Jurisdiction-specific guides on foreclosure title risks, lien priority, and what survives the auction sale — written for investors who bid at courthouse steps, trustee sales, and online auctions.
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October 26, 2026
Loudoun County VA foreclosures may carry data center utility easements that restrict property use and survive title transfer—here's what to verify.
Read more →October 26, 2026
Virginia Beach tax sale parcels near military bases carry federal lease, easement, and acquisition risks that standard title searches routinely miss.
Read more →October 19, 2026
Cochise County properties near Fort Huachuca may carry military easements restricting use, height, or access — obligations that survive foreclosure and limit resale.
Read more →October 15, 2026
Lane County tax foreclosures can deliver properties with boundary disputes and missing access easements that survive the sale—Oregon's process doesn't fix these defects.
Read more →October 14, 2026
Utah tax deeds extinguish most liens—but recorded easements in Salt Lake County often survive, creating access and utility risks buyers miss.
Read more →October 6, 2026
Solano County's Williamson Act contracts and agricultural conservation easements can bind foreclosure buyers to decades of land-use restrictions.
Read more →October 5, 2026
Ventura County tax-defaulted sales can transfer parcels with boundary disputes and easements that survive the sale—problems your title policy won't cover.
Read more →October 2, 2026
Texas Open Beaches Act easements can shift with storms, creating title exceptions that standard searches miss on Galveston County foreclosures.
Read more →September 29, 2026
Access easements on Volusia County beachfront parcels survive foreclosure and can kill development plans. Here's what to search before bidding.
Read more →July 1, 2026
In Illinois, a recorded air rights lease senior to the mortgage survives foreclosure — and the new owner inherits a building they can't legally occupy above a certain floor.
Read more →June 30, 2026
Colorado TDR conservation easements permanently strip development potential from your parcel — and they survive tax sales. Here's what auction bidders miss.
Read more →June 30, 2026
Texas courts imply easements by necessity over adjacent parcels when land becomes landlocked through subdivision—rights that bind foreclosure buyers.
Read more →June 26, 2026
Vermont CLT ground leases impose permanent resale formulas that can limit your profit to 25% of appreciation—and they survive foreclosure.
Read more →May 25, 2026
A deed covenant from 1987 can block your gut rehab in 2024 — and the foreclosure sale didn't extinguish it.
Read more →May 24, 2026
Agricultural conservation easements run with the land forever, blocking subdivision and development regardless of zoning changes or new ownership.
Read more →May 23, 2026
Mineral leases run with the land and survive foreclosure. That foreclosure flip in shale country may come with a decades-long production agreement you can't terminate.
Read more →May 22, 2026
Mineral estates severed in the 1950s can still grant drilling access today. Your foreclosure deed won't mention them.
Read more →May 21, 2026
UCC fixture filings on solar equipment create security interests that survive foreclosure—and the panels stay bolted to your roof.
Read more →May 20, 2026
A neighbor's decades-old path across the property became a legal easement before the mortgage existed — and your foreclosure deed can't extinguish it.
Read more →May 19, 2026
Prescriptive and implied easements don't appear in title searches but survive foreclosure and can halt your project cold.
Read more →May 1, 2026
Utility easements, drainage rights-of-way, and access easements are permanent encumbrances on title. They survive every sale and foreclosure, and they can eliminate the improvements you planned.
Read more →April 25, 2026
Deed restrictions and restrictive covenants recorded decades ago can still prohibit uses, limit density, or bar certain improvements — and a foreclosure sale does not remove them.
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