Development Exit Finance

How Much Can I Borrow?

We can arrange finance from £100,000, with no maximum loan. We can usually arrange up to 75% loan to value on residential or mixed use schemes and can even push to 80% for certain residential developments.

The amount you can borrow depends on the value of the proposed security and the planned exit route.

Generally speaking, the higher the loan to value required, the higher your interest rate will be.

How Much Will It Cost?

Options for development exit finance come from our extensive panel of bridging loan lenders, and our rates start at 0.44% per month.

Most lenders will also charge an arrangement fee, which will vary depending on the lender, loan size and loan to value. Arrangement fees of 1-2% are common, with the fees of 1% generally reserved for larger loans. There are generally no early repayment charges or exit fees on these types of loans, meaning you can repay whenever you like with no financial penalty.

In most cases, development exit finance is cheaper than development finance and as such, will represent a cost saving for you. This is because property development can be a high risk business, with the risk of delays and unexpected problems rife.

This type of funding takes advantage of the fact that the level of risk decreases significantly as the project nears completion. As such, a new lender is generally happy to pass on the savings associated with a lower risk application to you, the borrower.

How Long Does it Take to Complete?

We can usually complete development exit finance applications in 7-14 days. Our development finance experts will usually be able to quote an estimated completion time for your project during an initial conversation.

Where funds are needed urgently, we can generally work to your timescales to ensure that funds are there when you need them.

Do I Have to Make Monthly Payments?

We can offer funding with the monthly interest serviced monthly, or rolled-up into the loan each month, leaving you no monthly payments to make.

Should rolled up interest be required, it is simply repaid at the end when the loan is repaid.

What Happens When I Start Selling the Properties?

Unlike development finance, which sees all sale proceeds used to repay the loan amount, development exit lenders are happy to allow you to keep a proportion of the sales proceeds.

This allows you to control your cash flow during the sales process and move forward with your next project.

Of course, if you would prefer to repay the loan as quickly as possible, you can use 100% of any sales to reduce the loan balance.

Why Should I Look to Take Development Exit Finance?

There are four main reasons, they are as follows:-

When Should I Start Looking for Development Exit Finance?

We can complete applications very quickly. However, it makes sense to allow yourself time for the process to go through. A month should be more than sufficient for this.

We are happy to discuss your project far earlier than this to give you costs based on todays market, to allow you to correctly cost your project.

Does My Property Have to Be Signed Off by Building Control?

Not always, we can offer funding before practical completion sign off. Once the property is wind and watertight, you will be able to access the lowest rates in the market and start saving on interest costs.

Where this is done, we can often agree upfront with the lender to release further funds based on the value uplift on practical completion signoff.

What Information Would I Have to Provide?

The underwriting process is actually quite straightforward, with minimal information being required to supply funding.

Although it varies from application to application, we will generally require the following:-

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