The swearing-in ceremony for the 12th Parliament entered its second day on Thursday, marked by a determined spirit as 170 Members of Parliament-elect braved a relentless morning downpour to take their ...

Washington lenders have long relied on non-judicial trustee sales as the primary (and less expensive) mechanism for resolving defaulted home ...

Deed theft has come to the forefront of NYC politics after Council Member Chi Ossé was arrested last week for protesting an eviction. Ossé said that the Bed-Stuy eviction was a result of deed theft, ...

Conveyance is the legal transfer of property ownership from one individual or entity to another. This is done using an ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A woman fighting eviction from the home her family has lived in for 60 years has drawn community support and outrage in Brooklyn. Carmella Charrington and her family say ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday announced the creation of the city’s first Office of Deed Theft Prevention, naming a longtime homeowner assistance lawyer as its director. The office will be led by ...

The office will seek to crack down on the practice, in which people deceive longtime residents and fraudulently take ownership of their homes. By Mihir Zaveri The scammers come in many varieties: The ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is establishing a new office to fight deed theft in the wake of the violent arrest of a New York City councilmember who was protesting outside a brownstone that residents say was ...

NYC Council Member Chi Ossé was detained at an eviction in Bed-Stuy Wednesday morning, April 22, after his office says that the politician was protesting a supposed deed theft. In video footage of the ...

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Complaints about deed theft to the New York Attorney General's Office have more than tripled over the last few years. Deed theft is essentially when someone steals a house, often forging the paperwork ...