This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
es


in the marketplace completing £100m of bridging cases last year. but for other brokers funding mezzanine fi nance is perhaps more common. chris Fairfax, managing director at bournemouth-based packager Positive Lending, explains his business will put its own cash up to top up the loan to value of deals they’re arranging for clients with other lenders. “if it’s a case of a 5% top slice of


fi nance to get the deal done and we’re happy with the credit risk then we’ll look at doing that,” he


www.mortgageintroducer.com


says. “When an application comes in we’ll do the quotation on rate from one of the lenders on our panel like omni capital or dragonfl y Property Finance but we can top slice on deals.” Fairfax explains that Positive will often charge a higher rate of interest on that percentage top slice. For example the borrower may pay a rate of 1.25% up to 65% LtV with a larger bridging lender and then 2% on the additional percentage loan supplied by Fairfax. 


bridging introducer MAY 2012 7


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40