| From nbr.co.nz: By the end of 2008 it will be possible to lodge 98.6 percent of property transactions online, leading to the World Bank ranking New Zealand first in the world for ease of registering property transactions.
New Zealand is followed in the rankings by Armenia, Saudi Arabia and Lithuania.It became mandatory from August last year for all documents relating to the sale, purchase, or mortgage of land to be lodged electronically, and hard-copy lodgement is no longer available (with a few exceptions).
Some users however, particularly surveyors, have complained they can’t access all the information they need online, and that much of the hardcopy documentation has been moved from provincial centres into centralised locations..... Full Article: Source
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