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A Lease Variation Instrument cannot be used to renew an expired lease.

Learn the basics of LDS web services and APIs to help you choose the service to best suit your needs.

Learn about the timestamp parameter and how to use it effectively.

A step-by-step guide to setting up an OpenLayers map using LDS XYZ tiles.

Web services are often an efficient way to access data on a regular and automatic basis, but HTTP 504 timeout errors can occur if you request large amounts of data from large LDS layers.

Before you start, read our guide to web service versions and version support in GIS applications. This will tell you which web services your version of QGIS supports.

Information about lodging caveats, removing caveats and notices of claim, lapsing caveats and notices of claim, and caveats entered by the Registrar-General of Land.

Information about unit titles, including their creation, redevelopment, and cancellation.

Find out about addressing negative impacts of bulk water extraction in an application under the benefit to New Zealand test.

Find out about making a claim under the continued or enhanced public access factor.

Find out about the investor test, who is assessed, and whether you can apply to meet it in preparation for a future consent application.

Find out about the tests that may apply to your application.

Contact the Overseas Investment Office with queries or feedback, subscribe to regular updates, or report a suspected breach of the Overseas Investment Act.

Information about the Trusts Act 2019 and the requirements for dealing with titles that are affected by the Act.

Find out about the transactions exempted from the need for consent.

You can vary your consent or conditions or apply to get conditions revoked.

Terms of use, terms and conditions for customers of the LINZ Basemap Service.

A&I form templates approved by the New Zealand Law Society and Registrar-General of Land for e-dealing use.

A look at the concepts and practical issues for people in agencies and organisations working with addresses.

The New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 provides a nationally consistent height reference surface. This is an important tool for planning, consenting, and infrastructure works.

New Zealand Vertical Datum 2016 (NZVD2016) is the official vertical datum. It is used to define heights in New Zealand and its offshore islands.

This section provides information for cadastral surveyors working in greater Christchurch.

Guidance on meeting the requirements of the Cadastral Survey Rules 2021 (CSR 2021) relating to tidal water boundaries, including the requirement to identify common marine and coastal area on a CSD.

We collect tax-related data under the Land Transfer Act 2017 when people buy, sell or transfer property. The legislation also requires us to ask questions that help inform housing policy. This page contains answers to questions about this data.

Key guidance for practitioners to ensure they are aware of their certification obligations in regard to consent requirements.

This page outlines a number of scenarios which detail how property tax compliance requirements apply.

Find out how to identify sensitive land.

Find out about when the benefit to New Zealand test applies, and the different benefits.

Find out how much it costs to apply for consent, variation or exemption, and what penalties may be charged.

Resources to help you prepare and apply for consent to acquire sensitive New Zealand assets. You may need to tell us about a proposed transaction even if you don't need consent.

Geodetic technical reports commissioned by or produced for Toitū Te Whenua.

Many heights around New Zealand have been referenced to a local sea level, or local vertical datum (LVD). In the past this was the most practical method of determining a height reference point, but more robust height references are now available to replace these.