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 ...

“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 ...

If you and another person / other people purchase a property together without clearly determining how big each persons share is, the arrangement is known as a joint tenancy. If, however, you each have ...

When two or more people own a home, either as a joint tenancy or tenancy in common, each individual owns a share (or interest) of the entire property ...

Tess Vigeland: We’ve been calling it a buyer’s housing market for several months now. You’d think with all the foreclosures and price markdowns that it’d be easier to find a nice house for a ...

With defaults rising like an interminable tide, cresting in foreclosures that crash upon our land, the blame has often focussed on lenders who took chances with "creative" loan products. But there's ...

When real property is owned by joint tenants and one of the joint tenants dies, the property passes automatically to the survivors. For instance, a mother may title her home in a joint tenancy with ...

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 ...

Under joint tenancy, if one tenant dies, his or her share in the house goes to the other tenant, or the survivor. Primer is Mint's signature mode of explaining a complex issue by breaking into five ...

“This house was way too nice, in an up-and-coming neighborhood and at the low end of my budget,” he said. “It was too good to be true.” He asked his real estate agent what the catch was. There was ...