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• LEASEHOLD
  
  If you buy leasehold, you only own the property itself for an agreed period of time - not the land on which it is built. An example of this might be a 99-year-lease on a flat where you pay an annual rent (called the "ground rent") to the owner of the freehold of the building which contains your flat. At the end of the 99 years the property reverts to the "freeholder" of the building. The value of your flat will decrease as the lease gets shorter.
  
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