Title Registration
With the aim of implementing title registration on new land first, the Registration of Titles and Land (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2025 (Bill) was submitted to the Legislative Council (LegCo) in March 2025. The Bill proposes to amend over 70 enactments (including the Land Titles Ordinance (LTO) and the Land Registration Ordinance) and is now being scrutinised by the LegCo. If the Bill is passed by the LegCo in 2025, it is expected that the title registration on new land will be implemented in the first half of 2027.
In parallel, to help key stakeholders and industry practitioners understand the Bill and the key features of the new system, the Land Registry (LR) has conducted several virtual and physical briefing sessions on the Bill. Over 600 representatives from public and private sectors, including members from the LTO Steering Committee, Title Registration Education Committee as well as legal and banking industry, joined the briefings.
Revisions to the Statutory Fees for Registration Services under the Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128)
Pursuant to the Land Registration Fees (Amendment) Regulation 2025 which was published in the Gazette on 16 May 2025, the fees prescribed under the Schedule to the Land Registration Fees Regulations (Cap. 128B) for registration services provided by the LR shall be amended and will come into effect by three phases on 16 July 2025, 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2027. Details are given below:
Fees in the Schedule to
the Land Registration Fees Regulations
(Cap. 128B) | Existing Fees ($) | Revised Statutory
Registration Fees
($) |
|---|
| Effective on 16 July 2025 | Effective on 1 July 2026 | Effective on 1 July 2027 |
|---|
| 1. | Registration of any instrument (except as hereinafter specifically mentioned) whereby the legal or equitable estate in any property, or in any share or interest in any property, is assigned, conveyed, settled, partitioned, mortgaged, charged, reassigned, discharged, released or otherwise transferred including any instrument exempted from stamp duty under section 46 of the Stamp Duty Ordinance (Cap. 117)— | | | | |
| | Where the amount or value of the consideration or value of the property or share or interest affected— |
| (a) | does not exceed $750,000 | $230 | $265 | $305 | $355 |
| (b) | exceeds $750,000 | $450 | $520 | $605 | $700 |
| 2. | Registration of any agreement for sale and purchase or for mortgage | $210 | $280 | $375 | $510 |
| 3. | Registration of any lease, agreement for a lease, or renewal or surrender of a lease | $210 | $280 | $375 | $510 |
| 5. | Registration of any probate, letters of administration, deed of appointment of new trustees, lis pendens, writ of foreign attachment, judgment, decree, prohibitory order, or other order of Court, certificate of satisfaction of a judgment or of dissolution of a writ of foreign attachment, or any other instrument whatsoever not otherwise specifically mentioned in this Schedule | $210 | $280 | $375 | $510 |
| 6. | Registration of any instrument whereby any charge or mortgage, whether legal or equitable, on any property or on any share or interest in any property is assigned or transferred— | | | | |
| | per 100 charges or mortgages or part thereof assigned or transferred | $2,000 | $2,660 | $3,540 | $4,750 |
Integrated Registration Information System (IRIS) Enhancements
Since April 2025, the following enhancements have been introduced to the IRIS to enhance user experience and system efficiency:
“iAM Smart” Enhancements
- added the new “Featured Service” for Search Land Register to the “iAM Smart” mobile app;
- streamlined the workflow for “iAM Smart” customer authorisation; and
- presented “iAM Smart” as the preferred option on the login page.
e-Receipt for Online Transactions
- e-Receipt is available for all transaction types. Customers may opt for receiving e-Receipt by email at the “Acknowledgement” page.
Chatbot for IRIS Online Services – “Tindy” (「田妮」)
On 28 April 2025, our chatbot Tindy (「田妮」) was launched at the IRIS Online Services website to assist in answering general enquiries on land search service.
The chatbot’s name “Tindy” originates from the LR’s Chinese name (「『田』土廳」and 「土『地』註冊處」). The chatbot is built with Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing technologies in the trilingual languages (Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English).
Use of Application Programming Interface (API) for Land Search Services and e-Alert Notifications
The LR has been collaborating with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Digital Policy Office (DPO) to develop API services for Authorized Institutions (AIs) under the Banking Ordinance (Cap. 155) through the secure digital gateway of the Commercial Data Interchange of the HKMA and the Consented Data Exchange Gateway of the DPO.
The API services enable AIs to access our up-to-date land and ownership information in a direct and machine-readable manner so as to automate their work processes.
Two API services for AIs were launched as follows:
e-Alert Service API on 28 March 2025
Subscriber AIs are provided with an additional means to receive the e-Alert notifications when further charge/mortgage documents are lodged for registration against the related land registers.
Land Search API on 28 April 2025
The Land Search API offers an additional channel for subscriber AIs to order digital copies of land records (including land registers and imaged land documents) through API upon payment of the prescribed search fees.
Interested to know more about the new API services?
Sale of Street Index (SI) (57th edition) and New Territories Lot/Address Cross Reference Table (CRT) (26th edition)
The latest editions of the SI and CRT were released for sale on 30 April 2025. They are useful tools to help customers correlate property addresses, building names or lot numbers for conducting land searches.
The price of the SI and CRT on compact disc is HK$370 each. The respective licence fees are HK$2,960 for a computer network linked to less than 50 terminals and HK$5,920 if linked to 50 terminals or more. You can obtain the information leaflets and order forms here.
The SI and CRT are also available online on the LR website for free browsing. Both publications are also accessible through the hyperlink on the IRIS Online Services website.
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