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Landonline is LINZ's land registration and survey system, and Landwrap is the monthly publication that carries its updates. If you work with land titles or cadastral survey data in New Zealand, Landwrap is the practical way to keep track of changes to Landonline — including password resets, terms and conditions, and PDF uploads. You can subscribe to Landwrap through the LINZ website.

What Landonline is

Landonline sits under LINZ's products and services, in the land registration area. It is the system behind land registration and survey work, which is why its updates matter to anyone dealing with titles, survey plans, or the related workflows.

LINZ describes its wider role as delivering "a trusted land, geospatial and property system that drives innovation, stability and growth for New Zealand." Landonline is part of that system.

What Landwrap covers

Landwrap is LINZ's update publication for Landonline users. The October 2026 issue is a useful example of its scope. It covered:

• How to reset your Landonline password
• Updates to the Landonline terms and conditions
• An update on PDF uploads

That mix — account access, rules you agree to, and file handling — shows Landwrap is aimed at people who actually use Landonline day to day, not just at general readers.

How to stay updated

1. Go to the Landwrap subscription page on the LINZ website (under products and services, in the Landonline section).
2. Subscribe to Landwrap so each issue reaches you directly.
3. Check the LINZ news section as well. Landwrap items also appear there — the October 2026 issue was published on 1 October 2026 under the topics "Land registration" and "Landonline Survey."

Subscribing is the reliable route. Relying on news listings alone means you may see an item later than subscribers do, and you would need to check back regularly.

What else LINZ publishes

LINZ's news covers more than Landonline. Recent items include:

If your interest is land registration and survey, Landwrap is the relevant one. The Crown property items are a separate stream.

The short version

Landonline is LINZ's land registration and survey system. Landwrap is where its changes are announced — passwords, terms and conditions, PDF uploads, and similar. Subscribe to Landwrap on the LINZ site, and treat the news section as a backup rather than your main source.

Toitū Te Whenua – Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) delivers New Zealand's land, geospatial and property system, and its website organises this work under two main entry points: Products & services and Guidance. If you already know what you need, go straight to the relevant section; if you are exploring, the homepage sections and news items are the quickest way to see what is currently available.

Products & services

This section covers the tools and services LINZ provides to the public, professionals and agencies. Examples visible on the site include:

• Landonline – the system for land registration and survey work, referenced in the site's news and updates.
• Landwrap – LINZ's newsletter, which you can subscribe to for updates on land registration, Landonline and survey topics.

The site's news items give a sense of the breadth of work covered under this heading, including land registration, Landonline, and survey topics.

Guidance

The Guidance section (Kōrero ārahi) is where LINZ publishes advice and explanatory material to help people understand and comply with the land, geospatial and property system. This is the place to look when you need direction rather than a transaction — for example, understanding requirements before using a service.

How to find what you need

What the news section tells you

The homepage news feed shows what LINZ is actively working on, which can help you judge whether a service or topic is relevant to you. Recent examples include:

• New modelling on lake weed movement in Lake Rotorua, under the Crown property topic.
• Drones used to locate remaining wilding pines around the Tekapo River, also under Crown property.
• A schedule of surplus Crown-owned land, with iwi invited to register interest with Te Tari Whakatau, the Office of Treaty Settlements and Takutai Moana.
• Landwrap updates covering how to reset your Landonline password, changes to Landonline terms and conditions, and PDF uploads, under land registration, Landonline and survey topics.

Practical starting points

• Professionals working with land records – start with Landonline and the Landwrap newsletter for changes and how-to updates.
• Anyone needing direction on land or property processes – browse Guidance first.
• Iwi and Treaty-related enquiries – the surplus Crown-owned land notices point to Te Tari Whakatau, the Office of Treaty Settlements and Takutai Moana as the contact route.

The site's stated purpose is delivering a trusted land, geospatial and property system that drives innovation, stability and growth for New Zealand — the Products & services and Guidance sections are the two main ways that purpose is presented to visitors.

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) manages Crown-owned land on behalf of the Crown, and when a property is no longer needed for its original public purpose it can be declared surplus. LINZ publishes schedules of these newly surplus properties, and iwi are invited to register their interest with Te Tari Whakatau (the Office of Treaty Settlements) and Takutai Moana. This page explains what that process involves and where to follow updates.

What "surplus Crown-owned land" means

Crown-owned land is land held by the government rather than by private owners. It can be used for a range of public purposes. When a property is no longer required for the purpose it was held for, it may be declared surplus — meaning the Crown no longer needs to retain it.

Once land is declared surplus, it can move into a process that considers how it should be disposed of or transferred. For iwi, this is a point of interest because surplus Crown properties can be relevant to Treaty settlement and related processes.

How LINZ publishes surplus land schedules

LINZ regularly publishes a schedule of new Crown properties that have been declared surplus. These schedules are the practical entry point for anyone wanting to know what has recently become available through this process.

From the LINZ news and updates, an example is the Surplus Crown-owned Land – October 2026 item, which is listed under the Crown property topic. This shows the pattern: surplus land announcements appear as dated updates, grouped with other Crown property news.

What the schedule tells you

• Which properties have been newly declared surplus
• That the schedule is published on a recurring basis (monthly, based on the October 2026 example)
• That the topic area to watch is Crown property

Registering iwi interest

The key action for iwi is to register interest in surplus properties. LINZ states that iwi are invited to register their interest with:

• Te Tari Whakatau — the Office of Treaty Settlements
• Takutai Moana

This means the registration step is handled through those bodies rather than through a general LINZ purchase or application channel. If you are acting for an iwi, the practical sequence is:

1. Watch for new surplus land schedules published by LINZ.
2. Identify properties relevant to your interests.
3. Register that interest with Te Tari Whakatau and Takutai Moana.

Where to follow updates

Crown property is a recurring topic in LINZ news, so the most reliable way to stay current is to monitor LINZ announcements in that category. Alongside surplus land, the same topic area carries related Crown property updates — for example, wilding pine control work around the Tekapo River and lake weed research on Lake Rotorua.

If you want updates delivered rather than checking manually, LINZ offers a Subscribe to Landwrap option under its Landonline products and services. Landwrap is the newsletter that carries Landonline and land registration updates, such as password resets, terms and conditions changes, and PDF upload changes.

Quick reference

Key points to remember

• Surplus land is Crown land no longer needed for its original purpose.
• LINZ publishes schedules of newly surplus properties rather than maintaining a single static list.
• Iwi interest is registered with Te Tari Whakatau and Takutai Moana, not through a general LINZ channel.
• Crown property updates, including surplus land, appear in LINZ news; Landwrap subscription covers Landonline-related updates.

linz.govt.nz is the official website of Toitū Te Whenua – Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), a New Zealand government agency. Its stated role is to deliver "a trusted land, geospatial and property system that drives innovation, stability and growth for New Zealand." The organisation describes its wider purpose as understanding, developing and caring for whenua (land), moana (sea) and arawai (waterways).

If you need authoritative information about New Zealand's land, geospatial or property systems — or you want to find LINZ products, services and guidance — this is the source to use.

What LINZ is responsible for

LINZ operates across the land, geospatial and property system. The homepage organises its work into three main areas:

• Our work (Ā mātou mahi) — the agency's ongoing programmes and responsibilities.
• Products & services (Ngā hua me ngā ratonga) — the tools and services LINZ provides, including land registration systems such as Landonline.
• Guidance (Kōrero ārahi) — official advice and information for people working with land and property.

The site's framing of "whenua, moana and arawai" signals that LINZ's remit extends beyond land parcels to include sea and waterways — relevant to anyone dealing with coastal, marine or environmental information as well as property.

What you can find on the site

The homepage carries a news section (Karere) that shows the kind of material LINZ publishes. Recent examples include:

Two things stand out from this list. First, LINZ publishes schedules of surplus Crown-owned land, and invites iwi to register interest in those properties with Te Tari Whakatau, the Office of Treaty Settlements and Takutai Moana. Second, it maintains Landwrap, a newsletter covering land registration and Landonline matters — the October 2026 edition, for example, covered resetting a Landonline password, updates to Landonline terms and conditions, and PDF uploads.

Practical uses

Depending on what you need, the site serves several purposes:

• Finding official updates on Crown property, land registration and survey matters.
• Accessing products and services, including Landonline, the system used for land registration work.
• Reading guidance before dealing with land or property processes.
• Subscribing to Landwrap if you want ongoing updates on land registration and Landonline changes.

Note that some services, such as subscribing to Landwrap, involve a subscription step — the site provides a dedicated subscribe page rather than open access to everything.

Who this matters for

LINZ's information is most relevant to people who need to work with New Zealand's official land and property records: surveyors, conveyancers, property professionals, iwi engaging with Crown land processes, and anyone needing government guidance on land, geospatial or property matters. If your question concerns who owns or administers a piece of Crown land, how land registration works, or where to find official geospatial information, LINZ is the starting point.

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) reports on environmental and land management work through its news section, with recent examples covering lake weed movement in Lake Rotorua and wilding pine control around the Tekapo River. Both items sit under the Crown property topic, which is where LINZ publishes updates on managing land and environmental issues it is responsible for. If you want to follow this kind of work, the news section is the place to look.

The two recent examples

Lake weed movement in Lake Rotorua

LINZ reported on new modelling that helps identify weed beds likely to contribute to weed wash-up events on the Rotorua lakefront after major storm events. The stated purpose is to provide insights that inform future control efforts. In other words, the research is not just descriptive — it is intended to guide where control work is targeted.

Wilding pine control around the Tekapo River

The hunt for wilding pines around Lake Tekapo entered a new phase, with drones helping crews track down individual trees remaining after years of control work. This shows a shift from broad control to locating stragglers, and it shows the role of tools like drones in making that final stage feasible.

What these stories have in common

Both items are published under the same topic, Crown property, and both connect research or tools to practical control work rather than reporting findings in isolation.

Why LINZ reports on this work

LINZ describes its role as delivering a trusted land, geospatial and property system that drives innovation, stability and growth for New Zealand. The environmental and land management stories above are examples of how that role plays out on the ground: understanding a problem (weed movement), locating a problem (remaining wilding pines), and feeding that back into control decisions.

How to follow current projects and findings

• Go to the news section of linz.govt.nz and view all news.
• Look for items tagged under Crown property, which is where the lake weed and wilding pine stories appear.
• Check publication dates to see how recent a project update is — the examples above are dated October 2026.
• Read the item itself for the specific finding or phase, since the headline only summarises it.

If you want updates delivered rather than checking the site, LINZ offers a subscription to Landwrap, its newsletter. Landwrap covers land registration and Landonline topics, so it is useful for staying current on LINZ work generally, though the environmental and land management items described here are published as news rather than as Landwrap content.