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• Notice of Change of Ownership

  How we're making completing and sending a Notice of Change of Ownership to a territorial authority easier.
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  • Land registration
  • Landonline

• Crown Property information files

  LINZ holds historic Crown property paper files from its predecessor organisations, such as the Department of Survey & Land Information (DoSLI), Department of Lands and Survey, and the Ministry of Works.
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  • Land registration

• Crown grant

  These documents provide evidence of grants of Crown land to individuals. Some were the result of a purchase, others were in reward for military or other service to the Crown. Some are still current.
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  • Land registration

• Types of land records

  Find out which land records are available through Toitū Te Whenua.
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  • Land registration

• Notice to Mortgagee

  Making it easier and faster for solicitors and financial institutions to complete the confirmation of mortgage registration.
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  • Land registration
  • Landonline

• View an original land record

  How to view a land record in its original paper form.
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  • Land registration

• Deeds, deed registers and deed indexes

  The deeds system was the main way property ownership was recorded in New Zealand before the land titles system. There is a very small area of land remaining in the deeds system.
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  • Land registration

• Record of title - current

  You can search for and, for $6, buy a record of title in our Land Record Search tool. Records of title (previously called certificates of title or computer registers) prove the ownership of land and the rights and restrictions that apply to the land.
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  • Land registration

• Legacy Landonline

  Legacy Landonline is our original online portal where surveyors, lawyers, conveyancers and other property professionals can securely search, lodge and update title dealings and survey data.
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  • Land registration
  • Landonline

• Traverse record

  These are surveyors’ technical records showing how a particular survey was made.
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  • Land registration

• Field book

  Surveyors use field books to record measurements made 'on the job'. Field books show the bearings and distances between each survey mark involved in a survey.
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  • Land registration

• Abstracts and journals

  These are records of the formal lodgement of ‘instruments’ (documents) in the title system, eg transfer of ownership, or mortgage etc.
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  • Land registration

• How to search for land records

  How to carry out a search of the land records that we hold.
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  • Land registration

• Release notes that relate to previous Landonline releases

  Find information and release notes from earlier Landonline releases.
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  • Land registration

• Other land record providers

  Many organisations outside Toitū Te Whenua hold and issue different kinds of land information. There are also specialist agencies that help people search land records.
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  • Land registration

• Registrar-General of Land

  The Registrar-General of Land oversees the land rights registration system.
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  • Land registration

• Land Transfer Act 2017

  The Land Transfer Act 2017 (the Act) governs how land ownership is registered in New Zealand. The Act simplified the previous legislation to make it more accessible, while maintaining certainty of property rights and enabling the register to be managed…
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  • Land registration

• The land transfer system

  From the 1840s New Zealand’s land records were managed under a paper system. Since 2002, the titles, survey plans and related documents have been held in an electronic database called Landonline.
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  • Land registration

• Historic land records

  New Zealand’s survey and land registration systems have changed several times since 1840. This page discusses the older types of land record held by Toitū Te Whenua and elsewhere.
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  • Land registration

• Property title

  Property titles give an accurate and up-to-date picture of legal ownership of land in New Zealand. Information on researching, purchasing and updating property titles is below.
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  • Land registration

• What land records are for

  Land records provide detailed legal information and a historical record of land ownership.
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  • Land registration

• Record locations

  Listed below are the locations of the most commonly used records for New Zealand's 12 land registration districts.
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  • Land registration

• Land record order fees

  Find fees for land record orders outside the Landonline system, including ordering a copy of a title.
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  • Land registration

• Forms of land records and where they are held

  You can access land records in electronic or paper form.
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  • Land registration

• Land Record Search

  Use our Land Record Search to search for and, for $6, buy land records. This includes records of titles (previously called certificates of title or computer registers), survey plans and other instruments.
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  • Land registration