Specialist mezzanine finance for Newport's developers

Development gap funding across the city of Newport

Across the 5 Newport towns we monitor, 828 residential units are moving through live planning applications, an estimated £127m of gross development value. Caerleon recorded 1,737 sales in the last 12 months.

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 Newport deal. The same numbers are published openly in our UK development pipeline tracker.

Newport is a city on the River Usk near its confluence with the Severn Estuary, about 12 miles north-east of Cardiff. It was granted city status in 2002 and has been a port since medieval times.

The product itself works the same in Newport 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.

Newport'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 Casnewydd

Caerleon

276 units sit in Caerleon's live planning applications, an estimated £42.5m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £227,000 (up 0.9% year on year), across 1,737 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.

Maindee

276 units sit in Maindee's live planning applications, an estimated £42.5m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £227,000 (up 0.9% year on year), across 1,737 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.

Newport City Centre

276 units sit in Newport City Centre's live planning applications, an estimated £42.5m of GDV. The median sold price over the last 12 months is £227,000 (up 0.9% year on year), across 1,737 recorded sales. Schemes here are underwritten against that evidence, not against optimism.