Restrictive covenants have a significant and substantial impact on the use and value of property; yet they are often ignored entirely or not considered until the end of the due diligence period before ...

Hundreds of Thurston County landowners can expect a letter in the mail informing them their properties contain discriminatory covenants. The county Auditor’s Office is sending out the notices to ...

The top maps show areas with historic racial covenants (light gray areas, left) and the risk ratings for mortgage lending (green represents the areas with the least risk and red represents the areas ...

In the bedroom community of Wilmington sits a little white house, with paint peeling from the trim and a mailbox emblazoned with the American flag at the end of the driveway. Homeowners Edward Kaizer ...

Council member Inga Selders stands at her childhood home, where she lives in Prairie Village, Kan. Selders stumbled upon a racially restrictive housing covenant in her homeowners association property ...

Good fences make good neighbors. Clear boundaries separate responsibility and make clear who is due what. With good boundaries, we can act more decisively because we know what we own. Without it, ...

Your home or property in Whatcom County may have a restrictive covenant that says only white people are allowed to own or occupy it. But a new law aims to help property owners fix that. A state law ...

OFFENSIVE. CHARLES IS OLD ENOUGH, ALMOST 79, TO AMBER -- REMEMBER BEING EXCLUDED FROM CERTAIN BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOODS BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK. >> THERE WAS A TIME WHEN BLACKS COULD NOT LIVE IN THIS ...

The Supreme Court of North Carolina recently issued a landmark opinion regarding the North Carolina Real Property Marketable Title Act (the "Act") and its effect on covenants that have burdened ...

HARTFORD, Conn.HARTFORD, Conn. — Fred Ware and his son were researching the history of the home he’s owned in the Hartford suburbs since 1950 when they discovered something far uglier than they ...

Rochester’s historic property covenants that banned non-Caucasian and non-Christian residents from living in parts of the city are being targeted by a new city partnership. “That’s our history, and it ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In the bedroom community of Wilmington sits a little white house, with paint peeling from the trim ...