How to Check Land and Property Information in Singapore

July 22


Today I will, as promised earlier, talk about how to check a prospective land or property. This is a very important step before sourcing for financial help in getting that house or condo you want.


Question : Where can I go to a one-stop online service to have quick and easy access to land and property information?

Answer : INLIS!

Integrated Land Information Service (INLIS) is a one-stop ON-LINE service designed for property buyers, real estate agents, valuers, developers, architects, surveyors, engineers, lawyers to have quick and easy access to land and property information.

The information include:

a) Property Title Information: This search provides basic information on land such as tenure, area, property address, ownership, encumbrances such as caveats and mortgages, last transacted price and state land encroachment information where available.

b) Property Ownership Information: This search provides basic information on ownership and last transacted price, where available. This information will be useful for housing agents and potential property buyers.

c) Land Information:
- Lot Particulars. This search provides basic information on land such as tenure, area, property address and reference to records of land transactions. This service is useful as a preliminary search on land.

d) Property Title Information with Survey Map: This search provides a combination of the information available in Property Title Information (refer to item 1) and a survey map of the property.

e) Survey Cadastral Map: This search shows the areas and boundaries of land parcels. Other information available includes land lot numbers, road names and certified plan numbers. Certified PlanCP Plans showing the final boundaries and areas of the lots. Information shown in a CP includes bearings, distances, co-ordinates, boundary points, and areas.Strata Certified PlanCPST Plans showing the final boundaries and areas of strata lots. Information shown in a CPST includes final strata boundaries and areas. Registrar of Title PlanRT Plan is a survey plan showing the provisional boundaries and areas of land lots. For privately owned land parcels, the plans are prepared by private registered surveyors and approved by the Chief Surveyor. The RT Plans will be superseded by the Certified Plan after final ground survey has been conducted.

f) Horizontal Control Points: This report offers the co-ordinates of a point are given with reference to the WGS 84 spheroid (Latitude and Longitude) and the grid co-ordinates on the SVY21 datum (Northing and Easting).

g) Vertical Control Points: Vertical Control Points are also called Precise Level Benchmarks (PLBM) that formed the primary levelling network in Singapore. A locality sketch or photo image is also included for easy reference.Encroachment Boundary PlanETGES enables the prospective owner of a property to be aware of an encroachment stemming from the private property onto State Land. This search can be done via private lot number, strata lot number and property address. The search provides textual and graphic information on nature and extent of the encroachment, necessary procedure for retention of the encroachment.

h) Road Line Plan: The road safeguarding information is made available to the public through LTA's Road Line Plans. It is one of the searches required by lawyers when transacting properties and by architects and engineers for putting up development proposals.

i) List of Schools near Property: This report shows a list of school within 1 or 2 kilometers from the selected school.

j) Distance between School and Property:

This report shows the Distance Code (1 kilometer or 2 kilometers) the address is with relating to the selected school.Click here for more.

Source: Singapore Land Authority (SLA)
Refer to: http://www.sla.gov.sg/htm/hom/index.htm