How long – if ever – has it been since you pondered the difference between a “tenancy in common” and a “joint tenancy”? Same for us, until the wheels came off a family relationship and a lawsuit was ...

“Title” is evidence of ownership. As pertains to real estate, title relates to the ownership of land and/or the more-or-less “permanent” improvements, such as a home or other building, upon it. Title ...

Tenancy in common allows each owner to sell, use, or mortgage their real estate share independently. Investors need agreements to manage risks when co-owning property in tenancy in common. REITs can ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Anthony W. Thompson has been doing some creative things with real estate investing since the 1970s. Lately his ideas have caught on, becoming a multibillion-dollar industry.

The price of buying a house in Los Angeles reached record highs this year, putting the dream of home ownership out of reach for an increasing number of Angelenos. Amid the worsening affordability ...

Can you play nice and share a piece of real estate? Sharing is hard enough, but imagine jointly owning an investment property with your brother when he decides that he would like to sell and then ...

With defaults rising like an interminable tide, cresting in foreclosures that crash upon our land, the blame has often focussed on lenders who took chances with "creative" loan products. But there's ...

Q: My wife and I purchased a home over 40 years ago. The original deed is titled as John Smith and Sally Smith. This defaults to tenants in common in Georgia. Sally is my wife of over 50 years. We are ...

So decent chance I'll be buying, shortly, a home with a friend for Tenancy in Common. However, I want to use my VA Home Loan for it, and I haven't been able to find any information at all in doing ...

Tenancy in common (TIC) is a type of property co-ownership in which each owner has a percentage stake in the entire building. Rather than a resident receiving an individual deed for their unit, they ...

The owners of the Flatiron Building were at an impasse, and it was costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. They could not agree on the landmarked tower’s future, and its present was ...