Here's an additional thread on this exact same problem by someone else. 
Can't find a solution in the thread though:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-continuum-users/200701.mbox/[EMAIL
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Matthew McCullough wrote:
> 
> Maven users,
> 
> Is there a way to retrieve the super, or super-super pom.xml's ${basedir}
> such that it consistently returns the "rootmost pom.xml's path"?  It
> appears that ${basedir} is always the leafmost pom's path when running a
> multimodule build.
> 
> So, for example:
> 1) I have a pom.xml at the root of my tree.
> 2) I have pom.xmls in subdirectories that reference the parent
> 3) I have a property that is defined in the root pom.xml that includes
> ${basedir}
> 4) Unfortunately, even when running the build via "mvn install" from the
> root, each leaf pom, as it gets invoked, recalculates the
> root-pom-defined-property for $(basedir) to be relative to the leaf, not
> to the original root.
> 
> Any way to get the root pom.xml's path so that I can do a relative pathing
> from there?
> 
> -Matthew McCullough
> Ambient Ideas
> 

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