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Land-registration fees to jump from $90 to $124 – act now to avoid the increase!!

Land-registration fees are increasing in early 2025

Act now to avoid the early-2025 increase. Transmission by survivorship? – do it now! Transmission to executor or estate administrator? – do it now! Put the land into the names of the beneficiaries? – find out more…. Repaid the mortgage but it’s still on the title? – get it discharged now!

It will cost $124 (instead of the current $90), to register a transmission by survivorship, transmission to executor/s or administrator/s, mortgage discharge, or transfer (to beneficiaries or to third party).

Those are the different transactions needed when someone dies and they own a house, flat, or other real estate.

The exact date of the increase is not yet known. It will be early 2025.

There’s more info on the Land Information New Zealand website here: https://www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/landonline/landonline-fees-and-charges

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How to sign your land documents under COVID lockdown

It’s all a little confusing! If you do not have access to a printer, can documents be signed electronically (on a screen, rather than on paper)? If they need to be witnessed, and you are in lockdown, who does it, and how? What if you are in lockdown outside New Zealand?

Statutory declarations cannot be signed electronically, but may be witnessed by audio or video link while being signed on paper.

A&I forms can be signed electronically and must be witnessed in person or by video or audio link. A&I forms require certification of identity, which may require verification software if it has not previously been done in person.

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