02/11/2026
No working bathroom? No functional kitchen? Severe damp? A high street mortgage valuer will slap a zero valuation on that property immediately.
Standard mortgage lenders require a property to be habitable from day one to lend. But bridging lenders actively look for unmortgageable properties because they know you're adding value.
You use a bridge to buy, carry out the necessary works to make it fully compliant and lettable, and then refinance onto a standard buy-to-let mortgage.
We reveal how to secure finance on unmortgageable auction stock on the Promise Money YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/
Or visit https://www.promisemoney.co.uk/bridging-loans/