Understanding the different types of ownership in real estate is essential for anyone buying, selling, or investing in property. The way a property is owned affects legal rights, tax implications, and ...

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Real property includes land and permanent structures; ownership offers control and usage rights. Ownership rights involve possession, control, exclusion, enjoyment, and disposition. Real estate ...

Kyle Crown is the President of Crown Commercial PM. He holds a B.S. in business from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Over the course of my career in commercial property management, ...

You might think that once you own the house, you can do anything you want. That's not entirely true. Encumbrances may limit what the owner can do with the property. While some encumbrances may not ...

(This article was published on April 1, 2024. For a regularly updated version of this resource, covering all 50 states, see State Laws Restricting Foreign Ownership of Real Estate on Practical Law.) ...

What is Partition of Real Property? When two or more co-owners of real property disagree over its use or management, one mechanism to resolve such disagreement is by partition. Partition of real ...