SA title search: the current title for any South Australian property

South Australia's land register is kept for the Registrar-General, and Land Services SA supplies searches of it through its online system, SAILIS. A Register Search shows the certificate of title as it stands today.

• Title reference, edition and parent titles: for example CT 5555/55, with the dealings that created the title and its diagram reference (the plan).
• Registered proprietor: each owner's name followed by 'of' and an address, and the estate, usually fee simple.
• Description of land and easements.
• Schedule of dealings: registered mortgages, encumbrances, leases and caveats.
• Notations: dealings affecting the title, priority notices, notations on the plan, Registrar-General's notes and administrative interests.

SA titles are referenced by volume and folio, written like CT 5555/55 (CT stands for certificate of title). The land itself is an allotment, unit or other parcel on a plan: a Deposited Plan (DP), Filed Plan (FP), Community Plan (CP) or Strata Plan (SP).

SAPPA, the South Australian Property and Planning Atlas, is free and finds the title reference, plan and parcel from an address. You don't need any of these to order from us: we show the title reference before you pay.

Yes. Anyone can use SAILIS as a guest. A Register Search costs A$36.75, and Register Search Plus costs A$45.50 and adds the plan image and every registered instrument on the title. Land Services SA's own copy of your certificate of title page points the public to Register Search Plus. SA registry search fees are GST-exempt.

If you need the plan and the documents behind the title as well, Register Search Plus is good value. We don't sell those separately yet.

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

• The Land Services SA title PDF, unchanged, emailed usually within minutes.
• A one-page plain-English summary: owners and how they hold the land, mortgages, caveats, easements, encumbrances and anything pending.
• The CT volume and folio, plan and parcel 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 or the seller.
• 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 CT volume and folio and the plan and parcel we find, and pick the right title if there's more than one.
3. 3Pay by card.
4. 4The title and your summary arrive by email, usually within minutes.

Units and townhouses on a community plan or strata plan each have their own certificate of title. Common property is looked after by the community or strata corporation, so if you own a unit, order your own unit's title.

Farms and rural blocks often span several titles, and older land may be on a Filed Plan rather than a Deposited Plan. We list every title we find for the address so you can choose the right one.