Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “housing is everything,” as Susan O'Donovan, a University of Memphis professor who researches the lives of formerly enslaved ...

“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 ...

Across South Carolina, land that has been passed down for generations may be at risk and many families don’t even realize ...

Housing experts convened at the Urban Institute on Monday said some states have passed more laws in recent years, but there ...

Estate planning for heirs' property could help families preserve and pass down hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, but "tangled titles" are putting that generational wealth at risk. Processing ...

Homeownership is the single greatest contributor to household wealth for American families. From 2010 to 2020, the value of owner-occupied housing in 917 metropolitan or micropolitan metro areas ...

An Alabama legal group is helping residents without clear titles to their homes secure ownership. Legal Services Alabama, a non-profit legal group that focuses on disadvantaged people, plans to hire ...