A bridge loan buys time, and time is the thing most investors cannot buy anywhere else. This is the structure Loan Goat writes when a property has to be taken down now, when equity has to come back out of an asset that is already owned, or when a building needs a few months of work before a permanent lender will look at it. The published loan range is $150,000 to $25,000,000 on a business purpose file, the published leverage is up to 75% LTV on residential and 70% on commercial, the published term is one or two years and the published rate runs from 9.00% to 13.00%.
The credit bar on this product is a 650 minimum score, the floor every bridge structure shares and lower than almost any bank file. This is the priced product, the one where a borrower with a clean profile is paying for speed rather than for a story. Documentation is described on the card as minimal, and the reason is structural rather than generous, because the loan is sized against the property and the exit instead of against a stack of returns.
Two details change how a deal is modelled. There is no prepayment penalty, so an early sale or an early refinance costs nothing beyond the interest already earned, which matters on a one or two year instrument where the real hold is often six or seven months. And leverage is published by asset, 75% on residential and 70% on commercial, so a mixed deal is sized off the right number from the first conversation rather than the last.