Ground-rent tenants will get no reprieve from the General Assembly this session.

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The Maryland House of Delegates will likely approve a Senate-passed bill to permit ground-rent owners to collect attorneys’ fees and other costs of ejecting the building owner only if such costs are authorized under the ground lease, according to a delegate whose panel oversees housing legislation.

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By a vote of 46-0, the Senate gave final approval Thursday to legislation that would limit the ability of ground-rent owners to collect the costs of ejecting a defaulting homeowner. Senate Bill 1095 now moves to the House of Delegates for its consideration of the measure.

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The Senate gave preliminary approval by voice vote Wednesday to legislation that would limit the ability of ground-rent owners to collect the costs of ejecting a defaulting homeowner.

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A ground rent holders’ representative squared off against a state senator Thursday over his legislation to permit holders to collect the costs of ejecting the homeowner.

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The state’s highest court has struck down a key part of ground-rent reforms enacted by the General Assembly in 2007, ruling that ground rent holders cannot be forced to file foreclosure actions in order to enforce their rights against the people living on the property.

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An attorney for the state on Monday asked the Court of Appeals to revive changes made to Maryland’s ground rent laws in 2007, which a lower court has found unconstitutional.

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ANNAPOLIS — With key parts of its prior effort at ground-rent reform declared unconstitutional last fall, a Maryland Senate committee on Tuesday considered legislation that would penalize those who fail to register their property in ways that might pass muster ...

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A state law that changed the process for how ground rent holders can evict non-paying homeowners has been ruled unconstitutional by an Anne Arundel County judge. In 2007, legislators did away with a rule that let ground rent holders take ...

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This week’s Court of Appeals decision invalidating one ground-rent reform opens the door for the next stage: a separate class action brought by ground lease holders who say another recent change has made their investments worthless. In April, Anne Arundel ...

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