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Sale-leasebacks and locked equity
Freeing the capital in your walls without losing the building for good.
You own the building. An investor offers to buy it and lease it back to you, and the equity in your walls becomes cash. That is the whole mechanism, and it is a real option. The questions worth your attention are all about what happens after closing.
Every sale-leaseback offer has a check and a chain. The check is the money you free up. The chain is the lease you are now bound to, on terms the buyer wrote, in a building you no longer control. Institutional buyers intend to keep your building. The lease is their product, not a courtesy.
This shelf reads those offers the way you should: the buyback terms matter more than the price, one clause usually decides whether you can ever get the building back, and a refinance may get you the same cash with a different ending. Run both before you sign either. If you have an offer on your desk right now, start with how to read it.
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The sale-leaseback, explained for practice owners.
What selling your building and leasing it back actually trades away, what the buyer is counting on, and the one clause that decides whether you can ever get the building back.
How to read a sale-leaseback offer without getting boxed out of ownership.
The buyback terms matter more than the price. The clauses that decide whether you can ever get the building back, and the ones written so you can't.
Refinance or sale-leaseback: run both before signing either.
Two ways to free the capital in your walls, with different costs and different endings. A side-by-side worth running before either suitor is in the room.
The Sale-Leaseback Checklist
The buyback clauses that decide whether you ever get the building back, in a one-page checklist you can hold against any offer.
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