NSW Land Registry Services
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 NSW Land Registry Services can hold something up, and why.
| Process | Step | Why it waits | Clock | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build a multi storey apartment building via the Housing Delivery Authority — New South Wales | Register the plan of strata registration | queue | — | 30 |
| Build a multi storey apartment building — New South Wales | Register the plan of strata registration | queue | — | 30 |
| Buy land and build a single storey house — New South Wales | Settlement period registration | third party | — | 42 |
| Buy land and build a single storey house — New South Wales | Transfer of title registered registration | third party | — | 14 |
| Build a block of townhouses — New South Wales | Register the plan of subdivision registration | queue | — | 30 |