Answers · Sale and leaseback
What is a sale and leaseback?
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A sale and leaseback is when a business that owns its premises sells the property to a long-term investor and leases it straight back. The business keeps operating from the same site with no disruption and frees the capital locked in the building to reinvest in the business.
It's one of the simplest ways for an owner-occupier to release capital without moving. Ownership of the building passes to the investor; a lease, agreed at the same time, lets the business stay exactly where it is on agreed terms. Nothing about day-to-day operations changes — same address, same staff, same plant.
The appeal is what the freed capital can do. Money that was tied up in property — earning a property return — can be reinvested in the business, used to pay down debt, or taken off the table entirely. The right counterparty is a long-term, permanent-hold owner whose interests are aligned with the building lasting, rather than a trader who buys to sell.
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