Commercial Mortgage Broker Bristol, 90+ Lenders
Owner-occupier freeholds. Commercial investment with ICR-led underwriting. Semi-commercial shop-with-flat. Portfolio refinance for landlords carrying five-plus assets. Trading-business mortgages for pubs, hotels, care homes, dental, MOT and nurseries. Commercial remortgage. Bridge-to-let. Second-charge behind a senior facility. Eight products, one broker, a 90+ lender panel. Indicative terms in 48 hours. Commercial mortgages are unregulated and fall outside the Financial Conduct Authority's regulated mortgage perimeter, where a deal would require regulated permissions, we refer to a regulated firm.
Where the deals are placed across Bristol and the wider Bristol travel-to-work area
From the Temple Quarter and Temple Meads office investment market through the Harbourside and Wapping Wharf mixed-use waterfront, the North Street Bedminster (BS3) and Gloucester Road (BS6 / BS7) semi-commercial parades, the Clifton (BS8) and Henleaze and Westbury-on-Trym (BS9) care-home cluster, and the Avonmouth and Severnside (BS11) port-industrial belt. Use the map below to see live placement activity across Bristol and the surrounding South Gloucestershire travel-to-work area.
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Owner-occupied commercial mortgages, buying your business\'s freehold
When the business buys the building it trades from, the lending test is EBITDA cover, trading profit measured against the monthly mortgage payment, with a typical comfort threshold of 1.3 to 1.5x. This is the Clifton dental partnership taking a Whiteladies Road surgery freehold off a retiring principal; the law firm converting a Temple Quay lease into a floor purchase on Castle Park View; the aerospace supply-chain SME buying its Patchway BS34 workshop off the landlord at Aztec West. Two years of clean filed accounts is the standard minimum. LTV runs to 75%, deposits of 25 to 30% are typically funded from accumulated retained profit (and occasionally capital-released equity from a director\'s home).
Allica Bank, Shawbrook, Hampshire Trust Bank, Cambridge & Counties and Cynergy Bank sit at the sweet spot for owner-occupier lending. Lloyds commercial banking (Bristol HQ at Harbourside), NatWest, Barclays and Santander all run South West corporate desks and price competitively where the covenant is strong and the sector is mainstream. Mid-2026 interest rates: 6.0 to 7.5% pa. Term length is the lever that materially changes affordability, extending repayment from 15 to 20 years frequently clears the EBITDA test where rate alone will not. Owner-occupier sits outside FCA regulation in most cases (it is a business borrowing for business premises, not a residential mortgage).
Sectors with the deepest lender appetite in Bristol: dental and professional-services freehold across Clifton (BS8) and the Whiteladies Road corridor, professional services across Temple Quay and Castle Park View, aerospace supply-chain SME freehold across Filton, Patchway and Aztec West, light industrial and trade-counter across Avonmouth and Severnside (BS11), and independent retail on Gloucester Road and North Street Bedminster. Sector-specialist trades, care home, MOT, day nursery, route through trading-business mortgages instead.
Owner-occupier guide →Commercial investment mortgages, buying or refinancing let stock
A commercial investment mortgage is long-term debt against a let property held as an income-producing asset. The borrower is usually a limited company SPV, an LLP, or an individual investor; the security is the building; the affordability test is rent against the cost of borrowing. The headline metric is ICR (interest cover ratio), gross rent divided by interest cost, typically required at 140 to 160% stressed at a notional rate 1 to 2% above pay rate. Some lenders also test DSCR on a fully-amortising basis at 130 to 145% cover. LTVs of 65 to 75% are standard for income-producing assets with a clear lease.
Tenant covenant and lease length carry as much weight as LTV. A 10-year unbroken FRI lease to a national covenant on a Temple Quay office floor prices materially better than three two-year leases to local independents on a secondary suburban parade. NatWest, Lloyds, Barclays and Santander compete hard on prime single-asset investment; Shawbrook, InterBay Commercial, LendInvest and Together cover the trickier end (multi-let, short-WAULT, semi-commercial, vacant-with-refurb). Interest rates currently 6.5 to 8.5% pa.
Active areas: Temple Quay office investment, Wapping Wharf and Harbourside mixed-use, Cabot Circus and Broadmead retail investment, semi-commercial portfolios across BS3 Bedminster, and Whiteladies Road BS8.
Investment mortgage guide →Semi-commercial, shop-with-flat and mixed-use stock
Semi-commercial finance funds mixed-use property where the residential element is at least 40% of total floorspace, the classic shop-with-flat-above archetype that defines Bristol suburban high streets like North Street in Bedminster (BS3), Gloucester Road in Bishopston (BS6 and BS7), Whiteladies Road and Clifton Triangle (BS8), and Picton Street in Stokes Croft and Montpelier (BS6). The flat above gives lenders residential security comfort, so semi-commercial routinely prices 50 to 100bps inside pure commercial investment.
InterBay Commercial (part of OSB Group) and Shawbrook are the two most active named desks; LendInvest, Together, Aldermore, YBS Commercial and Hampshire Trust Bank also quote actively. The lending test combines commercial rent and residential AST income on a blended basis, with cover typically required at ~145%. LTV to 75% is achievable on standard archetypes. Where the borrower will personally occupy one of the flats, the deal can fall under FCA-regulated mortgage rules, we flag that at outset and route to a regulated lender if it applies.
Common Bristol archetypes: shop with one to three flats over (North Street BS3, Gloucester Road BS6 / BS7, Whiteladies Road BS8), pub or restaurant with operator flat above, and Class E to residential conversions where consent is for ground-floor retail plus four to six apartments on upper floors. For HMO conversions see our HMO block page.
Semi-commercial guide →Portfolio refinancing, five assets and up, one facility
Portfolio refinance is the right structure when you are carrying five or more commercial investment assets and the patchwork of individual mortgages, maturity dates and lender relationships has become operationally heavy. Consolidating into a single facility, secured as a blanket charge across the portfolio, or as individual charges aggregated against a single limit, gives you one interest rate, one renewal date, and one set of covenants to manage.
Shawbrook, Cambridge & Counties, InterBay Commercial and Cynergy Bank are the most active portfolio lenders for the £2M to £15M Bristol bracket. OakNorth and Reliance Bank cover larger facility sizes. Aggregate ICR is tested across the portfolio at 140 to 150%; tenant concentration matters (more than 20 to 25% of income from one tenant tightens pricing); sector concentration matters; Bristol and South Gloucestershire geographic concentration is fine.
Typical mid-2026 terms: LTV 65 to 70% across the portfolio, term 5 to 25 years (most landlords take a 5-year fix inside a 20 to 25 year amortisation), pricing 6.5 to 8.5% pa. The portfolios we see most often: premium Clifton, Redland and Cotham books across BS6 and BS8, mid-market Bedminster and Southville portfolios across BS3, and Avonmouth industrial portfolios across BS11. We model the portfolio every which way before approaching lenders so the credit pack lands clean first time.
Portfolio refinance guide →Trading-business mortgages, pubs, care homes, dental, MOT, nurseries
Trading-business mortgages fund operational property where value is bound up with the business that runs from it. Pubs and venues around Bristol Beacon and Bristol Old Vic, North Street Bedminster F&B, and Whiteladies Road BS8; hotels along the Harbourside, around Cabot Circus and the M5 J17 / Aztec West corridor; care homes across Clifton (BS8) and the Henleaze / Westbury-on-Trym (BS9) cluster; MOT and petrol forecourts along the M5 J17 / J18, A37 and A38 corridors; day nurseries across BS6 and BS9; dental practices around the Bristol Royal Infirmary catchment, on Whiteladies Road, and across the Westbury-on-Trym suburban belt; aerospace-catchment trading freeholds in Filton and Patchway.
Underwriting is sector-specific. Pubs: barrelage, EBITDA, beer-tie status, license, Cynergy Bank and ASK Partners dominate, with significant Bristol Beacon and Old Vic adjacent hospitality flow. Hotels: occupancy, ADR, RevPAR. Care homes: CQC rating, occupancy, weighted-average bed value, council/private fee mix, Shawbrook, Cambridge & Counties and Hampshire Trust Bank hold significant Bristol books, particularly across the BS8 and BS9 premium cluster. Dental: NHS UDA value plus private fee mix. MOT: VOSA approval, environmental due diligence. Nursery: Ofsted rating, registered places, occupancy.
LTVs run 60 to 70%, term 15 to 25 years, interest rates 7.0 to 9.0% pa. Different sub-sectors route to different lenders, getting the right desk first time saves three weeks. Trade-specific landing pages: pub & restaurant, leisure & hospitality, care home & healthcare, MOT / garage / petrol, nursery & school.
Trading-business guide →Refinancing existing commercial debt, end-of-fix and capital raise
Commercial remortgage covers two distinct moments. End of a typical 5-year fix maturing into a different rate environment; or capital-raise refinancing that releases equity from a property that has appreciated since the original draw. With Bank of England base-rate trajectory through 2026 looking flatter than the 2023 to 2024 cycle, refinancing demand into Bristol is strong, particularly on assets bought 2019 to 2021 where current valuations support a meaningfully better LTV than the original facility.
The first conversation is always ERC (early repayment charge) handling. If you are inside an ERC window, the maths often still works, saving 1.5% on rate over a fresh five-year term outweighs an ERC of 3% of redemption on most £1M+ facilities. We model both sides before recommending. Some lenders pay-down ERC against new arrangement fees; we know which.
For end-of-fix the underwriting story is usually clean, known asset, known borrower, known track record. NatWest, Lloyds, Barclays, Santander, Shawbrook, Allica, Hampshire Trust Bank, Cambridge & Counties and InterBay Commercial all compete on clean Bristol remortgage business. Pricing for owner-occupier remortgage at 65% LTV on a strong covenant: 6.0 to 7.5% pa. Investment remortgage 6.5 to 8.5% pa. Capital raise on Clifton, Redland and Cotham equity is a particularly active strand right now.
Remortgage guide →Commercial bridge-to-let, short-term debt with a clean term-out
Commercial bridge-to-let is the right route when you are acquiring a property that is not immediately fundable on a long-term mortgage, vacant, partly tenanted, mid-refurbishment, or acquired at auction with a 28-day completion clock. A 12 to 24 month bridge funds the acquisition (and any refurb / re-letting work), with an agreed exit onto a long-term commercial investment mortgage once the asset is income-producing.
LendInvest, Shawbrook, Together, OakNorth and Hampshire Trust Bank are the most active commercial bridging desks for the Bristol £500K to £5M bracket. Bridge interest rates currently run 0.75 to 1.10% pm (8.5 to 11.0% pa equivalent); term-out pricing back to mainstream 6.5 to 8.5% pa once the property stabilises and the ICR test passes. Interest can be serviced monthly or rolled-up; LTVs to 70% on current value, sometimes 75% on day-one purchase price plus 100% of refurb costs against GDV.
Where this works particularly well in Bristol: Whitehouse Lane and Bedminster Green change-of-use acquisitions, Wapping Wharf Phase 3 mixed-use buys, Castle Park View mixed-use bridges in BS1, vacant office floorplates around Temple Quarter being refurbished for re-letting, industrial units bought from receivers around Avonmouth and the Severnside corridor, and trading businesses bought as going concerns where the new operator needs 12 months of accounts before a high-street remortgage will engage.
Commercial bridge-to-let guide →Second-charge commercial, capital release without breaking the senior
A second-charge commercial mortgage sits behind your existing first-charge facility, secured against the same property. The senior lender retains priority; the second-charge lender takes a subordinated position. You keep the existing first-charge interest rate intact (and avoid breaking ERCs) while raising additional debt against the same security. The use case is narrow but valuable, typically a 3.5 to 4.5% legacy fix from the 2019 to 2021 era where breaking it would cost more than taking the second-charge route.
InterBay Commercial, Together, United Trust Bank and select private-credit desks are the active second-charge commercial lenders for Bristol. Pricing reflects subordinated risk: 10 to 14% pa typically, arrangement fees of 2 to 3%. Combined LTV (first plus second) usually capped at 70 to 75%, occasionally flexed to 80% on strong investment cases.
It is a niche product but the right answer when the alternative is breaking a 4% legacy fix to consolidate at 7.5%. The senior lender has to consent to the second charge being registered (a deed of consent at £500 to £2K is standard); some high-street commercial desks refuse on policy. We confirm before formally applying. In Bristol the route sees most use as capital raise on existing commercial assets in Clifton, Whiteladies Road and Temple Quay, plus Avonmouth industrial investments where the legacy senior is too valuable to break.
Second-charge guide →Property Types We Finance
Commercial mortgage economics vary materially by asset class , lender pools, LTV caps, DSCR/ICR thresholds and pricing all shift with the property type. Each of our services applies across the full range of Bristol asset classes.
Available across the wider city network
Every commercial mortgage product on this page is also available across our regional sister sites covering the major UK city commercial property markets. One broker relationship, the same 90+ lender panel, genuine local market knowledge in each city.
Owner-occupier acquisitions, portfolio refinancing across Bristol and the wider South West, trading-business mortgages and commercial remortgaging, the same panel, the same diagnostic process, the same unregulated commercial product set. See also <a href="https://commercialmortgagesbroker.co.uk/locations/bristol/bristol" class="text-secondary font-medium hover:underline">our Bristol commercial mortgage broker hub</a>.
Which product fits your Bristol deal?
Not sure whether the right route is owner-occupier, commercial investment, semi-commercial, portfolio or trading-business? Send the property details, the LTV you are aiming for, and a rough sense of the trading position or rental income. We will tell you which lender route is sensible and what indicative pricing looks like, within 48 hours, no charge for the assessment.
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