You might have got a house as cheap as you have been searching for years. But, your problem is with the funds. You find that your funds are not enough to afford the deal right now. So, what you will do, then? Will you give up the deal or take up some other option to grab the deal? While there is a will there is a way. There is bridging loan for your purpose. With bridging loan you do not need to let the deal go away from your grip.
Bridging loan is a short term loan available for bridging the money gap coming between the sales and buys of a property and is available till you can arrange the amount from the sale of your current property. However, bridging loan is secured by nature and wants you to pledge your current property or the would be one. It is the value of the property to be bought determines the loan amount in bridging loan. The general loan amount approved as bridging loan ranges from £25,000 to £500,000 with short repayment tenure.
However, bridging loan is of two types, open ended bridging loan and closed ended bridging loan. Open ended bridging loan comes when the borrower has found a suitable property to buy but his current property is yet to be sold. In closed ended bridging loan, however, all the terms and conditions regarding the purchase and sales of the property to be sold or property to be bought by the borrower has been finalized and thereafter he is advanced the bridging loan. Bridging loan is, again, an interest only loan where you need to repay only the interest throughout the repayment tenure and rest of the principal amount you have to pay off once your property is sold and you get the money.
However, bridging loan is short term loan and therefore, the interest of the bridging loan is comparatively higher than the normal secured loans. Yet, it is not so high because of the high concentration in the online market where almost all the lenders are flocked to make it cheap and fast.
By: Eva