One dollar an acre. That's how much Aaron Wingate paid for 39 acres of land near Innerarity Point in 1881. And the African-American landowner would develop the land purchased from the state of Florida ...

“[T]he lot hereby conveyed shall not be sold, transferred, conveyed, leased, or rented to persons of negro blood.” That’s language taken from a 1932 deed for land in Duke Forest. Here’s another, from ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A Boca Raton real estate broker almost lost $200,000 in a fake property deed scam involving vacant land in Deerfield Beach. It happened Sept. 10. That's when Marshall Sklar, a real ...

Deed fraud and identity theft often go hand-in-hand, so it’s important to guard your Social Security number, identification ...

The vast majority of real property deeds are warranty deeds, which warrant—or assure—that no one else can register a claim on the given property. The title search and title insurance requirements for ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Have you read the deed to your house? It may contain language meant to prevent people of color from buying and occupying land. It's called a racial covenant. "They stipulated that ...

The remarkable effort by high school and Minnesota State University students to unearth the ugly history of racism in Blue Earth County property transactions stands as the beginning of a story, not an ...

When it comes to real estate, “deed” and “title” are often used interchangeably. But they actually refer to two very different things. Understanding the distinction isn’t just helpful, it’s essential.

Cybercriminals are filing forged property deeds at a growing rate in Travis County, effectively transferring homeownership to themselves and leaving victims in legal turmoil, the Austin ...

April 13th is Nehoiden Day in Needham, a local holiday first declared in 1980 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Land Deed that set aside the land that is now Needham and Wellesley. The ...