Landonline provides land professionals with secure access to New Zealand's only authoritative titles register and digital cadastre maintained by LINZ. The functionally smart system enables registered users to conduct secure electronic title and survey transactions in real time, automating and speeding up traditional (and sometimes prolonged and complex) manual processes.
Landonline is not designed for public access or use. Its survey and title lodgement and registration functions can only be accessed by authenticated, registered users to ensure the integrity of the titles register and digital cadastre is maintained at all times.
Development of the system
Landonline was designed in close collaboration with all stakeholders including surveyors, lawyers, conveyancers and local authorities. This ensured their needs were incorporated into development and provided opportunities for users to review and improve their workflows and service to their clients. In a process spanning five years, LINZ converted over seven million physical records into digital records that are now held in Landonline. These include titles, title instruments, plans, parcels and geodetic survey marks dating back over 150 years.
As the core national land information repository, Landonline has also enabled LINZ to streamline its own business functions, resulting in faster processing of both manual and electronic survey and title lodgements and registration. Today, all lodgements are processed straight into Landonline. Only documents or records which are too fragile or large to convert to digital records, or which are too infrequently accessed are unavailable in Landonline.
Move to 100% electronic lodgement
The move to 100% electronic lodgement of all land title and survey plans via Landonline and the withdrawal of paper-based lodgements, has been phased in gradually since the Government announcement on 8 February 2006. The final milestone was reached on 23 February 2009 when e-lodgement of title transactions became mandatory, with the exception of those where original signatures are required, e.g. court orders.
Core Paper Records information
LINZ looks after millions of land records for the Crown including: property titles, survey plans, Crown grants and indexes. We have released an information paper that provides an update on the strategy for managing core records in the future. For more information, refer to the Paper Records Implementation Programme on the LINZ website.
