Mezzanine finance for Chelmsford developers

The Chelmsford market, in numbers we underwrite from

A mezzanine loan is a view on whether a scheme will sell at the price its appraisal claims, so every Chelmsford deal starts with the local evidence. Over the last 12 months the town recorded 2,019 sales at a median of £400,000, up 0.3 percent year on year. New build stock commands a premium of about 33.1 percent over existing homes on 26 new build completions, which matters directly to how we read a developer's sales assumptions.

What Chelmsford stock actually sells for

HM Land Registry price paid data, trailing 12 months, refreshed 5 July 2026.

Live planning activity at Chelmsford City Council

Over the last 3 months our monitors logged 234 relevant applications, 45 approved and 186 awaiting decision, an approval rate of 94 percent on decided cases. Together the live residential applications propose 363 units with an estimated end value of £137m.

Schemes moving through planning now

Sourced from Chelmsford City Council public register. If one of these is your scheme, we already know the context.

Gap funding for Chelmsford schemes

The structure is the same one we write everywhere: your senior lender keeps first charge and funds the majority of cost, our mezzanine finance takes a second charge over the next slice, and your equity requirement falls, typically from around 35 percent of cost to 5 or 10. Terms run 6 to 36 months, pricing is indicatively from 12 percent a year, and a complete enquiry gets a term sheet inside 48 hours. Model a Chelmsford scheme with the leverage calculator, or see the wider county picture on our Essex page and the national view in the UK development pipeline tracker.