NSW Land Registry Services

aid: nsw-land-registry
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: NSW Land Registry Services
kind: company
description: 'NSW Land Registry Services (NSW LRS) operates the Torrens Title Register for New South Wales, Australia''s largest
  property market, under a concession granted by the NSW Government on 1 July 2017 and held by Australian Registry Investments
  Pty Ltd (ACN 617 926 020) as trustee for the Australian Registry Investments Trust. It is a privatised operator of a public
  record: the Registrar General retains the statutory authority and the Office of the Registrar General regulates the concession,
  while NSW LRS runs the register, examines and registers dealings and plans, and sells access to the resulting data. It sits
  at the legal foundation of the Australian value chain, beneath the REA Group and Domain portal duopoly, beneath PropTrack
  and CoreLogic valuation, and beneath PEXA and Sympli, the Electronic Lodgment Network Operators through which every Real
  Property Act dealing must now be lodged. Its API posture is the sharpest example in this study of a registry that is technically
  modern and commercially closed. There is no developer portal, no developer or docs subdomain, no published API programme,
  no OpenAPI or Swagger document, no SDK, no Postman workspace and no GitHub organization. One documented, anonymously callable
  API does exist, and it is not about land: the NSW LRS status page is an Atlassian Statuspage with the public v2 API enabled
  and referenced at status.nswlrs.com.au/api, publishing 27 components — among them an "API Service" component under Information
  Broker Services that confirms from the registry''s own mouth that a production API estate sits behind the broker licence
  — plus RSS and Atom incident feeds and webhook notifications on incident and component changes. Access to the register itself
  is gated behind a licence: the site states plainly that "Only an information broker we''ve authorised can access our records",
  and those brokers — InfoTrack, Dye & Durham, Equifax, CITEC Confirm, TriSearch, Landchecker, Fynd, PSI Global and others
  — "deliver and on-sell land titling and related property information through an official licence agreement with NSW LRS".
  Wholesale data products (Property Alerts, Lease Notifications, Mortgage Insights, Mortgage Verifications) are sold by emailing
  datasolutions@nswlrs.com.au, with no self-serve path and no published technical contract. What does exist, and what this
  profile records, are three genuinely reachable machine-readable surfaces that NSW LRS never advertises to developers: a
  Cantaloupe IIIF Image API 2.0 Level 2 endpoint serving the scanned historical land records behind the Historical Land Records
  Viewer, an anonymously callable Elasticsearch search proxy over 7,160,622 indexed historical documents, and a publicly downloadable
  W3C XML Schema for the ICSM ePlan Cadastral Information File enumerated types that pins the NSW LandXML jurisdictional vocabulary
  now mandatory for digital plan lodgment. The contracts are open; the licence is not — the HLRV terms of use prohibit on-supply,
  data aggregation, republishing and "any device, software or routine to abuse the service of HLRV or emulate human interaction
  and operation". RESO is entirely absent: NSW LRS appears nowhere in RESO''s certified-organizations list, there is no RESO
  Web API or Data Dictionary certification, no OData $metadata document and no Universal Property Identifier, which is the
  expected answer for Australia, where RESO is a North American NAR construct with no adoption. No open, unlicensed dataset
  is published — NSW LRS is not a publishing organization on data.nsw.gov.au — and a privatised registry selling the public
  record back through a licensed broker channel is itself the finding. The registry does publish its language: a 257-term
  glossary of NSW land titling definitions, harvested here as the controlled vocabulary that stands in for the data dictionary
  it never wrote.'
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: contact-sales
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Broker licence agreement required · wholesale data solutions by commercial contact only · no developer portal
  confidence: high
  source:
  - documentation
  - terms-of-use
  generated: '2026-07-26'
  method: manual
image: https://nswlrs.com.au/assets/f/1129775276948026/1a96a055c4/new_nsw-lrs-logo_colour.png
tags:
- Real Estate
- Australia
- Land Registry
- Title
- Conveyancing
- Property Records
- Torrens Title
- eConveyancing
- Government
- Geospatial
- PropTech
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: nsw-land-registry:nsw-lrs-hlrv-iiif-image-api
  name: NSW LRS Historical Land Records Viewer IIIF Image API
  description: 'A live Cantaloupe Image Server exposing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Image API
    2.x over the scanned NSW land record images behind the Historical Land Records Viewer. Verified anonymously on 2026-07-26:
    the endpoint root returned HTTP 200 with the Cantaloupe "IIIF Image API 2.x Endpoint" documentation page advertising the
    sample patterns /{identifier}/info.json and /{identifier}/full/full/0/default.jpg, an image information document for identifier
    eirOSD%2F0938-0939%2F0939_0937_0001.jp2 returned HTTP 200 with Content-Type application/json declaring compliance profile
    http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json, and a derivative render at /full/200,/0/default.jpg returned HTTP 200 with Content-Type
    image/jpeg and 16,798 bytes. The saved info.json is the machine-readable contract: it declares @context http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json,
    protocol http://iiif.io/api/image, the source dimensions, six pyramid sizes, tile geometry, the formats jpg/tif/gif/png,
    the qualities bitonal/default/gray/ color and the full Level 2 feature list including cors, regionByPx, sizeByPct, rotationArbitrary
    and profileLinkHeader. Identifiers are constructed by the HLRV client as URL-encoded location + "/" + fileName over JPEG2000
    masters. NSW LRS publishes no documentation for this endpoint, no OpenAPI, no key issuance and no rate-limit statement;
    it is an undocumented backend of a free public viewer, and the HLRV terms of use expressly prohibit scripted or emulated
    access.'
  humanURL: https://hlrv.nswlrs.com.au/
  baseURL: https://api.lrsnative.com.au/hlrv/iiif/2
  tags:
  - Land Registry
  - Historical Records
  - IIIF
  - Images
  - Australia
  properties:
  - type: Schema
    url: openapi/nsw-land-registry-hlrv-iiif-image-information.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hlrv.nswlrs.com.au/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nswlrs.com.au/services/record-searches/historical-research
  - type: Standard
    url: https://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/policies/terms-conditions
- aid: nsw-land-registry:nsw-lrs-hlrv-document-search-api
  name: NSW LRS Historical Land Records Viewer Document Search API
  description: 'An Elasticsearch search proxy that backs the Historical Land Records Viewer and answers anonymously. Verified
    on 2026-07-26: POST https://api.lrsnative.com.au/hlrv/documents/_msearch with an ndjson body of {"preference":"probe"}
    plus {"query":{"match_all":{}},"size":2} returned HTTP 200 with Content-Type application/json and hits.total 7160622 across
    three shards, with no credential of any kind supplied. The HLRV single-page app configures the ReactiveSearch client with
    ELASTIC_SEARCH_HOST https://api.lrsnative.com.au, INDEX_NAME hlrv/documents and an x-portal-token header, but that header
    is not enforced on _msearch. Returned documents carry collectionId, collectionName (for example "General Register of Deeds
    (Old System Deeds)"), documentId, documentRenderingId, imageType, imageName, bookAndNumber, scanTimestamp and an images
    array of JPEG2000 files with fileName, location, imageId, imageStatus, seqNo and pixel dimensions — the exact fields needed
    to build IIIF identifiers. Sibling routes are not open: GET /hlrv/documents returned HTTP 503, POST /hlrv/documents/_search
    returned HTTP 400 with {"message":"Invalid Request: TypeError: query.includes is not a function"}, and POST /hlrv/lotsearch/search
    returned HTTP 500. There is no published contract, no documentation, no versioning and no terms permitting programmatic
    use; HLRV clause 3.6 prohibits using "any device, software or routine to abuse the service of HLRV or emulate human interaction
    and operation" and clause 2.1 prohibits on-supply, republishing and data aggregation. Recorded here as an observed, reachable
    surface, not as an offered developer product.'
  humanURL: https://hlrv.nswlrs.com.au/
  baseURL: https://api.lrsnative.com.au/hlrv/documents
  tags:
  - Land Registry
  - Historical Records
  - Search
  - Elasticsearch
  - Australia
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hlrv.nswlrs.com.au/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nswlrs.com.au/services/record-searches/how-to-find-a-record
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/policies/terms-conditions
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/nsw-land-registry-hlrv-msearch-response.json
- aid: nsw-land-registry:nsw-lrs-status-api
  name: NSW LRS Status API
  description: 'The one documented, publicly callable API NSW Land Registry Services operates. The NSW LRS status page at
    status.nswlrs.com.au is an Atlassian Statuspage (page id jcfp2nmyt2j4) with the public v2 API enabled and a published
    endpoint reference at https://status.nswlrs.com.au/api, which documents each route with plain curl examples and a JavaScript
    widget wrapper. Verified anonymously on 2026-07-26: /api/v2/status.json returned HTTP 200 with indicator "none" and description
    "All Systems Operational"; /api/v2/summary.json returned 12,844 bytes; /api/v2/components.json returned 9,376 bytes describing
    27 components and component groups; /api/v2/incidents.json returned 163,325 bytes covering 50 incidents; /api/v2/scheduled-maintenances.json
    returned 366,516 bytes; and the unresolved and upcoming convenience routes both answered 200. Incident history is also
    published as RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds, and the page offers email, SMS and webhook subscriptions, the webhook fired whenever
    NSW LRS creates, updates or resolves an incident or changes a component status. The component list doubles as the closest
    public inventory of NSW LRS production systems — Secure Web Services, VPN, eConveyancing Services, NSW LRS Connect, Secure
    File Transfer, Information Broker Services with its own "API Service" child component, ITS Services, Document Delivery
    Services (DeX), RG Directions Website, Secure Upload Portal, DIIMS Services, Addressing Services, eCommerce, Portal Access,
    Cadastral Records Enquiry, HLRV, NOS Enquiry and Street Address searches. It confirms from the registry''s own mouth that
    a production API service exists behind the broker licence, even though nothing about that API is published. No authentication,
    no key issuance and no rate limit is documented; the contract is Atlassian''s, not NSW LRS''s.'
  humanURL: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/
  baseURL: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/api/v2
  tags:
  - Status
  - Operations
  - Incidents
  - Land Registry
  - Australia
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/api
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nsw-land-registry-status-webhooks.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: RSS
    url: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/history.rss
  - type: Atom
    url: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/history.atom
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nsw-land-registry-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nsw-land-registry-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/nsw-land-registry-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nsw-land-registry-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/nsw-land-registry-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nsw-land-registry-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/nsw-land-registry-changelog.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/education-hub/lrs-connect-release-schedule
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/nsw-land-registry-glossary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/nsw-land-registry-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/nsw-land-registry-status-webhooks.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nsw-land-registry-llms.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/announcements
- type: Login
  url: https://connect.nswlrs.com.au/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/glossary-of-terms
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/current-processing-times
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/forms-guides/guides
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/education-hub
- type: Website
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/services
- type: XSD
  url: openapi/nsw-land-registry-eplan-cif-enumerated-types-4-0.xsd
- type: Standard
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/services/plans/digital-plans
- type: Portal
  url: https://connect.nswlrs.com.au/
- type: Portal
  url: https://online.nswlrs.com.au/
- type: Portal
  url: https://hlrv.nswlrs.com.au/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/services/fees-payments/fees
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/policies/terms-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/policies/privacy-policy
- type: Copyright
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/copyright
- type: Support
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/contact-us
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/services/record-searches/how-to-find-an-information-broker
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nswlrs.com.au/data-solutions
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.registrargeneral.nsw.gov.au/property-and-conveyancing/eConveyancing
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nsw-land-registry-services/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com