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The Toitū Te Whenua map tile services are available in the popular Web Mercator coordinate reference system.

A Territorial Authority (TA) cannot extend the time limit for the Registrar-General of Land to deposit a subdivision plan.

How to request in writing the merge, consolidation or closing of a Landonline account.

A Forestry Rights Agreement under the Forestry Rights Registration Act 1983 (under the instrument code of AG) can be the subject of an application to extinguish an easement under s 113, 114 or 115 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (instrument code is EE).

What constitutes a redevelopment under the Unit Titles Act 2010 (the Act) is set out in section 8 of the Act.

Where land subject to a mortgage or encumbrance is being dealt with, it may be necessary to obtain the consent of the mortgagee or encumbrancee.

Conveyancing practitioners regularly ask how to modify electronic transfer instruments to record that the transferee is acquiring title as an executor.

Information about bringing Deeds land under the Land Transfer Act 2017 (LTA) under section 172 (1)(b) of the LTA. These applications can be made by the documentary owner but also by a person in adverse possession to the documentary owner.

Information about applying for a water boundary change resulting from accretion or erosion and applying to bring dry riverbed or stream bed under the Land Transfer Act 2017.

This article contains information about how consent notices should be lodged.

High-level spatial data concepts and considerations when recording spatial data in a New Zealand context.

LINZ Basemaps APIs allow you to programmatically access LINZ map tile services to integrate into your mobile, web or GIS app. This documentation provides an overview of our map tile APIs and how to use them.

This page provides technical documentation and specifications to help you start building with LINZ Basemaps APIs.

The LINZ Basemaps API lets you build your own New Zealand-centric maps for mobile, web and GIS apps. This page describes our APIs and what you need to do to use them successfully.

Find out how the government assesses certain overseas investments to ensure New Zealand’s national interest is protected.

If you are concerned for your safety, or that of your family, you can apply to the Registrar-General of Land (Registrar) to withhold information from the register if that information will disclose your whereabouts and prejudice your safety.

Find out about investing in apartments in New Zealand, and whether you need consent to do so.

Find out about investing in New Zealand securities, assets or businesses, or establishing a business valued at over $100 million.

Find out about the pathways for investing in and developing residential land.

Find out about the enforcement action taken by the Overseas Investment Office since 2015.

We encourage councils, developers and communities to make proposals to officially name your suburbs and localities.

Find out about the way we check that investors are meeting their obligations.

New Zealand’s overseas investment regime is a specialist area of law. Overseas investors should seek local expert legal and land advice before investing in New Zealand.

Find out how to structure benefit claims.

Find out how to contact us.

Information for surveyors about the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes.

This section provides information to help Canterbury property owners understand the law for locating property boundaries in Christchurch and how they may be affected.

Steps to transfer your digital certificate to another computer.

Find out about Rights of First Refusal, and how they fit into the process for disposing of and leasing Crown-owned land.

You can propose a name for a place or feature in the Ross Dependency and other areas in Antarctica where New Zealand has an operational interest.

There are a number of different notices that Toitū Te Whenua LINZ is obliged to issue under the Land Transfer Act 2017 - this page explains some of the common types of notice.

LINZ has developed a self-assessment questionnaire to help survey firms assess their control environment, and to provide guidance about the types of quality controls survey firms may use within their own office.