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by fastball 2255 days ago
You can't sell the house. You can sell the lease. In the end, this house reverts back to whichever wealthy family already owned it, so that this family gets wealthier and wealthier over time. Leasehold is a terrible concept leftover from feudalism.
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In my country, 93% of the land is communally owned by the people indigenous to this place. The only way for an individual to access this land is via leases of 30, 50, or 99 years.