(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.
Tenement
Definition:
(n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
(n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
(n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
(2) They brought up Adelson and his three siblings in a tenement in a tough neighbourhood of the town of Dorchester.
(3) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(4) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(5) When New York's population more than tripled between 1850 and 1900, the city responded by building dense and (by the period's standards) high, constructing cheap tenements within the city's heart.
(6) "One of the things that is really wonderful about Limelight is that it shows Chaplin returning to the London of his youth: the tenements and music halls that he knew.
(7) Some people like it, some don't Or maybe @curlyadamb has it down pat: Italians cooking pizzas in frying pans in their tenement ovens after leaving the old country...
(8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
(9) Kathmandu, a city of 3 million, has expanded exponentially in recent years, with acre after acre of farmland covered by poor-quality cement tenements.
(10) The old tenements have been sandblasted, students are moving in, attracted by cheaper accommodation, and some private houses have been added to the mix.
(11) In those accounts – for the financial year ending March 2014 and filed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Adani Mining describes its principle activity as “the exploration and evaluation of coal mining tenements [permits] in Queensland Australia ... to identify commercially exploitable mineral reserves and resources for development and extraction”.
(12) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(13) Above Houlihans the chemist is a pink sandstone tenement where nearly every flat has its windows boarded with steel shutters and greying sun-bleached chipboard sheets.
(14) She is a former social worker who was brought up by a single parent in a tenement in Edinburgh.
(15) The colossal complex sits near the centre of the small town, as large as several office blocks placed end to end, its white and yellow steel edifice dwarfing the sandstone tenements of Barrow Island.
(16) Workers and their families were packed densely into unsanitary tenements.
(17) Clearly people can live like that, but frankly I thought that overcrowded tenements were something that Britain had left behind.
(18) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
(19) The rapidly expanding city of the 1920s housed its working classes either in these small rooftop rooms ( cuartos de azotea ), or in the more well-known vecindades , Mexico’s version of tenement buildings.
(20) When asked if he still stood to make a "bucket load of money" from the Mount Penny mining tenement, Obeid replied: "That's my family's entitlement.