When comparing homes to buy, you may discover that some communities have restrictive covenants in place. These housing rules are most common in condominiums, townhomes, planned communities and ...

So-called “restrictive covenants,” forbidding the sale or rental of real estate to people based on their race or ethnicity, were commonplace in the middle of the 20th century, and many current real ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Concerns that homeowners association covenants were getting in the way of the city’s efforts to ...

The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (the “DOJ”) (together the “Agencies”) continue to carry out the Biden Administration’s stated mission to ...

February 17, 2022 - Restrictive covenants were once the exclusive province of the common law in each state. That is no longer the case. So far, the applicable law remains state law (although there are ...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever. The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living in the historically Black Shiloh community of south ...

In 1993, Kathy Wurzer and her husband were looking for a fixer-upper – a house the couple could put their mark on. They found it in a quaint, tree-lined subdivision in Whitefish Bay. She and her ...

A significant number of Ann Arbor suburbs and individual houses have racially-restrictive sections in their covenants — which bar people of color, particularly Black Americans, from home ownership — ...

Attorneys at Reed Smith LLP discuss Delaware courts' increasing scrutiny of restrictive covenant agreements and offer ...