freeholdnoun
leasehold
adjective
 LAW, PROPERTYuk /ˈliːshəʊld/us
leasehold property is used for a particular period of time as agreed in a lease:
Most retirement properties are leasehold.
a leasehold agreement/flat

leasehold

adverb
Most of the properties are sold leasehold.

Examples of leasehold

leasehold
Farms, both freehold and leasehold, were almost exclusively run by farmer couples and the same was true for crofts.
They also sought to change permanent and heritable tenancies to leaseholds for lives and years, and then for fixed terms.
Parts of it might flake off for periods as leaseholds or mortgages.
A different problem concerns leasehold properties (mainly flats or apartments).
Commercial livestock production, is prevalent on private and leasehold ranch land.
In this way, the markets for labour (including leaseholds) and housing were combined.
A sordid history of political marginalisation of the peasantry makes freehold a superior alternative to more secure state leasehold.
The land reform laws gave leasehold tenants strong protection of their tenancy rights.
The results indicate that the share-to-land was lowest and the operators' surplus was highest for the land under leasehold tenancy.
A substantial portion of the economic rent was captured by the leasehold tenants in the form of operators' surplus.
Security of leasehold presumably means that long-term leases will be granted to individual cultivators, collectives and state agencies.
Moreover, where these pioneers led, others followed in a series of large scale drainage projects overseen by individuals with exclusive rights in either the freehold or leasehold.
Furthermore, none of the existing studies consider the counterfactual by comparing the factor accumulation and productivity characteristics of a secure leasehold system with that of unfettered private ownership.
The transfer of risk from landlords to tenants may take place gradually over long periods of time, in the context of the routine management and negotiation processes of leasehold contracts.
The majority of the manor's arable land was held by copyhold, and the data relate almost exclusively to copyhold land, as opposed to freehold or demesne leasehold.
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