Specialist mezzanine finance for Leicestershire's developers

Development gap funding across the county of Leicestershire

Across the 7 Leicestershire towns we monitor, 580 residential units are moving through live planning applications, an estimated £156m of gross development value, with 100 percent of decided relevant applications approved over the last 12 months. Leicester recorded 2,120 sales in the last 12 months, while Market Harborough carries the county's strongest pricing at a median of £320,000.

That data is not decoration: it is how we underwrite. A mezzanine loan is a view on whether a scheme will sell at the price its appraisal claims, so we track every live application and recorded sale in the towns above before we price a Leicestershire deal. The same numbers are published openly in our UK development pipeline tracker.

Leicester is the largest settlement and county town and the economic hub of the area. East Midlands Airport is a leading UK air-freight hub, and the M1 runs through the county.

The product itself works the same in Leicestershire as everywhere we lend: 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 35 percent of cost to 5 or 10. Terms run 6 to 36 months with pricing indicatively from 12 percent a year, and a complete enquiry gets a term sheet inside 48 hours. Model your own scheme with the leverage calculator.

Leicestershire's development pipeline, measured

Monitored towns only; data refreshed 5 July 2026 from HM Land Registry and local planning authority records.

Where we lend in Leicestershire, England

Melton Mowbray

414 units sit in Melton Mowbray's live planning applications, an estimated £109m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £262,000 (down 3% year on year), across 648 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.

Hinckley

99 units sit in Hinckley's live planning applications, an estimated £25.5m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £257,750 (down 2% year on year), across 1,430 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.

Market Harborough

67 units sit in Market Harborough's live planning applications, an estimated £21.6m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £320,000 (down 4.2% year on year), across 1,247 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.