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Ground Rent
Definition
An annual fee paid by a leaseholder to the freeholder for the land the property sits on. Under the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022, ground rent on new leases must be set at a peppercorn (effectively zero). Existing leases with escalating ground rent clauses (especially doubling clauses) can be problematic.
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