Fee farm grants are almost unique to Ireland. Fee farm grants are freehold leases, effectively leases forever. They are subject to lease covenants and conditions in the same way as leases. They are regulated by the same Landlord and Tenant Amendment Act (Ireland) 1860, which still contains a significant amount of the leasehold law in […]
After 1997, a fee farm grant may not be granted. An agreement to make a fee farm grant operates as an agreement to grant a fee simple subject to any fine or consideration specified in the agreement but free from the fee farm rent so specified and any covenants and other provisions that are connected […]
Where a person proposes to acquire the fee simple in land or an extension of his leasehold estate under the Act, he must serve a notice in prescribed form on his immediate landlords and every person with superior interests, to them; every mortgagee; and every owner of any encumbrance affecting the land. Where the notice […]
The 2001 Act applies to the acquisition of ground rents on residential property in Northern Ireland. A person paying ground rent has the power to redeem the ground rent on residential property in accordance with the Act. The redemption may be compulsory. There is compulsory redemption of ground rent of a dwelling house or the […]