Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2005 - March 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 - March periods 2004/05 and 2005/06

	2004/05	2005/06	% Change
Transfers	196,813	185,677	-5.66%
Mortgages	167,219	163,866	-2.01%
Discharged Mortgages	164,465	163,045	-0.86%
Others	134,286	137,599	2.47%
Total for Period	662,783	650,187	-1.90%

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	9,366	9,909	5.8%
New Titles issued	40,888	43,867	7.3%

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
January - March 2006

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
January	317	37.0%	539	63.0%	856
February	425	41.0%	612	59.0%	1,037
March	581	41.9%	804	58.1%	1,385
Total for Quarter	1,323	40.4%	1,955	59.6%	3,278

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 2006

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
January	5,247	9.8%	48,199	90.2%	53,446
February	6,453	10.1%	57,504	89.9%	63,957
March	10,215	13.1%	67,570	86.9%	77,785
Total for Quarter	21,915	11.2%	173,273	88.8%	195,188

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 2004/05 and 2005/06

	2004/05	2005/06	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	1,450,446	1,864,249	28.5%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	182,993	216,827	18.5%
Title Document Records supplied	248,823	333,330	34.0%
Total for Period	1,882,262	2,414,406	28.3%

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
January - March 2006

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
January	94%
February	97%
March	97%
Quarter	96%

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
January - March periods 2005 and 2006

	2005	2006	% Change
January	810	856	5.7%
February	1,139	1,037	-9.0%
March	1,320	1,385	4.9%
Total for Quarter	3,269	3,278	0.3%

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

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
January - March 2006

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
January	93%
February	96%
March	93%
Quarter	94%

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
January	94%
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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