Bridging Finance
expertise, on demand

We are Bridging specialists and offer customers certainty, quality, tailoring and strength.

Certainty. We are a fully regulated bank. In a sector of often unfamiliar names, you can be sure that we will always have the funds to complete your cases. We can also act quickly and have completed loans in under two weeks.

Quality. We appreciate that for many customers, bridging loans are not an everyday experience. We provide as much assistance as you need and work in partnership with you to get loans completed. We find that open and honest engagement achieves the best results and helps us to build a profitable, long-term relationship.

Tailoring. Completing Bridging loans is not about ticking boxes and following process. Each case is unique and presents different challenges. We work hard to understand your case and task a dedicated case manager with ensuring that your loan completes within the required time frame.

Strength. United Trust Bank has operated successfully for more than 50 years. We have a long-term commitment to the Bridging sector and a dedicated team of highly experienced individuals, focused on using our strength to serve you.

We lend against residential, HMO & mixed use properties, or properties being converted into these. We can also consider lending against Land with planning on a case-by-case basis.

For a credit approved decision in principle, we need a completed one page quick enquiry form, which can be downloaded here. If you wish to proceed, our team will advise next steps in the application process.

If the loan is to be secured on a property you are living in or plan to live in, you will require advice and recommendation of the most suitable option for your needs from a mortgage intermediary with appropriate permissions.

The time taken to complete a Bridging loan depends on your requirements. They can complete within two weeks of initial enquiry but this requires all parties involved to work together effectively and for the valuer to have immediate access to the security property if required.

In most cases, the only upfront cost is the valuation fee. On limited occasions, we may charge an application fee for extremely complicated or time-sensitive cases where the borrower is seeking the assurance of having an offer of finance. This will be communicated to you at the outset if required. Any application fee is refundable upon drawdown of the loan. Our Fee Tariff detailing all the fees payable in connection with the loan will be provided as part of the Offer Letter pack.

England, Wales and Scotland.

The exit or repayment method is perhaps the most important aspect of a Bridging loan. There must always be a realistic exit but it does not have to be in place when the bridging loan draws down. For example, if the loan is to be repaid by the sale of a property, contracts do not have to be exchanged. It is usually enough that the property is being marketed.

Bridging loans can be used for any lawful purpose. However, we are unable to help with “credit repair” cases. Please speak to a member of our team for more information.

Yes we do. We are regulated by the FCA and also authorised by the PRA. All borrowers requiring an FCA regulated loan will need advice and recommendation of the most suitable option for their needs from a mortgage intermediary with appropriate permissions.

Only where the loan is to be serviced or where the exit strategy is income reliant or involves a refinance onto a long-term mortgage.

The loan can be repaid at any time without penalty or early repayment charges. Interest is charged on a daily basis so you only pay interest for the number of days that the loan was outstanding. However, we always require a minimum of the first month’s interest to be paid.

We can be flexible in the right circumstances. Please call us to discuss cases that you believe are outside our criteria but which you would like to explore further with us.

Yes, we are able to lend to various legal entities/structures. We will usually require limited personal guarantees for loans made to non-personal customers.

Borrowers will always require legal representation. For most loans to personal customers the borrowers can elect to use dual legal representation (ie. where the borrower chooses a solicitor from our panel to act for both themselves and the Bank.)

You or your solicitor can contact us via email on [email protected] or call us on 0203 862 1108 to request a redemption statement.

Once the loan has been repaid in full, we will prepare and send documents to your solicitors to remove our charge over the property at the Land Registry. This will be within 10 working days of redemption.

If you experience any difficulties in the charge being removed, please contact us and/or your Solicitor, as we can work with Land Registry to attempt to expediate the removal of the charge.