[
US
/ˈfɹiˌhoʊɫd/
]
[ UK /fɹˈiːhəʊld/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈiːhəʊld/ ]
NOUN
- tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
- an estate held in fee simple or for life
How To Use freehold In A Sentence
- When the lease ends, the property reverts to the freeholder.
- You are being asked for such a high sum because the new freeholder wants you to pay for the right to use a space. Times, Sunday Times
- The property takes up the bottom two floors of a Grade II-listed Regency terrace and comes with a share of the freehold.
- The shopkeeper tells me that he has agreed to buy the whole building from the owner of the freehold. Times, Sunday Times
- The claimant was a co-operative and owned the freehold of a block of flats where the defendant was a lessee.
- The extent of the deal is undisclosed, but there was an asking price of £300,000 for the freehold.
- A leasehold property company has offered to sell us the freehold for about 1,500. Times, Sunday Times
- Similarly, there is no reduction in the value of the property because it is a leasehold rather than a freehold.
- Ms Watson is understood to have bought most of the site in a normal freehold transaction, using what is known as a title possessory order to gain ownership of the rest. Undefined
- An agreement has also been reached for Yorkshire to buy the various income strands at Headingley and also the freehold of the ground.