2%	63,860	95.8%	66,650
March	3,136	4.5%	67,265	95.5%	70,401
Total for Quarter	7,789	4.2%	178,668	95.8%	186,457

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 - March periods 2003/04 and 2004/05

	2003/04	2004/05	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	1,236,322	1,450,446	17.3%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	168,413	182,993	8.7%
Title Document Records supplied	234,224	248,823	6.2%
Total for Period	1,638,959	1,882,262	14.8%

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
January - March 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
January	100%
February	99%
March	99%
Quarter	99%

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
January - March periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
January	852	810	-4.9%
February	1,013	1,139	12.4%
March	1,239	1,320	6.5%
Total for Quarter	3,104	3,269	5.3%

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
January - March 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
January	96%
February	94%
March	95%
Quarter	95%

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
January	95%
February	99%
March	98%
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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