Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2005 - September 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 - September periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
Transfers	73,173	64,898	-11.31%
Mortgages	61,619	57,121	-7.30%
Discharged Mortgages	61,621	57,272	-7.06%
Others	48,087	47,941	-0.30%
Total for Period	244,500	227,232	-7.06%

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

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - September periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
Title Plans lodged	3,251	3,566	9.7%
New Titles issued	15,111	16,552	9.5%

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

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Table 3 - Survey plan volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
July - September 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
July	384	29.0%	941	71.0%	1,325
August	413	29.7%	976	70.3%	1,389
September	425	31.7%	917	68.3%	1,342
Total for Quarter	1,222	30.1%	2,834	69.9%	4,056

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
July - September 2005

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
July	5,075	6.8%	69,611	93.2%	74,686
August	5,935	7.6%	72,477	92.4%	78,412
September	6,058	8.2%	68,076	91.8%	74,134
Total for Quarter	17,068	7.5%	210,164	92.5%	227,232

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 - September periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	434,695	669,096	53.9%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	54,037	73,802	36.6%
Title Document Records supplied	68,841	114,749	66.7%
Total for Period	557,573	857,647	53.8%

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 2004 and 2005

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Table 6 - Land title document processing performance
July - September 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
July	99%
August	98%
September	99%
Quarter	99%

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
July - September periods 2004 and 2005

	2004	2005	% Change
July	1,211	1,325	9.4%
August	1,234	1,389	12.6%
September	1,268	1,342	5.8%
Total for Quarter	3,713	4,056	9.2%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2004 and 2005

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
July - September 2005

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
July	100%
August	100%
September	100%
Quarter	100%

Electronic Lodged	% within 10 working days (standard is 90%)
July	99%
August	97%
September	97%
Quarter	98%

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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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