Landlords: Sell before Christmas and start 2027 with money in the bank, not tied up in buildings

With the dust settling after the Budget and Christmas just around the corner, some landlords may feel it’s time to sell — especially with markets already pricing in higher interest rates in 2027.

With rising costs, around 70% of challenged rent increases being reduced at tribunal, and campaigners encouraging tenants to contest even modest rises to prolong delays, it is no wonder some landlords wonder whether their money would work harder — with considerably less effort — in a high-interest savings account.

Especially since the Budget announced a further two-percentage-point rise in property income tax rates from April 2027, on top of the increase announced last year. The government expects the latest rise to have only a small impact on rents, but landlords are also thinking about what it means for their own costs.

One Property118 reader criticised the government “for increasing the costs that landlords have to bear”.

If you’re already thinking about selling one property, part of your portfolio or the whole lot, now could be a good time to turn those plans into an agreed sale before Christmas.

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

This dramatically cuts down the time it takes to sell, plus means that you can continue collecting rent all the way up until the actual sale.

You won’t get a higher price for the service, and any company promising you 100% market value is hiding a huge list of costs that are going to come after the sale. That’s not the case with us. It’s what makes us different.

We can sell freehold houses with or without tenants. That means you can start looking for a buyer while your tenants are still in place and continue collecting rent up to completion. If your tenant wants to buy the home they already live in, we can help with that too.

And it doesn’t matter what type of tenancies you have – whatever your property is empty, a single let, a HMO, split into self-contained flats or even sublet – but because our 28-day marketing window uses buyer competition to find the BEST price possible in the timeframe, we do NOT sell leasehold flats or remote properties which are better suited to longer marketing periods.

If you have multiple properties, we can sell them individually or together as portfolio.

We’re a company founded by landlords for landlords, made up of the UK’s top portfolio exit specialists who know exactly what it takes to overcome all problems associated with selling buy-to-lets. We solve every single problem, no matter what it is.

For Shirley, a Property118 landlord who came to us looking to sell four rental properties, finding the right buyer meant her tenants could stay in their homes. She’d seen how slowly properties were selling and wanted to avoid paying four mortgages on empty homes while she waited for a sale.

“It worked very smoothly. You found me a buyer really quickly who was a landlord of some 20 years’ experience. You managed to get a deal together for us. Of course, in selling in that way, I had to take a little bit of a cut and that was fine by me because it meant that I wasn’t paying mortgages for 18 months while I was waiting for properties to sell with tenants scared away.”

We typically achieve 85–90% of market value. We’ll explain which sale costs we cover and what you could expect to have in the bank once the sale completes.

We’ll also handle the work of progressing the sale, so you don’t have to spend the run-up to Christmas chasing it yourself.

Give yourself something to look forward to this Christmas: a sale agreed and plans taking shape for the capital it will release in 2027. Complete the form below and let us help you head into the festive break with one less thing on your wish list.