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Find out how to pay your overseas investment fee or penalty.

Find out about the discretion to grant an exemption for an entity or entities from the definition of non-New Zealand government investor.

Find out if you need to provide tax information with your application for consent and what use is made of this data.

The range of investment pathways, from investing in apartments, through to investing in large-scale residential development and forestry.

What a sensitive land certificate is and how to get one.

Tell us about a proposed transaction under the national security and public order notification regime.

Information on applications to undertake marine scientific research (MSR).

The following guidance is provided to assist cadastral surveyors working in greater Christchurch when dealing with boundary conflicts arising from approved interim surveys.

The New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 (NZVD2016) was introduced to replace the various local height datums used throughout the country. It enables the consistent collection and seamless exchange of heights across New Zealand. Older datums are still in use in some areas but their reliability is uncertain and Toitū Te Whenua strongly advise switching to NZVD2016.

Find out about buying lease-back units in hotels or lodges as an investment in New Zealand.

Find out about investing in forestry rights or buying or leasing land to be used for forestry.

If you are an apartment developer you can get an exemption certificate that allows an overseas person to buy an apartment as an investment without consent, before construction is complete.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) and Landonline capture for parcel boundaries defined in cadastral survey datasets (CSDs).

An overview of adverse possession and guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 and Landonline capture for cadastral survey datasets (CSDs) supporting adverse possession claims. 

This page contains answers to common questions about what tax information is required on land transfer tax statements when buying, selling or transferring property.

The nature of the local vertical datum (LVD) networks can lead to inconsistencies, depending on the source of the heights used. This can create challenges and is why New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 (NZVD2016) should be used whenever possible.

The following process is for applying the adjustment using ogr2ogr.

Geodetic Mark Coordinate Update - 1 December 2018.

Find out how we identify the ‘relevant overseas person’ and the ‘individuals with control’.

The maps on this page show the size of land movements in many of the urban localities affected by the earthquake

If you have a claim which falls within the guarantee of title provisions of the Land Transfer Act 2017 you may be entitled to claim compensation from the Crown.

Find out about the discretion to grant an exemption from the need for consent to invest in New Zealand, or from the definition of overseas person, associate or associated land.

Information relating to the Canterbury earthquakes for cadastral surveyors, property professionals and property owners in the Canterbury region

We publish information that describes the implementation and use of New Zealand’s geodetic system. This information is provided to support users of geodetic data and provides background information for research purposes. This section includes geodetic publications that are available from Toitū Te Whenua.

New Zealand Continental Shelf Lambert Conformal 2000 (NZCS2000) projection is used for mapping and representing spatial data covering the New Zealand continental shelf.

New Zealand Map Grid (NZMG) was previously used as the projection for topographic 1:50,000 and other small-scale mapping in mainland New Zealand. New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000) replaced NZMG in 2001 and is now the official projection used in New Zealand.

New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 (NZGD1949) ‘D’ coordinates were computed and adjusted in terms of New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000) and then transformed into NZGD1949 using a grid transformation.

In May 2010, a new set of orders for positions and heights was introduced for New Zealand and the Ross Sea Region. This led to revisions in how coordinate accuracy is determined and displayed. This section also covers other order systems, including NZGD1949, previously used in New Zealand.

This page contains information on the orders that define the accuracy of coordinates and heights in New Zealand.

In 2010, 5a control marks were reclassified from order 5 to order 6. They have since been tested against the standards and the appropriate orders assigned.

The Orders of control marks have been updated to reflect the accuracy definitions in the LINZS25005 and LINZS25006 standards.

The World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) is a global datum, used for determining positions on the Earth's surface. The WGS84 is a reference system used by the satellite navigation systems like GPS and is used in various mapping applications.