Mezzanine finance for Leiston developers

The Leiston 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 Leiston deal starts with the local evidence. Over the last 12 months the town recorded 91 sales at a median of £257,000, up 9.8 percent year on year.

What Leiston stock actually sells for

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

Live planning activity at East Suffolk Council

Over the last 3 months our monitors logged 252 relevant applications, 67 approved and 175 awaiting decision, an approval rate of 93 percent on decided cases. Together the live residential applications propose 1,128 units with an estimated end value of £289m.

Schemes moving through planning now

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

Gap funding for Leiston 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 Leiston scheme with the leverage calculator, or see the wider county picture on our Suffolk page and the national view in the UK development pipeline tracker.