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Climate disruption has caused more extreme weather. As we’ve noted before, the impacts of out-of-whack weather systems are making their mark on real estate.  Results of these extremes include intensified stormwater management challenges all over the continent, as unusually heavy storms inundate buildings. Of course, engineers design stormwater systems to handle and redirect the water. These systems, …

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If you’re buying a home, your real estate agent can help you locate the setback requirements. These requirements control the distance any structure on the property must be from the road, or from a natural feature, or from the boundaries between owners’ properties. Setbacks can also restrict the height of structures on a given property. …

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How City Planning Models Are Changing The single-family home is losing its cool. Some homebuyers now see multi-unit properties the way they see electric bikes or solar roofs — as part of a climate-aware lifestyle. We already know single-unit residential zoning limits supply in a time of tremendous housing demand and overpriced real estate. We …

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Rising Profile Ahead for Eminent Domain When you think of eminent domain, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of land that suffered some kind of toxic dumping or spilling, so that the government has to take it in order to restore it, if possible, to a non-hazardous state. And that does happen. But sometimes, …

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