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Access Canberra Land Titles

Land titles registry

Registers dealings in land, including transfers of title, plans of subdivision and strata plans. A registry is a queue, not an assessor: it checks form, not merit.

Land registries appear at the end of almost every property process in this database, and they are consistently the least examined source of delay.

Registration is not an assessment of anything. The registry checks that a plan or dealing is in order and records it. Where that takes weeks, the delay is queueing, and it lands at the point of maximum holding cost -- after construction is finished and before anything can be sold or settled.

Where this body appears in a process

Every point at which Access Canberra Land Titles can hold something up, and why.

ProcessStepWhy it waitsClockTypical
Build a multi storey apartment building — Australian Capital Territory Register the plan of strata registration queue — 30
Buy land and build a single storey house — Australian Capital Territory Settlement period registration third party — 30
Buy land and build a single storey house — Australian Capital Territory Transfer of title registered registration third party — 14
Build a block of townhouses — Australian Capital Territory Register the plan of subdivision registration queue — 30