A house title is an important component of property ownership, establishing you as the owner. The title refers to the bundle of rights associated with property ownership. Homebuyers should ensure ...

How you take title to your home will dictate your rights and obligations and, quite possibly, will affect your loved ones’ property ownership rights. And yet, often homebuyers just take title as ...

After taking ownership of the property, they’re free to do whatever they want — even sell it to a legitimate buyer. What can a criminal do with your deed/home title? Thieves can do almost ...

A title search is the process of looking at historical records of a property to see who has a claim to it. A title search reveals whether the seller has the legal right to transfer the home to you.

or other encumbrance that might invalidate or impair a title to real property and/or make the title doubtful. A cloud indicates there is an unresolved problem with the ownership of a property.

When buying and selling homes, there is no national record of who owns a property, who has a title to it. The Planet Money team has the story of a new kind of villain trying to exploit that system.