When purchasing a house in the UK, you will probably be involved in a ‘chain’
of properties, and will be relying on the sale of your house to provide
the financing for the purchase of the new property.
When finalising the purchase of your new house, you will need to agree a
completion date with the seller of the property, their may be pressure from
the seller to stick to this date as they will be keen to secure the money
for the purchase of their new house.
At some point in this chain of sale and purchase, someone may run into problems
with their financing and delay or pull out of a purchase – if this
happens to you then you will find yourself in a position where you will
not have the money to complete on the sale with the person you are buying
off of. In this situation, if the seller is not prepared to wait, then you
will have two choices – pull out of the purchase or take out a bridging
loan to fund it.
A bridging loan is a short-term loan that is secured on your house, in much
the same way as a mortgage. With a bridging loan you will be able to raise
the money needed to buy the new property, and then repay this loan when
your old house sells – in most cases this will be a very short space
of time as a bridging loan is often used to ‘bridge’ the gap
between the purchase completion date and your sale completion date, which
may be as little as two or three days.
If you are looking for a loan other then a bridging loan, we recommend that
you visit Loans UK.