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vacant possession

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌvacant posˈsession noun [uncountable] British English technical  house/flat with vacant possession technical SCLa home or other building whose previous owner has left, so that the new owner can move into it immediately 闲置房屋/公寓〔指原房主已经搬离、新房主可立即迁入的住宅等〕
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vacant possessionAnd of course for that, you do get vacant possession.Would you have to pay income tax on it, and could you get vacant possession when you needed it?People who sell will want to sell with vacant possession, and that means asking people to leave.Virtually all empty dwellings were now sold with vacant possession, at extremely high prices.Where properties are untenanted, Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession.They think it unlikely that the company would sell the properties without vacant possession.
From Longman Business Dictionaryvacant possessionˌvacant posˈsession [uncountable] British EnglishPROPERTY when land, a house etc is for sale with no one living therethe huge difference in price between land with and land without vacant possession possession
ˌvacant posˈsession nounChineseSyllable
other or home previous a whose Business Corpus building


vacant possession
ˌvacant posˈsession noun [uncountable] British English technical
house/flat with vacant possession a home or other building whose previous owner has left, so that the new owner can move into it immediately


vacant possessionBrE /ˌveɪkənt pəˈzeʃn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌveɪkənt pəˈzeʃn/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (BrE, specialist) the fact of owning a house that is empty because the people who lived there have moved out 无(实际)占有