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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.

Practitioners are reminded to retain ANZ’s covering email when receiving instructions for mortgage discharge authorities via their SOLD service.

Section 101 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 sets out the consent requirements when registering a variation of mortgage. Consent from an existing encumbrancee is included in this provision.

The Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (the Act) puts a number of responsibilities on practitioners acting in land transactions that change the ownership status of Māori land. The Act gives the Māori Land Court jurisdiction to determine by status order the particular status of any parcel of land.

On this page you will learn more about how to register, surrender, vary or remove easements under the Land Transfer Act 2017.

A practitioner acting on behalf of the landowner-mortgagor often also certifies on behalf of the mortgagee when registering a new mortgage or when discharging an existing mortgage.

Road frontages - notices under section 93 of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989

The Registrar-General of Land can enter caveats in certain circumstances to prevent fraud or improper dealing (including to support orders made by the Courts to freeze assets).

How to create safer passwords for Landonline and protect them.

How to keep our land records safe by protecting your computer when using Landonline.

Section 226A of the Resource Management Act 1991 provides an exemption in respect of the renewal of existing cross or company leases.

Find out about our pending approval parcels data and who can access it.

An introduction to some of the parameters you can add to your Web Feature Services (WFS) request to filter data , filter methods, and the tools to run them.

A step-by-step guide to exporting a changeset from the LINZ Data Service.

The Changeset API makes a feature by feature comparison between dataset versions returning data for any feature that is new, updated or deleted.

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.