Houck: Easements—What Buyers And Sellers Should Know

Houck: Easements—What Buyers And Sellers Should Know

By DAVID HOUCK Qualifying Broker Atomic Realty, LLC When buying or selling a home or vacant land, it’s important to know whether an easement exists on the property. Easements can affect a property’s value and limit what a buyer can do with the land. An easement is a legal right to use someone else’s property for a specific purpose. There are several types of easements—such as prescriptive, implied, by necessity, and express—but this article focu…