freeholder
Example Sentences
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There are around five million leasehold homes, where people own the right to occupy the property via a lease for a certain number of years from a freeholder.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
The leaseholders' local authority, Spelthorne Borough Council, told the BBC it has removed the pigeons and carried out "pest-proofing" in the block, and said it would try to reclaim the cost from the freeholder.
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
A mother and her teenage son are facing a fourth Christmas of homelessness after building contractors, working for the freeholder at their block of flats, left their home uninhabitable.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
I think I can see now the disappointed rascal of a freeholder when he only had his bare soil left once more.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles