The new Australia-wide Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) goes live this weekend.

The PPS Register is a single, national online register. Secured parties and potential secured parties will be able to use it to search for and register security interests in personal property. The Register will be web based, available in real time and accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.

The PPSR replaces individual state and territory based registers for charges (security interests) over personal property. The Act defines personal property as anything other than land. It includes tangible assets such as goods, crops and livestock, and intangibles such as licenses, investment instruments and accounts.

A personal loan that is secured against motor vehicle is a common example of such a security interest, and therefore, the separate state based REVS registers will be replaced with a search of the PPSR. Other examples of security interests covered by the PPS Act include fixed and floating charges, chattel mortgages, finance leases, margin loans, commercial consignments and the factoring of book debts.

Our motor vehicle and boat REVS page will be updated to allow you to easily search the PPSR in the next few days after the product goes live from Monday 30 January 2012.

This makes it super easy for anyone to search for charges over all sorts of personal property Australia-wide, giving you more surety of clear title over personal property including cars, yachts, paintings and shares and business assets like machinery, inventory and accounts receivable, financial products, licenses, crops and livestock.

And, on top of live searching 24 hours a day, Searchfirst Pro subscribers will also be able to register their interests through their logon.

PPSR Searches are available here now.

Please contact us if you would like any further information.

Tags: REVS Search, Bills of Sale, PPSR

That's a great question, and we have the answer!

Performing an online title search is easy.

Whatever state or territory your property is located in, Searchfirst has direct access to official Titles Office records and can provide you with a current title search in just a coupe of hours - and usually within just a few minutes.

A Title Search is an extract from the Titles Office land ownership register that provides details of ownership of property, and provides the real property description (Lot & Plan Number etc) and details of any encumbrances like mortgages, easements and caveats and other administrative advices related to the parcel of land.

You can order a title search now and have it delivered back to you within a coupe of hours via email, and you benefit from our experience in title searching to track down the correct property details needed to order your title search from these pages:

Queensland Title Search

NSW (New South Wales) Title Search

ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Title Search

Victorian Title Search

Tasmanian Title Search

SA (South Australian) Title Search

WA (Western Australia) Title Search

NT (Northern Territory) Title Search

To see some example of what a Title Search looks like, visit our HelpDesk page about Title Searches.

Tags: Title Search, Titles Office

The site’s had a makeover!

Our trusty old site has served us well for two years, but we wanted to give it a refreshed look for 2011 and make it a bit easier to get around.

We hope you like it and look forward to helping you with your information needs.

At Searchfirst, our aim is to give you access to all sorts of useful and important information that you may never have thought was so easy to obtain.

With 15 years legal searching experience, we know information is everything.

We've strived to make our portal simple and easy-to-use, and we really hope you like it. We're confident you'll not find a more friendly way to find the information you're looking for.

Casual and one-off orders are welcome, and we've included the most common and popular searches in our shopping pages.

If you're a power searcher and search everyday, learn more about:

Professional Grade On-line Information Services

Searchfirst Pro is an enhanced product geared toward industry professionals that delivers the most comprehensive range of live and off-line information in Australia today, all from within the one portal at very competitive pricing.

Learn more about live property, personal, company, business, motor vehicle, financial and investigative information

Tags: On-line Searching

When dealing with a valuable asset like real estate, it's important you do everything you can to ensure you've got the whole story before you commit. Make sure you search first - it's the surest way you can protect yourself.

Being armed with relevant and current information about the property can make all the difference and help protect you, your family, your assets and your investment.

If you're researching a particular property, street or suburb, want information about your own property or doing your own conveyancing, search first - before it's too late.

With our easy shopping pages, you can order the most popular types of searches, pay with your credit card or PayPal account or credit our account via internet banking, and have the results emailed back to your inbox fast.

Choose from: Title Searches, Registered and Strata Plans, Titles Office Documents, Valuation and Sales Data, Aerial Maps and more.

Perfect for: Conveyancing, Pre-purchase Research, Wills & Estates, Property Enquiries, Boundary Information, Investment Research...

Tags: On-line Searching, Conveyancing, Title Search, Registered Plan, Strata Plan, Aerial Maps, Titles Office, Property Valuation, Property Sales History, Investment Research, Property Enquiries