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:: Ground Rent Registration
Maryland Residential Ground Rent Registration
This notice serves as an important reminder that any ground rent lease holder must register that ground lease with the Department before September 30, 2010 or it is extinguished under the law. Registration filings must be either physically delivered to the Department’s offices at 301 W. Preston Street by the close of business on September 29, 2010, or be postmarked before September 30, 2010.
Effective October 1, 2007, a new law enacted by the 2007 session of the Maryland General Assembly requires all ground lease holders (owners) of ground rents to register certain information with this Department. A ground lease must be registered with the Department before September 30, 2010 or the interest of the ground lease holder is extinguished and the ground rent is no longer payable.
There is also a fee for registering a ground rent which increases in the second year and third year for registration. A ground lease holder under legal disability has 2 years after the removal of the disability to register the ground lease.
* The legal basis for this is found in: Real Property Article, §§3-102(a), 8-107, 8-701 to 8-709 (2007 Supplement).
Note: If you are the owner of a residential property subject to a ground rent where there has been no communication with the owner of the ground lease for three (3) years, and wish to file for a redemption then visit the Ground Rent Redemption page.
Option 1. Determine if a registration filing of a residential ground rent has been made for a specific property. This link will take you to the Department’s Real Property Data Search system where you can view the property record. You can then click on the “Ground Rent Registration” link to view filings for this property. However, if there are no filings the link will not display.
The forms below are for use by ground lease owners only
Ground Rent Registration Form
Reporting Changes to a Previously Filed Registration
Lease Holder Ground Rent Redemption Reporting Form
NOTE: Effective October 1, 2009, the fee for registering a ground lease increases under the law from $4.00 to $5.00 for each additional ground lease after the $10.00 fee paid for the first ground lease.
The forms above are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Be certain that you have downloaded and installed the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can get Adobe Acrobat Reader free from the Adobe web site. Click on the icon on the right.
