(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(4) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(5) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(6) Lucy Morton, a senior partner at WA Ellis in Knightsbridge, says most foreign students want one-bed flats at up to £1,000 a week and they often pay the whole year's rent up front.
(7) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(8) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(9) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(10) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
(11) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(12) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
(13) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(14) To some extent, housing associations have taken their place, but affordable, social rented homes have been sold off more quickly than they have been replaced.
(15) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(16) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(17) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(18) The average rents in social housing meanwhile increased by 6.1% from £88.90 to £94.30 a week.
(19) The scheme, which will be completed in 2016-17, comprises 491 homes for social rent and 300 for private sale.
(20) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
Tenancy
Definition:
(n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
(n.) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(2) The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn’s conference speech: he won a hearing not the argument | Editorial Read more The insecurity of many tenancies and the increased number of families moved out of their local areas, away from family and support networks, because of housing shortages and welfare cuts, was pinpointed as a key problem.
(3) A bitter battle between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham for tenancy of the stadium, which originally cost £429m to build, was won by the east London club but the deal was later scrapped due to "legal paralysis" amid a welter of challenges.
(4) A joint tenancy is a form of co-ownership in which two or more persons hold a single interest in property and each co-owner has the right of survivorship.
(5) In England and Wales, the three schemes are the Deposit Protection Service , mydeposits and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme .
(6) This paper has arisen from an investigation of the lives and circumstances of 88 people who are mentally handicapped and living in their own homes or tenancies.
(7) Landlords can, however, add specific requirements into an assured shorthold tenancy (AST) contract concerning changing utility providers, especially where switching supplier could result in alterations to the property, said Chris Norris, head of policy at the National Landlords Association .
(8) Some issues have existed for decades: land inheritance practices, customary duty of care disproportionately burdening women and exploitative tenancy agreements.
(9) I’d told the landlord I wanted to make a home for myself and my daughter and asked him about the tenancy being only one year but he said not to worry, it would be renewed.
(10) Our presence underwrites the multi-use legacy of the stadium and our contribution alone will pay back more than the cost of building and converting the stadium over the course of our tenancy.” West Ham added in a later statement: “The worldwide draw of hosting the most popular and watched football league in the world in such an iconic venue will add value to any sponsorship and commercial agreements related to the stadium, which the public purse stands to further benefit from.
(11) A further 16,440 were made through the “accelerated procedure”, which can be used by either type of landlord to evict tenants on assured shorthold tenancies.
(12) Germany has many people in rented accommodation, but they also have much stronger tenancy laws and a much longer-term and less rapacious investment model.
(13) This change has been somewhat under the radar, but it is profound and very damaging for the future of the capital.” The National Housing Federation (NHF), which represents housing associations, said its members were being forced to convert tenancies because of George Osborne’s deep cuts in investment budgets.
(14) Tenancy advocates claimed this was the result of an aggressive campaign of intimidation by the the building’s managers to get them out and clear the way for luxury development.
(15) Also watch out for tenancy renewal fees and late payment fees.
(16) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(17) But as "excluded occupiers" without tenancies, lodgers have very few rights and can be easily evicted if something goes wrong (the landlord only has to give "reasonable notice").
(18) They will be placed on a starter tenancy and remain responsible for the payment of any rent arrears and related costs accrued.
(19) But in many parts of London and other cities across the south-east this has very quickly simply translated into much higher rents, no requirement to offer lifetime tenancies, and shorter leases.
(20) "I was then offered £5,000 to renounce the right of my wife to succeed me in the tenancy, which I did accept.