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For many homebuyers, an easement is anything but easy to understand. This legal term often surfaces during the title search, after your offer has been accepted. That’s when you may learn that someone ...

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Easement Definition and Examples An easement gives a person, company or government the right to use someone else’s real estate for a specific purpose. It doesn’t grant them an ownership interest. How ...

An easement is a legal right to use part of someone else’s property for a specific purpose, such as a shared driveway or utility access. Easements are typically documented in property records and ...

Property rights known as easements may benefit or burden a business. Most easements give the easement holder the legal right to use real property owned by another party for a limited purpose. A ...

The Internal Revenue Service has yet again publicly reiterated its commitment to challenge syndicated conservation easement transactions—transactions that it has, in recent years, labeled as “listed” ...

FASB issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) on Thursday that clarifies the application of the board’s new lease accounting standard to land easements and makes adopting the leases standard easier ...