Palm Beach County will have to defend itself against a class-action lawsuit that claims code-enforcement liens have been improperly inflated by adding on collection fees and interest. At stake could ...

Across Victoria, there are grungy lots overgrown with weeds, filled with junk and housing that isn’t safe for people to live in. These lots are accumulating code enforcement property tax liens from ...

Facing nearly $53 million in outstanding code-enforcement liens, Seminole County leaders say the system of getting property owners to mow their lawns, clean their pools and get rid of the junk in ...

Fort Meade leaders say that too many properties are encumbered by fines or liens that prevent owners from selling them, blocking prospective new residents or businesses. That is why the city staff has ...

When Morgan Voke bought a run-down house with a leaky roof and the vacant lot next door at tax deed sales, he figured he’d renovate the properties, improving a small pocket of the historic Black ...

Maritza Reyes expected the sale of a small, single-family home west of Lake Worth Beach to be uneventful. Her father, Rogelio Riveron, had given her the house on the 3100 block of Giuliano Avenue in ...

Fort Meade residents will have to wait for the city to enact a proposed one-year amnesty program for code-enforcement fines and liens. The City Commission failed to adopt a resolution at Tuesday night ...

The owner of a mobile home tucked away off State Road 434 currently has little incentive to settle a Seminole County code-enforcement lien of more than $1.1 million for more than a decade’s worth of ...

The city of Rogers updated its code enforcement policy regarding "unsanitary" and "unsightly" property violations, and it could cost property owners. MORE HANDS ON APPROACH TO VIOLATIONS THAT THEY ...

The city of Naples' Code Enforcement Board has voted to impose fines and put a lien on property that's part of the troubled Bay Club project next to the Cove Inn. With little debate, the board voted ...