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 ...

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 ...

Michael Dew still remembers the day in 2014 when he purchased his first home — a newly renovated ranch style house with an ample backyard in San Diego’s El Cerrito neighborhood. It took years of ...

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 ...