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Northshore October 2025
Jodi and James Gould purchased a Portsmouth duplex in 2011 because it had a huge yard for their dog. (Their toddler enjoyed it too.) About nine years, another child, and a cat later, with the duplex bursting at the seams and the noisy brood self-conscious about sharing a wall with neighbors, the couple wondered if their lot was actually large enough to build another house on. They asked real estate lawyer Derek Durbin to look up the deed. Turns out, the property was in fact two lots that had been merged years prior. And—here’s where it got interesting—in response to the tight housing market, Portsmouth was allowing residents to unmer
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