The NSW property industry now operates a 100% eConveyancing model as paper Certificates of Title cease to be legal documents.
Certificates of Title for NSW’s Parliament House, Government House and Queen’s Square were the final pages to roll off NSW Land Registry Services presses, commemorating the end of paper land titles in NSW, which were first recorded in 1863.
The state has always been a leader in electronic property transactions, with 98% of all real property dealings lodged electronically today and NSW leading a world-first Automated Land Titles System since 1983.
Fast Facts
- Today under half of all properties in NSW have a paper Certificate of Title issued – these are no longer legal documents
- A Title Search of the Torrens Title Register held by NSW Land Registry Services is the single source of truth as to the ownership of a person’s home or property
- From 11 October 2021 all land dealings must be lodged electronically with NSW Land Registry Services
- Did you know you can access more than 19 million land records and historical documents online by visiting NSW LRS’ Historical Land Records Viewer?
For more information about the efficiency eConveyancing will bring in NSW and the abolition of paper certificates of title from11 October 20201, please visit the Registrar General’s
website. Click
here for industry and technical information about lodging electronically with NSW LRS.