We're a private buyer of tenanted UK rental property. Your tenants stay where they are. The rent keeps landing in your account until the day we complete. We pay our own fees out of the buyer's side of the transaction. You walk away clean.
If you've been a landlord for a decade or two, you already know. The job changed. The paperwork changed. The maths changed. The exit route is what most landlords haven't worked out yet.
Section 24 came in and quietly stripped a meaningful slice of return out of every leveraged BTL in the country. Then EPC rules, then licensing, then the Renters' Rights Act removing Section 21 no-fault notices. Together they've shifted the maths and the workload past the point a lot of landlords are willing to keep going.
Selling the traditional way is where most landlords come unstuck. Estate agents won't list a tenanted property credibly because retail buyers can't get a mortgage on it. So agents recommend you serve notice, evict the tenant, refurbish to AST standard, and list as vacant. Twelve weeks lost rent, fees in the thousands, legal stress, tenant guilt.
We exist for the landlord who has had enough of all of that. We buy the property with the tenant in place. The rent keeps coming to you until completion. We pay our fees out of the buyer side. You receive a fair offer in 48 hours and a clean exit in two to four weeks.
Whether you have one BTL you've held for fifteen years or a portfolio of forty, the route through us is the same: a no-obligation offer in 48 hours, exchange inside two weeks, completion with the tenant still paying rent right up to the day.
One property, any condition, any tenancy type, anywhere in the UK. Send us the address, the rent, the lease and current EPC. We'll send a no-obligation offer back within 48 hours. If accepted, we exchange in 7 to 14 days. Your tenant is never spoken to until after completion.
For the landlord stepping back rather than out. Sell the properties you're tired of and keep the ones you're not. We'll structure the deal so your CGT is timed across two tax years if it helps. Single legal pack. Single completion date. One conversation, one solicitor, one signature.
For the landlord ready to exit BTL entirely. We acquire the company shares or the underlying assets, whichever route works best for your tax position. Structured by a transactional solicitor we instruct on your behalf, paid by us. Designed to be the last bit of admin you do as a landlord.
Ian, 64, a retired engineer in Sutton Coldfield. Owned three tenanted BTLs across the West Midlands he'd bought between 2007 and 2012. Was advised by his estate agent he'd need to serve Section 8 on all three before they'd be able to sell them. We offered for the portfolio with tenants in place. Eleven days from first email to exchange. Rent continued landing in his account until completion.
Henry Halford has been a UK property investor since 2008. He still holds nineteen BTLs across the North West in his own portfolio. In 2023, watching the Renters' Rights Bill pass through committee, he had three landlord friends ring him in the same fortnight asking the same question: "If I want out, how do I actually sell a tenanted house?" The traditional answer (serve notice, evict, refurbish, list) was no longer one any of them wanted to give. That's the gap Halford & Co was built to close.
The firm operates from a single office in Cheshire with a small acquisitions team. Henry approves every offer personally. Our capital comes from a combination of the founders' own balance sheet and a pre-agreed facility with an institutional partner, which is why we can move on a 7-day exchange where most buyers can't. We complete approximately 14 to 18 acquisitions a month.
We're a Property Ombudsman member and operate under the standard professional codes. Our buying decisions are made on commercial grounds. We pay a fair market price for the property as it stands today, tenanted, not the inflated vacant-possession price the estate agent will quote and then quietly fail to achieve.
I'd been a landlord for nineteen years and I was done. My agent wanted me to evict three tenants I'd had for years before he'd even list. Halford bought the lot in eleven days, with the tenants still in. I didn't lose a penny of rent and I didn't have to look any of them in the eye.
The estate agent valued our portfolio at vacant-possession price and quietly said it might take a year to sell them all. Halford offered tenanted-value within 36 hours and exchanged on all eight in three weeks. The fee differential alone was about £21,000 in our favour.
Most landlords have been told the only way out is the long way out. It isn't. The four things below are the things we handle, so you don't. None of them costs you anything.
We buy the property with the tenancy in place. The tenant continues on the same terms. You're not required to involve them in the sale at any point and we don't speak to them until after we've completed.
The rent continues to land in your account right up to the day of completion. On an average UK BTL that's roughly £1,000 to £1,400 a month you'd otherwise lose to an empty property during an estate agent sale.
We take our acquisition fee out of the buyer side of the transaction. Our solicitor handles the conveyancing. You are not required to instruct your own solicitor unless you wish to. There are no hidden costs.
We buy the property as it stands today. Tenanted, decorated as it is, with whatever EPC rating it currently holds. The kinds of things estate agents demand you fix before listing are things we factor into our offer, not preconditions of one.
The first step is the address, the current rent, the tenancy type and the latest EPC. That's enough for us to produce a written no-obligation offer within 48 hours. If you accept, exchange happens in 7 to 21 days, and the rent keeps coming to you until completion day.