0 the legal right to live in or use a building or piece of land for an agreed period of time:
1 the right to live in or use a building, piece of land, etc. for a particular period of time as agreed in a lease:
2 leasehold property is used for a particular period of time as agreed in a lease:
Most retirement properties are 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.
