Bridging loans for Guernsey property.
Bridging finance is short-term borrowing secured on property, used when timing rather than affordability is the problem — you have found the next house before the current one has sold, an auction has given you a deadline, or a property needs work before a mainstream lender will touch it. It is priced monthly rather than annually and is designed to be repaid from a defined event: a sale, a remortgage, a maturing investment. In Guernsey the exit route matters more than usual, because a Local Market property has a restricted buyer pool and a lender will want to see that your sale is realistic within the term.
- Funds released in days rather than the weeks a mainstream mortgage takes
- Secured against Guernsey property in either the Local or Open Market
- Lenders who understand residential bridging in the Channel Islands specifically
- Useful for auction purchases, broken chains, and properties in poor condition
- Interest can often be rolled up and settled on exit rather than paid monthly
- Available on second homes and investment property, not only your main residence
- Offshore and international bridging cases considered where a Guernsey asset is involved
Bridge terms
No obligation. Soft credit check only.
Arranging a Guernsey bridge
Tell us the deadline
What you need, by when, and what the money is bridging to. Bridging is bought on speed, so the date drives everything else.
We stress-test the exit
How the loan gets repaid — a sale, a remortgage, a maturity. This is what a bridging lender underwrites, and a weak exit is the usual reason a case is declined.
We approach the short-term lenders
A different panel from mainstream mortgages. We compare the monthly rate, the arrangement fee and the exit fee, because the headline rate alone tells you very little.
Valuation, then drawdown
A valuation is instructed and your advocate handles the security. Funds are released on completion of the bridge.
When a Guernsey bridge fits
- Security is property in the Bailiwick of Guernsey
- A clear, evidenced exit — a sale, a remortgage offer, or another defined repayment event
- Meaningful equity in the security property
- Available to individuals, companies and trusts
- Local Market and Open Market both considered, with the exit assessed differently for each
- Credit history matters less than on a mortgage — the asset and the exit carry the case
- The property may be unmortgageable in its current condition, which is often the point
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Guernsey bridging questions
Days rather than weeks, though the honest constraint is usually the valuation and the advocate rather than the lender. Come to us with the deadline and we will tell you whether it is realistic before you spend anything on it.
The exit is how the bridge gets repaid. Bridging lenders underwrite the exit more than they underwrite you. "I will sell it" is not an exit; "it is on the market at this price, here is the agent's valuation, comparable properties in this parish are selling in this timeframe" is. A weak exit is the most common reason a bridging application fails.
It affects the exit rather than the loan itself. A Local Market property can only be sold to a qualified buyer, which is a smaller pool than an Open Market equivalent. Lenders factor that into how long they think a sale will realistically take, and therefore into the term they will offer.
Often yes. Raising short-term funds against a Guernsey asset to complete a purchase in another jurisdiction is a recognised case, and we see offshore and international variations of it regularly. The lender will want to understand both sides of the transaction.
It is priced monthly and it is more expensive than a mortgage, because it is a different product doing a different job. Judge it against what it costs you not to have it — a lost purchase, a collapsed chain, an auction deposit forfeited. Look at the arrangement fee and exit fee alongside the monthly rate, not the rate alone.
Yes, and it is one of the main uses. Mainstream lenders decline properties that are not currently habitable. A bridge funds the purchase and the works, and the exit is a mainstream remortgage once the property is finished and mortgageable.
No. We are an introducer. We identify the short-term lenders whose criteria fit your case and refer you to a regulated firm to arrange it.
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