They Should Have Come To Us.
We all know that landlords have plenty of reasons for wanting to leave the private rented sector.
For some, it’s retirement. For others, it’s years of tax changes, rising mortgage costs and an ever-growing list of regulations. The Renters’ Rights Act, Making Tax Digital, tougher Right to Rent checks and increasing compliance requirements have all added to the workload.
But deciding to sell and actually managing to sell have become two very different things.
According to Hamptons, 51% of landlord house sales in 2025 failed to complete. It also reports that the average property is now taking 59 days just to go under offer.
Hamptons’ Head of Research, Aneisha Beveridge, believes the biggest change hasn’t simply been the Renters’ Rights Act itself. Rather, it’s the changing balance of risk.
A slower sales market, combined with the new 12-month re-letting restrictions, mean selling has become a much more complicated proposition.
As she puts it, many landlords now feel that holding on to an investment looks more attractive than risking being left with an empty property they can’t easily let again.
Has holding on suddenly become “more attractive” despite Generation Rent continues to campaign for stronger tenant protections, politicians from all parties promising more reforms, councils with greater enforcement powers and bigger fines, as well as tenants being encouraged to seek financial redress? Or are many landlords simply feeling trapped?
The good news is that there is another option.
At Landlord Sales Agency, solving this type of problem is what we do every day.
We specialise in helping landlords sell with tenants in situ, removing the need to create a vacant property before marketing. Most of our properties sell within 28 days, and more than 95% of agreed sales complete because every accepted offer is backed by a non-refundable buyer’s deposit, with completion required within 56 days.
Obviously, we’re not magicians and we don’t buy your property ourselves so we need incentives to offer incoming landlords which is normally 10 – 15% discount from the vacant possession value.
Darren, a Liverpool landlord with over 20 years’ experience and 20 properties to sell came to us to test the water.
“I’ve been a landlord for over 20 years and the truth is I’m sick of it” said Darren, “I just wanted to get rid of all my debt and headaches and of course with everything that’s happening with tax, licenses, councils going around looking at properties saying you can’t do this and that when tenants are wrecking the properties, I’d just had enough.”
He agreed to do a trial on 14 properties to see what happened. The first batch sold straight after the first viewing; the others sold in less than 27 days.
Our buyers must commit to the sale within 24 hours of an offer being accepted and agree to complete within 56 days of our notice so he never had to worry about running empty properties for months on end while the sale completed or whether it would collapse. And collected rent right up to completion.
If you’ve been thinking about leaving the sector but are worried you’ll end up stuck with an empty property, an aborted sale or months of uncertainty, talk to Landlord Sales Agency first. You may be much closer to selling than you think. And unlike more than half of the landlords Hamptons studied, there’s 95%+ chance you’ll actually complete.