Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act

A Maryland realtor and a North Carolina-based FBI agent are facing federal bribery charges for allegedly working with a D.C. official to get inside information on pending D.C. home sales in which tenants would have the legal right to…

A real estate agent and an FBI agent have been charged in an alleged bribery scheme using a program that protects renters in the District from being evicted when landlords sell their property, according to documents filed in federal court.…

A D.C.-area realtor and developer and an FBI agent are charged with bribing a D.C. employee to get confidential information, and using it to make lucrative real estate deals in the nation’s capital.

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This spring, construction is expected to begin on a 60-unit affordable senior building as part of the redevelopment of Ward 7's Meadow Green Courts Apartments. Now, a much larger plan is in the works for the existing apartments at Minnesota…

DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is designed to help tenants in multi-family apartment building stay put if their landlord decides to sell the property. So why is TOPA not working for tenants in several buildings put up for…

The District’s 30-year-old Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA, is designed to prevent tenants from being kicked out by landlords planning to sell their properties. It gives renters an opportunity to buy the properties with the…