private treaty

1. 1.

   a sale of property at a price agreed on by the seller and buyer without an intervening agency

   Broaderselling

Questions about private treaty

What does private treaty mean?

private treaty means "a sale of property at a price agreed on by the seller and buyer without an intervening agency".

Is private treaty a common word?

private treaty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.