What's the difference between freeholder and yeomanry?
Freeholder
Definition:
(n.) The possessor of a freehold.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, few new commonhold flats are being built, as developers do not have the incentive of profiting from the freehold.
(2) It has enabled the Tories to buy back the freehold of the building, which they had sold off to cut their debts, giving them an opportunity to develop the listed property to raise cash.
(3) The declaration is not a cure-all, he adds, but can include things such as stipulating that the share of freehold relating to each flat is transferred when each one is sold and that the other joint owners agree to co-operate in transferring the freehold on sale.
(4) But Southern Cross is now struggling to meet a huge rent bill because it offloaded freeholds to raise cash during the boom years.
(5) The freehold was only shared with the owners of one other flat, so it seemed like a great arrangement.
(6) His first step was to bring the residents together so he could bring a leasehold valuation tribunal (LVT) case against the freeholder and property manager.
(7) No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land.
(8) There are things you could – and should – do before you buy a share of freehold property.
(9) "Where the building contains only a few flats it is not always appropriate to form a company to share the freehold.
(10) Because of the problems it has seen relating to share of freehold, the advisory service has issued advice to people buying this type of property to consider a declaration of trust.
(11) It also left £65m of cash in the business, later increased to £74m, as well as about £100m of freehold and long leaseholds.
(12) Sir Ken always maintained that Morrisons should keep hold of the freeholds on its properties and fought to limit debt – even during the company's buyout of Safeway.
(13) Under this arrangement, upkeep of all the common areas will be the responsibility of the shared freeholders, who can either arrange the work themselves or employ a managing agent.
(14) If an emirate’s sovereign wealth fund were to pop up with a £20bn offer for the Palace of Westminster’s freehold, promising a leaseback to parliament after a lavish refurbishment that closed it for half-a-dozen years, who can say that this wouldn’t be welcomed by a British government as yet more evidence that “UK plc is open for business”?
(15) T'would be amusing if it were to happen while the freeholder of this blog Marcus Christenson, the crown prince of Sweden, was on holiday.
(16) When Debenhams was taken over by private equity in the boom years of the noughties, its executives sold off freehold properties, cut costs, and loaded the business with £1bn in debt, before trebling their money by floating it on the Stock Exchange.
(17) Channel 4 currently has £200m in reserves as well as a £250m unused borrowing facility, as well as the freehold on its central London headquarters, which could bring in a further £50m.
(18) In the case of “foundation” schools – schools whose ownership is in the hands of a trust – switching to academy status entails a direct transfer of freehold from the trust to the new sponsors.
(19) The lending criteria of one unnamed major bank, sent to brokers, says the following are excluded: “Studio flats, freehold flats, flats with unacceptable access arrangements (eg rear external staircases), flats converted from former office blocks or flats within blocks where our valuer reports inadequate maintenance of communal areas, ex-local authority or ex-public sector flats that are greater than four storeys high or that have open decking access.” Anecdotally, there is evidence that some lenders are also becoming nervous about expensive one-bedroom flats in London, limiting the maximum mortgage to £500,000.
(20) He already holds the cheaply bought freehold of the Croydon building so the shop does not need to be that profitable to give him a healthy return.
Yeomanry
Definition:
(n.) The position or rank of a yeoman.
(n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
(n.) The yeomanry cavalry.
Example Sentences:
(1) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duke of Westminster greets the Prince of Wales during the celebrations for The Queen’s Own Yeomanry’s 40th anniversary in 2011.
(3) From 1939 he served in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, was mentioned in dispatches and awarded a military OBE in 1944.
(4) As a teenager, she was a key witness in a celebrated murder case, the 1941 shooting of the 22nd Earl of Erroll, and at 17 she joined the first aid nursing yeomanry in the Women's Territorials during the second world war.
(5) Dunsby, who is from Somerset and worked as an analyst for the MoD, was a member of the Army Reserves (The Royal Yeomanry).
(6) And partly because I could (figuratively speaking) hear my father moving about in the basement.” Like many baby boomers, Motion, a youthful 61, lives in the shadow of the second world war, still coming to terms with the wartime career of his father, Richard, who landed at Gold Beach on D-Day as a 20-year-old tank commander with the Essex Yeomanry.
(7) But now he is the unlikely, urbane champion of an English yeomanry in rebellion against Brussels, and he can turn up for a solo gig at Nottingham’s Albert Hall, and get cheered to the rafters.
(8) Dunsby was a member of the Army Reserves (The Royal Yeomanry).
(9) He was an officer in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, but an injury to his back limited his activity during the war.