freeholder
Example Sentences
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Williams blames the freeholder for underinsuring the building.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Leaseholders are also legally obliged to pay ground rent - a fee paid for the land beneath their building - to the freeholder.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Converting a block to commonhold means transferring ownership from the freeholder to the residents, and how existing freeholders should be compensated is disputed.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
It says it's "expected to be available in 2029"- which means, from that date, flat owners will purchase their home and the building and land beneath it, rather than it being owned by a freeholder.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
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
