NSW title search: the current title for any property in New South Wales

In New South Wales each title is a folio (one record in the land register), kept electronically by NSW Land Registry Services (NSW LRS). A title search is a copy of that folio on the day you order. NSW no longer issues paper certificates of title, so if you've lost your 'title deeds', this is the record that replaces them.

• Folio identifier, search date and edition number. The edition goes up each time something is registered.
• Land: the lot and plan, council area and the title diagram (the plan the land is drawn on).
• First Schedule: the registered owners' names. NSW titles don't print an owner's address.
• Second Schedule: mortgages, caveats, easements, covenants and reservations to the Crown.
• Notations and unregistered dealings: documents lodged but not yet registered, such as a sale in progress.

The folio identifier is the NSW title reference, made from the lot, the section (if any) and the plan: 41/1277564 is Lot 41 in Deposited Plan 1277564, and 5/3/758000 is Lot 5, Section 3. Strata units use the strata plan, such as 12/SP45678, and that scheme's common property is CP/SP45678.

Rates notices and purchase contracts usually show the lot and DP, and the NSW Planning Portal's free Spatial Viewer finds it from an address. You don't need it to order from us: we show it before you pay.

The NSW LRS fee is A$18.70 including GST, a regulated fee updated each July. NSW is the one state where the registry doesn't sell titles online to the public: you buy over the counter from NSW LRS, or online through an authorised information broker, who adds a charge.

NSW LRS lists its brokers and their prices on its information broker page; the cheapest charge a little over the registry fee. If you know the folio identifier, only need the PDF and can read it yourself, that's the cheapest route.

Our NSW title search costs A$79, including the registry fee and GST.

• The current NSW LRS title PDF, unchanged, emailed usually within minutes, any day.
• A one-page plain-English summary: who owns it and how (for example joint tenants or tenants in common), mortgages, caveats, easements, covenants and pending dealings.
• The lot, plan and folio identifier shown before you pay.
• An optional Title + Full Report (A$109): every entry explained beside its wording, red flags, a mortgage-discharge check and questions for a conveyancer.
• If we can't deliver the title, the card hold is released and you pay nothing.

1. 1Type the street address.
2. 2Check the lot, plan and folio identifier. If the address has several titles, such as units or a farm on several lots, choose yours.
3. 3Pay by card.
4. 4The title PDF and summary arrive by email, usually within minutes.

Each strata unit has its own folio, and the common property has a separate one in the owners corporation's name. If you own a unit, you want your lot (such as 12/SP45678), not the common property. Farms and older blocks can sit on several lots, each with its own folio; we list every title we find.

Plans and 88B instruments aren't available from us yet. Any NSW information broker can supply the deposited plan or 88B instrument for the same A$18.70 registry fee as a title.