Development FinanceFinance Today can facilitate development finance for residential, commercial, office, industrial, retail and hospitality orientated property throughout Australia and can also obtain funding for land subdivisions. Development Finance can be structured in various ways, tailored to the specific needs of the project and the borrowers circumstances. Typical development funding structures generally fall into two main categories, that being hard cost based facilities and the gross realisable value based facilities. Hard Cost FacilitiesHard Cost based facilities are typically offered by Banks and other major institutions. The loan amount is restricted to a maximum percentage of the actual hard costs of the development project. Typically the maximum percentage advanced to the borrower is approximately 80% of the hard costs of the project.
GRV based facilitiesGross Realisable Value based facilities are based on the gross sales value of the project, on a cost to complete basis. The GRV based facility focuses on the profit potential of the project, and are typically sourced through private funding channels. By utilising GRV based products it means that potentially 100% of the project costs can be funded.
ComparisonIf for example a development project to build a residential block of units will cost $5m to build, and the end sales prices of the units were $8m, the following will be the maximum borrowing potential:Hard Cost StructureBy using the hard cost method at 80% the maximum borrowing potential is $4,000,000 (80% of $5m), or a maximum of 80% of Hard Costs.GRV Based StructureBy using the GRV based facility at 70% the maximum borrowing potential is $5,600,000 (70% of $8m), or up to 100% based on Hard Costs.Additional FundingIn situations where the project proponents require additional funding above those offered in a Hard Cost or GRV based facility Finance Today can structure additional funding to meet these needs by using either mezzanine finance or equity finance. |