personal property registry
Protect your legal rights by registering your interests with the Personal Property Registry and ensuring that any land or property you purchase is not encumbered with outstanding liens. We offer fast Alberta and out-of-province lien searches and land title searches (click on the image to the right) so that property you purchase does not involve you in legal disputes. Visit our office before you buy!
WHAT IS THE PERSONAL PROPERTY REGISTRY (PPR)?
The Personal Property Registry, together with the Land Titles Offices form the Property Registration Branch of the Alberta Government’s Municipal Affairs / Registries Department. The PPR registry provides registration and searches for interests in personal property. It is created under Part 4 of the Personal Property Security Act.
WHY REGISTER AN INTEREST?
Certain interests in personal property must be registered in the Personal Property Registry (P.P.R.) to avoid possible loss or subordination of the interest to another person. This would give that other person a better legal right to the property. Registration also enables a person to discover the existence of your interest to prevent unnecessary legal conflicts.
Note: It is very important to keep in mind that registration in the Personal Property Registry does not guarantee priority over all other interests. It is, however, a necessary step to protect you.
WHAT CAN YOU REGISTER?
The interests that can be registered are:
- Security interests under the Personal Property Security Act (PPSA). (These are interests that secure payment or performance of an obligation. This also includes leases for a term of more than one year, transfers of accounts or chattel paper and consignments.)
- The interest of a buyer of goods, where the goods are left in the possession of the seller, (Sale of Goods Act s.27(1.1) and Factors Act s.8(2))
- The interest of an execution creditor under a Writ of Enforcement
- The interest of a spouse entitled to possession of household goods or a mobile home under Matrimonial Property Act and Maintenance Enforcement Act
- A garageman’s lien under the Garagemen’s Lien Act
- A workers’ Compensation Board charge under the Workers’ Compensation Act, and
- A railway mortgage deed registration under the Railway Act.
WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF COLLATERAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY INTERESTS THAT CAN BE REGISTERED?
1. Serial Numbered Collateral:
- AC Aircraft – Canada (Aircraft Registered in Canada)
- AF Aircraft – Foreign (Aircraft not Registered in Canada)
- BO Boat
- MH Mobile Home
- MV Motor Vehicle
- OM Outboard Motor for Boat
- TR Trailer
2. General Collateral:
- i.e.: Office or Non-Office Equipment (i.e., computers, printers, machines, alarms, etc.), supplies
- Furnishings and other non-serial numbered collateral or personal property.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Alberta Government Services web pages contain excellent information about requirements and further details for Personal Property Registry.
SERVICE ALBERTA
http://www.servicealberta.gov.ab.ca/
Corporate and personal property searches in Alberta
LAND TITLE SEARCHES
We provide land information services regarding the custody of all original and titles and source documents. This includes land title searches and historical searches.
All land title information and documents held by the Alberta Land Titles office are public information. We have access to search the Alberta Land Titles vast database by legal description of the land.
If you only have a street address, we can generally convert it to a legal description while you wait.
AVAILABLE ALBERTA LAND TITLE SEARCHES
- Current certificate of title shows all current title information: current owner(s) of a piece of land, and all outstanding registered interests in the land, such as mortgages, caveats, and builders liens. The rights may be for surface, minerals, or both.
- Registered land titles document allows you to order copies of documents that appear on the title; e.g. caveats, easements, mortgages, liens, etc.
- Current historical title shows all current title information, as well as discharged historical instruments.
- Cancelled historical title (has been cancelled and replaced). Searches can be performed while you wait. Historical title searches for titles that are earlier than Alberta Land Titles computerized records will be special ordered and sent to you. Additional search fees apply depending on the number of titles searched.
- Land Title Search
- Historical Title Search
- Certified Copy of Title
- Condominium Additional Sheet
- Copies of Survey Plans
- Copies of Documents
- Tax Search – Edmonton & Calgary
- Tax Certificate – Edmonton & Calgary
- Tax Search – Other Municipality
- Tax Certificate – Other Municipality
- Out-of-Province Searches and Registrations
REGISTRATION SERVICES
Currently, the submission of documents for Alberta Land Titles registration (i.e. transfers, mortgages and other encumbrances) is a manual process with the Alberta Government. Documents must be submitted directly to one of two Alberta Land Titles Offices: John E. Brownlee building in Edmonton, or the Service Alberta building in Calgary.