About Property Development Finance UK – Specialist-Led Support for Smarter Decisions
Our Mission: Smarter Property Development Finance Without the Fluff
We exist to help UK property developers understand, structure, and secure the finance they need without being overwhelmed by jargon, delays, or lender mismatch. Our goal is to educate and equip developers to confidently manage funding on their own terms, with clarity and control.
Property Development Finance UK
Property Development Finance UK is a lean organisation with short lines of communication and a can do attitude that puts larger institutions to shame. We aim to make finance simple for property developers and promote mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationships between developers and lenders.
Who We Help: UK Property Developers Navigating Finance Complexity
Property developers are busy people with multiple disciplines to compartmentalise and master and an army of professionals and contractors to engage with. Development finance is both complicated, nuanced and disproportionately impactful on a prject’s bottom line. By making finance easier to understand and execute, we can create the bandwidth for property developers to take a step back and make decisions that result in better project outcomes.
What Lenders Actually Want (and Why They Struggle to See It)
The relationship between borrowers and lenders is often unfairly polarised. Lenders are either being viewed as altruistic beacons of hope or as greedy, controlling dictators. The truth is that lenders love to lend. It is their primary purpose by a country mile. For every viable unfunded scheme, there is a pool of capital from competing lenders ready to support it. They are simply waiting to be presented with the right information in the right way to be able to make an offer.
Where Mandates & Margins Align: The Developer–Lender Sweet Spot
Being fluent in the numbers and lender expectations enables borrowers to approach best fit funders with correctly formatted information to expedite and streamline funding discussions. Property developer confidence in their model and margin paired with a lender’s understanding of how a scheme aligns with their mandate promotes clearer strategic discussions between all parties and lays the foundation for a mutually beneficial relationship to grow.
Meet Michael Galloway – UK Development Finance Specialist
Michael Galloway is a Certified Commercial Banking and Credit Analyst with a Commercial Real Estate Finance Specialisation (CFI) and a Certified Practitioner in Specialist Property Finance (LIBF).
With a background in international offshore investments at the highest level, Michael has extensive experience in structuring capital solutions and navigating complex financial landscapes. He has also worked closely with UK based property developers, arranging private equity placements and tailored funding solutions to help secure strategic investment for their projects.
Property Development Finance UK is a passion project for Michael, which he operates primarily from his home in Bali.
michaelgalloay@propertydevelopmentfinanceuk.com
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