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tenancy

[ten-uhn-see] / ˈtɛn ən si /


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Hours before the board voted to go into administration, Scentre - which owns Westfield - said the retailer had not paid its rent for October and was "therefore in breach" of its tenancy agreement.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

What she had was a below-market tenancy in a neighborhood that gentrified around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Assume the average below-market tenancy carried $100,000 of buyout value before 2019, well beneath what Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn commanded, and above the Bronx.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

For a fixed-term lease, the tenancy ends on the lease’s stated expiration date, but the landlord may still need to give the appropriate advance notice if they decide not to renew the lease.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Average rental costs for new tenancies were up 2.6% in July compared with a year earlier, according to property website Zoopla.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

These rules apply to both fixed-term leases and month-to-month tenancies.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Joint tenancies, living trusts, life estates and transfer-on-death deeds are no longer necessarily protected from recovery, depending on the circumstances.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Also, with anchor customer Vodafone Idea possibly raising funds to expand 4G capacity and roll out 4G and 5G networks, this would add new tenancies to Indus Towers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The number of tenancies at will is 526,628, or 77.2 per cent, of the whole number of holdings.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various


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