DETROIT – Land contracts come with risks for home buyers, who rarely end up owning the homes they buy with such contracts, real estate experts say. The term is misleading; “land contract” sounds like ...

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 ...

Going back many decades, it was common for Colorado real estate to be sold using an installment land contract, also known as a contract for deed. In an installment land contract, the buyer and seller ...

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 ...

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 ...

Text Callout : Key Takeaways - The Pros and Cons of Seller Financing If you're having trouble qualifying for a traditional mortgage loan, you have other options. One solution could be financing a loan ...

If you’re having trouble qualifying for a traditional mortgage loan, you have other options. One solution could be to finance a loan through the home’s seller, negotiating an agreement to pay them the ...