Also called an installment land contract, contract for deed or contract for sale, a land contract is a property sale where the seller holds the title of the property until you have paid for it. Absent ...

Traditionally when buying a property, people usually pay at the time of purchase, which is often considered a straight-out sales/purchase. This is often the process used for house purchases and farm ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio’s real estate market has changed a lot of the last few years, and now a study found that Ohio is a hotspot for land contracts. A study done by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a ...

With traditional mortgages for lower-priced homes hard to get, some homebuyers are turning to riskier alternatives, like seller-financed loans known as “land contracts” that don’t involve a bank.

This ruling may curtail the long-standing practice of sellers using installment contracts to profit from successive buyers without affording them the protections typically associated with mortgage ...

Madeleine Parker & Karen Chapple, Revisiting Rent Stabilization in the Neighborhood Context: The Potential Impact of Rent Regulation on Community Stability and Security in the New York Metropolitan ...