When comparing homes to buy, you may discover that some communities have restrictive covenants in place. These housing rules are most common in condominiums, townhomes, planned communities and ...

Kim Wrench bought his South Plaza home in the Greenway Fields subdivision in 1989. JILL TOYOSHIBA /The Kansas City Star Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2005. Kim Wrench loves the ...

Despite Brazilian law providing no specific regulations on restrictive covenants, post-termination restrictive covenants are valid in Brazil, particularly among key employees who have valuable ...

In 1993, Kathy Wurzer and her husband were looking for a fixer-upper – a house the couple could put their mark on. They found it in a quaint, tree-lined subdivision in Whitefish Bay. She and her ...

Michael Dew still remembers the day in 2014 when he purchased his first home — a newly renovated ranch style house with an ample backyard in San Diego’s El Cerrito neighborhood. It took years of ...

As a commercial real estate attorney, Adam Artigliere has seen his share of surprising restrictive covenants placed on property deeds by their original owners or developers. Yet, he was still a bit ...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever. The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living in the historically Black Shiloh community of south ...

Jose Brenes/Daily. Buy this photo. Since presenting their research in January 2021, Michigan Law professor Michael Steinberg and Taubman professor Robert Goodspeed have been working to remove racially ...

A significant number of Ann Arbor suburbs and individual houses have racially-restrictive sections in their covenants — which bar people of color, particularly Black Americans, from home ownership — ...

Large retailers like Stop & Shop and Walmart have used deed restrictions to block new grocery stores from opening in Woonsocket. Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos is proposing legislation to outlaw this practice, ...

Although the use of liquidity covenants in distressed situations is a tried and tested approach by lenders, there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to the implementation of a liquidity testing ...