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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.

District and city councils are responsible for allocating road names and property numbers.

Downloads and instructions for installing Print-to-TIFF software.

Information on how to set up a new Landonline account, remove an account, change details and add users to an existing account.

Some preliminary requisition analysis has been undertaken for the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021). The following trends have been identified.

New Zealand has sovereign rights over a vast area of ocean, along with the fishery, mineral and petroleum resources that may exist in that area.

In some circumstances, a licensed cadastral surveyor may need authorisation from the Surveyor-General to enter land to conduct a cadastral survey or install a survey mark. This page outlines information about applying for this authority.

Find out what is involved if you are selling a sensitive New Zealand asset to an overseas person.

How to prepare a statutory declaration as part of your application to the Overseas Investment Office.

Find information and resources to help you apply for consent online

The current members of the Board, what to do if you have a complaint about a valuer, and how to apply for registration as a valuer.

Find out about the audits of the property rating valuations made by local councils. The audits are used for revaluation, roll maintenance, objections, and process and controls.

Find out how to make a submission on a proposed place name.

How to print tracings and blocks in Notices to Mariners.

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 the standards, as well as explanatory factsheets, which define the requirements of New Zealand’s geodetic system.

Selected papers relating to geodesy in New Zealand which have been published by Toitū Te Whenua.