Key Facts

Commercial Finance

  • a top five lender in the UK commercial property market with a loan book in excess of £13bn
  • transactions range from £1m to in excess of £300m+
  • customers range from private property investors to institutional funds and specialist property firms to major public limited companies
  • customers include major quoted property companies such as Shaftesbury and British Land and major investment funds such as Henderson plc, ING, London & Capital and customers of REIT Asset Management

Housing Finance

  • leading lender to affordable housing providers, becoming the first to commit over £8.5bn to the sector in 2007
  • have supported the sector for almost 50 years, making our first loan to a housing association in 1958

Project Finance

  • committed over £1bn to the UK PFI/PPP sector
  • market leaders in the housing PFI equity finance
  • a leading funder in the secondary market