Answers · Sale & leaseback vs selling and relocating
Should I do a sale and leaseback, or sell my premises and relocate the business?
Direct answer
A sale and leaseback releases the capital in your premises while you stay exactly where you are, with no operational disruption. Selling and relocating also releases the capital, but adds the cost, risk and downtime of a physical move — worth it only when the current premises genuinely no longer suits the business, not just when you want the cash out.
These solve different problems. If your premises works well operationally and the only issue is capital tied up in owning it, a leaseback is the more direct answer — you're not fixing anything about the building, only how it's financed. If the building itself is wrong (too small, badly located, poor access), relocating deals with that root problem, and a sale funds the move.
The honest trade-off is disruption. A leaseback settles with essentially no interruption to the business — same address, same staff, same day-to-day. Relocating means downtime, a fit-out cycle, staff and customer transition, and genuine execution risk, even when the destination is a better building. That cost needs to be weighed against how much better the new premises would actually be.
It's also possible to combine both ideas over time — leaseback now for capital while the current site still works, with a build-to-suit or relocation planned for when the business genuinely outgrows it. The two aren't mutually exclusive; they solve for different moments in the business's life.
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