Answers · Portfolio sale & leaseback
Can a business with several properties do a sale and leaseback across the whole portfolio?
Direct answer
Yes — a business that owns several premises can sell and lease back multiple sites together, either as one combined transaction or as separate but coordinated leasebacks. This releases capital across the whole portfolio at once and lets lease terms (length, reviews, responsibilities) be set consistently across sites rather than negotiated site by site.
For a multi-site operator, portfolio scale can work in the vendor's favour: a buyer taking on several properties at once is acquiring diversified income across locations and tenancies, which can make the overall transaction more attractive to a long-term holder than any single asset considered in isolation.
The practical work is coordinating terms across sites that may differ in age, condition and lease history — deciding whether all sites transact simultaneously or in stages, and whether lease terms are uniform or tailored per property. A patient, direct buyer who can assess a portfolio in-house tends to handle this complexity more smoothly than a process requiring committee sign-off on every site.
As with a single-property leaseback, the underlying logic is the same — capital moves out of bricks and mortar and into the business, while operations continue uninterrupted across every location. The difference is scale and coordination, not the fundamental structure of the deal.
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