Explain Lease-hold and Free-hold Property. Give different types of Life Lease-hold Property and Explain Life Lease.

Freehold Property

A free hold property means that the owner is in absolute possession of the property and the owner can utilize the same in any manner, he likes subject to the rules and regulations of Government and local authorities. He may use the property by himself, he may grant leases, or tenancies for short period or any period.

Leasehold Property

It indicates the physical possession of the property and the use of it may be allowed by the original owner (lessor) as per lease document. The owner of a freehold property, may give permission to any other person to use his free hold which is known as giving property on lease.

The person who takes lease is known as lessee or leaseholder and the owner who grants lease is known as lessor.

Types of Lease hold property:

Building lease

occupation lease

sub lease

life lease


Life lease

When the period of the lease granted by the free holder is the duration of the life of the lease or some other person it is called life lease. Such lease for the life is determinable on the death of the party in question.


Explain the method of preparing approximate estimate for a Theatre.

Each building is constructed to serve some purpose, here it is Theatre for entertainment to peoples and this theatre is designed to accommodate contain number of chairs. Each chairs is then considered as the service of the theatre. Whenever a building is constructed the concerned architect/engineer keeps the record of the place of construction, actual cost of the construction. From this record it is possible to work out the cost of construction per service unit, thus, cost of construction per service units.

= Total cost of construction / Total number of service units

These cost are very approximate and will vary considerably with building of different sizes, shapes, kinds of construction quality, locality and time.

In this case, cost of construction per running meter is multiplied by the total length of the building and cost of the end walls (workout by finding out the cost of one wall and multiplying it by their total number) added to it.

Therefore, the cost estimated is generally found to be fairly close to the actual cost of construction.