His daughter was driven to death by the landlord.
他的女儿就是被地主逼死的。
Tom is my new landlord.
汤姆是我的新任房东。
The landlord is a very friendly person.
店主是个很友善的人。
The landlord is very strict about rent payments, no late fees allowed.
房东对租金支付非常严格，不允许有任何逾期。
I signed a lease agreement with my landlord for the next year.
我已经和房东签订了为期一年的租赁合同。
The landlord decided to renovate the property, so we need to find temporary accommodation.
房东决定翻新房产，所以我们需要找临时住所。
My landlord granted me permission to paint the walls in my apartment.
房东允许我在公寓的墙上涂漆。
I had a dispute with my landlord over the condition of the house, so I contacted a tenant's rights organization.
我和房东就房子状况发生了争执，于是联系了租户权益组织。
The landlord is responsible for maintaining the common areas in the building.
房东负责维护大楼的公共区域。
I asked my landlord for a copy of our rental agreement, and he promptly provided it.
我向房东索要租赁协议复印件，他很快就给了我。
The landlord increased the rent unexpectedly, which put a strain on my budget.
房东突然提高了租金，这让我感到经济压力很大。
Landlords often require a security deposit before signing a lease.
房东通常在签订租赁合同前要求支付押金。
In some countries, tenants have the right to sublet their apartments with the landlord's consent.
在某些国家，只要得到房东同意，租客有权转租他们的公寓。
Rather than serving as landlords, The Bicester Collection positions itself as "a retailer servicing retailers" to extend the lifecycle of products and to complement brands' full-price stores.
The Bicester Collection不是作为房东，而是将自己定位为“为零售商服务的零售商”，以延长产品的生命周期，并补充品牌的全价商店。
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, online shared accommodation booking platforms have invested a large sum of money and launched a string of measures to help landlords with financial losses due to canceled reservations and related fees, as well as assist them in training and house listing upgrades.
自新型冠状病毒爆发以来，在线共享住宿预订平台已经投入了大量资金并推出了一系列措施，旨在帮助因取消预订和相关费用而遭受经济损失的房东们，同时协助他们进行培训和房源升级。
The measure is aimed at protecting the rights of landlords and their family members.
Tujia said landlords have already become an inseparable part of the platform, while noting that prevention and control of the epidemic is still at a critical stage.
"The supportive measures for landlords are very necessary to maintain the stability of supply, and also a key step to restore market confidence.
The Beijing municipal government decided to provide subsidies for rent, daily maintenance costs and product research and development subsidies to qualified SMEs, as well as special subsidies to landlords that offer rent reductions to SME tenants.
The post-1980s and post-1990s account for 70 percent of total Chinese landlords of Airbnb, a US-based firm that provides online bookings for homestay services, while the proportion of these landlords is increasing in the second- and third-tier cities and holiday destinations, according to a new report issued by the company.
The report said the average age of Airbnb's Chinese landlords is 33, and the female landlords take up 62 percent.
More than 90 percent of these landlords have another occupation, and 87 percent have bachelor degrees and above.
It is noteworthy that one-fifth of the Chinese landlords come from the creative and related industries, ranking the first across the globe, the report said.
In addition, the nine-year partnership between the International Olympic Committee and Airbnb, especially the Olympic Winter Gamesxa0in Beijing 2022, is expected to bring about huge growth potential to Chinese landlords communities.
Some landlords set aside a floor or two in traditional office buildings to serve WeWork's target audience.
It was a good idea and catered to a new niche market, but regular business travelers needing more than a seat at Starbucks would be required to sign contracts with many landlords in multiple cities because no one had taken the shared workspace idea national.
The company warned, "If we are unable to replace members who may terminate their membership agreements with us, our cash flows and ability to make payments under our lease agreements with our landlords may be adversely affected.
Global co-working and community service provider WeWork said on Wednesday it pledged its commitment in China for the long term, and is expanding its presence in the Chinese market through strategic partnership with local landlords.
In a rare move, its landlord Early Light Group offered to slash rents for the next tenant by a staggering 44 percent.
The landlord of a boutique at Percival Street 70 is said to have cut the rent by a whopping 55 percent to lease it to a drug and cosmetics brand for HK$200,000 per month.
The landlord of a shop at Lockhart Road 500 is reported to have reduced the monthly rent by 33 percent to HK$800,000 for the next tenant, as the current lease is scheduled to expire by the year-end.
Last month, the Hong Kong Retail Management Association said it had written to all landlords, urging them to reduce rents by half for six months as a way to help the hard-pressed retailers - most of whom have seen sales drop more than 50 percent in August - to weather the storm.
It has established a subsidiary called Anban Intelligence, which is dedicated to providing intelligent door lock hardware and security management solutions, reducing the operational risks of landlords, Li said.
The clients could just use their identification cards to open the short-term rental houses, instead of obtaining the keys from landlords.
"For landlords, the use of smart door locks can bring the houses under the supervision of the public security system, and for tourists, their security would be ensured.
He noted the company is ramping up efforts to launch educational initiatives designed to enlighten landlords in second-and third-tier cities, to improve the quality of Airbnb listings, as well as strengthen online reviews of listings and brand-building.
Anyone who loves playing some casual games on their mobile phone will recognize the name Tuyoo, as it was the maker of some of the most popular and downloaded casual games in the app store, including Tuyoo Fishing Mania, 2048 Magic Merge and Tuyoo Landlord Poker.
"We are in negotiations with landlords of some former Our-Hours stores, and a majority of them will be turned into Lawson convenience stores later this month," he said.
In return, the landlords will get a portion of the rents.
"Today many landlords want to be free from rental management, which requires intensive work and massive time input, but often leads to unsatisfying rental income," Luo said earlier at an industry forum.
"To better satisfy increasing requirements from tenants, landlords should provide better facilities, customized services and develop smart office operations and property management systems," he said.
In its transformation from a property seller to a landlord, SOHO encountered shrinking revenue as rents generated this way were incomparable to the sales revenue of properties.
Sohu Focus, he said, hopes to cooperate with not only developers and startups but also property agents and landlords.
Different from traditional housing agents, Ziroom buys or takes over properties from landlords, then fully furnishes them in a way that appeals to younger people.
"Before 2012, the rental market was dominated by private landlords," Wang said.
One solution Ziroom has utilized has been to take over the flat from the landlord and furnish it in an appealing way.
As landlords will select the best timing to sell their houses, tenants could rarely find high quality houses for long-term rent, which has become a weak link on the supply-side of the housing market," Li said.
[Photo/IC]China is piloting deposit-free apartment rental in eight cities, employing algorithms that track and rate people's credit worthiness to protect both tenants and landlords.
"Currently, landlords could arbitrarily terminate rental contracts citing almost any plausible excuse, which breaches tenants' legal rights," said Quan Li, founder of apartment-leasing service Fangdongdong.
"In a similar vein, credible landlords can enjoy perks such as being advertised to prospective tenants based on their location and level of consumption, among other factors, said Lin Xuetao, an Ant Financial director overseeing rental services.
"Expansion requires a lot of resources, including finding suitable locations, negotiating the rent and finding the right type of landlord.
One of the major characteristics of the young landlords is that they are well educated, said Liu Yang, chief commercial officer of Tujia.
The 75-year-old man grew up under the shadow of serfdom, with his parents working as unpaid laborers for landlords.
With the net absorption rate continuing to decline, more landlords began to fine tune their rent.
"Landlords are actively adjusting their leasing strategies to maintain rental stability of projects and the market will not see a huge drop in rents in the short term," said Michael Zhang, senior director of office leasing advisory for JLL Beijing.
Rural homestays are playing a vital role in bolstering the recovery of the tourism industry and driving rural revitalization, Hu said, adding many landlords have expanded their operations and improved the quality of shared homes.
"The uptick in leasing demand that we saw in the quarter was welcomed by landlords, especially after such a challenging year.
本季度租赁需求的上升受到了房东们的欢迎，尤其是在经历了如此充满挑战的一年之后。
As more tenants were seen to be active in the market, a growing number of landlords became cautiously optimistic that market recovery would continue to improve over the coming months.
随着越来越多的租户开始活跃于市场中，越来越多的房东变得审慎乐观，认为市场复苏将持续改善，在未来几个月内会越来越好。
By contrast, in market-driven submarkets such as the Central Business District, landlords have often found themselves forced to lower rents－by as much as 15 percent－under rising vacancy pressures.
相比之下，在市场驱动的次级市场，如中央商务区，房东们常常发现自己在空置率上升的压力下被迫降低租金，降幅甚至高达15%。
The implementation of proptech in a commercial building enhances the capability to respond and mitigate risks for landlords, developers and investors.
在商业建筑中实施proptech技术可以提高房东、开发商和投资者应对和减轻风险的能力。
Hartley said in addition to lowering demand, a more affordable rental supply will also keep prices in check as the "growth of rent prices is very unlikely with low demand swinging bargaining power away from landlords and towards tenants.
Experts suggest measures like central registration of rental contracts with standardized terms and provisions, transparent and comprehensive documentation of home ownership records, continued development and regulation of third-party lease-management companies (not secondary landlords), better arbitration of tenant-landlord disputes, and property rates and vacancy taxes to pay for local services.
Such measures, they believe, can encourage landlords to rent out vacant units to cover ownership costs.
In order to help landlords tide over difficulties, Xiaozhu has taken a series of measures such as waiving or reducing its own commission fees, collaborating with Xianyu, Alibaba's online platform for used goods, to offer discounts and coupons on long-term rentals, and launching livestreaming sessions to promote short-term rentals of shared homes and to introduce local specialties.
The grim conditions forced office landlords to focus on renewals with more attractive leasing strategies, which as a result, led to an overall rent decrease of 1.3 percent.
Some retailers are seeking effective measures including negotiating for lower rents and closing underperforming stores while landlords responded by offering short-term rent reductions or exemptions.
A survey conducted by Colliers International on 475 landlords, tenants and investment institutions from 11 major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Dalian and Xi'an showed they are confident of a rebound in market demand in the second half of the year, making up for losses in the first six months.
The Colliers International report suggested office landlords communicate thoroughly with their corporate tenants to avoid the loss of clients and negotiate favorable long-term leasing contracts so enterprises do not get the full impact of the epidemic.
"In the long-term, the outbreak could encourage more occupiers and landlords to place greater emphasis on employee well-being and sustainability," said Chin of CBRE.
"One thing I've been thinking about is the vast majority of the capital I give to companies is just going to landlords," he said in a 2018 speech to the Economic Club of New York.
The sector now boasts more than 4 million landlords or innkeepers and nearly 80 million users, the report said.
One, they help landlords reduce operational and maintenance costs and also offer various value-added services to customers.
Some 70 percent of the hosts and landlords on major short-term accommodation platforms were born in the 1980s and 1990s.
Females (60 percent) outnumber males among hosts or landlords on such platforms.
Peng Tao, Airbnb China's president, said the company is ramping up efforts to launch educational initiatives designed to enlighten landlords in second-and third-tier cities, to improve the quality of Airbnb listings, as well as strengthen online reviews of listings and brand-building.
The high-end villa sales volume increased 30.0 percent quarter-on-quarter, while prices slightly declined (recording a 0.9 percent drop over the previous quarter) as landlords of older projects lowered prices to lure buyers.
He also said the improving quality of interactions between landlords and short-term tenants is an important attraction for travelers who are increasingly steering clear of traditional hotels.
Fresh slabs spark talk about landlord dilemma, but sector may not see impactChina's 190 million residential tenants, and probably a comparable number of owners of properties, are slowly coming to terms with a new individual income tax policy that has implications for not just the real estate industry but the larger economy.
That's because the residential market sees a lot of direct informal deals between landlords and tenants.
Market insiders said some landlords may persuade their tenants not to claim rent-related deduction.
This, however, would likely lead to a heavier tax burden on the landlord concerned for income through rent.
So, to compensate for higher tax outgo, the landlord may pass on his burden to the tenant.
Wang Wei, a software programmer in Beijing, said she does not intend to apply for rent-related deduction as her rental agent said she may end up paying for the landlord's additional tax indirectly, by way of higher rent.
"In the past few weeks, I was exhausted looking for a new place to live because my landlord asked me to either move out or find a new flatmate," Cai said.
"Meanwhile many landlords want to be free from rental management, as the high pressure they face makes for unsatisfying rental income for their intensive work," Luo said.
"Short-term rentals can offer travelers individualized services with lower costs, and also enable landlords and service providers to obtain good returns with relatively low investment," Hoogewerf said.
Landlords of apartments in some of the most popular housing estates, such as Tai Koo Shing and Mei Foo, have been slashing prices by 10 to 20 percent to unload their holdings.
Landlords and neighbors frown upon potential noise.
And 40 percent of the guests were born after 1995, and the average age of the landlords was 36, according to Xiaozhu.
The CASS said rent increases were partly due to fierce competition among the long-term rental apartment developers, some of whom offer landlords prices higher than the market average to secure housing resources.
Property giant: Institutional landlords' holdings too small to have key impactOne of China's largest property developers, China Vanke Co, on Tuesday refuted media reports that the entrance of institutional landlords has led to current soaring rental prices.
China Construction Bank developed a rental housing platform connecting landlords with tenants, which now covers more than 300 cities across the country.