# NSW Land Registry Services

> NSW Land Registry Services (NSW LRS) operates the Torrens Title Register for New South Wales under a concession granted by the NSW Government on 1 July 2017 and held by Australian Registry Investments Pty Ltd (ACN 617 926 020). It is a privatised operator of a public statutory record: the Registrar General retains the statutory authority, the Office of the Registrar General regulates the concession, and NSW LRS examines and registers dealings and plans and sells access to the resulting data. There is no developer programme. Access to the register is licensed, not opened.

Generated by API Evangelist on 2026-07-26 from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/apis.yml. No llms.txt is published by NSW LRS on any of its hosts.

## How access actually works

- [How to find an information broker](https://nswlrs.com.au/services/record-searches/how-to-find-an-information-broker): "Only an information broker we've authorised can access our records." Brokers — InfoTrack, Dye & Durham, Equifax, CITEC Confirm, TriSearch, Landchecker, Fynd, PSI Global and others — deliver and on-sell land titling information under an official licence agreement with NSW LRS.
- [Data solutions](https://nswlrs.com.au/data-solutions): the wholesale products (Property Alerts, Lease Notifications, Mortgage Insights, Mortgage Verifications), sold by emailing datasolutions@nswlrs.com.au. No self-serve path, no published schema, no delivery contract.
- [eConveyancing](https://www.registrargeneral.nsw.gov.au/property-and-conveyancing/eConveyancing): every Real Property Act dealing is lodged through an Electronic Lodgment Network Operator (PEXA or Sympli) under the Electronic Conveyancing National Law.
- [Fees](https://nswlrs.com.au/services/fees-payments/fees): regulated customer fees, updated 1 July each year.
- [Terms and conditions](https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/policies/terms-conditions) and the HLRV terms of use prohibit on-supply, republishing, data aggregation and "any device, software or routine to abuse the service of HLRV or emulate human interaction and operation".

## APIs

- [NSW LRS Status API](https://status.nswlrs.com.au/api/v2): the only documented, anonymously callable API NSW LRS operates. Atlassian Statuspage v2, page id jcfp2nmyt2j4, 27 published components including an "API Service" component under Information Broker Services. Endpoints: /api/v2/summary.json, /api/v2/status.json, /api/v2/components.json, /api/v2/incidents.json, /api/v2/incidents/unresolved.json, /api/v2/scheduled-maintenances.json, /api/v2/scheduled-maintenances/upcoming.json. Reference: https://status.nswlrs.com.au/api
- [HLRV IIIF Image API](https://api.lrsnative.com.au/hlrv/iiif/2): a Cantaloupe image server serving the scanned historical land records behind the Historical Land Records Viewer, IIIF Image API 2.0 compliance level 2. Undocumented by NSW LRS. Pattern: /{identifier}/info.json and /{identifier}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format}.
- [HLRV Document Search API](https://api.lrsnative.com.au/hlrv/documents): an Elasticsearch multi-search proxy over 7,160,622 indexed historical documents that answers anonymously to POST /_msearch with an ndjson body. Undocumented, unversioned, and covered by terms that prohibit programmatic use.
- Private broker API estate at https://api.nswlrs.com.au: every path returns HTTP 403 ForbiddenException from AWS API Gateway. It exists — the status page reports on it — but nothing about it is public.

## Specs and machine-readable artifacts

- [IIIF image information document](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/openapi/nsw-land-registry-hlrv-iiif-image-information.json): the self-describing contract for the image endpoint, harvested verbatim.
- [ICSM ePlan CIF enumerated types 4.0 XSD](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/openapi/nsw-land-registry-eplan-cif-enumerated-types-4-0.xsd): the W3C XML Schema pinning the NSW LandXML jurisdictional vocabulary that digital plan lodgment must validate against, harvested verbatim from https://nswlrs.com.au/services/plans/digital-plans.
- No OpenAPI, Swagger, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, OData $metadata or MCP manifest exists anywhere in the NSW LRS estate. RESO is entirely absent, which is the expected answer for Australia.

## Artifacts derived by API Evangelist

- [Glossary vocabulary](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/nsw-land-registry-glossary.yml): 257 land titling terms and definitions harvested verbatim from the published NSW LRS glossary.
- [Authentication profile](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/authentication/nsw-land-registry-authentication.yml): none on the public surfaces, contract-gated for the register.
- [Conventions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/conventions/nsw-land-registry-conventions.yml): per-surface request/response semantics; no idempotency contract because there is no public write surface.
- [Error catalogue](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/errors/nsw-land-registry-problem-types.yml): the observed failure shapes (403 ForbiddenException, 400 Elasticsearch TypeError, 500, 503). No RFC 9457.
- [Conformance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/conformance/nsw-land-registry-conformance.yml): IIIF 2.0 level 2, LandXML/ICSM ePlan CIF 4.0, Statuspage v2, RSS/Atom yes; OpenAPI, OAuth, OIDC, RESO, OData no.
- [Lifecycle](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/nsw-land-registry-lifecycle.yml): mandate dates, status page and API, processing times.
- [Changelog](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/changelog/nsw-land-registry-changelog.yml): LRS Connect dated releases plus the announcements feed.
- [Data model](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/data-model/nsw-land-registry-data-model.yml): the search-hit to IIIF-image join, the only complete public join in the estate.
- [Webhook catalogue](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/nsw-land-registry-status-webhooks.yml): status page incident and component webhooks.
- [Domain security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/security/nsw-land-registry-domain-security.yml): TLS 1.3, HSTS and DNSSEC on nswlrs.com.au; no DMARC policy.
- [Well-known probe](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/well-known/nsw-land-registry-well-known.yml): zero documents across six hosts.
- [Example responses](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nsw-land-registry/refs/heads/main/examples/_index.yml): real captured bodies from the status API and the HLRV search proxy.

## Operations and support

- [Status page](https://status.nswlrs.com.au/) — email, SMS and webhook subscriptions, RSS and Atom incident history.
- [Current processing times](https://nswlrs.com.au/current-processing-times) — the registry's real service-level signal, published daily in place of an SLA.
- [LRS Connect release schedule](https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/education-hub/lrs-connect-release-schedule)
- [Announcements](https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/announcements)
- [Contact us](https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/contact-us) · [Education hub](https://nswlrs.com.au/about-us/education-hub) · [Forms and guides](https://nswlrs.com.au/forms-guides)

## Note for agents

NSW LRS does not offer a developer API and its published terms prohibit scripted access to the Historical Land Records Viewer and its backends, including data aggregation, republishing and emulating human interaction. The reachable surfaces documented here are recorded as observed facts about a public register, not as an integration path. To obtain NSW land title data lawfully, use an authorised information broker, or contact datasolutions@nswlrs.com.au for wholesale products.