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What is an easement? Sure, it has the word “ease” in it, but most home buyers don’t find it easy to understand. (See what we did there?) The term often crops up after buyers have made an offer on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What Is an Easement? Why You Might Have to Share Your Property For many homebuyers, an easement is anything but easy to understand ...

Property rights known as easements may benefit or burden a business. Most easements give the easement holder the legal right to use real property owned by another party for a limited purpose. A ...

An easement grants someone access to your property for practical purposes or for other reasons. For example, your neighbors may have access to a path on your property to get to the beach. While ...

If you have a sincere desire to preserve property that you own from future development, the donation of an easement is something of a free lunch. Out in the country, where you are worried about your ...

* The following blog is an adaptation of the presentation Alan Ackerman and Matthew Ackerman gave on “The Fundamentals of Easement Valuation” at the American Law Institute’s Eminent Domain & Land ...

The idea that you can use a simple rule of thumb to value a facade easement has now been thoroughly put to rest. That is my reading of the Second Circuit's second decision in the case of Huda ...

As the region grows in industry and population, land is the greatest asset that directly impacts public health by providing active recreation opportunities and supporting ecosystems that support clean ...

Reader Question: I have a question regarding easements. I own a home built in the late 1920s. The original owner created an easement agreement with one neighbor next door. Nearly 80 years later I ...