The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) maintains a public land-register in accordance with the Land Titles Act. This land register is the authoritative record on the ownership of all properties registered under the Act in Singapore.

Section 161 of the Act provides that any person may, upon payment of a prescribed fee, have access to the land-register for the purpose of inspection and search. Through this search, a person may obtain land and ownership information of the property he is interested in. However, he can only conduct this search if he provides SLA with the property's address (or the property's Lot number and Mukim/Town Subdivision number) and pays the requisite fees. The information that is made available to him is part of the public record of the property that he has identified.