Survey and Title fees are changing in early 2025. All Landonline users will be advised of the effective date by email. See details on the new changes: Survey and title fees
| Record of title - current with diagram Electronic property title record, showing current proprietor, legal description, registered rights and restrictions, eg mortgage, easement or covenant. Includes a plan or diagram of the land. | $6 |
| Record of Title - historic As for current record of title; also shows all interests registered when title created, and since. May include scan of paper copy of Certificate of Title. | $6 |
| Record of Title - guaranteed search As for a current record of title; also shows any documents recently lodged with LINZ but not yet formally registered, eg a newly created covenant. Generally requested by solicitors for property dealings. | $6 |
| Cadastral Survey Plan (Title sheet) Shows the plan that was deposited when the title was created. This could be a simple plan of the property’s boundaries, area and dimensions, a detailed survey plan or a combination of both. SAMPLE | $6 |
| Cadastral Survey Plan (Survey sheet) Shows detailed survey observations and may also include a simpler plan detailing only the property’s boundaries, area and dimensions. SAMPLE | $6 |
| Instrument (Document) For example a mortgage, easement or caveat. Instrument references are recorded on the record of title they are registered against. SAMPLE | $6 |
Less commonly ordered (see historic land records for more information)
If you need to make a manual request, this will be $25 per record.
Request a manual search using the Land Record order form.
All other records are $25 each.
If the record you request is not digitised and cannot be copied, you will be advised and your fee refunded.
There is no charge to view these records.
| Abstracts and journals These record documents deposited (lodged) in the paper-based title system. SAMPLE |
| Crown grants The evidence of grants of Crown land to individuals. They can date back to 1840; some are still current. Crown Grant records are now held at Archives New Zealand. SAMPLE |
| Deeds, and deed indexes & registers The deeds land ownership system predated titles. A very small area of land is still held by deed. All deed registers and indexes are now held at Archives New Zealand. SAMPLE |
| Field books / notes Detailed records of field measurement made by surveyors. Some of the earliest fieldbooks are held at Archives New Zealand; copies are available via LINZ or Archives. SAMPLE |
| Traverse record / sheet Surveyors’ technical records that provide a record of coordinates for each survey mark within a survey. SAMPLE |