In Bath, a beautiful high-end church conversation required a £3,900,000 overall facility with £2,500,000 released on day-one and the remainder available to the developer to fund 100% of the works costs.

Starting at 80% LTV, the building will be turned into seven luxury one-and-two bedroom apartments as well as a flagship three-bedroom penthouse. Retained period fittings include the pulpit, organ and stained glass window with the centrepiece a historically accurate reinstatement of the original staircase.

With a prime central location and the additional purchase of a car park ensuring allocated spaces for every home, the Refurbishment Bridge was completed on Aspen’s Flat Rate of 0.83% on a 10-month term. Exit will be through sale of the apartments with three already agreed off-plan.

In Cheltenham, the developer had finished a complete redesign and refurbishment of an office building into 15 one-and-two bedroom flats, all completed to an extremely high standard.

The lender’s £2.4m residential serviced Buy to Let facility allows the existing borrower additional time and complete flexibility for an unallocated number to be sold within the 12-month term with the remainder exiting on a buy-to-let product and made available for rent.

The Buy to Let product with Aspen is only available following a bridge period with the lender, in this case where the borrower completed works to refurbish the original site.

The deal was completed at 70% LTV on a one-year term at 6.99% pay-rate with 1.8% deferred.

In-line with Aspen’s one-person-per-case customer service philosophy both deals were taken from start-to-finish by Credit Manager, Sinead McMurray.

Jack Coombs, Managing Director at Aspen Bridging said: “We’re proud to have delivered two tailored facilities that addressed very different requirements across two prestige sites.

“By structuring a refurbishment bridge alongside our serviced Buy to Let offering, we provided the developer with the speed and certainty needed to keep both projects moving forward whilst still enabling the borrower the flexibility to pursue their best exit strategy.”

Aspen Bridging’s latest Rate Card sees its 80% Heavy Refurbishment product available from 0.78% pm, it has also enhanced No Valuation Refurbishment product to offer 80% LTV at 0.83% pm.

Stepped Rates are also reduced for both products and are available from 0.39% pm.

The lender also has a new larger loan offering with flat rates from 0.75% pm and stepped rates from 0.39% pm for loans above £2m up to £15m net.