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2. Land contract - Wikipedia

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   The legal status of land contracts varies between jurisdictions. [vague] Since a land contract specifies the sale of a specific item of real estate between a seller and buyer, a land contract can be considered a special type of real estate contract. In the usual more conventional real estate contracts, a seller does not provide a loan to the ...

3. This Florida couple bought a vacant lot for $17,500 — but now ...

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   This Florida couple bought a vacant lot for $17,500 — but now they’ve discovered they’re barred by law from building on the new property. Here’s why and how to avoid a similar situation

4. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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   Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.

5. Property law in the United States - Wikipedia

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   However, new types of land ownership is generally disallowed, under the numerus clausus principle, unless they are introduced by legislation. [13] In most states, full ownership of land is known as fee simple, fee simple absolute, or fee. [14] Fee simple refers to a present interest in the land, which continues indefinitely into the future. [14]

6. Land banking - Wikipedia

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   Land banking originated in the 1920s and 1930s as a means of making low-priced land available for housing and ensuring orderly development. [2] The period of deindustrialization in the United States coupled with increased suburbanization in the middle of the 20th century left many American cities with large amounts of vacant and blighted industrial, residential, and commercial property.

7. Contract zoning - Wikipedia

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   Contract zoning in the United States, also referred to as "zoning by contract", "rezoning by contract", or "rezoning subject to conditions" [1] is a form of land use regulation in which a local zoning authority accommodates a private interest by rezoning a district or a parcel of land within that district to a zoning classification with fewer restrictions based on an agreement that the ...