ground rent

English

Noun

ground rent (countable and uncountable, plural ground rents)

1. (law, real estate) Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 99:

     "You had better go to the devil and ask him for my ground-rent," he said.

2. (law, Pennsylvania, Maryland) Rentcharge.

Translations

1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner

• Dutch: (Netherlands) retributie (nl) f, (Belgium) solarium (nl) n
• French: rente superficiaire f
• German: (Germany) Erbbauzins (de) n, (Swiss, Austrian) Bauzins n
• Italian: canone (it) m
• Portuguese: solarium m
• Spanish: canon superficiario m
• Swedish: tomträttsavgäld c