The Personal Properties Security Register (known as the PPSR) is a central registry that allows lenders and businesses to register a security over a chattel. It is used where a lender provides a loan and requests security over personal assets, moveable property or chattels. The lender is then usually able to sell the chattels should there be a default in the loan repayments.

 

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When to search the Personal Properties Security Register

It’s a good idea to search the PPSR where you are buying goods and chattels. For example, where you are buying a business, including stock-in-trade, suppliers and fixtures, motor vehicles, or where you are purchasing real estate that includes chattels such as a boat or farming equipment. By searching the register you can be sure that no other party has a prior claim to the goods and your ownership and possession of them will not be interfered with.

 

What items would I expect to be registered on the Personal Properties Security Register

The PPSR allows a wide variety of personal property to be registered as securities. Typical examples include:

• Motor vehicles
• Artwork
• Machinery
• Boats

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