sitting tenant

noun

1. a tenant occupying a house, flat, etc

Example Sentences

It says buy-to-let properties should be eligible for 100% capital gains tax relief if sold to a sitting tenant who has lived there for three years.

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What price a pair of bunny ears with a long history, an erotic magazine with a faded pedigree, and a Hollywood mansion with an octogenarian sitting tenant?

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Buying a property with a sitting tenant and paying them to live there sounds like an odd investment, but the practice has been around in France since the 9th Century - and bizarrely it's getting more popular.

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For we’ve still got something of a tangle in English law about what makes a sitting tenant.

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A sitting tenant being one that you can’t just turf out because you want to have the place back or anything.

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