When you buy real estate, including in the form of a house and the land it sits on, it's your private property to do with as you wish. As long as you follow local zoning and building code rules, you ...

Chances are your property has easements. An easement is the right of another person or entity, such as a public utility or government agency, to use part of your property. Most easements are ...

Today’s question is “What is gross, appurtenant or prescriptive?” If you answered “an easement,” go to the head of the real estate class. Virtually every realty parcel is subject to one or more ...

Gross. Prescriptive. Appurtenant. What do these three words have in common? No. They don`t describe a certain overweight Hollywood movie star. Let me give you a clue. These words have something to do ...

One of the great mysteries in real estate is why there is so much confusion about easements. There are only three types, and the rules are relatively simple for each. Yet property owners get easily ...

A reader recently wrote to learn what to do about an undisclosed home easement problem. She and her husband hired a contractor to build a backyard swimming pool. As the contractor's backhoe operator ...

A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a son concerned about his 80-year-old mother's home, which apparently has its driveway a few feet on a neighbor's vacant lot. He reports his mother has owned ...

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals recently decided two cases about prescriptive easements. In the first, the Court held that the provisions of a written easement agreement could be expanded by ...

Plaintiffs own residential properties abutting a private road known as “Windmill Lane,” which runs perpendicularly to Further Lane from its southern boundary and terminates near the Atlantic Ocean.