SOUTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- Land contracts, which according to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds are becoming more popular, may help some people who can't qualify for a traditional mortgage, but for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio’s real estate market has changed a lot of the last few years, and now a study found that Ohio is a hotspot for land contracts. A study done by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a ...

DETROIT – Land contracts come with risks for home buyers, who rarely end up owning the homes they buy with such contracts, real estate experts say. The term is misleading; “land contract” sounds like ...

When most people think about real estate investing, they picture a derelict house in need of immediate rehabbing. Home remodeling, also known as fix-n-flips, has been popularized by numerous ...

In their Transactional Real Estate column, Peter Fisch and Sal Gogliormella discuss the merger by deed doctrine including how New York courts apply it compared to other states. Under the doctrine of ...