Case Studies

United Trust Bank’s Bridging Department provided a £394,000 facility with a 9 month term to enable our customer to move to a new smaller property. Our customer, resided in a Grade II listed two storey property in a rural West Sussex village. The property was too large for her needs and she wished to complete…

We were approached by an experienced and highly regarded developer through a reputable introducer looking for funding for a project in London E1. The developer had seen funding lines from the High Street banks gradually disappear over the last few years and they were looking for a reliable lender committed to the residential development finance…

United Trust Bank was approached by a broker whose client was a sizeable house building contractor with particular emphasis on the provision of social housing. They had recently employed a team of people with private sector residential development experience and were looking to undertake their first private sector development. The project comprised 68 residential units,…

An existing United Trust Bank customer wished to fund a number of buses being offered for sale by the Administrator of a local operator which had ceased trading. Our customer had negotiated an attractive price for the vehicles and had also agreed to take over the contract which the vehicles had previously been employed on.…

An experienced London based developer, who already owned the freehold to a block of flats in North London and a number of leasehold flats within the block, had worked up a scheme to add a contemporary new build wing of 5 large, lateral 3 bedroom flats. Having successfully obtained planning consent early last year the…

United Trust Bank’s Bridging Department provided a £138,000 facility with a 12 month term to enable our customers to build a new home for their retirement. Our customer, a retired builder owned a house with a large plot of land. His existing home was too large for his and his wife’s needs and they didn’t…

A long established farming business wanted to purchase  heifer cows from Europe to add to their existing herd. They did not wish to extend their bank borrowings, which they preferred to use for short term working capital purposes, so we were approached by a broker partner with a proposition to raise £130,000 which was the…

UTB were approached through a long term introducer to fund the purchase and development of a project in London to provide four contemporary mews houses and an office unit. The experienced developer had been let down by his usual funding source. The purchase date was fast approaching so a meeting and site visit was quickly…

United Trust Bank’s Bridging provided a £1m facility to a corporate customer who had recently obtained residential planning permission on a factory located in London. Our customer had an existing facility with another lender which they had taken to assist with the purchase of the property pending the obtaining of planning permission. The existing facility…

An established broker contact introduced a transaction to us for the re-financing of balloon payments on a number of heavy commercial vehicles. The payments had become due on 9 Tractor units via the manufacturer’s in house funder, who were not willing to accommodate a further extension of the hire period. The company was a well-established…