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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.

Checklists to help you prepare and certify and sign transmissions, subdivisions, and caveats.

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.

The physical part of New Zealand’s geodetic system is a network of geodetic marks that are used as reference points for surveys.

Vertical datums define a reference surface for measuring elevations and depths, ensuring consistency in height measurements.

Meridional circuits divide the country into a set of survey regions, used to define a local projection for mapping purposes. The Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 require that the NZGD2000 (New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000) Transverse Mercator 2000 Meridional Circuit projections are used for cadastral surveyors.

The North Island Yard Grid and South Island Yard Grid were the projections for the 1:63,360 (inch-to-the-mile) topographic mapping in New Zealand between 1942 and 1973.

Projections are used to transform a curved surface into a flat map, making locations easier to define. There are 5 official map projections currently used in New Zealand, and 4 that are no longer used.