The Salvation Army’s Hanbury Home in Kendal, Manchester, caring for 47 children in partly century-old lumber buildings, planned a modern kitchen and multipurpose hall under new administrator Lt Adrian Edwards in 2019.

Adverse possession, intended as a rule to resolve ancient uncertainties in land titles, has been weaponised in Jamaica by fraudsters who fabricate evidence of long occupation to dispossess legitimate registered owners. This report examines how these claims are constructed and how owners can defeat them.

Trinity Family of Astoria/Long Island City has dedicated a 39-apartment building on its former parking lot, built by Azimuth Development under a 99-year land lease, with a fifth of the units let at affordable rents through the city lottery.

A Hanover woman said she would lock the church operating on her family land and take the property back after a deacon was arrested, showing how informal permission to worship on private land can end overnight.

St Nicholas’ Church at Moyliskar near Mullingar, a former Church of Ireland building out of use for about 30 years, was listed at €170,000, offering 139 square metres, 0.7 acres and stained glass attributed to Sarah Purser.

An Oklahoma investigation found few limits on religious property tax exemptions, with one small church holding more than 460 mostly tax-exempt acres and a $1.7 million mansion, and rules varying county by county.

Politically connected individuals and institutional insiders in Jamaica have exploited public land allocation systems, informal settlement schemes, and government contracts to acquire land irregularly. This report examines documented patterns and the anti-corruption mechanisms designed to address them.

The final quarter of 2019 brought Jamaica’s best-ever tourism numbers, the commercial enclosure of Little Dunn’s River, and a coastal access movement that was moving from protest to litigation. Q4 2019 was the season the beach rights argument became impossible for policymakers to ignore.

Kingston, Jamaica — 12 December 2019 The National Housing Trust’s Guaranteed Purchase Programme, launched in November 2018, has delivered approximately 3,000 houses…

Himachal Pradesh revenue authorities ruled that church properties, which are exempt from the state’s 30-acre land ceiling, cannot be sold without government permission, after a dispute over a 107-year-old church-run leprosy home in Palampur.