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

Guidance articles on registering electronic land transactions, grouped into key topics like caveats, mortgages and subdivisions.

Information about applying for a record of title based on adverse possession, and applying to bring deeds land under the Land Transfer Act 2017 (by an adverse occupier).

Information about transfer instruments including mortgagee sale transfers, no survivorship notations, and more.

Find out about making a claim under the protection of historic heritage factor.

Find out about making a claim under the economic benefits factor.

Find out about making a claim under the benefits to the natural environment factor.

Find out about the farm land benefit test and when and how it is applied.

Find out how the Overseas Investment Office fee schedule is structured.

Find out about investing in New Zealand’s fishing quota.

Find out if you need to provide a Vendor Information Form when selling to an overseas person.

Find out what the investor test is, who needs to meet it and how it is assessed.

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.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of Part 7 of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021), including the capture and depiction requirements for record of survey, title plan, survey and title diagrams and associated Landonline capture.

Guidance on the contents of a cadastral survey dataset (CSD), the information to be included in a survey report and considerations for certifying a CSD.

Guidance on the use of a permanent structure boundary to define the horizontal or vertical extent of a parcel. Permanent structure boundaries are also referred to as PSB.

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.