tenancy

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This might be a program where a renter stays for an agreed number of years in return for a lump sum at the end of the tenancy that can be put toward a down payment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The Crown Estate has suggested that the request to end his tenancy came this year following a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC in January about the property.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Sarah and Amy both said the people they spoke to in person and interacted with over the phone appeared legitimate, and that the process they went through "mirrored exactly what a tenancy process looks like".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Joint tenancy with the right of survivorship gives all owners an equal share of the property and does not allow one owner to add another person to the deed.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 6, 2025

In all the years of our tenancy we never saw the Zemindar who owned our land.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya