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• Overseas investment factsheets

  Download references, guides and information sheets that explain the regulation of overseas investment into New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Application forms and information sheets

  Use these forms and information sheets to prepare and submit your application.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investing in forestry and forestry rights (before 16 August 2022)

  Find out about investing in forestry rights or buying or leasing land to be used for forestry.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investing in land to provide a benefit to New Zealand

  Find out more about investing in sensitive land to provide a benefit to New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Arrange a pre-application meeting

  You and your advisors can meet with us before you submit your application for consent.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Registers of exemptions

  Registers of exemption certificates for large residential development, transitional exemption certificates for large residential development, discretionary exemptions, and exemptions from the definition of non-New Zealand government investor.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Apply for retrospective consent

  Find out if you can apply for consent retrospectively if you have made an investment without getting consent first.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Register: Exemptions from definition of non-New Zealand government investor

  This page provides a register of exemptions from the definition of non-New Zealand government investor.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Our enforcement tools

  Find out about the tools and powers we can use when responding to breaches of the overseas investment rules.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Declining an application

  Find out the process we follow when we decline an application for consent to invest in New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Register: Transitional exemption certificates for large residential developments

  This page provides a register of transitional exemption certificates for large residential developments.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Register: Exemption certificates for large residential developments

  This page provides a register of exemption certificates for large residential developments.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Other consequential benefits

  Find out about making a claim under the other consequential benefits factor.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Report a suspected breach

  Tell us if you think someone has broken the overseas investment rules.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Land types and areas

  Find out how we use land types and area thresholds to determine whether land is sensitive.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Selling sensitive New Zealand assets overseas

  Find out about selling sensitive New Zealand assets overseas and whether you need consent to do so.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Ordinarily resident in New Zealand

  Find out how we define ‘ordinarily resident in New Zealand’.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Ownership or control

  Find out about the level of ownership or control interest that determines whether consent is required to invest in New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investing on behalf of an overseas person

  Find out about the need to apply for consent if you are a New Zealand citizen or are ordinarily resident in New Zealand, and are investing on behalf of an overseas person. These rules are called the ‘associate provisions’.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Privacy, confidentiality, and sharing of information

  What information may be shared or publicly released, and what information may be withheld by the Overseas Investment Office.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Buying residential property to live in

  Find out about buying or building a home in New Zealand to live in, and whether you will need consent to do so.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investing in land if you are planning to live in New Zealand

  Find out about investing in sensitive land when you are intending to live in New Zealand indefinitely.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Comply with the conditions of your consent

  Find out what information you need to provide to show you have met the conditions of your consent.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Standalone investor test

  Find out about how you can apply to meet the investor test to prepare for future transactions.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Notify us of a transaction made under a standing consent

  Find out how to notify us of a transaction made under a residential or forestry standing consent.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Our strategic priorities

  Find out about our priorities for investigating and enforcing the overseas investment rules.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Farm land advertising

  Find out about the requirements for advertising farm land before selling to an overseas person.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investigating possible breaches

  Find out about our work investigating possible breaches of the overseas investment rules.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Exemptions from the need for consent

  Find out when an exemption from the requirements for consent may be available.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Before you apply

  Find out where to seek expert New Zealand legal and land advice before applying, what information you will need to gather to support your application, and how to arrange a pre-application meeting with us.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Subscribe to news from our overseas investment team

  Sign up to Pānui and change alerts to receive regular news and updates from our overseas investment team.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Oversight or participation by New Zealanders

  Find out about claiming a benefit under the oversight or participation by New Zealanders factor.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment