Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2007 - March 2008

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 2006/2007 and 2007/2008

	2006/2007	2007/2008	% Change
Transfers	190,096	153,718	-19.1%
Mortgages	170,870	132,573	-22.4%
Discharged Mortgages	168,432	132,505	-21.3%
Others	129,579	119,850	-7.5%
Total for Period	658,977	538,646	-18.3%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2006/2007 and 2007/2008

Note: 2006/2007 figures now include both electronic and paper lodged title documents

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - March periods 2006/2007 and 2007/2008

	2006/2007	2007/2008	% Change
Title Plans lodged	9,733	10,319	6.0%
New Titles issued	39,976	43,585	9.0%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2006/2007 and 2007/2008

Note: Above statistics include Māori Freehold Land Registration project transactions

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Table 3 - Survey plan volumes lodged in electronic form
January - March 2008

	Electronic lodgement	% of total
January	847	100%
February	1,102	100%
March	1,019	100%
Total for Quarter	2,968	100%

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

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Table 4 - Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
January - March 2008

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
January	32,174	74.7%	10,916	25.3%	43,090
February	40,860	74.4%	14,068	25.6%	54,928
March	38,865	76.2%	12,140	23.8%	51,005
Total for Quarter	111,899	75.1%	37,124	24.9%	149,023

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Table 5 - Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
July - March periods 2006/2007 and 2007/2008

	2006/2007	2007/2008	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	1,970,673	1,978,759	0.4%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	220,939	196,790	-10.9%
Title Document Records supplied	422,023	465,151	10.2%
Total for Period	2,613,635	2,640,700	1.0%

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 2006/2007 and 2007/2008

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Table 6 - Land title document processing performance
January - March 2008

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
January	97%
February	98%
March	97%
Quarter	97%

The lower performance during January is due to clearing the pre-Christmas build up of transactions.

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
January - March periods 2007 and 2008

	2007	2008	% Change
January	944	847	-10.3%
February	1,053	1,102	4.7%
March	1,296	1,019	-21.4%
Total for Quarter	3,293	2,968	-9.9%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2006 and 2007

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
January - March 2008

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
January	96%
February	100%
March	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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