Conveyancers & Other Property Professionals

Welcome to the Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) conveyancers and other property professionals homepage. This page is a quick route to information for you as a conveyancer or property professional.

We maintain the land titles register, which provides an up-to-date picture of land ownership in New Zealand.

What can I get from LINZ?

• Title validation process (step by step)
• Survey and Title Lodgement form
• Advise LINZ of a record that should be investigated for correction
• Find information on all land titles in New Zealand
• Fees: Fees information for land information searches and land title transactions.
• Standards and guidelines: Standards, policies and guidelines from the offices of the Surveyor-General and Registrar-General of Land.
• Processing times: See titles and survey processing performance statistics.
• Landonline: Learn about Landonline - our web-based digital title and survey plan database for land professionals.
• Landwrap: A monthly publication providing authoritative news and information for survey and title customers (new window).
• Torrenstalk: A bulletin of survey and title information for land professionals.
• Maps: Find mapping/topographic information
• Orthophotos: View or download orthophotos - digital aerial photographs.
• Geographical Place & Street names: Geographical Place & Street name information.

How can I?

• Register or transfer a land title?
• Find out about Digital Certificates (Torrenstalk pdf 227KB)?
• Find information on Maori land?
• Find a LINZ land record?
• Find a LIM (Land Information Memorandum)?
• Find a property report?
• Become a registered valuer?
• Withdraw an unregistered instrument? (pdf 47KB)
• Request a Credit on a Landonline Account? (pdf 40.6KB)

If you can't find what you want or wish to provide feedback please contact us. We actively monitor all website content produced by LINZ and if it is relevant to you as a conveyancer or property professional, we link to it on this page.