freeholder
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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
A freeholder can seek to repossess someone's home if a leaseholder doesn't pay service charges, something that will also be abolished under the reforms.
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
Andain's housing association told us that a managing agent, appointed by a freeholder, sets the service charge and it had challenged increases and requested justifications.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Could he hope to become a freeholder, making of Virginia, like Rome in the early days of the republic, the land of the small proprietor?
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
