freeholder
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It includes capping ground rents - an annual fee leaseholders must pay to their freeholder - at £250 a year.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
Justin Madders told the BBC Labour must stick to its pledge to cap ground rents - an annual fee leaseholders must pay to their freeholder.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
When the case started in April this year, the judge said he had received a letter informing him that the freeholder, Magnitude Developments Ltd, had commenced liquidation proceedings.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
As the law currently stands, the freeholder of a property generally owns the building and the land beneath it, outright and forever.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
For centuries every native of that village, from the prosperous freeholder down to the poor shepherd, has been an enthusiastic and a more or less efficient chess-player.
From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various