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Bridging finance. What is it?

Oktay Sengoz

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25/10/2022

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2 mins read

You have outgrown your current home and need to upgrade. This means you either turn your current property into an investment and purchase a new property.

The other option is that you sell your current property and buy another. The latter could be quite stressful when trying to coordinate settlement of the sale of your existing property and the purchase of the new property. You want to avoid being left without a roof over your head.

Let us introduce you to bridging finance. If you don’t know what bridging finance, here’s how it works.

The bank will lend you money to purchase a new property with the condition that you sell your current property within 6 months. Most lenders will actually want to see your property on the market for sale with an agent. This allows you to settle and move into the new property and have time to sell/settle your existing property, removing the stress and chaos of selling and buying at the same time.

Here are 3 tips to consider

You don’t make double the repayments

The bank will not enforce repayments on the full loan during the transition between selling and buying, so you are not paying double the repayments. They will, however, add the interest repayments onto the loan, which means you will pay for it at the end.

You need a considerable amount of equity to start with

The lender lends you the money for the new property based on the equity you currently have in your property. They will allow for stamp duty, selling costs, contingency amounts and 6 months of interest. All of these expenses need to be secured by the equity in your current property.

Your loan will be split into two loans - end debt and peak debt

End debt is the loan you will be left with once you have sold your current property and paid all your expenses and loans back. Peak debt is the loan outstanding before you have sold you current property and paid any money back to the bank. All you will need is to be demonstrating the capacity to repay only the end debt not the peak debt.

Talk to us today to see what your bridging finance options are.

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