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How do I free up cash in my business?
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You can free up cash by tightening working capital, refinancing, or — usually the single biggest lever — releasing the capital locked in property your business owns. A sale and leaseback sells your premises to a long-term investor and leases them straight back, freeing close to 100% of the building's value while you keep operating from the same site.
Most businesses have three places to find cash: working capital (collecting receivables faster, managing stock and payables), financing (an overdraft or loan), and assets. The first is housekeeping; the second adds debt and interest. The largest single source is usually the one owners overlook — the capital sitting in the building they own and operate from.
If your business owns its premises, a sale and leaseback converts that trapped equity into cash without taking on debt. You sell the property to a long-term, permanent-hold owner and lease it straight back on agreed terms, so nothing about your operations changes — same site, same staff — but the full value of the building is now working capital you can reinvest in the business. It's the cleanest way to free up a large amount of cash from what you already own.
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