Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2006 - September 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 - September periods 2005 and 2006

	2005	2006	% Change
Transfers	64,898	62,567	-3.59%
Mortgages	57,121	56,508	-1.07%
Discharged Mortgages	57,272	56,077	-2.09%
Others	47,941	45,825	-4.41%
Total for Period	227,232	220,977	-2.75%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2005 and 2006

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - September periods 2005 and 2006

	2005	2006	% Change
Title Plans lodged	3,566	3,279	-8.0%
New Titles issued	16,552	13,354	-19.3%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2005 and 2006

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Table 3 - Survey plan volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
July - September 2006

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
July	670	50.7%	651	49.3%	1,321
August	696	50.4%	684	49.6%	1,380
September	682	54.3%	573	45.7%	1,255
Total for Quarter	2,048	51.8%	1,908	48.2%	3,956

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 2006

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
July	12,836	17.5%	60,635	82.5%	73,471
August	14,673	19.1%	62,253	80.9%	76,926
September	17,258	24.5%	53,322	75.5%	70,580
Total for Quarter	44,767	20.3%	176,210	79.7%	220,977

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 2005 and 2006

	2005	2006	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	669,096	649,181	-3.0%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	73,802	67,985	-7.9%
Title Document Records supplied	114,749	128,839	12.3%
Total for Period	857,647	846,005	-1.4%

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 2005 and 2006

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Table 6 - Land title document processing performance
July - September 2006

Paper Lodged	% within 15 working days (standard is 95%)
July	97%
August	98%
September	99%
Quarter	98%

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Table 7 - Survey plan lodgements
July - September periods 2005 and 2006

	2005	2006	% Change
July	1,325	1,321	-0.3%
August	1,389	1,380	-0.6%
September	1,342	1,255	-6.5%
Total for Quarter	4,056	3,956	-2.5%

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

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Table 8 - Survey plan processing performance
July - September 2006

Paper Lodged	% within 20 working days (standard is 90%)
July	95%
August	95%
September	95%
Quarter	95%

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

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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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