Blight-targeting land banks used their trump bid power to acquire 19 tax-delinquent properties so they won’t be listed in Luzerne County’s Thursday free-and-clear auction. Authorized by 2012 state ...

Pittsburgh’s Land Bank appears poised to take another step in its ability to deal with abandoned properties, as the city’s school district takes up a proposed agreement that will allow the agency to ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The City’s Director of Housing Initiatives said a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling will make it substantially more expensive for the Kingston City Land Bank to acquire properties seized ...

Eighteen properties have been removed from Thursday’s Luzerne County free-and-clear delinquent tax auction because land banks have exercised their authority to acquire them through “trump bids,” the ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Kingston City Land Bank has completed the sale of the first four homes in its affordable homeownership Keystone Program, the agency announced last week. The homes, set for ...

A handful of Flint homeowners who lost their houses through tax foreclosure this year would get a second chance to repurchase them through a new forgiveness program proposed by Mayor Sheldon Neeley. A ...

Native Americans are now eligible for a 50% discount on properties sold through Detroit Land Bank Authority auctions. The big ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was providing inaccurate information to the Detroit Land Bank about water service on a number of houses ...

Over the past several months, Indianapolis leaders have been staking colorful signs into the yards of city-owned vacant ...

LANSING — The Ingham County Land Bank is offering someone a chance to be on the leading edge of sustainability — and to build some financial equity — through the purchase of a new, solar-powered home ...

LaShawna Anthony was in dire straits. In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was starting, and Anthony ― with a newborn and three older children ― found herself needing to escape a toxic relationship, ...