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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

One of the larger local real estate deals of 2003 was the sale of the Minnesota Center building in Bloomington. The 14-story suburban office tower changed hands for $40.6 million in October. But the ...

The real estate boom has created vast amounts of wealth for investors nationwide. As those investors seek to capitalize on that appreciation by selling properties, they will often reinvest in other ...

E-Loan Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif., plans to bring its trademarked "Radically Simple" lending approach to something complicated: tenancy-in-common mortgages. With TIC mortgages, two or more tenants in ...

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Discussions between tenant advocates and owners of tenancy-in-common units continue to delay a vote on controversial legislation related to condo conversions. The Board of Supervisors Land Use and ...

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 ...