Re: Not always joking, it seems

In article <62fvj.10911$XI.9048@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> > Colette Reap <colette@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> The actual percentage of home owner****p in the UK is about 70%.
> > 
> > I thought instead of land owner****p they mostly had 99-year leases.
> 
> Only really in England.  Very few counties in Scotland had residential 
> leases. (in fact residential leases tend only to show up in one county 
> - and the term of the lease is usually 999 years) I did get one 
> recently that had as its term "one million years from Whitsunday 1898".
> 
> I'm not convinced that we'll be using the same methods of land 
> registry in a million years ;-)

Not in England, perhaps, but surely in Scotland.

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