Property type: Pub & Bar
Pub and Bar Bridging Loans Surrey
We arrange bridging finance against pubs and bars across Surrey, from the Quarry Street pub frontage in Guildford and the Castle Street strip in Farnham, through the Dorking West Street historic pub line and the Surrey Hills country-pub stock, to the suburban locals across Camberley, Redhill and Staines. Loan sizes run £250,000 to £4 million, terms 6 to 18 months, completions in 10 to 21 days. Pub-and-bar bridging prices at 0.9% to 1.4% per month given the trading-asset profile.
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- £100k to £25m
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The asset class
What pub & bar property looks like in Surrey.
Pub and bar stock across Surrey splits into three groups. There are the destination food-led country pubs concentrated around the Surrey Hills, the North Downs villages, the Hindhead-and-Thursley belt and the rural lanes off the A25 between Dorking and Reigate, which trade on weekend tourism, the staycation market and a wealthy resident base. There are the town-centre pub-and-bar venues along Quarry Street in Guildford, Castle Street and The Borough in Farnham, Dorking West Street, Reigate High Street and the village cores at Esher, Cobham, Weybridge and Walton-on-Thames, which trade on a year-round commuter-and-resident scene. And there are the suburban wet-led locals across Camberley, Redhill, Staines, Caterham and the older estates around Aldershot's edge, which have seen the steepest closures and are most likely to come up as change-of-use plays. Trading-asset value, vacant possession value and alternative-use value can sit a long way apart, and the underwriting reads through each.
Use cases
Bridging use cases for pub & bar assets.
Pub-and-bar bridging cases across Surrey cluster around four patterns. The first is free-of-tie acquisition where a buyer is purchasing a pub from a pub-co or from a retiring tenant, with the bridge funding the purchase pending refinance to term commercial debt with a pub-specialist lender; this is the most common pattern across the destination country-pub stock. The second is change-of-use to residential, particularly on the wet-led suburban stock that no longer trades, where bridging funds the purchase plus the conversion works. The third is refurbishment-and-reposition cases where a tired pub on the Quarry Street, Castle Street or Dorking West Street spines is bought, brought up to current food-led standard, and refinanced once trading is rebased. The fourth is capital-raise against an unencumbered pub held by an established operator, often to fund the next acquisition or to release working capital. Across all four, the underwriting reads through to trading evidence, the operator's track record and the credibility of the exit at stabilised performance.
Surrey context
The Surrey Pub Estate, from Quarry Street to the Surrey Hills Country Inn
Surrey has a denser country-pub estate per head than most equivalent South East England counties, an accident of its historic coaching-road geography and its wealthy resident base. Quarry Street in central Guildford holds a tight cluster of historic pub-and-bar stock running down to the river; the Castle Street strip and The Borough in Farnham anchor that town's licensed trade; Dorking West Street carries a historic pub line through the town centre; and the village cores at Esher, Cobham, Weybridge, Walton-on-Thames and Reigate each support a dense food-led pub and gastropub scene. The Surrey Hills AONB carries country-pub stock across the Box Hill, Leith Hill, Newlands Corner and Hindhead corridors, with weekend trade drawing on the staycation and walking market. Race-week trade around Sandown Park, Epsom Downs Racecourse, Kempton Park and the wider Royal Ascot drawdown adds seasonal uplift. Suburban locals across Camberley, Redhill, Horley, Staines and Caterham have seen the same closure pressure that affects equivalent wet-led stock nationally; conversion to residential or small mixed-use is the most common exit on this sub-segment. Pub-specialist lenders read all of this. The destination food-led country pub in the Surrey Hills reads as a different asset class to the closed suburban local on a Camberley side street.
Valuation and lenders
Valuation and lender considerations.
Pub-and-bar valuations come back on a trading-business basis for going-concern pubs, on a vacant-possession basis where trading is interrupted, and on an alternative-use basis where the conversion play drives the deal. Bridging lenders lend on the lower of the relevant figures. LTV caps sit at 55% to 65% on trading pubs with strong evidence, 50% to 60% on vacant or distressed stock, and 60% to 65% on as-is value where the case is a clear conversion play. MT Finance and Together both take Surrey pub-and-bar bridging, with Shawbrook, Cambridge & Counties and the pub-specialist team at OakNorth stronger at the larger end. Operator covenant, trading accounts and EPC position all drive the case.
What we arrange
What we typically arrange.
A typical Surrey pub-and-bar bridge sits at £400,000 to £2 million, 55% to 65% LTV, 9 to 15 months term, 0.9% to 1.3% per month, arrangement fee 1.5% to 2.0%. Conversion cases include a monitored works tranche. Exit is typically refinance to term commercial debt with a pub-specialist lender, sale to an operator, or sale of converted residential units on a change-of-use exit. Completion in 14 to 21 days is normal where the title and licence position are clean.
FAQs
Pub & Bar bridging questions
Can we bridge a pub purchase with conversion to residential planned?
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Yes, and this is one of the more common pub-and-bar cases on the suburban wet-led stock across Camberley, Redhill, Staines and Caterham. The bridge funds the purchase at 60% to 65% of vacant-possession value plus a works tranche released against monitoring sign-off as the conversion progresses. We check the planning position up front with planning consultants familiar with the relevant Surrey council policy on community-pub designations and Asset of Community Value listings, which can affect the conversion route.
How quickly can a free-of-tie pub purchase complete?
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Free-of-tie acquisitions from a pub-co or a retiring tenant typically complete in 14 to 21 days from offer across the Surrey country-pub and town-centre stock. The binding constraints are usually the trading accounts, the licence-transfer position and the inventory schedule. Where trading evidence is good and the title is clean we can move faster. We work with licensing solicitors who handle the licence transfer in parallel with the property completion so the new operator can trade from day one.
What rate range applies to pub-and-bar bridging across Surrey?
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Trading pubs with strong evidence, a clear refinance exit and a recognisable operator, particularly on the Quarry Street, Castle Street, Dorking West Street and Surrey Hills country-pub stock, price at 0.9% to 1.1% per month at 55% to 65% LTV. Vacant or distressed suburban stock prices 1.1% to 1.4% per month at 50% to 60% LTV. Conversion-led plays sit in the middle. Arrangement fees are 1.5% to 2.0%.
Tell us about the deal
Indicative terms within 24 hours.
A short triage call, then a sized indicative offer against a named lender for your pub & bar property in Surrey or across Surrey.
Regulated bridging on owner-occupied residential property falls under FCA regulation. Unregulated bridging on commercial and investment property does not. We are not directly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, and we introduce regulated cases to authorised partners who carry out the regulated activity.
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