21. The builders sold these homes at a profit, while the Patterson heirs collected ground rent on the leased land. 22. We had a small building in Brooklyn that was paying $ 500 a year in ground rent to the owner, 23. The families who by then had built and winterized their bungalows on the land paid them ground rent to remain. 24. Ground rent stories : investigative article series from the " Baltimore Sun " about the ground rent business in Baltimore.25. This is confusing as a true ground rent is a sum payable in relation to land held under a lease. 26. 1557 _ Portuguese establish a walled village begin paying ground rents for the right to live on the Macau peninsula. 27. The freehold company has the right to collect annual ground rents from each of the flat owners in the building. 28. A " ground rent " is a nominal annual rent paid where a property is held under a long lease. 29. Ground rent stories : investigative article series from the " Baltimore Sun " about the ground rent business in Baltimore. 30. The family continued to pay Dublin Corporation an annual ground rent of 40?for this property for almost 200 years.