Quarterly Statistics

Operational Statistics July 2008 - September 2008

Contents

1. Land title document lodgements - volume comparisons
2. Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
3. Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
4. Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
5. Land title document processing performance
6. Survey plan lodgements
7. 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 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

	2007/2008	2008/2009	% Change
Transfers	55,974	38,201	-31.8%
Mortgages	48,798	32,162	-34.1%
Discharged Mortgages	47,865	33,441	-30.1%
Others	44,128	34,688	-21.4%
Total for Period	196,765	138,492	-29.6%

See Graph 1 for monthly national title document lodgements during 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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Table 2 - Land title plan lodgements and new title issues comparisons
July - September periods 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

	2007/2008	2008/2009	% Change
Title Plans lodged	4,378	2,945	-32.7%
New Titles issued	14,195	12,723	-10.4%

See Graph 2 for monthly national volumes of title plan lodgements and new title issues during 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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Table 3 - Land title document volumes lodged in paper and electronic form
July - September 2008

	Electronic lodgement	% of total	Paper lodgement	% of total	Total
July	36,279	72.9%	13,492	27.1%	49,771
August	32,020	72.5%	12,141	27.5%	44,161
September	32,011	71.8%	12,549	28.2%	44,560
Total for Quarter	100,310	72.4%	38,182	27.6%	138,492

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Table 4 - Land title records supplied - volume comparisons
July - September periods 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

	2007/2008	2008/2009	% Change
Certificate of Title records supplied	714,435	604,154	-15.4%
Guaranteed Title Records supplied	66,583	53,235	-20.0%
Title Document Records supplied	164,763	135,679	-17.7%
Total for Period	945,781	793,068	-16.1%

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 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

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Table 5 - Land title document processing performance
July - September 2008

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

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Table 6 - Survey plan lodgements
July - September periods 2007 and 2008

	2007	2008	% Change
July	1,416	1,143	-19.3%
August	2,215	1,069	-51.7%
September	1,214	1,066	-12.2%
Total for Quarter	4,845	3,278	-32.3%

See Graph 6 for monthly national survey plan lodgements during 2007 and 2008

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Table 7 - Survey plan processing performance
July - September 2008

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

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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