Checking the land title of a property is an important step to take before you purchase
a property, to ensure that you are purchasing the property from the person that actually
has the title and you are not purchasing it from a fraudster who doesn't actually have
it.
Today, I am going to show you how to check that for free.
I am Ryan from onproperty.com.au, your daily dose of property education and inspiration.
Now, finding out the land title of a property as I mentioned, is an important step to take.
There are lots of websites out there that would charge you $40 or $50, or even more
to do a title search for a property, but you can actually do this for free if you're in
the process purchasing the property.
In order to do it for free you need to have a copy of the land title certificate from
the current owner of that property, because you need to check the details of that against
a government site, which I'm going to show you how to get to.
If you don't have those details and you are just kind of browsing and you want to check
out who owns the title for a particular property and you only have the address, well that actually
is going to cost you money and it cost around $12 to $13 again through the government website.
I'm just going to jump onto my computer and I will show you how to access that government
site and how to get that report for free and also the $13 report.
Okay, so here I am with google.com.au and I am just going to type in land title search
and then click enter and now you see here, this Australia.gov.au website, this is the
one, we want to click it, you want to avoid these ads and these ads and everything else.
Let’s just click on that one, we can now see that you have got all the different States
that you can choose from here, as you see Queens Land, etc, let’s just choose New
South Wales for this demonstration.
I get this securities certificate error but let us click proceed anyway, okay in order
to find the title, we want to look at this Title Search and Record, so we click ‘read
more’ and it will bring up those options . So okay, you can now see the Title Search
for currently $12.15, this is if you just have the address of the property and you don’t
have the certificate, but if you want to do a ____ (unclear) then go to page number two
and then choose this one, Title Certificate Authentication and so click order now , we
can then say that we have these reference points that we need to enter: Title Reference,
Edition #, etc, etc and then we can perform a search, we use the sample of a certificate
for New South Wales and it shows you Title reference, Title Edition # and Issue Date,
CAC Code, so it’s all there, all really easy to find, but then again you do need that
Certificate of Title.
So that's how you can check a land title certificate for free, and also there is that way to do
it for $12.15 if you have the address.
Now, I m just going to try and find the price of one that’s not a government website,
so let’s just click on this one here searchfirst.com.au if we choose to stay, same use of files and
the price of the Title Search is $44.00 instead of $12 and instead of $10.15.
This historical title search is $66 dollars and it says here the history and transaction,
those $15.00.
If you go to another site it is going to cost you a lot more so, I suggest to sticking to
this government website.
So I hope that that's been helpful.
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