Bridging Finance in the UK

Bridging Finance or Bridging Loans are usually short term loans.
These loans are usually put in place very quickly and can be used for all sorts of purposes.

Bridging Loans lenders are generally looking for Residential Property as security, although many will lend against Commercial Property.

Bridging Loans are available from 0.75% pm, depending on property type and Loan to Value.
Length of Term for Bridging loans has now generally been reduced across the market to a maximum of 9 months.

Following the precipitate collapse of the financial markets during early 2008, Bridging Finance became very difficult to arrange.
Most Commercial Lenders and most Residential Lenders all refused to give a remortgage until the property had been owned for a minimum of six months.
Bridging Lenders all became worried about how they would be repaid and stopped lending on an Open Bridge basis.
For a Closed Bridge, the lender requires an Offer or AIP (Agreement in Principle) from a commercial mortgage lender (or some other proveable exit). The problem then was that no Offer or AIP remains in place for 6 months.

Gradually through 2009, the Bridging Finance lenders were forced to take another stance: They now underwrite the loan by considering the likelihood of a remortgage being offered after 6 months.

Things have stabilised in the bridging finance market.
The number of lenders has reduced from the number available during 2007 but we still have 42 lenders that we can use on your behalf.

If not buying a property under value, but requiring bridging finance, some lenders will allow you to refinance when you are ready. In the residential market it is sometimes possible to obtain a remortgage straight away, whether buying under value of not. This means that the bridging finance does not have to be too expensive.

Many Bridging Finance lenders will allow the roll up of interest (within their maximum LTV) so the client must either be buying under value, have a lump of capital / Sale of another property being imminent or have a good income in order to afford the purchase.

All this has reduced the use of Bridging Finance in the UK and many Bridging Finance lenders have ceased conducting business or have branched out into other areas of business.

Other Bridging Finance lenders have dropped their rates of interest for certain Bridging Loans to Value and certain Properties in order to make their product more acceptable in the current financial conditions in the UK.

At www.dynamicbiz.co.uka close check is kept on the Bridging Finance / Bridging Loan market so that any clients that require a Bridge can be quickly catered for with exactly the right deal for their circumstances.

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