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Real Estate Law

Can a Neighbor Drain Water Onto Your Property in Pennsylvania?

Can a neighbor drain water onto your property in Pennsylvania? Learn your rights under the common enemy rule and when a neighbor is liable for runoff.

Real Estate Law

Adverse Possession in Pennsylvania: Requirements, the 21-Year Rule, and the 10-Year Exception

What are the requirements for adverse possession in Pennsylvania? Learn the elements, the 21-year rule, and when the 10-year contiguous-lot rule applies.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

Easements in Pennsylvania: What You Need to Know

Understand the major types of easements in Pennsylvania, how they affect property rights, and what to know before buying, selling, or developing land.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, featured, Real Estate Law

Pennsylvania Short-Term Rental Rights, HOAs, and Township Rules: A Conversation with Eric Smith

Whether you are buying property, developing land, or resolving an access dispute, understanding easements is essential to protecting your property rights. Easements grant rights that allow the lawful use of another person’s real estate. Pennsylvania law recognizes several types of easements, each with its own legal framework.

Real Estate Law

How Do You Make Sure that Open Space Stays Open?

When open land belongs to your township or borough, there are state laws that can stop a local government from changing the open space use.  Recently, Timoney Knox LLP Partner Kate Harper, a former legislator very familiar with these laws, won a case brought by neighbors of a farm they thought was permanently preserved because it was purchased with open space tax money when the new board of the township decided to build a municipal complex on it instead of letting it be farmed. When their advocacy was ignored, they brought a lawsuit.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Hideout Community’s Application For Appeal

The real estate litigation team at Timoney Knox prevailed on appeal in the case of Chan, et al., v. The Association of Property Owners of The Hideout, Inc., involving a group of Homeowners challenging unauthorized regulations restricting short term rentals adopted by The Association of Property Owners of The Hideout, Inc.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

Court Strikes $1.875M Confession of Judgment Over SBA Loan Ambiguities

Learn how Timoney Knox secured a major court victory, striking a $1.875M confessed judgment over ambiguous SBA loan documents.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

Protect Your Short-Term Rental Rights in Pennsylvania

Many Pennsylvania HOAs are trying to restrict short-term rentals. Learn when those restrictions are enforceable and when property owners can fight back.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

Reversed: Short-term Rental Regulations Declared Void and Unenforceable

A Pennsylvania appeals court declared HOA short-term rental regulations void and unenforceable. Learn what this landmark decision means for property owners and STR rights.

Real Estate Law

Pennsylvania Tax Sales: Your Rights and How to Set Aside an Upset Sale

Lost your Pennsylvania home to an Upset Tax Sale, or facing one? Learn your rights and how a sale may be set aside for defective notice. Call 215-540-2653.

Real Estate Law

Failed Notifications Lead To Court-Ordered Voiding Of Delaware County Tax Sale

Our real estate litigation team successfully set aside and had declared void an Upset Tax Sale in Delaware County,

Real Estate Law

Tax Sale Overturned

Our real estate litigation team successfully overturned an Upset Tax Sale in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Have you been affected by improper notice of a tax sale, or lost your property as the result of a tax sale?

Real Estate Law, Zoning and Municipal Law

Wait! I Thought That Farm Was Preserved

Agricultural and conservation easements, restrictive covenants, and local zoning can deeply influence a property owner’s land use rights.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

Putting Short Term Rental Regulations in Focus

The advent of VRBO and Airbnb has elevated short term rentals (“STRs”) of second homes and vacation properties across Pennsylvania, America, and the World.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Family Law, Firm News, Real Estate Law, Wills, Trusts, and Estates Law

We have 7 practice areas ranked in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2023 edition.

Commercial and Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law

A Psychological Thriller – The Case for Liability for Undisclosed Psychological Defects in Residential Sales

Can a home’s dark past impact its value? Explore Pennsylvania’s landmark cases on psychological stigma, disclosure laws, and seller liability in residential real estate transactions.

Real Estate Law

A Primer on Addressing Difficult Real Estate Issues in Pennsylvania

This primer is intended to provide easy to understand information to those encountering issues involving real estate in Pennsylvania.

Real Estate Law

Strict Compliance Required: Notice Requirements Before the Tax Sale of Your Home

Tax sales can be overturned when counties fail to follow Pennsylvania’s strict notice requirements. Discover the protections available to homeowners.