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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.

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.

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.

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.

Transforming coordinates between the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) and New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000) is more complex than some other transformations as a reference date is required for WGS84.

Find out more about Landonline system administration and dealing with errors, and access guides and resources on using Landonline.

Information for cadastral surveyors, property professionals and property owners in regions affected by earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Guidance to help you build your own New Zealand-centric maps for mobile, web and GIS apps.

Users may need to convert and transform coordinates between geodetic datums, projections and height systems when they combine data from different sources.

Set up and use changesets to keep your LINZ data up to date.

Definitions for official, recorded, dual, alternative and collected place names, and what we don’t name.

Find out about fresh or seawater areas and your responsibilities.

Information about requests, requisition and rejection reasons, correcting a land record, and compensation.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) relating to water boundaries.

Guidance on meeting the requirements for cadastral survey datasets (CSDs) that are being prepared under the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) to support the acquisition or setting apart of land for public works or other public purposes.

How to use Title mode to prepare a transmission in Landonline.

How to use Simple mode to perform a full transfer of ownership for all titles in a transfer.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of Part 4 of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) relating to field survey.

Use the map control toolbar to zoom in and out, set display thresholds, change selection mode, extract survey data or run a coordinate transformation, use spatial layer controls and change Basemap options.

Answers to questions asked during and after our November 2025 webinar on Limited title surveys

Find out how long it will take us to assess your application and the factors that may slow this down.

Information on the latest updates in Landonline - Web Search.