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Land and Property Information (LPI) division is the key source through which the Department of Lands also referred as Lands, provides information of Land managerial services in NSW (New South Wales). Efficient administration of land is the major tool that facilitates the business, community and government in deriving utmost assistance from property and land for enabling prosperity and economic growth.  Lands compile together several services, which were initially rendered by different government entities. The formation of Department of lands has enabled access to the information of property and land, and even consolidated in improving the planning, crisis and event handling by ascertaining investment choices of the State. Lands unified frameworks links the NSW people to ample packages of property and land services also including the title registration, valuation, mapping and surveying of land. The LPI helps in imparting the information to NSW, Australia as well as internationally. 

 

Services Offered by Lands:

 

As a government entity, LPI offers the following services:

 

  1. Registration and Titling: LPI is an internationally accepted leader with regards to the administration of land. It provides an efficient, secure and guaranteed system with reference to ownership of land for NSW. Titling refers to the lawful ownership of land in the state, including the public and private. The principal register called as Torrens Title register, defends the title of land via State Government security and is operated from the year 1863. The General Register of Deeds comprises of old structure accounts inclusive of data from the earlier settlement days of NSW.  To assist the dealing, online services are incorporated in the system.
  2. Valuation: The LPI keep records of transparent and neutral valuation of service that is beneficial for the whole of NSW area. The general valuation on every local govt. area every two to four years is evaluated, in order to suggest the owners of property to value related land. Additionally, it finds ratings of NSW properties every year for aiding the estimation of land tax.
  3. Reviewing: LPI enforces and supervises the principles of survey industry of NSW. By conducting inspection in familiar areas related to untrustworthy data and audit of recent wedged plans, it carries the review. Lands are accountable for solving the boundary disputes.

 

Miscellaneous:

 

Besides the services mentioned above, LPI collates the information of property in NSW and makes it available to people through the online website and approved brokers. The database managed by Lands is considered to be the biggest historical and commercial asset of the State.