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Find out how applications are assessed under the benefit to New Zealand test.

How to use the DC Loader to download your digital certificate for certifying and signing in Landonline.

Find out how much it costs to apply for consent, a variation, or an exemption. This information also sets out administrative penalties for late filing of documents and for retrospective consent.

Toitū Te Whenua LINZ collects hydrographic data for charting purposes using our hydrographic standards and technical specifications detailed in HYSPEC.

A “collect once, use many times” approach can grow the value of marine geospatial data.

Find out about how you can apply to meet the investor test to prepare for future transactions.

Find out how to notify us of a transaction made under a residential or forestry standing consent.

Find out about our priorities for investigating and enforcing the overseas investment rules.

Find out about the requirements for advertising farm land before selling to an overseas person.

Sign up to Pānui and change alerts to receive regular news and updates from our overseas investment team.

In 2000, the Valuer-General (VG) issued the first Māori Freehold Land (MFL) guidelines on the rating valuation of these lands, following a Court of Appeal decision known as the Mangatu case.

Find out about the authority to enter land, offences relating to cadastral surveys, and restrictions on unlicensed surveyors.

We've worked with the New Zealand Law Society and NZ Society of Conveyancers to develop a self-assessment questionnaire to help law firms assess the land registration systems and procedures they have in place.

Toitū Te Whenua sometimes receives enquiries about unlicensed surveyors undertaking cadastral surveys commonly referred to as ‘redef’ surveys or boundary reinstatement surveys. Read our guidance on the application of the provisions in the Cadastral Survey Act 2002.

Guidance on the standard for lodgement of cadastral survey datasets - LINZS70000 (Lodgement Standard) and the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021, Land Transfer Act 2017 and Landonline capture for cadastral survey datasets (CSDs) supporting Applications.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) and Landonline capture when dealing with boundaries created by diagram on transfer.

Guidance on the duty of a surveyor when defining a boundary by survey and determining when a boundary or boundary point must be defined by survey or may be adopted or accepted.

New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 (NZVD2016) heights can be obtained anywhere in New Zealand, including the offshore islands. Published NZVD2016 heights are available in Landonline and the Geodetic Database. Calculated heights can be derived from GNSS (global navigation satellite system) observations. Transferred heights can be obtained using traditional heighting techniques.

We collect tax-related data when people buy, sell or transfer property pursuant to the Land Transfer Act 2017. In addition the legislation requires us to ask questions that help inform housing policy. This information is collected through a tax statement.

Find out about our work investigating possible breaches of the overseas investment rules.

Find out when an exemption from the requirements for consent may be available.

Find out where to seek expert New Zealand legal and land advice before applying, what information you will need to gather to support your application, and how to arrange a pre-application meeting with us.

Clear and complete referencing of coordinates is important because ongoing movement can mean that they change several times after an earthquake.

The reference surface for New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 (NZVD2016) is New Zealand Quasigeoid 2016 (NZGeoid2016). NZGeoid2016 is a gravity derived model, which can be used to determine NZVD2016 heights anywhere in New Zealand and its offshore islands.

Selected presentations relating to geodesy in New Zealand by staff from Toitū Te Whenua.

This page provides a ‘step-by-step guide’ to manual lodgement of documents.

LINZ collects tax-related data when people buy, sell or transfer property. LINZ has produced the quarterly property transfers and tax residency reports since 2016 using transfer tax statements data, and has helped Stats NZ replicate their methodology and enhance the data series.

We follow a process to dispose of Crown-owned property that is no longer needed. You can also find out about land subject to a Right of First Refusal (RFR) in favour of an iwi.