Where Can I Go For A Bridging Loan When I have A Poor Credit History?

Let's face it, if you need a bridging loan in the first place, you already probably feel like you're in a bit of a fix, right? You've spotted the perfect new home, but you've not sold your own yet. Aaaargh! Worse still, you missed a couple of payments on a loan a while back and now you feel like you're in a real mess.

Sure, it might be possible to find a money lender willing to take you and your little, ahem, problem on, but for a whacking fee most likely. It's going to cost a fortune, isn't it? Well, maybe not.

First thing to say is that bridging loans are actually more common than you might think. They can be used for all sorts of things, like:

- Buying A Property From An Auction - where funds need to be in place within 28 days to able to complete the purchase.

- Purchasing Land Or Even Property Abroad

- Refurbishing An Investment Property And Selling On In A Short Space Of Time - where funds may be required for 6 months or less.

- Going On A Luxury Holiday - where you may see a fantastic deal and the need the money to pay for it at short notice.

- Paying For A Wonderful Wedding
...or for any business finance purposes...

- Making a capital purchase; property or land, or plant & equipment.

- Raising The Money To Pay A Tax Bill

- Covering Any Temporary Cashflow Problems

With this in mind, there are more lenders out there willing to take on such a scenario and not just specialist, niche lenders or worse still, the dreaded 'loan shark'. There are some pretty big names in the industry now and all are clamouring for your business, which means competition. Now just for a moment there, i could actually imagine you thinking, "the power has just swung just a little bit in my favour". And you know what? It has!

Whilst the very nature of a bridging loan is short term finance (which actually means that there are fewer repayments for the lender to make their profits out of), you can't get away from the fact that interest rates are going to be slightly higher than your standard secured loan. Notice i said "...slightly higher..."? But as you only need the loan over a few, short months, you're not likely to be stung for thousands, even if you do have one or two financial skeletons in the cupboard, so to speak.

Typically ranging from ?5,000 to ?00,000 (though not exhaustively) a bridging loan can be applied for online in only a couple of minutes, less in some cases and in respect of a property purchase, come in two forms:

Open Bridging Loans - where as in the earlier example, you've found your next home but have yet to sell your existing one, and, though less surprisingly

Closed Bridging Loans - all terms and conditions regarding the purchase and sale of the property have been agreed but have yet to be completed.

Either way, it usually only takes a few days to sort out, so you probably won't have to wait too long. So, chin up. Don't despair. If you decide to go ahead and sort out the finance you need with a brand, spanking new bridging loan without worrying about the poor credit history, you'll have plenty of other things to think about in the very near future instead. Imagine, in a couple of months, you'll be in your dream home and knee deep in tins of paint and soft furnishings brochures. You'll probably feel like the loan was a million miles away!

This article is free to distribute but please maintain existing links in the article. Thanks you.Andy Silk is FinanceGuru for FeelGoodLoans.co.uk, specialists in all types of loans and mortgages for UK homeowners and tenants.