Where are you on the journey?
Choose a pathway, then tap a card. Piwa will answer and point you to the right forms and tools.
Find your starting point.
How can the Court help?
Plan your papakāinga.
Everything for the journey
Free to use. No account needed. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
Knowledge guides
Succession, trusts, occupation orders, Licences to Occupy, papakāinga, consents and Kāinga Whenua — explained plainly.
Read the guides →Forms & Templates
Starter packs for succession, whānau trusts and occupation, plus 31 Court forms and 11 Word templates.
Open forms →Calculators
Loan repayments, Kāinga Whenua scenarios and your full project budget and funding gap.
Open calculators →Build readiness
55 checks from whenua to finished home, with who can help at every step. Save, print and share.
Open checklist →Land shares
Turn your shareholding into an equivalent area of the block, in square metres.
Open calculator →Plain-language guides
What this means, what still needs checking, and what you can do next.
- What is Māori freehold land?
- How Māori land shares work
- Finding your whenua records and paperwork
- Māori land succession
- Occupation orders
- Licence to Occupy (LTO)
- Partition of Māori land
- Which Māori Land Court process do I need?
- Whānau trusts vs Ahu Whenua Trusts
- What is an Ahu Whenua Trust?
- Trustees: their role and changing them
- When trustees aren’t responding, or you have concerns
- Returning home to your whenua: where to start
- Planning a papakāinga
- Resource consent and building consent
- Site investigations for a house site
- Kāinga Whenua home loans
- Working out the full cost of a home or papakāinga
Search your whenua on Māori Land Map
Find your block, see your share on the land, explore trust portfolios and voting power — then come back here for the forms and next steps.
