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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
Serious question.
What happens in the future if one of these new houses with no masonry party walls has to be torn down? How to you separate the structure of the houses that will remain from the house that is being torn down?
And of course. Because most of them look like NE Philly Airlites, someone will want to tear them down.
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In most cases you can't. New construction townhomes are often horizontal condominium complexes. In new block-long developments in places like Fishtown and Northern Liberties, you're part of an HOA. You don't necessarily own the land under your house, you own the air inside it, like a condo. You can't do much with it, let alone demolish it, without the board's approval.