ACT title search: the current title for any Canberra property

ACT Land Titles, part of Access Canberra, keeps the Territory's land titles register. Most land in the ACT is leasehold, held under a Crown lease, and the title records who holds that lease and what's registered against it.

• Volume and folio: the title reference, such as 1579/91, with the block, section and suburb.
• Registered proprietor: the names of the people or companies that hold the lease. ACT titles don't print an owner's address.
• Registered interests: mortgages, caveats, easements and covenants.
• Pending dealings: documents lodged but not yet registered.

ACT land is divided into districts, then divisions (the suburbs), sections and blocks. Block 5 Section 121 Florey is one example. Units are lots on a Units Plan (UP); other land is on a Deposited Plan (DP).

ACTmapi, the ACT Government's free online map, shows blocks and sections and the zone that applies. You don't need the block or the volume and folio to order from us: we show them before you pay.

Yes. Anyone can search the register through ACTLIS, either as a member of the public or with a subscriber account. A certificate of title search costs A$36.00, with no GST. Deposited plans cost A$26 and copies of instruments A$24. Start at Access Canberra's land titles search page.

If you know the block and section and only need the document, buying from ACT Land Titles is cheaper than buying from us.

Our ACT title search is A$99, including the registry fee and GST.

• The ACT Land Titles title search PDF, unchanged, emailed usually within minutes. Some ACT orders are processed by hand and take up to 1 business day; we email you if yours does.
• A one-page plain-English summary: who holds the lease and how, mortgages, caveats, easements, covenants and anything pending.
• The block, section, suburb and volume and folio shown before you pay.
• An optional Title + Full Report for A$129: every entry explained beside its original wording, red flags, a mortgage-discharge check and questions to ask your conveyancer.
• If we can't deliver the title, the hold on your card is released and you pay nothing.

1. 1Type the street address.
2. 2Check the block, section, suburb and title we find. For units, make sure it's your unit, not the common property.
3. 3Pay by card.
4. 4The title and your summary arrive by email, usually within minutes and occasionally the next business day.

Each unit on a units plan has its own title. The common property is managed by the owners corporation, so if you own a unit, order your own unit's title.

If you want to know when something is lodged on your title, ACT Land Titles offers Title Watch, which notifies you when actions are detected on titles you nominate. We don't offer title monitoring yet.