When you buy real estate, including in the form of a house and the land it sits on, it's your private property to do with as you wish. As long as you follow local zoning and building code rules, you ...

An easement grants someone access to your property for practical purposes or for other reasons. For example, your neighbors may have access to a path on your property to get to the beach. While ...

Q: My house was built 2 feet into the utility easements. There is a utility pole with electric transmission wires 3 feet from the back of my house. If the pole should need to be replaced, would the ...

A person interested in purchasing real property should always determine whether any easements burden or benefit the real property and the impact such easements have on the real property. An easement ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Imagine coming home to find your locked fence taken apart and a stranger in your backyard. It happened to one Greensboro woman, and now she wants other homeowners to know when ...

Fences are often built right on top of property boundary lines, but this assumption can be dangerously misleading. Consider what happened to a property owner in Sacramento County who bought his dream ...