Autumn Budget looming: Time to turn your property portfolio into cash

With the Autumn Budget this month, landlords may be starting to feel the pressure.

Landlords could be in the firing line once again after last year’s Autumn Budget announced two percentage point increases in tax rates on property and savings income from April 2027, and on ordinary and upper-rate dividend income from April 2026.

Whilst none of us knows what will be in the upcoming Budget, it doesn’t have to be doom and gloom for landlords. If you are thinking of selling, now could be the perfect time to explore your options.

Whether you want to sell one property, part of your portfolio or your whole portfolio, you don’t have to wait for your tenants to leave before getting started.

If you want to start 2027 with a sale already agreed, it is worth exploring your options now. In England, seeking possession to sell under Section 8 Ground 1A requires at least four months’ notice, which cannot expire within the tenancy’s first 12 months. If your tenants do not leave and court proceedings are needed, you could still be waiting for vacant possession at Easter next year or beyond.

Speak to Landlord Sales Agency now and we can help you move your sale forward while your tenants are still in place.

We’re a company founded by landlords for landlords, made up of portfolio exit specialists who know exactly what it takes to overcome the problems associated with selling buy-to-lets. We take responsibility for finding solutions, no matter how complicated the situation may seem.

We’ve sold properties with tenants remaining in situ and properties where tenants were preparing to leave. We’ve worked around tenants who were difficult to contact or reluctant to provide access, found replacement buyers when sales fell through and negotiated solutions to survey problems rather than allowing them to derail transactions.

With high street sales, these sorts of problems are often left to the seller or their solicitor to solve. When you sell through Landlord Sales Agency, we take that pressure off your shoulders.

We manage the whole process from listing to completion and make it our responsibility to find solutions at every stage.

We sell a wide range of properties, not just those with problems. Whether you have a single buy-to-let, an HMO or an entire portfolio, we can help you find the right route to sale.

We have an extensive private database of over 30,000 buyers who can buy your properties with or without tenants and receive text messages alerting them to new properties every time a landlord comes to us to sell.

This helps cut down the time it takes to find a buyer and, when selling with tenants in place, means you can continue collecting rent all the way up until the actual sale completes.

Sellers typically walk away with 85 – 90% of vacant possession value without all the hassle of evicting tenants and rent coming in up to the completion, where possible.

We don’t limit ourselves to one type of buyer. We work with investors, other landlords, owner-occupiers and, where suitable, tenants who want to buy their own home.

That means we can keep your options open and look for the approach that works for your properties and your circumstances.

With the Autumn Budget approaching, it could be the perfect time to start thinking about what you want from your properties and whether selling some or all of them could help you move forward.

You don’t need to have every problem solved before you speak to us. Helping you deal with those problems is part of what we do.

If you want cash in the bank and less hassle on your shoulders, contact Landlord Sales Agency now for a free, no-obligation chat.