When someone buys or sells a home, the purchase and transfer of the property is always facilitated by a real estate deed — a written document that legally transfers the ownership of a property from ...

Property owners who participated in the effort to purge racist language from property deeds in Ladera include, from left, Blake Sandy, Leslie Wambach, Lea Gottlieb, Mia Clark and Linda Arrillaga.

For years, Leroi DeRubertis loved her North Durham house. It was old and 'cute' and felt like home, but one day that changed a bit for her. DeRubertis found the property deed for her home and saw a ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Have you read the deed to your house? It may contain language meant to prevent people of color from buying and occupying land. It's called a racial covenant. "They stipulated that ...

HAMDEN — Buried in the deed for Susie and Doug Hawthorne's property on Carmalt Road is an overtly racist clause that has been overlooked for decades. "That no persons of any race other than the white ...

In some Wauwatosa property deeds, homeowners can still find restrictions that ban anyone who is not white from living there. The city's equity and inclusion commission is asking for statewide ...