freeholder

Example Sentences

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Kate feared her home was going to collapse and warned the freeholder.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Kate told us she wrote back to the new freeholder, Magnitude Developments Ltd, and its owner Ameen Raza, asking for clarity about the proposed works.

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

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

And the man thus taught self-denial and providence will not be contented with remaining merely a freeholder; he cannot make himself that without becoming intellectually and morally a better man. 

From Freehold Land Societies Their History, Present Position, and Claims by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)