Pānui - July 2026

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Welcome to Pānui for July 2026.

The government financial year ended on 30 June 2026, and LINZ is now preparing our annual performance reporting. Some of the key highlights are set out below.

The team has achieved ongoing improvements in processing timeframes, as well as the successful implementation of the changes to the Overseas Investment Act that took effect on 6 March this year.

Investments under the new primary consent pathway that are unlikely to present a risk to the national interest are generally consented within five working days. Timeframes for assessing business and forestry applications have reduced by more than 70% where applications do not require a full national interest assessment.

Making assessments quickly to give investors certainty sooner remains a focus for us. Some types of assessment are complex and have a longer timeframe for assessment. This includes any application involving fishing quota or annual catch entitlement, farm land benefit test applications and any application that requires a full national interest assessment.

We have noticed a trend of requests for both farm land benefit test and national interest applications to be carried out in less than half of the timeframe that is set out for these assessments. In order to continue making assessments rapidly and sustain the faster decision times we are achieving for the majority of applications, we need to prioritise our assessors’ time. This means that, while we will continue to process these applications as quickly as possible, we will generally require the full timeframe and we will only be able to accommodate requests for urgency where there are clearly exceptional circumstances.

If you have an urgent timeframe or contractual deadline it is important that you discuss this with us in advance and submit your application as early as possible.

Ngā mihi

Daniel White
Head of Regulatory Practice and Delivery
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand

Overseas Investment during the 2025/26 year

Some of the key figures for overseas investment in the 2025/26 year are set out below.

• 701 applications approved, including:
  • 451 One Home to Live In
  • 172 other consents
  • 42 variations of conditions or consents
  • 36 exemptions
  • 21 of these applications involved a national interest assessment
• $24 Billion of transactions came through the overseas investment regime.
• 106,000 ha of land transactions came through the regime.
• Top 3 industries by application numbers for consents (other than One Home to Live In):
  • Forestry and logging
  • Accommodation
  • Electricity supply

LINZ has successfully implemented the 6 March changes to the Overseas Investment Act. Since the rule changes came into force (until the end of the financial year) LINZ has approved:

• 20 $5 million plus house consents
• 7 Production forestry consents
• 18 Primary consents for businesses and land

LINZ is also responsible for enforcing the overseas investment regime, ensuring investors deliver on their undertakings and people who try to evade the system are held to account. During this year LINZ:

• took 56 enforcement actions ranging from compliance letters to court action
• monitored 1,348 conditions of consent.

The courts imposed more than $1.4 million in penalties (plus costs of $42,478) on overseas investors and their New Zealand associates who were found to be evading the regime and purchased sensitive land without consent.

Decision summaries for June 2026

Benefit to New Zealand

202600299 - Farmland Reserve NZ, Inc

Residential land development

202600275 - ANZCO Foods Limited
202600349 - Armstrong L.P.

Primary consent pathway – Business decision

202600383 - Arunodaya Pte Limited and Sambhav International Limited
202600419 - Kent Image Australia Pty Ltd
202600234 - Motion JVco Limited

Primary consent pathway – Sensitive land

202600393 - Oceana Gold (New Zealand) Limited
202600382 - Centuria Funds Management (NZ) Limited
202600401 - Mapua Seaside Park Limited

Primary consent pathway – Production forestry

202600435 - Sustainable Forestry New Zealand Limited
202600447 - Ingka Investments Forest Assets NZ Limited and Ingka Investment Managements NZ Limited

Primary consent pathway – Business decision and sensitive land

202600212 - Southern Renewal Partners SPV LP

Exemption – Discretionary

202600317 - MyFarm KiwiFruit Fund Limited Partnership

Exemption - Farm land advertising

202600245 - Richard John Didsbury and Christine Didsbury
202600103 - New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi

Exemption – Large apartment development

202600324 - Periwinkle GP Limited