As a legal term, Ground rent specifically refers to regular payments made by a holder of a leasehold property to the freeholder or a superior Leaseholder, as required under a lease. In this sense, a ground rent is created when a freehold piece of land is sold on a long lease or leases. The ground rent provides an income for the landowner. Ground r... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_rent
This applies only to leasehold properties and is a sum paid annually to the freeholder by the leaseholder. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20452
A rent, substantially below the market rate, payable by a tenant usually of a long lease for which a capital sum (premium) was paid at the beginning.
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Where a person lets land to another who subsequently builds on the land, the rent passing is in respect of the land only and thus known as ground rent.
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In English law, ground-rent is the rent paid to a landowner by a person for the use of ground on which buildings are erected. The usual arrangement is for a specified time, generally ninety-nine years. On the expiry of this period the whole of the buildings become the property of the ground-landlord. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/JG.HTM
Rent paid for vacant land. If the property is improved, ground rent is the portion attributable to the land only. Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21390