Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As wealth inequality remains stark, fueled in part by racial differences in homeownership rates, attention is increasingly turning ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing $67 million to help resolve heir property issues. Heir property refers to "family-owned land that is jointly owned by descendants of a ...

Heirs’ property lacks clear title, making it hard to build or finance homes. Over 500,000 heirs’ properties exist in 44 states, worth $32 billion. Partition sales and tax liens put multigenerational ...

North Carolina landowners are one step closer to joining residents of five other Southeastern states that have enacted legal protections for owners of family property passed down for generations.

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - Some flood victims in Bucksport are facing an unusual hurdle to get help to repair their homes. They live in an “heir property,” which means the family member who ...

“The Heir's Property" is an in-depth look at the issue of land passed down through generations, told through the lens of one man’s struggle to retain land purchased a century ago by his ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This week, in a near-unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate passed ...

Chester Buchanon Sr., like his father before him, told his children never to sell their 70-acre-farm in northwest Gainesville. The historic property had been in the family ever since his grandmother ...

It’s no surprise a posh tennis club is planned along U.S. Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant on 14 acres across from the Charleston Fun Park and a KOA campground. It’s prime property ripe for development.

SUMMERVILLE — The property Wendy Reed’s great-grandmother inherited in 1957 near downtown Summerville was sold in 2012 to pay a $112 delinquent property tax bill, and after years of fighting ...

As wealth inequality remains stark, fueled in part by racial differences in homeownership rates, attention is increasingly turning to a lesser-known area of property ownership - heirs' property. Heirs ...